Trad Gang could sure use some help ...

[Jim Maes]

Donation made.  This is a great site, I had to get in on this.

[DanielB89]

Originally posted by md126:
Just curious, How much more is needed?

i'm wondering the same thing...

[A Lex]

Just donated what I could.

Great site

Best

Lex

[MnFn]

A little help sent today.
Gary

[TxSportsman]

How much more is needed?

[woodchucker]

Well... Being as Terry & The Boys, haven't announced that the new system is up & running... I'd say, they're not there yet!!!

[md126]

 

I must admit, this thread is amazing to me...

[mark Willoughby]

I wonder how much the great folks of tradgang have raised thus far to go towards the updates?  .... I seen where Terry posted that he had purchased two new servers .

Originally posted by woodchucker:
Well... Being as Terry & The Boys, haven't announced that the new system is up & running... I'd say, they're not there yet!!!

Yep...that'd be a good guess!  I'm sure Terry and Rob will tell us when we reach our goal.

[Rob DiStefano]

saturday, august 19th, 2017, 6:14 a.m.

this is a loooong, very tiresome, very time consuming, and extremely complicated process.  when we know Exactly what the process and functions we'll be taking are, and have something concrete to announce, we will do so.  there will be no "updates" or "explanations" until then.  these last few months have been all about testing, failures, and retesting.  

we are *MUCH* appreciative of those who have stepped up to help these software and hardware efforts to migrate trad gang to a far better platform that's tailored for your benefit and for the safe keeping of 14 years worth of your threads and posts here at trad gang.  we simply can't lose that data.

this is a joint team effort between conversion (software) and hardware (servers and other devices needed to support the migration and moving forward). can't have one without the other, and we're not sure just what's needed until we have a firm game plan for how this is all gonna play out, and that's solely based on the conversion process. the current scenario sez we need two servers - that may get revised to THREE servers. that's how uncertain both the software and hardware folks are at the moment i'm typing this post.  the tough nut to crack is the conversion of a grandfathered flat file database forum into a modern relational database forum.  the crux of the problem is the humongous size and depth of trad gang, and its inherent complexities in transforming one type of data into a totally different type of data.

the conversion testing is beast of a bear.  it took 7 days to convert from ubb.classic to ubb.threads, for phase 1 - and that process took about month to complete as testing was a series of failures and successes. phase 2 is what's in progress, the conversion of ubb.threads to smf/2.0.x, and so far that ALONE may take TWO WEEKS.  we just don't know, right now. if so, and if it looks reasonably ok, that will mean that with trad gang running with the old software during the conversion process, we all lose that 3 weeks of conversion process data - or more.

all this testing is measured by the successful migration of all trad gang member data, PM data, and all threads and posts.  this *may* not include avatars, smiley icons, sig lines and other lesser data points.

after lots of discussions, terry and i agreed that the alternative of staying on ubb.classic will be the slow death of trad gang, so ... hard choices, and we may have to bite the bullet and lose only the data during the conversion for the common good of moving forward while retaining 14 years worth of good data (well, minus all the images from photobucket - nothing we can do about that).

some of you asked, even have been pressing for answers to questions that right now, we have no firm answers, and this is where we're at, right now.

thank you for your support of your forum.

r.

[forester45]

Donation on the way. Thanks for your effort.

If you don't mind me asking, what amount was originally needed, and what amount has been raised to date?  Thank you.

Thanks Rob!
Whatever it takes....we're all behind you.

[scbowhnter]

Donation sent and best of luck with the process!

[woodchucker]

Thanks for the update Rob!!!!!
I'm just an old woodchucker & pretty darn dumb when it comes to computers... What I do know from all my years on this Earth, is that when your Family is in need... You do what needs to be done!!!!!
Many Thanks, to all my Brothers & Sisters, who have helped out!!!!!

[Terry Green]

Originally posted by Tooner:
If you don't mind me asking, what amount was originally needed, and what amount has been raised to date?  Thank you.

Rob posted an estimate of what it would take in his original post.

[M60gunner]

Thanks for the updates. I did that sort of work back in early 2000's. Truly a pain in the behind. We were doing a whole city with 7 different business divisions. I thought that was big until we did the Navy and Marine Corps. I would not be surprised if some of the info doesn't make it to new system. You might have to make choices in the end.

[Terry Green]

Yes sir M60 I want to make sure that we get important stuff converted over instead of just brace height and not Point questions if you know what I mean and I'm hoping our host the converter Rob and I can get this done before hunting season because we're burning up our weekends trying to get this taken
care of.... and we want to make sure we get this Fall's hunting stories in with the ease of the pictures and the videos being able to be inserted into the threads....ok...back at it!!!

[South MS Bowhunter]

Once this is done we will all look back at the what little cost, and inconvenient this is now to what we have gained

"Wow Look Mom no Photo Bucket Required"

This alone will make it worth it to me, so saddle up Gals and Gents and but a shoulder to the wheel  

[Killdeer]

Terry, the second part of the question was, how much has been raised?

Killdeer