Site move to new servers - Tuesday 14th May

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hunterjax
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Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:10 am

hahahahaha dat gif doh (too much time reading Blue's posts, jesus.)
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theperfecttree
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Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:23 am

Thanks to those that have posted positive comments about all the progress that is being made.

Big thanks to the whole tech team. Not that long ago the entire site (forum & database) was completely down for days/weeks at a time. In just a few months they have moved us onto a legit server (Google Cloud), fixed tons of stuff that was broken for years (members can finally create Art Comments threads again), and did the first actual upgrade of the forum software in probably a decade.

With some style/format tweaks (I agree with pretty much all the comments I've read on this) and tighter integration with the database side of the site it will start to feel like home again.
Woo5lscott
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Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:07 pm

Wasn’t expecting a new site today lol
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Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:41 pm

theperfecttree wrote:
Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:23 am
it will start to feel like home again.
Will be nice to sleep in our own beds again.
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just a foil for me today, thanks
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Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:07 am

1nkling wrote:
Thu Jun 06, 2019 5:23 am
SPAC04 wrote:
Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:26 am
SPAC04 wrote:
Wed May 15, 2019 12:11 am
Was afraid I'd come back and we would be on some wierd UAA style nonsense.
"And then I woke up"
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It's not THAT bad! Please bear with us, lots of tweaking to be done yet.
As of this morning:
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what with the return of the homepage, collections, home page, hot today ART PRINT DATA BASE etc. Srsly tho, thank you and those who saved EB from obscurity.
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1nkling
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Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:46 am

Yay.. There are a lot less people shouting at me this morning. :D
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Fri Jun 07, 2019 4:12 am

Nice work to those involved in making this happen. Thank you. Welcome to EB 2.0 :)
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Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:39 pm

Thank you, I appreciate the effort and the improvements.
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hardman314
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Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:47 pm

Wow! I must say I am super impressed with all the improvements and updates that have been going on with the BOD and want to say THANK YALL!!! Even though I don't post daily the work is being noticed and appreciated.
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Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:30 am

hardman314 wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:47 pm
Wow! I must say I am super impressed with all the improvements and updates that have been going on with the BOD and want to say THANK YALL!!! Even though I don't post daily the work is being noticed and appreciated.
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Thanks. Glad you like it!

All the way through this we've been trying to remember that not only is there a smaller more active/vocal part of the community on these forums but also many who lurk but value them too. We've hopefully improved things for everyone and with a bit of luck over time some of you will come out of hiding and take more part in the discussions. :clap:
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bert
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Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:04 am

@1nkling - can you see metrics about number of members visiting and posting? It'd be interesting to see if the fixes and new appearance starts bringing folk back to the forums.
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1nkling
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Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:45 am

Not a massive difference but a bit of an increase. Will get a better picture as time passes.

Last week compared to previous -

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Last month compared to previous -

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Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:57 am

Will prolly take several months for the casual fans to notice/receive word from the fb philistines.
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Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:18 am

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hunterjax
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Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:31 pm

lol^

Im getting used to all the little changes; even the quick links dropdown to get to "new posts" link isn't that bad, although having that just sitting out on it's own would still be preferable.

The font is much better too on the messages - I didn't notice it at first, but I find it much easier to read for some weird reason.
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