ADISC v5 Upgrade Plan (and what you need to know!)

The ADISC v5.0 upgrade is coming this week!


Soon, I will be upgrading us from a vbulletin-based website to a xenforo-based one.

This change will have many benefits, such as:

1. Enabling critical new features for you, like the ability to use our website properly on a mobile device or tablet.
2. Allowing us to eliminate a lot of ancient, legacy code in favor of more modern, up-to-date, standards-compliant and better maintained code.

There are some things, though, that you need to know:

1. Social Groups will cease to exist. If there is any content in any of your social groups that you want to keep, now is the time for you to download/save it.
2. Album pictures won't be migrated, though our new platform will have a new album system you can use. If you have any existing pictures in your albums, consider saving local copies of them.
3. Tapatalk will no longer be supported (though, you won't need it, because our website will now work in a mobile browser).
4. The upgrade itself is probably going to require an entire day of downtime. Unfortunately this cannot be avoided - the data migration process itself takes hours (during which the site cannot be up), and there are many hours of configuration and troubleshooting that have to be done after that, before I can re-open it to the public. So, don't panic if you notice some downtime soon. Lots of work is going on behind the scenes!

If you'd like to ask questions, do so here.
If you'd like to help beta-test the new ADISC v5, ask in #adisc-version-5 on our Discord chat server.

ADISC v5 Upgrade Plan (and what you need to know!)