Apologies for the downtime folks!

[Russ]

There are many reasons why forum software needs upgrades - primary amongst them being security issues (old software can contain vulnerabilities) and also improvements in speed and useability, especially on a huge forum like this. It optimizes a lot of the backend functions such as searches, server queries etc.

I've tried to keep the look of this pretty similar to the previous forum is terms of layout, colours etc so that the change isn't too much of a culture shock, but hey, everywhere on the internet from little ol' HA right up to Amazon and Facebook change over time. Gotta grow with it.

It also brings with it a host of improvements that you can choose to ignore or utilize - for example, image uploading is improved, posts are auto-saved as you write them, there's an activity ticker (something I'm already using a lot!) and very importantly these days, in the next day we'll have a fully functioning mobile version of the site which should make browsing HA on your phone much more a pleasure than a chore!

I'm still adding features back in, and looking into the other issues (image enlarging, YouTube embeds etc) by the way, they will be fixed!

[gaysian71]

Hey Russ,
no need to appologize for the downtime. Migrations can be a bitch sometimes. If every sever migration I did went totally smooth, my clients would think I was God like.

I have only viewed the new site with my phone. But it looks and works great! Like all migrations, I'm sure you will be doing some tweaking to the site. But it looks pretty damn good for the first day.

[Ts RedVeX]

Whoever is responsible for this must have been fired from M$ just before it came up with windows 8's GUI

[sukumvit boy]

Nice job Russ , Thank You!

[Yasmin Lee Fan]

You guys had me worried. I had to go through 4 password changes before I finally got on here. Glad you're back. Don't know what I think about the changes yet. The only changeless thing is change.

[Yasmin Lee Fan]

I did a couple of posts. It's easier to upload pics, but there is no preview post box .

[Yasmin Lee Fan]

My bad. You have to use the Go Advanced box.

[malc]

Thanks for updating this page!

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Wow...aren't we gettin' fancy!! Looks nice! Please don't litter!!

[alpha2117]

Thanks for the work. Right now I hate it but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Maybe someone knows the answer to this. I'm getting a whole string of ads down the side for vids (not a problem in and of itself) and any pics are often obscured - and i cant see the whole pic. I cant scroll across. Anyone know how to fix that.