Forum Upgraded

[Butterfree]

I've just upgraded the forum to vBulletin 3.8.4, which has admittedly been out for a while, but my license had expired. I got a vBulletin 4 license for my birthday, however, which reenabled the downloading.

If you were wondering, yes, we will be switching to vBulletin 4, but apparently its styling system is hell for anyone looking to seriously change anything as opposed to just switching out a background image or two, and all hacks will have to be remade or at least re-implemented, so it might be a little while before that can happen.

Finally, I am hoping we can resolve all the server and database trouble by moving the forums to a new server. Kat from Eevee's HQ offered to be the new host for the forums, so I'm hoping to get the forums moved there very soon. I'll get back to you on that. Just to clarify, this will not mean the loss of any data whatsoever, so don't worry about it.

[sreservoir]

will the rest of the stuff get moved to a new server, or just the forums?

[Butterfree]

Just the forums.

[Brock]

Will there be any server down time before/during/after the switch?

[Lucas755]

Does this mean there would be a different domain name for the forums?

[Mariodjw]

No, it is still hosted in the same place.

[ultraviolet]

are there any changes to the forum that we would notice with the 3.8.4 upgrade?

also yay~ new hosting. C:

[Butterfree]

Will there be any server down time before/during/after the switch?
Yes, there will have to be a downtime while the database is dumped and reloaded on the new server.

Does this mean there would be a different domain name for the forums?
They'd probably be moved to a subdomain like forums.dragonflycave.com.

are there any changes to the forum that we would notice with the 3.8.4 upgrade?
Nothing overly interesting to my knowledge; it's just a standard maintenance release with bugfixes and so on.

No, it is still hosted in the same place.
Um, huh? What gave you the authority to answer that question? o_O And seeing as I just said it was going to be hosted in a different place, um.

[sreservoir]

They'd probably be moved to a subdomain like forums.dragonflycave.com.

Why wasn't it like this in the first place?

[Butterfree]

Because forums.dragonflycave.com actually used to be the old Invisionfree forums and I never bothered to move it since dragonflycave.com/forums worked just as well.