Site Maintenance and Migration News
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@izlo @numaphlex @johncave @midge-f @samuraitracks
Hey gang,
Sorry for the radio silence recently! Lot's going on!
Just wanted to give you a heads up that I've been quietly working in the background preparing for a site migration for the site, shop and forum.
Currently, everything is built on wordpress, which has been fine until recently. From a security standpoint, its been a bit of a pain as Ive had to continuously patch the site more often than I'd like. The site is secure however, it's taking considerable time out of my week to keep doing so. So I decided to migrate the site to Astro which is framework that should not only make things very lightweight, fast and more secure. I'm also migrating the shop to an open source alternative as well.
Which comes to the forum. Currently the forum is built using WPForo which only works with wordpress. I've looked at several options for replacing it but have decided on using Discourse which should be a bit of an upgrade from where it is now. Everything that this forum currently does, Discourse can do and one additional feature that is lacking which is private messaging and a better notification system. I'll be doing my best to try and migrate as much of the existing content from the forum to the new Discourse build and including member accounts. Btw if you'd like to change or update your current user name, please let me know.
My hope is to have the transition complete and live by this coming weekend and will keep you posted when everything is ready. Thanks -J
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@izlo @numaphlex @johncave @midge-f @samuraitracks
Just a quick status update, the migration is going well but I need to put a hold on it. All three sections, site/shop/forum, are complete now and running locally on my computer but I ran into a snag with the forum, specifically with the platform I migrated to. Initially it was going to use Discourse, but decided to use NodeBB instead. All the content is fully transferred over and the forum has been styled but the issue is my host currently does not support the latest version of Node.js which is needed to run the version of NodeBB I'm currently using. The only option I have is to move the forum to a VPS, which I'm not completely against, but need to do some research first to see which provider would work best.
So for now, pause on the migration and I'll be focusing on the releases. Will keep you posted! - J
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in italy we had a platform called forumfree (which was used, many years ago, by foreign people as well). you just sign up for free and create a forum for free. unfortunately, nowadays forums are out of fashion, everything has to be done on socials or chats or whatever
yeah i suppose this is a huge headache for you
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in italy we had a platform called forumfree (which was used, many years ago, by foreign people as well). you just sign up for free and create a forum for free. unfortunately, nowadays forums are out of fashion, everything has to be done on socials or chats or whatever
yeah i suppose this is a huge headache for you
@samuraitracks Not as much as you might think actually!
Ive set up and managed almost every kind of forum under the sun, but these modern node based forums require a continuous sysadmin and websockets, so they have different hosting requirements. I think I might have found a provider that can handle what I need, just have to verify a few things first.
If all goes well, I wont do a full site move, just the forum and I'll set it up as a sub-domain, most likely latentforms.aymat.org
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