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A few things to be aware of as we prepare for the imminent rehosting of boatered.com.
The URL will redirect once complete, http://boatered.com will take you to the new home.
We are migrating all of the active ( non archived) posts which you see on the forum today - classifieds from last two years, NBR from last two weeks, and all existing posts from the remaining categories. All of the existing members will be migrated, with status to correspond to what they have today ( Member, Ex Member, Welcome RO). The count of posts for each member should be preserved, but will be much lower due to the nbr and archive delete.
There are a few things that won't migrate, or won't work once migrated,
1. Passwords - on initial login you will have to create a new password. More instructions on this will be coming soon.
2. Polls - The threads which contained polls will not display after migration.
3. Default Avatars - there are a couple dozen avatars in the current platform that you can choose from. These will not migrate.
4. Links - there are a lot of posts that have links referring to other posts on boatered, for example http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=209845 - These links won't work anymore, at least not initially, as the url beyond boatered.com will not be the same. There may be a remediation for this at a later date.
5. Private Messages ( PM's) - many of these have been read, and not deleted, many have not been read. None of the PM"s will be migrated to the new site.
Down time - there will be a 5-7 day period between the time the last backup is made from this site, and the time we are live on the new site. There were various options we considered to deal with this. We could shut this site down before the new one is live, leave it up with all forums locked so no one makes any posts, perform a second migration, or allow users to make posts that we won't copy over.
We have decided to go with the last option, to leave the forum open, but lose some posts, An announcement will be made when we enter this window, likely between 2/6 and 2/10.
See you all at our new home
The URL will redirect once complete, http://boatered.com will take you to the new home.
We are migrating all of the active ( non archived) posts which you see on the forum today - classifieds from last two years, NBR from last two weeks, and all existing posts from the remaining categories. All of the existing members will be migrated, with status to correspond to what they have today ( Member, Ex Member, Welcome RO). The count of posts for each member should be preserved, but will be much lower due to the nbr and archive delete.
There are a few things that won't migrate, or won't work once migrated,
1. Passwords - on initial login you will have to create a new password. More instructions on this will be coming soon.
2. Polls - The threads which contained polls will not display after migration.
3. Default Avatars - there are a couple dozen avatars in the current platform that you can choose from. These will not migrate.
4. Links - there are a lot of posts that have links referring to other posts on boatered, for example http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=209845 - These links won't work anymore, at least not initially, as the url beyond boatered.com will not be the same. There may be a remediation for this at a later date.
5. Private Messages ( PM's) - many of these have been read, and not deleted, many have not been read. None of the PM"s will be migrated to the new site.
Down time - there will be a 5-7 day period between the time the last backup is made from this site, and the time we are live on the new site. There were various options we considered to deal with this. We could shut this site down before the new one is live, leave it up with all forums locked so no one makes any posts, perform a second migration, or allow users to make posts that we won't copy over.
We have decided to go with the last option, to leave the forum open, but lose some posts, An announcement will be made when we enter this window, likely between 2/6 and 2/10.
See you all at our new home
