Newsflash! The big HC upgrade is coming on Thursday...

[RevanRagnos85]

I don't mind it

 

[Mark Wein]

Word on the street is color adjustments, searc, etc are coming. I think they launched it "out of the box" to minimize downtime.

I wonder why they didn't work all that stuff out on the test server, export the style and then import it on the real thing while they had it down? They could have gone through the growing pains without giving the chronic whiners ammunition.

 

[Tralfaz]

You call that an upgrade? Looks like they still have the same set of clowns installed on there.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Well, it does work.

 

[Mark Wein]

And they didn;t restring thread tags to the thread starter, so now you have this:



From amps, naturally

 

[Dexter Inferno]

emu

 

[Mark Wein]

emu

To be honest, I left ours on until someone went a little nuts a few weeks ago

Now its set so that you can only tag your own threads.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

To be honest, I left ours on until someone went a little nuts a few weeks ago

Now its set so that you can only tag your own threads.

i'm totally putting "emu" in all of my threads from now on.

 

[Mark Wein]

i'm totally putting "emu" in all of my threads from now on.

They must have just adjusted something because HC is running quite a bit faster now...

 

[Elias Graves]

We can tag our own threads? Sweet!
Mark, get ready for an influx of WHAM! Fans

EG

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[Elias Graves]

:bert:

EG

 

[Mark Wein]

At ;east I still have better smilies

 

[Elias Graves]

And they are quite wistful, to boot.

EG

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[aliensporebomb]

Noice. Very defaulty!

 

[Elias Graves]

At ;east I still have better smilies

And 500 new WHAM! Fans as members.

EG

 

[Mark Wein]

And 500 new WHAM! Fans as members.

EG

 

[Cheese Grits]

I started a thread at HC called "Post Your Favorite Ed Roman Monstrosity." We were all posting pics of his "better" works. Someone pointed out that one was a copy of a BC Rich model. I replied that half what he makes are copies...often passed off as the real thing. There is one guy over there who's a big ER fanboi who came in saying he forwarded the link to Ed and I was gonna get sued for libel and slander because I didn't have proof to back up my claim. It went on for 8 pages before the shutdown this morning. Quite humorous.

EG

I just read that entire thread. It's pretty hilarious, and it is currently looking like it will have a pretty satisfying end.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Correct.

I'm actually thinking (from what little I've heard and what I understand of this particular process) that is should go pretty smoothly. They're just upgrading to what we have here, although probably a version later (4.0.8 instead of 4.0.7) than what I'm currently running. 4.1 just came out this week and I'll probably install it in a week or so but it just has a bunch of bug fuxes...

I did that upgrade tonight.
After reading some of the failures, I set up a test install and ran the upgrade there. It was flawless.
So I ran it on the live site. Flawless again.
I'm still living with messed up styles from 4.0.8 but everything else seems fine. And the site seems faster.

The upgrade interface is different in a good way I think.