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11/23/2007: "And Away We Go - Part III"

Well, the last of the turkey and gravy is behind us - finally. I swear, I've had every kind of turkey product imaginable short of turkey popsicles in the last two days. Progress on the upgrade has been slow, in part because of the holiday festivities and the obligatory recovery time, but also because of lots of unforeseen tasks. I've been having to hand-edit a lot more files than I had planned, primarily to allow us to restore the "Rate a topic" feature. Unlike the old system, where topics went into an "archive mode" after a certain time, all the topics can remain live in our new forums. That means there's no real need for a "MC Classics" forum, but it also means we need a way to identify the "classic" threads - hence the return of topic rating. Of course, this version of the program uses a different rating system than the old one did - naturally - so I have to go into the files for every thread that ever got a rating vote and remove the data ... by hand. Pain in the ass, as you might imagine. Good news is that I've finished all the forums save the Marlin Club, and I expect to have that done in the next few hours. After that, we try the data conversion - the key to our success - so if you want to say a prayer, this would be the time!