Self explanatory. You can use Mibbit to join us in the IRC channel if you'd like while this happens.
Get your games set to pause or whatever until it comes back up.
We're switching over from Judge doing the hosting duties to me. So bear with us as we'll need to take the forums down, transfer everything over from Judge to me, and then get my account up and running. We're using the same hosting company as before, so it shouldn't be too much hassle (I hope!).
Forums etc could be down for a few days, or it could be sorted quicker. Looking to do this over the weekend when both Judge and I are around and not at work during the day.
So yeah, forums going down for a wee bit but hopefully not for too long.
Thanks for the headsup
Going to start the maintenance/move process today at Noon (12PM Central time). Finish up what you're doing before then.
Ok. Everyone puts your pants back on.
Sam. You need anything thrown your direction (donation wise)?
Ok should be back up. Let me know if something doesn't work right.
i got to put my pants back on now
Everything seems to be working fine posting wise. I'm not 100% sure how to change themes etc for the boards, maybe someone can advise on that?
Also, as Jag mentioned, we're always open to donations for the hosting costs of the site. At the moment it's going to cost me £135 to host the site for the upcoming year. So any help would be really appreciated. You can do this by sending a donation via Pay Pal - just set the recipient to mfx.show@gmail.com
Cheers.
On the menu up to top go to Profile > Forum Profile. Then under Modify Profile click "Look and Layout". You can pick the theme from there.
The "Default" (and what I just changed it to) is the "Lucid Dreams" grey and orange theme, which the header of the forum was designed for and what it was set before. I forgot the name and had to reset it to something to get the themes working right. It's fixed now but you can change it to whatever you want personally.
Thanks mate, that's got it back to how it looked before we did the swap.
PHEW. I thought we would be stuck with that horrid theme. If it was orange and black...it wasn't showing up for me. It was displaying black and white.
Also, money sent of course.
Yeah mine was black and red I think. Got it all back to normal now.
If anyone does spot any problems please let me know. I think the swap went pretty smooth and everyone should have everything back that they had before the move. If not, let me know and I'll look into it...then ask Judge for help because I don't know what to do!
Also thanks for the kind donation T-Bone, really appreciate that man.
The theme is not normal for me. Some weird white and grey? Is that what it's supposed to be?
Also I think your redirect is messed up.
When I went to this: "http://marksforxcellence.com/boards/index.php" it redirected me to this: "http://www.mfxpodcast.com/boards/boards/" instead of just this: "http://www.mfxpodcast.com/boards/"
I didn't notice until this morning, just assumed the boards were still down all weekend.
EDIT:
Was able to fix the theme just by going in and changing it back to the Blue Evolution.
The redirect for anything that has "marksforxcellence.com" redirects to "mfxpodcast.com/boards" FYI, it should probably just redirect to "mfxpodcast.com"...
I will go and fix the podcast feed as refreshing my podcasts just now revealed that link is broken ATM. That is, assuming I can log into the backend...
UPDATE: Yeah, a lot of stuff is broken because of that redirect. Sooner that can be fixed, the sooner everything should start working properly. I can't even log into the main site because of it -_-
Good catch Tritch. I only ever tested by typing in marksforxcellence.com and it redirected so I just assumed it worked like that. Didn't know it would do that to bookmarks and redirect the subpath. Anyhow I fixed that.
EDIT: Change will probably take about 24 hours to hit all the DNS servers and clear caches but I tested in a new browser window and it worked.
Hey Alex, speaking of the main site. Once you can log in, would you be able to reset the front page and the rest back to how it was before the switch over?
finally able to get back on dunno why it took so long
Quote from: Duckman on November 08, 2016, 03:42:18 AM
Hey Alex, speaking of the main site. Once you can log in, would you be able to reset the front page and the rest back to how it was before the switch over?
That's exactly my plan, though yesterday when I went to log in it kept redirecting to a blank login screen.
I really like the new Default/Lucid Dreams theme. Very clean and slick. Looks great!