New Forums
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008The new forums have mostly taken their final shape now, so I would like to announce their official opening. In a few days, the frontpage links on both Earth and Utopia will be switched to the new forums. The old forums will remain online for the next few weeks, so that you have time to copy any material still wanted to the new boards. We won’t be reading the old forums any more, so I would ask that any bugs and suggestions especially, be posted in the jolt forums from now on.
We have taken a number of your suggestions into account over the past few weeks. Avatars, images, and signatures can be disabled on an individual level, we have added a quick reply feature, and adapted to some of your structural requests in order to resemble the old forums more closely. Requests and input may be still be considered, to the extent they’re realistic to implement.
Forum downtime remains an issue at the moment, which we’re still working on resolving. The downtime currently occurs at 07:30 GMT for between 40 - 60 minutes, and is a consequence of the database backup. The backup is to ensure that archive date is not lost if the database goes down, or becomes corrupted.