I have moved the iwethey.org site to a new machine (a Linode - http://www.linode.com, for the curious). While the old chutney machine is venerable and loved, its propensity for requiring hard reboots and inconvenient trips to the co-location facility to fix has earned it a trip to the pasture. The new Linode machine has remote console capabilities, integrated VM backups, and a price half as much per month as the old co-lo.

The new forum software is currently installed here:

http://forum.iwethey.org/

I have imported the most recent backup of the old posts (we're missing about a year's worth of posts, unfortunately -- thank you, Sven, for your attempts to recover the full backup) as well, by placing the new posts from this copy after them.

Notes:

Users with the same nickname here as on the old copy have had their posts combined and their password/preferences set to their current values. Marked Read have also been translated as well, inasmuch as the new and old forums match. This is scripted as part of the import process so it's Not A Big Deal at all.

Users with different nicknames can have this same merging done by request. This will require either some out-of-band proof of identity or obvious recognition by me.

The new forums will run in temporary mode for the next week or so to prove out the translation process. Anything posted there will be lost when we do the final export/import (which is thankfully 95% automated now) in a week, but I encourage you to post there as much as possible for testing.

Old forum posts will look odd, given that there is no runtime translation of WeeCodes being done. This will probably annoy someone enough at some point that it will get fixed. Posting repeatedly in the Suggestions forum complaining about it will likely put that date off into the future. I'm looking at you, Rand...

Please don't make a run against the forum to save off copies of the old posts. I can provide them to you in a much more convenient format that doesn't require eating into our 200G/month bandwidth allotment.

At some point the Jabber server will be back up as well. Note to self: ensure email routing is working, too.

Enjoi.

There are still some weird performance issues to iron out.