+Random Terrain Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Soon AtariAge will be temporarily "broke" and this discussion of dick will appear to be closed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 (edited) Will it remember me again.. like my wife at the time,never forgetting anything? Edited August 8, 2022 by GDMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Enjoying the last day of the old forum... Video of Al shutting down the old forum: - James 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 7 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: Video of Al shutting down the old forum: - James I was going to go with this (spoilers if you haven't seen the ending of Babylon 5): 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Albert said: I do plan on posting updates here as well once the forum is taken down, but that will be a read-only type thing that people cannot interact with. ..Al For reals? Cool. I was joking, of course, but if you intend to leave the AA forum up in read-only mode to display updates, then that's great! :) That beats having to hit "REFRESH" on the new URL every 10 seconds to see if it is up. I just have to hit "REFRESH" on this page every 10 seconds to see if there are any updates, instead. Progress! -dZ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 minute ago, DZ-Jay said: Cool. I was joking, of course, but if you intend to leave the AA forum up in read-only mode to display updates, then that's great! The forum will not be up, it will be offline, but I can put a detailed message there that everyone will see while the migration is taking place to the new server. And I can keep that updated periodically. 1 minute ago, DZ-Jay said: That beats having to hit "REFRESH" on the new URL every 10 seconds to see if it is up. I just have to hit "REFRESH" on this page every 10 seconds to see if there are any updates, instead. Progress! You'll just need to refresh https://atariage.com/forums/ periodically. ..Al 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Finally, last word: Will The Atari Report be able to have its own individual thread (of each individual edition in their designated forums) rather than have individual threads for each episode within each edition (2600, 5200, 7800, and 8-Bit editions respectively in each of those named individual forums) should I ever want to relaunch the series in which I just might do perhaps in the upcoming calendar year??? I figure that since I will be out of the music business after AK47 runs his course with his final (second album as AK47, fourth album overall) record "Still Ruthless", at the end of the year that i can maybe refocus on perhaps bringing it back and spending more time with it and utilizing many of the various tips others here gave me on how to improve my presentation skills on it. The Atari Report will be better than ever if and when we do relaunch it, including a brand new custom "AR" logo, in which I drew up a do-me-up scheme of for my manager to create, the left side being the left half of the famous Fuji logo, the right side being the "R" from the "ATARI" wordmark in the same font as on the XEGS console front. The logo and also the presentation of "THE ATARI REPORT" alongside it will look great!!! Len Enders knows what he is doing!!! It's worth trying, what have I got to lose??? ...and yes the famous "World News Tonight" soundtracks from Edd Kalehoff and the familiar voiceover of myself you currently hear will continue to grace each edition of TAR!!! Same request goes also for ColecoVision EXTRA! as well for when that series is launched in the C-V forums. .....and @Albert, good luck with the transition, hope it goes through smoothly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Albert said: The forum will not be up, it will be offline, but I can put a detailed message there that everyone will see while the migration is taking place to the new server. And I can keep that updated periodically. Ah, I see that you were using a slightly more liberal definition of "here." ? 1 hour ago, Albert said: You'll just need to refresh https://atariage.com/forums/ periodically. ..Al Gotcha! ? Thanks for all the support. I hope it all goes well. I'm sort of looking forward to the upgrade, but with a bit of trepidation about what it would change in practice. I'm getting to old and my brittle little mind does not seem to accept change very well. ? Godspeed! -dZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 8, 2022 Author Share Posted August 8, 2022 1 minute ago, DZ-Jay said: Ah, I see that you were using a slightly more liberal definition of "here." ? Well, technically, if you try to go to this thread, you'll just be directed to the "Oh crap, the forum is offline!" page anyway. 1 minute ago, DZ-Jay said: Thanks for all the support. I hope it all goes well. Thank you, I already hope it goes well! I did a test earlier of tar'ing the entire forum file structure, and it took an hour and a half to tar up 773GB of files. So I'm likely going to take the forum down around midnight CST so I can tar all the files and dump the database. Then try to get some sleep and wonder when I wake up temporarily wonder why there have been no notification emails from the forum overnight. 3 minutes ago, DZ-Jay said: I'm sort of looking forward to the upgrade, but with a bit of trepidation about what it would change in practice. I'm getting to old and my brittle little mind does not seem to accept change very well. ? Same, there are various improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Lots of additional administration / moderation improvements as well. This upgrade should not be as jolting as the one from 3.4.x to 4.4.x, as Invision completely rewrote the forum software at 4.0. We're only going from 4.4.x to 4.7 this time, but it's still a few years worth of changes. And it's not nearly as jarring as moving to completely new forum software. We started with Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) back in 2001 (which was written in Perl and not that great), then moved to phpBB, and then a few years later jumped to Invision. The move from UBB to phpBB was a huge improvement. Same with phpBB to Invision, which had considerably more features and was more reliable than phpBB at the time. Looks like UBB is pretty stagnant at this point (looks like work stopped in fall of 2020). phpBB is still actively being developed, but from what I've seen in the past, development looks pretty slow. Of course Invision is still being worked on. No idea how vBulletin is doing, tons of people jumped ship from them years ago, and developers left as well to form xenForo, which is pretty popular. Forums have definitely declined in popularity thanks to social media, and in particular Facebook. But they definitely have a place, given the difficulty in having meaningful, long-term discussions on topics on Facebook. Some forums still do well, others have seen significant declines. It'll be interesting to see how this evolves down the road. ..Al 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Also @Albert, you might want to thunk about this, will AtariAge FINALLY (and I have been a member of these forums for almost 20 years here on AA) launch a mobile app (available in both the App Store and Google Play), my old 2016 iPhone SE dies on me last week and I am looking to get either an iPhone 12 mini or 13 mini, and how cool would it be that AA have not only that but also perhaps official AtariAge-branded merchandise (T-shirts/bumper stickers/headwear/coffee mugs/swag, etc.), it's all for good publicity, to draw attention to the undisputed #1 retro-gaming website and its family of forums, I myself plan to do the same for both my BIGHMW namesake and my entire BIGHMW network of websites too in the short future (as early as early-mid-2023) too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 9 minutes ago, BIGHMW said: ...will AtariAge FINALLY (and I have been a member of these forums for almost 20 years here on AA) launch a mobile app... I suppose you greatly underestimate the amount of work required for such an app. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Just now, Thomas Jentzsch said: I suppose you greatly underestimate the amount of work required for such an app. I think there is already an app for AA. It's got a weird name, let me check ... Yup, on my iPhone it's called Safari. Maybe it's because of Albert's known predilection for hunting big game. *shrug* -dZ. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Tonight's the night - @Albert is about to cross the streams. "I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it! Let's do it!" "See you on the other side, Ray." 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Good luck Albert! Hope the migration goes smooth like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 5 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: I suppose you greatly underestimate the amount of work required for such an app. Easy peasy. Load up the page in your mobile browser, tap on the three dots (not the three shells,) tap "Add To Home Screen." How is that a lot of work? Anyway, I had a grumble thought a few minutes ago about how after the last migration I needed to re-do some of my blogs (not that I have a lot, anyway.) So, "Don't taze my blogs, bro!" 5 hours ago, Albert said: Forums have definitely declined in popularity thanks to social media, and in particular Facebook. But they definitely have a place, given the difficulty in having meaningful, long-term discussions on topics on Facebook. Some forums still do well, others have seen significant declines. It'll be interesting to see how this evolves down the road. The niche and controlled nature of forums and bulletin boards helps keeps things on-topic, if you will. Well, I hope things go better for you and your crew than these poor souls: rod_computer.mp4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mksmith Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Good luck @Albert!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecernosoft Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 On 8/2/2022 at 3:26 PM, Albert said: Same! ..Al You know you've made my life so much better. =D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 I'm going to take the forum down at 11pm CST, about an hour and a half from now, in order to begin this process. I'll have a few hours of work in front of me before I can go to sleep! ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Good luck with everything Al! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 Just now, eightbit said: Good luck with everything Al! Thank you! I've been doing the legwork and testing for the work I have to do once the forum goes down, so hopefully that aspect of it goes smoothly. Once I hand the data off to Invision, it's out of my hands for some time. They will begin work around 3am CST, and it'll probably be a while before I hear anything. With any luck, it'll go smoothly on their end, but it's rare for a process like this to not have some hiccups! I am excited to get this done, though! ..Al 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Charlie Cat Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Albert said: Looking forward to the updates and seeing @Albert with the rest of all the great members and guest we have on the AtariAge forums. Anthony... Edited August 9, 2022 by Charlie Cat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinity Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Repent! The end is nigh!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 2 minutes ago, OLD CS1 said: Repent! The end is nigh!! Soon AtariAge will be temporarily "broke" and this discussion of dick will appear to be closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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