Originally Posted by Wong_Billabong:
“i thought the upgrade was happening, whys it the same”
Originally Posted by DS Forum Support:
“To clarify, we always intended to do this in a few stages. The first stage was to see how long a data scrape of this magnitude would take. This was done offline with a fairly recent, but older backup.
The second was the purpose of the read-only: to see if everything from our 9-year-old version of vBulletin will transfer correctly to our new platform and system. As we said in the announcement, based on the length it time it took to download and upload the old backup, we anticipated this being 72 hours. This ended up being accurate, though we quickly noticed a few items not being transferred properly due to incompatibility. We think we have identified fixes for those objects and we are now sitting on a fresh data dump which should mean the next time (which we are anticipating to be early next year) will only need to be the difference between last Wednesday and the day we make forums read-only again. We're hoping this means we can reduce further down time even more, but we will see how testing of the fixes vs. compatibility goes first.”
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...1#post84896581
It all went horribly wrong and now they have to do it again next week
I'm joking, please don't ban me
