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Hey guys... A quick notice! Tomorrow morning, the Garage Journal will be going offline for maintenance and updates. If everything goes as planned, the site will be down bet...


To read the rest of this blog entry from The Garage Journal, click here.

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Update: Migration is taking far longer than we thought. As such, forum will remain up overnight.
 
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cvairwerks said:
Have you got an approximate start time? May have to load up on alternate reading material as I work overnights and haunt this place when we are on hold.
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I'm not sure yet... We are doing a bunch of things behind the curtains that has never been done before. It's all very necessary, but super scary...

Essentially, I held on to Vbulletin for far too long... the forum got old and HUGE and... holy **** this is scary...

But as unprofessional as this might all look (any downtime is pretty unprofessional), I am confident we can get it all to work. We just need the time offline to make sure.

Note: You might also note that the site is running a little slow today. We are backing up everything 100% before we attempt all this craziness.
 
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Best of luck with the conversion Ryan and thank you for all of your hard work, time and effort.

We'll be here when it comes back online.:beer:
 
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You **** Ryan, now I’m gonna have to actually get some work done. :willy_nil


Good luck with the updates - they always go soooo smoothly :D
 
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**** this place helps me keep the evil gremlins at bay.

I might have to go hang out on another forum to keep my sanity

Or I might just have to do what my drill Sargent threatened to do “rip off somebody’s head and ****!”
 
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Mandatory in person 8 hour meeting tomorrow starting at 9am. What do I do about the other potential 32 hours down? :shocking:
Good Luck Ryan. :thumbup:
 
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Tomorrow is my early day so please try to have it back up by noon or I have to go help the wife plant flowers.......................................
 
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Is there a list of alternative sites we can waste time on somewhere?
 
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Best wishes for you and all of us. Hoping you will have a soft landing.

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Good Luck, Ryan!

Take WHATEVER time you need to get it all working correctly. In the big scheme of things, a forum being down for 2-3 days isn't really that big of a deal. All of us will still be here when you get it rolling........
 
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Where's that youtube thread. I might need to load up some new subscriptions to pass the time.

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It’s alright, both mine and the restroom at work are well stocked with reading material, I’ll survive.


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Krash Kadillak said:
Good Luck, Ryan!

Take WHATEVER time you need to get it all working correctly. In the big scheme of things, a forum being down for 2-3 days isn't really that big of a deal. All of us will still be here when you get it rolling........
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This ^^

If a little extra downtime is what it takes for you to be confident that the end result is sound, by all means take it!

We appreciate all the work involved for what is, essentially, our benefit.
 
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XenForo format *****, the search feature is garbage.
Hope everyone has a good add blocker if the switch to XenForo.

Best of luck Ryan, better buy some beer, your going to need it.
 
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XenForo format *****, the search feature is garbage.
Hope everyone has a good add blocker if the switch to XenForo.

Best of luck Ryan, better buy some beer, your going to need it.
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When you go to a pal’s house after he’s remodeled the kitchen do you say; “Man, this new kitchen *****!”?

Curious… cuz it’s sort of the same thing. :)

Regardless, xenforo is far superior to VB in every way. Yes, some people will hate change… but I’d hope most would understand why and have some chill about it.
 
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