*Oct 2023: FORUM MIGRATION TIMELINE*

Good morning,

This week we will be switching the website and forum from its current server and technology to a modern, mobile friendly platform.

The timeline is as follows:

05/10/23 8am BST – Current site to go offline and a holding page put up.

10/10/23 9am – Moderators given access to new site for checking.

12/10/23 10am – New site online – All being well this will happen before this date.

We will post updates here:

www.mortonsdigital.co.uk/blog/2023/10/02/model-engineer-model-boats-forum-migration-updates/

Please bookmark that page now before this forum goes offline.

When the new site goes live, you will need to log in with your email address and password. If that doesn't work you can do a password reset.

If you don't have access to the email address on your account here, you should change it before Thursday or you may be locked out.

Thanks for your support and patience

...cue JAWS music...

Edited By Ady1 on 02/10/2023 12:56:41

Yeah, that or this!

The new dawn is imminent! Strap in and prepare for launch. Please read Darren's first post.

Dave

Exciting, good luck with the inevitable gremlins!

If you don't have access to the email address on your account here, you should change it before Thursday or you may be locked out.

you might understand this, I don't. Explain please

There may be those who have been members for many years and signed up with an e-mail that they no longer use or can access. So if you are going to need a new password sending to you it would be best if you can open th ee-mail it is sent to.

If you go to settings and then "My Account" you will be able to see which e-mail the forum is usng for you

You can also set a new password there if you can't remember your current one as password ssaved on your device may no longer work on the new system.

Best of luck for a smooth transition moderators and IT guys.

Thanks, understood

A week without the Forum!

WHAT a deprivation!

But it will be worth the wait

Howard

Is the forum URL staying the same ?

Edited By Bob Unitt 1 on 03/10/2023 11:21:44

I hope you think so Howard

We have been using a Mortons URL for testing but I think the existing one is likely to be used as it easy to search but passwords remembered in your device may not carry forward.

One other thought, classifieds will not carry over so if you have typed a long description for an item then copy it so you can past it into a new classified.

You may see a few new topics and posts under those topics in the next day as a couple of things want setting up before this site is closed. Please just ignor them, most likely to be locked anyway.

Having gone through this sort of migration on forums before whilst being a member of staff I strongly advise all mods and admins to get a good nights sleep tomorrow night as you're not likely to get another one for a few weeks.

Good luck with the migration, see you on the other side.

If you have been active on the forum in the last 12 months you should have got an e-mail earlier today saying much the same as darrens Opening Post, check your spam or promotion sfolder sif you have not seen it, If not there then make sure you are using the same correct e-mail on the forum as you currently use to check your mail.

Wow. This made me smile or perhaps I should say wince. If migration plans for the systems I work with involved an outage to end users of up to 7 days.... Let's just say I wouldn't still have a job!

Andy

Yes, but the difference is that our users (or their bosses) were paying us!

Edited By Mark Rand on 04/10/2023 00:52:56

Your reply turns my wince into an embarrassed grimace. That's a very relevant differentiator! I did realise the IT side of this site was all run on a voluntary basis.

Andy

I've started a thread on MECH as a last chance for anyone unable to get into the new site to make contact.

I can also be found on MEM forum and less so on HMEM

Edited By JasonB on 04/10/2023 09:01:13

As a bit of guidance for when you first get access to the new forum rather than rushing in and getting stuck can we ask that you please read the quite extensive "Help" section. This can be accessed from the green bar where I have circled below as well as a couple of other red buttons that will appear with "Help/FAQs" which takes you to the list shown below. You won't get the orange bar (that is for Mods) and the list of help items is a lot longer.

Not only will this help you get set up on the new forum but will help the long suffering Mods by saving us having to repeatedly answer basic questions that are covered on the help page. Remember some of your most active Moderators do it for Free and have limited time to spend on the forum so help us by helping yourselves. That way we can concentrate on sorting genuine questions and bug which are a higher priority. Also you will see I have set up some topics (new name for threads) for you to try things out and others for question sand comments try to use these rather than start a whole load of new topics that will be hard for the Mods to keep track of. These will be right at the top of the forum headings.

Edited By JasonB on 04/10/2023 09:18:57