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11/07/2007: "Upgrade Update"
Here at the Home Office, our tech staff is busy preparing for the big software upgrade we talked about on Monday. In fact, some decisions are starting to crystallize, and I wanted to share them with you.
First, and this is probably the most important to the folks reading this blog, is that we've decided to stick with the current blogging software package (Greymatter) for the time being. WordPress and some of the PHP-based alternatives we'd been looking are great, but the amount of work required to try and make them work as smoothly within the framework of our existing site was just more than anyone was willing to take on. We may make the change down the line once the other projects are complete, but there's no hurry.
We are, however, going ahead full speed ahead with the biggest project - the upgrade to the Offshore Fishing Forum. The new forum is online in a testing mode, and seems to be working fine. We'll be tweaking it a bit over the next few weeks to get it looking just the way we want, and I estimate the cutover date between the two forums will probably be right around the Thanksgiving holiday.
Related to that is our other big project - recreating some of our old forums from days gone by. Back before we were using the current software, there was a whole different Marlin Club board - one that was left behind during the upgrade, since there was no way to convert the data to the new format (not an issue this time, BTW). At the time, we weren't smart enough to archive an old copy, and it was lost to history. Fortunately, the folks at the Internet WayBack Machine are smarter than I am, and have archives portions of it. I'm going through the files now, and it's pretty interesting to see the ways things have changes both here at SCMO and in the larger fishing community over the last decade. I don't think we'll be able to recover the entire forum, but I think we'll have enough to make it a very interesting read!
More as it becomes available ...
