Forum system migration and wiki host migration
Unfortunately to add to the tally of what happens where there isn't a true community and instead just a corporation behind open source ... https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39620/higher-logic-has-terminated-open-source-vanilla
... so sooner or later we'll probably need migrate away from this forum system. We won't lose any posts, but we'll probably need to lock the site for a day or so, or run something in parallel to test things out for a bit.
Our wiki has also been running really, really slow recently, most likely due to low quality shared hosting. I think it's finally time to migrate everything to the VPS. So a heads up that sooner or later I'll also be locking the wiki temporarily and doing a migration.
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I've set up a test instance here: https://community-test.osarch.org/ - feel free to play around. The database is disconnected, so any posts you do there will be later deleted. Just a reminder that email notifications are wired up, so emails will be sent so please stick to testing with new threads.
This new forum system should also be significantly faster (let me know if you also think so). Passwords are not migrated, so you will need to reset your password there to play with: https://community-test.osarch.org/reset - at any time I might reset the DB, in which case you will again need to re-reset the password.
It's a lot more frugal (will elaborate more on that later, my biases showing through here) but we can also do a lot more customisation later, like embedding IFC models. Some features don't exist yet too.
Email sending should also be more reliable now (for those who have complained that they never received things). I realised I messed something up.
Cool, is this a home spun solution, or based on an existing forum code base?
It's home spun, and very, very tiny :)
cool, will you be pushing the code to github, or the like?
We couldn't be an open source community if we didn't have an open source forum right? :) https://github.com/Moult/threadbare
yes, dumb question. :)
cool name.