Chisoxfn Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 All - I want to first off apologize for the extended outage and temporarily welcome everyone back to the forum. For those who didn't find the temporary site, when upgrading our back-end functionality (php / mysql) we ended up crashing our legacy server (which we had leveraged for a very long time). When the server crashed, we could have quickly restored via backup, however, opted to migrate our site to a new server with the latest bells and whistles. The upgrade was much needed, however, there were significant delays during the server migration (with our server company), which resulted in a far longer delay than expected. We will also be launching (in conjunction with the new server) and upgrading our forum software to the latest invision forums and are in the process of executing such upgrade. However, given how close we are to the season, I have opted to re-open these forums while we continue to fine tune (on a seperate test set) our overall upgrade to the latest Invision. This is partly because of the level of effort, but also because the new invision forum is significantly different and with our current forum customized (and relatively pretty), we want to make sure that we can make the user experience more seamless (or at least more seamless than the past 3 weeks outage). All of us at Soxtalk very much appreciate everyone's patience as we continue to move forward on enhancing Soxtalk and bringing all of you the latest and greatest forum technology. This new technology shall better integrate with social media while the server should enhance our bandwith capabilities to ensure Soxtalk is humming during the multiple playoff runs and world series this next generation Sox team is about to embark on! Now lets go Sox!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 One other major enhancement of the new forum will be a mobile interface so that everyone can post from their phones with far more ease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 If people want to see some of the functionality, feel free to check out www.talkbears.com which was upgraded one version up (still one version away from where Soxtalk will ultimately be). You just have to ignore the fact that none of the "skins" are customized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 My precious.... don't leave me like that again my precious... Thanks for everything Jason and all involved for what you guys do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTruth05 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 QUOTE (SoxAce @ Mar 28, 2018 -> 05:41 AM) My precious.... don't leave me like that again my precious... Thanks for everything Jason and all involved for what you guys do. +1. Rough couple of weeks but we made it.Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yesterday333 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!! my addiction is back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dunt Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Just in time! Welcome back everyone, can't wait for real baseball to start again tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipps Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Exciting to see that ST is keeping up with the times so everyone can go another decade strong talking Sox and everything else together. Lets get this season started! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSox59 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 HOLY MOLY! ITS ALIVE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHurt3515 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 All hail SoxTalk!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panerista Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Thank God Soxtalk is back. So ready for Baseball! Thanks for your hard work putting this back together, guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 This is the highpoint of the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightsOnMintSt Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Good to be back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Thank you! I've checked this site 6.05 billion times in the past 3 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 27, 2018 -> 11:21 PM) All - I want to first off apologize for the extended outage and temporarily welcome everyone back to the forum. For those who didn't find the temporary site, when upgrading our back-end functionality (php / mysql) we ended up crashing our legacy server (which we had leveraged for a very long time). When the server crashed, we could have quickly restored via backup, however, opted to migrate our site to a new server with the latest bells and whistles. The upgrade was much needed, however, there were significant delays during the server migration (with our server company), which resulted in a far longer delay than expected. We will also be launching (in conjunction with the new server) and upgrading our forum software to the latest invision forums and are in the process of executing such upgrade. However, given how close we are to the season, I have opted to re-open these forums while we continue to fine tune (on a seperate test set) our overall upgrade to the latest Invision. This is partly because of the level of effort, but also because the new invision forum is significantly different and with our current forum customized (and relatively pretty), we want to make sure that we can make the user experience more seamless (or at least more seamless than the past 3 weeks outage). All of us at Soxtalk very much appreciate everyone's patience as we continue to move forward on enhancing Soxtalk and bringing all of you the latest and greatest forum technology. This new technology shall better integrate with social media while the server should enhance our bandwith capabilities to ensure Soxtalk is humming during the multiple playoff runs and world series this next generation Sox team is about to embark on! Now lets go Sox!!! Jason, No need to apologize. I hope everyone truly recognizes what a privilege it is to participate and read this forum, thanks to your efforts, as well as a lot of others who rarely receive any thanks or recognition. It’s great to have the site back! Thank you to everyone at Soxtalk for all that you guys do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Who the **** are you people and why is this thing in my bookmarks? What is going on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapkomet Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 It's been some good times. At least I know Gage is alive still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScootsMcGoots Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Awesome to be back!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Abreu Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 I know that the upcoming upgrade to the new Invision forum is more than just layout, but man, the current layout of this site is much better looking than the new ones such as talkbears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Chappas Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Felt as if baseball did not exist the past month. Thanks for all your efforts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goober Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Wat it was down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Good to have it back! Thanks for whatever work you had to do on it. It was probably a pain in the butt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted March 28, 2018 Author Share Posted March 28, 2018 QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Mar 28, 2018 -> 09:26 AM) I know that the upcoming upgrade to the new Invision forum is more than just layout, but man, the current layout of this site is much better looking than the new ones such as talkbears I agree with you. That is why we are working to see how we can customize / tailor it to look prettier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elrockinMT Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 I didn’t understand any of that technology talk but I am happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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