Here, Later On – Well folks, it’s that time again. TimeTime reviews to upgrade the site. This doesn’t mean much to you front page dwellers we love so much, as it is just a security upgrade for WordpressWordPress and will not be adding any new features that I know of. For all of you truly deviant members of the forums, this is a giant upgrade as it does add a lot of new features. I have started backing up everything just in case, as these upgrades are known to break shit from time to time.

Here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights included in the vBulletin 3.7 upgrade.

• Inline spam management & prevention
• Thread tagging
• Search cloud / tag cloud
• Thread prefixes
• Reciprocal friendships between users
• Public visitor messaging on profile pages with ‘conversation’ feature
• User picture galleries with user comment facility
• User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
• Extended member profile pages
• Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
• Inline editing of custom user profile fields
• Lightbox viewer for attached images
• Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
• Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
• Notices system for navigation bar
• Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
• User change history
• Social bookmarking integration

I expect no real issues with the Wordpress upgrade, but I highly expect issues with the forum, We will see, though. Luckily, no matter the problem, it is all fixable, it just may require time and me cussing. A lot. The schedule should go something like this:

12:00 a.m. EST
Front page closed and upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1 -Done!

12:30 a.m. EST
Front page re-opened and Forums closed down and upgraded to vBulletin 3.7

God knows when (turns out, it was 3:30 a.m.)
I breathe a sigh of relief as the forums are brought back up and everything is running smoothly….or I cry out in anguish and curl up in a ball in the corner.

Yup. sounds about right. This post will be used for progress and such, in case anyone is actually up during that time. If ALL hell breaks loose, I will use TwitterTwitter to update everyone, so make sure you are following us. You can also use the Myspace page or email if you need to contact myself, imp or swivelSwivel.com if we are down.

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