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QRZ Forums Will Resume Soon...
We know it's been a long outage and many people have contacted us to voice their concern over our Ham Radio Forums. I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that Stephen (VA7STV) and I are working overtime building a replacement forums platform. Fortunately we have some good backups of the data. The forums software, however, is another issue. We made a serious mistake when we trusted our software supplier, vBulletin, with an upgrade that was destined to fail. We've upgraded our forums software many times in the past without incident and so you can imagine how surprised we were when their latest edition crashed and burned on liftoff. In retrospect, we should have attempted this upgrade on a parallel system but given our past experience we believed that things would be ok with a live upgrade. They weren't. We are sorry for the disappointment our forums users have experienced over this event and sincerely apologize for that. Our new software, Xenforo, promises to do a great job. It has a great track record running on very large sites and we're configuring it now for QRZ. The process takes a while, however, because it must read each of the 4 million items from the old system and put them into the new one. We've already moved all of the discussion postings over from the old system and are nearly ready to open it back up to users. There are a few bits and pieces left to work out in order for us make all of the site features work properly and we believe that we should have it ready in a day or so. We sincerely hope that you'll stick with us with your encouragement and kind words which we always appreciate. We promise, you'll like the end result. Note: this outage includes the Private Messaging function as it was a part of the Forums system. We would also like to point out that all of our other services including the callsign database, our Logbook, our XML Data, Practice Tests and other non-forum features are stil available for use. Thanks and 73, -fred AA7BQ |
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