NewMars On phpBB3

The weekly Google Meeting took place on schedule yesterday.

Topics discussed included:

Space Tugs and book prospects
Venus probe designed to operate in the 500 Celsius environment
Optical Plane concept (research required)
Kinetic weaponry (ancient technology brought forward)

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The new version of FluxBB is continuing to hold steady.

The forum saw return of one of the founding Administrators yesterday.

Josh Cryer has a registration date in 2001, and served until 2018 when he took retirement.

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We have completed another week without incident.

We are starting to think about long deferred improvements.

The first item had been the "like" feature, but now a file hosting capability is on the agenda.

Currently we use Dropbox and Imgur to hold text files and images.

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The new software completed another day without incident.

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The new software for the forum continues to run without incident.

Many thanks (again) to SpaceNut, kbd512 and other members who helped to prepare and test the many changes introduced to the underlying software. It is gratifying that the software is behaving exactly the way it did before (on the surface).

Like swans gliding serenely across the surface of the pond, I assure everyone that little paddles are churning frantically under the surface, to keep up with member requests in real time. And those requests are being handled with support services that are current as of 2024.

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The forum is now working and we are now dealing with securing the database backup that kbd512 created during the conversion procedure.

We saw that RobertDyck logged into the new system.

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As of 19:27 New Hampshire time, kbd512 succeeded in persuading the new software to run using the URL we are used to.

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To my surprise, the conversion is underway.

Please expect it will take several hours.

If all goes well it should be back by evening.

It is now about 14:30 New Hampshire time, so it might be worth checking back at 17:00 New Hampshire time.

it is 19:26 UTC

Best wishes to kbd512 for a smooth transition!

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We'll try again next week....

All team members were not able to schedule time for the conversion today.

Both old and new systems remain open for logins.

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As of 17:00 UTC the waiting room is open and I am standing by for kbd512 to join the meeting.

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