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First, thanks for your patience.
Second, I'll be turning the forums off intermittently for a few days so I can fix things. That means, don't post your only copy of something because if I turn the forum off mid-post, you might lose it.
We have, with the help of Scott Hawkins (shawkins):
What's Still Happening
Everyone Should Do These Two Things
Thing One: Clearing Cookies and Cache
Thing Two: Editing Bookmarks, Shortcuts or Favorites
With the change from http to https, you should edit your AW bookmarks, favorites and shortcuts (and any other links pointing to AW like your Homepage setting if if AW is your Homepage) to use https:
Glitches I'm Working On and Know About
Ways You Can Help
I'll update this post as things evolve. Thanks again.
Second, I'll be turning the forums off intermittently for a few days so I can fix things. That means, don't post your only copy of something because if I turn the forum off mid-post, you might lose it.
We have, with the help of Scott Hawkins (shawkins):
- Moved to a slightly faster and more robust server.
- Indexed old posts so they'll show on Profiles (Use the Google search box at the bottom of the page for more accurate and speedy searching)
- Upgraded the forum software.
- Added SSL certificates, so https will work.
What's Still Happening
- I've turned the forums back on earlier that I'd like; I'm still tweaking things.
- I will be turning them off intermittently as I work for a few days.
- The forums will look different for a bit; I'm going to be installing some new templates.
- That will take time.
- I'm still fixing small glitches. Please be patient.
Everyone Should Do These Two Things
Thing One: Clearing Cookies and Cache
- Make sure you know your Password and Username.
- Log off
- Clear Cookies and Cache
- Completely Quit your Web browser, closing all windows.
- Log back on to AW.
- Click the little box that says "Remember me?" on the top right of the AW window if you want to stay logged in.
Thing Two: Editing Bookmarks, Shortcuts or Favorites
With the change from http to https, you should edit your AW bookmarks, favorites and shortcuts (and any other links pointing to AW like your Homepage setting if if AW is your Homepage) to use https:
- Just add the s after http, changing the URL from http: to https:
- The old URL will work, but your Web browser may complain that the site is "insecure." It isn't.
Glitches I'm Working On and Know About
Sigs can't be edited. Fixed.Posts can't be edited even during the edit period. Fixed- The New Posts link isn't behaving as expected; This one is . . . complicated, and might not be possible to restore exactly the way it was. This is partially fixed; I'm waiting for some new data from vBulletin.
- Subscribed Threads aren't behaving as expected. Still working on this.
- Cosmetic issues in terms of the design/colors of the forum. Things like the Rep blobs; it's an easy fix but won't matter when I install shiny new templates, so I'm making it a low priority.
- Mobile access—the update kinda hosed the templates, so pretty much nothing is quite right. I'm probably to spend my energy on the new mobile templates rather than fixing ones that will be replaced, but I am looking and fixing what I can.
Ways You Can Help
- Please give me time to get things set to rights.
- PM a thank you to to Scott Hawkins; he put a lot of effort and hours in the upgrade.
- The move cost more than we were prepared for; you can Subscribe if you'd like to help. [email protected] works too, if you have Paypal.
- You can buy a copy of Scott Hawkin's excellent book The Library at Mount Char via the Amazon link at the top or here.
- You can buy anything via this Amazon link and AW will get part of the price. We won't know who bought what.
- Buy a copy of Scrivener for Windows or Scrivener 3 for Mac via this link and AW gets part of the purchase price. *Take advantage of the free trial for 30 days before you buy.
I'll update this post as things evolve. Thanks again.
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