Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > DSC New message board

The webteam are pleased to be able to inform you all that this weekend we will be upgrading the message board system to a new layout and new software. Since we have a 3 day weekend, and everyone will be out enjoying the sunshine ( ) hopefully it won't cause too much disruption. Having said that there's bound to be a few tweaks and corrections required during the next week !

Everyones username and password will remain the same and all posts and U2Us will be copied across to the new system. However due to the way avatars are set up in the old system, we have been unable to get them transferred correctly across to the new one in our testing processes - so once you get logged into the new system, you will have to reset your avatar.

If you have a list of U2U addresses you will need to rebuild this on the new system - equally if you have subscribed to any threads you will need to re-subscribe in the new system.

The old message board (i.e. this one) will still be viewable, but no postings can be made. We may retain it as an archive but if everything gets transferred over correctly it may be possible to turn off the old system at some point in the future. No decision has yet been made on this.

Although we have been testing the new system for over a month now behind the scenes, there may still be areas of the system that either need further explanation or maybe they don't work 'correctly' - if you email the webteam we will attempt to respond as soon as possible, but please bear in mind we could be quite busy in the first week !


The correct message board will be marked as 'read-only' early tomorrow morning and we anticipate completing the upgrade by late Monday afternoon. Since the new mesasge board is integrated into the main part of the website - just point your browser to http://www.ducatisportingclub.com - you don't need anything else following - and once the system is up and running you will see the new front page and from there access the new message board.


Eamonn, Frank, Mark
DSC Webteam

[swannymere]

Thanks for your hard work,have a drink on me!

[skidlids]

looking forward to it, I suspected it would be happening soon hence me posting on it for the first time last night.

well done to everyone for all the work that has gone in to making this happen

[Fordie]

Thanks lads for what will be a very progressive move, after spending the last 5 years trolling and learning this board,you all go and change it Big WELL DONE to you ALL . 4D

[Iconic944ss]

Feels like moving house already, but hopefully not quite as nervous!

Eamonn and Mark have done excellent work between them, especially in such a relatively short space of time.

But, I'll have a small celebration with a bottle of Stella anyways

And so, to the Stars.........

F

[Brent]

Go for it guys - good luck..

[YMFB]

Good luck guys.

[Rattler]

Thanks for all your hard work.....good luck
Tim

[Lily]

Nice one Eamon, hope it all goes well.

[Jiminy]

Best of luck chaps - working in the IT industry myself I know (a) how much effort goes into these switch-overs and (b) what unsung heroes you are.

Cheers

Jiminy