Site will go down Saturday evening - new site on Sunday

[Derwood]

 

That's insane to me

 

Insane?

 

Yeah

 

Huh

[jersey cubs fan]

I go to the main forum page to check the status of the donation statistics

 

 

 

 

If we have to click through a website to get here that’s gonna by a bummer

[Tim]

Same domain but the URL structure will change a bit. The front page will be news - as it is now, but active - while the forums will be at /forums/ instead of the current /forum/. And then there will be loads of other stuff that's all new.

 

Small but big change as far as the URL so thanks for that info. I don't think Tim would be surprised to hear that we all (or at least most) go straight to the forum url and skip the front page entirely.

It will be nice to have a front page now after all these years of there not being a front page to the site.

Which is funny, because nobody paid attention to the front page in all those years when I did try to maintain it!

 

(not that I'm bitter)

[Tim]

I go to the main forum page to check the status of the donation statistics

Are you as disappointed as I am in how infrequently they change?

[Banedon]

I go to the main forum page to check the status of the donation statistics

Are you as disappointed as I am in how infrequently they change?

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

I think I’ll take the site down around 8pm cst. Any later than that and I may be too intoxicated to do the necessary pre-launch work correctly.

[jersey cubs fan]

I think I’ll take the site down around 8pm cst. Any later than that and I may be too intoxicated to do the necessary pre-launch work correctly.

I’ll be drunk at a hockey game around that time so I’ll try and get a few last shots off

[UMFan83]

I think I’ll take the site down around 8pm cst. Any later than that and I may be too intoxicated to do the necessary pre-launch work correctly.

 

Excited to check out the new board but going to miss this old outdated place. See you all on the other side!

[Derwood]

Are we going to lose our post counts? It’s the only thing I’ve got around here.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Are we going to lose our post counts? It’s the only thing I’ve got around here.

Nope. I'm not 100% sure how merging the NSBB forum with the NSBB archive will behave but I suspect it's based on email address. If you know the username/email you used on the 2007-2015 board, I can merge your old account into the 2016-present account.

 

I'll talk about that a lot more post-launch once I get a better grip on how it works and the stumbling blocks that will inevitably come along with the merger.

[WrigleyField 22]

Well I can't be expected to figure out how to get back to this site if my bookmarks won't work.

 

It was nice knowing you all.

[Tim]

Are we going to lose our post counts? It’s the only thing I’ve got around here.

Nope. I'm not 100% sure how merging the NSBB forum with the NSBB archive will behave but I suspect it's based on email address. If you know the username/email you used on the 2007-2015 board, I can merge your old account into the 2016-present account.

 

I'll talk about that a lot more post-launch once I get a better grip on how it works and the stumbling blocks that will inevitably come along with the merger.

There's actually a userID that's underlying things in the database. That's the db key field.

[wvcbxl]

I think I’ll take the site down around 8pm cst. Any later than that and I may be too intoxicated to do the necessary pre-launch work correctly.

 

That's 3am CEST for me - so I'm not staying up to see what happens :wink:

[UMFan83]

I took a screenshot of my post count just in case. Need to remember how much of my life I wasted on this website, all 87,850 posts worth

[bukie]

Just throwing it out there, but if the base forum URL is going to change from /forum to /forums, would it be simple enough to toss in a redirect from /forum to /forums for those of us that have had this link bookmarked for upwards of 15 years and may not necessarily visit often and aren't overtly aware of the change?

 

Also, those of us that visit daily and have it bookmarked and are lazy or unable to type.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

still here

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just throwing it out there, but if the base forum URL is going to change from /forum to /forums, would it be simple enough to toss in a redirect from /forum to /forums for those of us that have had this link bookmarked for upwards of 15 years and may not necessarily visit often and aren't overtly aware of the change?

 

Also, those of us that visit daily and have it bookmarked and are lazy or unable to type.

I suspect I’ll end up doing this but I need to make sure there are no conflicts with the new software before doing so.

[UMFan83]

Just throwing it out there, but if the base forum URL is going to change from /forum to /forums, would it be simple enough to toss in a redirect from /forum to /forums for those of us that have had this link bookmarked for upwards of 15 years and may not necessarily visit often and aren't overtly aware of the change?

 

Also, those of us that visit daily and have it bookmarked and are lazy or unable to type.

I suspect I’ll end up doing this but I need to make sure there are no conflicts with the new software before doing so.

 

Can I message you on Twitter every 20 minutes asking if the site is back up yet once it goes down?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Absolutely. The new URL for us at twitter is: