(Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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(Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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Hello Mozillazine!

As all of you are well aware, this forum has been having some technical problems over the last few months, e.g. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3078542. In lieu of a proper administrator, OSL has prepped maintenance to upgrade this forum to a modern version of PHPBB (3.2.11) that will (hopefully) resolve all the broken stuff.

We are planning on performing this upgrade next Monday, 4/11/22, at 2PM PST (21:00 UTC). We anticipate this upgrade to take around 8 hours, during which all forums will be unavailable.

Please let us know if there are any problems after the update on this thread or via an email to support@osuosl.org.

Best,
OSL Sysadmins

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EDIT:

Due to the major problems with logins and moderation tools being more broken on the newer update, we have reverted this in the meantime while we investigate a fix.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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DanRaisch wrote:Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
What he said.
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thankyou OSU - OSL

my guess we'll be able to use https://forums.mozillazine.org/ link without a issue once the forum is upgraded
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A really big THANK YOU from all of us lowly users & moderators. :)

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With this update will we be able to unlock the Knowledge Base and begin resurrecting its contents?

Thanks for looking out for us!
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Thank you, both for doing it and letting us know! :)
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what Version of phpbb is this board running now?
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osuadmin wrote: [....] We are planning on performing this upgrade next Monday, 4/11/22, at 2PM PST (21:00 UTC).
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ElTxolo wrote:
osuadmin wrote: [....] We are planning on performing this upgrade next Monday, 4/11/22, at 2PM PST (21:00 UTC).
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Snake4 wrote:what Version of phpbb is this board running now?
thanks,
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Good news. Thanks. So it is going from 3.0.12 to what new version?

Will things look or work differently? Or is it just fixing broken things?

Great news either way.
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osuadmin wrote:OSL has prepped maintenance to upgrade this forum to a modern version of PHPBB that will (hopefully) resolve all the broken stuff.
Good.

So, who are OSL? Well, they are these guys - https://osuosl.org/ The people who have made an enormous contribution to the Open Source movement and, indeed, to the very Internet itself.

They are also the people who host stuff for, phpBB - https://www.phpbb.com/about/ whose software they will be updating here. As part of such an update, it's always SOP to backup the entire database before hitting the button.

Even so, (Having said that/That being said, for US readers) I would strongly advise all members/users/perps here to backup/copy any posts or PMs that may be of particular import to themselves, prior to the scheduled forum software update on Monday, 4/11/22, at 2PM PST (21:00 UTC). (rough translation: sometime on the 11th of April). It'll be fine, but do it anyway.

Exciting times, eh? :)
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Haven't been around here in a while and it's very nice to see the forums still up and running!

THANK YOU! =D> \:D/ :banana:
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Tomorrow is the big day!! Looking forward...
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