Site News Scheduled Downtime

For those who don't know, we're running an outdated version of vBulletin, the software that powers our forums and, ultimately, our site. We're currently on version 4.1.3--the most recently released is 4.1.12. While no extremely major features or changes have been made in those releases, it's always best to keep up to date! So, we will be upgrading on Sunday, April 29th. We will have to take down the site during this time, which is why we're letting you know in advance. Because it's a rather minor update (nothing on the scale of our upgrade in the summer of 2010, for those who were with us), we are confident that the upgrade will not take too much time.

Following the upgrade we will have to update some of our modifications to be compatible, as well as iron out any bugs we may encounter, but this should not take too much time either. On this note, we will only be going to 4.1.11 at this time due to modification compatibility, but once fixes and updates are released for them we would like to get 100% current on our version (i.e. go to 4.1.12, or whatever is the newest release at that time). Once we are confident everything is up to snuff, the site will be re-opened. If you encounter any problems or bugs at that time, a thread will be made for you to notify us.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and hope that announcing it in advance will mitigate that.

Thanks a lot and have a great weekend,
The KH-Vids.Net Staff

 

I see. Well, thanks for updating!

How much time would it take? I can't know nothing with "It will not be much". :x
Well, thanks again! ^^

 

Kh-v for repairs... No DX

Aww man now what else am I supposed to do? I have no life.... To know actual think about going outside DX... Wait what am I 7 I have my game systems to keep me busy, but still... Kh-v for repairs... N-No.... WAIT A SECOND I GET MY SOUL BACK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL HAHAHAHAHAH YOU DON'T OWN ME ANYMORE!!!! Today's Friday though...
O-O
*Sniped*

 

We don't know exactly, I would say at most a few hours.

Well, there will be a new editor interface. I will look at profile customizations but nothing definite there.

 

Aww man now I cant ignore the site for no reason? I have to actually say "can't go on, updates dur"

And no update is bigger misty than the move of 2006 to the VB boards! Lost our post count and shiz.

 

Profile customization should work. Sean's forum, the one I help administrate, is running 4.1.11 and has no problems with profile customization.

 

The problem is that that forum is a lot smaller than this one ...

 

There's other factors to consider, though. For example, a vBulletin site with a custom skin could have problem with the profile customization. It might just 'break' the profiles. So that's something that needs to be tested firsthand.

 

We have a custom skin, too.

I do agree, though, that testing should be done. What other factors are there?

 

misty you cannot do this to me, surely you must know that my life revolves around khv

So I guess I'm alone in finding customisable profiles utterly annoying? Default ftw! :L

 

Ehm...okay, see when I mention custom, I mean fully customized. Not a template someone made in lieu of default vB skins. I.E., when profile customization was allowed, it broke some of the styling in KHV 4.0 FM. Not only that, it also added the yugioh cards as background images for VM conversations.

If none of that happens again, profile customization might be enabled again.

 

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying, Chev. :smile:

 

Thanks for the heads up. Here's hoping everything goes smoothly.

 

Well, I'm glad that we're getting a fair warning and I hope that the upgrade goes well.

 

Can anyone provide a full changlog of what's going to be changed or fixed? I'd like to know what exactly the update will do.

 

This should be what you want.

 

We'll try custom profiles again to see if they are fixed in the later version. If not they're staying disabled.

Also if this upgrade is anything like the last one, shouldn't take more than maybe an hour. Most of which is fixing template bugs.