As some of you may be aware due to me bringing it up several times, the forums software is long past due to be updated. I haven't been keeping up with installing the latest updates when I should have been. The reason is twofold. It's a very daunting and time-consuming process where everything can be lost with the slightest misstep due to how extensively modified the forum here is. The second reason is the forum is finally at a place where everything is perfect, and running like clockwork. After performing the update, a lot of it will need to be done over again. It will take time to get it back to that level so I've been delaying it.
Anyway, I'm finally being
forced to update the forums software to the latest version. I recently received an email from our hosting provider that they will be performing a major OS upgrade on our server. The forum has to be running the latest version for the best chance of it being fully compatible. Even then, I don't know what's going to happen.
There are several dates when the work is scheduled to be performed. They are as follows:
-April 28th is when a backup of the forum will take place.
-May 1st is when the forum update will take place.
-May 5th is when the servers OS update will take place.
The forum will be down for indefinite lengths of time on and potentially around these dates.