SPAM on new forum

Will the new forum have a SPAM button?

Login Video

Is the Login Video you posted several weeks ago still relevant?

I think I have it saved "somewhere". Need to find it in my folders.

Andre

Yes

It's not called the spam button but yes, moderators can unpublish / delete content just as they can on here. We try to have enough moderators that we have a "follow the sun" moderator online some time throughout each 24 hours.

Yes

Yes, quite relevant: how to get logged in for the first time:

Good Luck

Good Luck!  Hopefully the migration will be smooth.

Joe

Thanks

Good to here Joe. Looking forward to a new play ground.

Jack

Reading Material

Will we be able to read the mags over the weekend?

Jack

Thanks Joe...

I reckon I'll try to see y'all on the other side!

Andre

If we have a bookmark for MHR

If we have a bookmark for MHR Forums, will it redirect to the new site?

JOURNAL ENTRY

Good to hear! Best of luck. I can spend some time this weekend and prepare initial entries in Word. Ditched work today to work on the layout!

Denzil

JackH

The online-magazine portion is completely different and hosted by another company. You should still be able to download magazines as well. 

To the other side

I guess we'll see if the world is really round or flat? ......DaveB

Here’s what will happen

Okay here’s what will happen.

1. Today, I will run the full timestamp resequence on the current forum to get the timestamp order to match the Drupal post order.
2. Tonight, we will lock the current forum to read only status at 11:59 pm Pacific time. You can still read everything, just no new posts. The login box on the old forum will disappear, because you will need to login on the new forum.
3. We will copy the full old forum database and send it to the developers for loading.
4. The developers will totally blow away the new forums test load data and do a complete fresh reload with the copy of the old forum data.
5. The new forum will be set as read only with a forum lock password to keep you out until it’s ready.
6. Once the conversion is complete and things look good, recent posts on this site will go to new forum, we’re expecting sometime on Monday.

On the new forum, you can read it without logging in, or you can log in and post, etc. Your login, if you’ve been testing the new forum, will be reset and you will have to login brand new and set a password again.

For a few days, clicking old forum bookmarks will take you to the old forum posts still.

After a few days, we will put 301 redirects in place on the old site so any attempt to access links to the old forum will automatically redirect you to the same thread on the new forum.

Once we’re happy the 301 redirects are working, the old forum posts will all be deleted. Then on to phase two, moving the other pages off Drupal to mrhmag.com, the new shorter website name. Right now, model-railroad-hobbyist.com is our main domain name and mrhmag.com is an alias. In phase 2, mrhmag.com will become the main domain name and model-railroad-hobbyist.com will become the alias, and we will launch an all new mobile-friendly website with a fresh new look.

Thanks Jeff

Reading the mags will help keep the MRH addictions woes at bay.

Jack

Email notifications

The new forum looks great! Thanks for all the hard work.

Will there be an email notification option for replies to threads you started, etc.? 

For JoeG

Hi Joe,

This can be set up under "notifications" in your user profile once the new forum is up and running, The copy of the new forum you are currently looking at will be gone in a few hours and will emerge as a "new butterfly" sometime in the next few days. So, it is a bit useless trying to set it up now.

Once the move starts to happen, please be patient and "do not go into the pool until advised that it it safe for swimmers"  by joef. The wait will be worth the "withdrawal symptoms".

In the meantime, we can bury ourselves in the new MRH

and MRH Running Extra!

Me, I'm working on removable panels with rock castings for my hidden staging boxes.

Hopefully my last post on the old forum...

If I have to post again on the old forum software, the conversion must have failed.

So here's to the future (and I don't mean the floor product we use to provide a better surface for decals.)

But, But,

What will I do without people to debate the fine art of model railroading with?

Poking a bit of fun at myself folks, if ya can't do that ya got no business poking fun at anybody else....

Good luck Joe, hope all goes well! See you on the other side!

"See you on the other

"See you on the other side!"

Wait! Wait! Wait!  Is that a Battlestar Galactica reference?

 If it is, you'll understand the question. If it isn't, there have to be some fans here to explain it.

Actually, my reference was to

Actually, my reference was to astronauts going around the dark side of the moon but whatever works for ya!

Cool Beans!

Looking forward to our new home!