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stubbo
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This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post stubbo »

"Not sure on others experience, but the site seemingly gets worse and worse to use. Is it time to just migrate to a new site, even if that means existing users re-registering usernames, and old threads being consigned to the WayBackMachine for reliving old times? Wils has obviously said he could get us up and running on a smooth running new platform, and this current site feels like we're bleeding out with death by a thousand cuts, through no fault of those that expend time and effort to keep us operational. Would be gutted to see the WHO community fade to nothing as we're unique among fan sites, but IMO feels like it's time for a 'best efforts' migration to a platform that is fit for purpose. Worth running a site poll to canvas opinion on this and make a community based decision?"
lab
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Post lab »

A thanks from me .
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Post the exile »

"Stubbo, Wils - much appreciated. Good luck!"
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Post Westham67 »

"I don't mind posting on a thread, but getting logged out? and then logging back in to see that it landed on the correct thread. Leave it death of glory"
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post MaryMillingtonsGhost »

Stubbo 12:16 Nice one chaps?üëç
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post Mike Oxsaw »

"This is greatly appreciated, even if some of us (no names, no pack drill) do act like entitled oiks sometimes..."
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Keep dreaming
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post Keep dreaming »

"Great idea Stubbo. Good luck, onwards and upwards"
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post ray winstone »

"Nice work Stubbo, looking forward to being able to accessing the knicker wetters posts when we’ve gone 2 down after 10 mins and the inevitable ‘Lopetegui out’ thread. ;"
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Post Sydney_Iron »

Thanks for your efforts chaps. May the force be with you! COYI
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post Thanks Alan »

"Good luck, Stubbo and North Bank and Wils. Plenty rooting for you."
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Post Percy Dalton »

Stubbo That's great I me and a few more of the older bods might get more involved on a new site. Thanks again
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post stubbo »

"An update for when the site inevitably grinds to a halt around game time later on. North Bank, Wils and Myself are currently working through a plan to migrate the site and it's content to a new more stable and modern platform. Timings on this are still under discussion,but the intention will be that existing threads as well as existing users/usernames will all be carried across. More to follow about timings when more is known, but a plan is underway to get WHO into a better place for this season. COYI."
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Post stubbo »

"To add some meat to the bones Wils offered, if it was decided to migrate, we'll be able to move existing thread content and usernames over, as well as bring post improvements (embedded videos, twitter posts, formatted text, images etc) as well as a more feature rich WhoMail platform. But as he says, we dont own the site or make decisions on behalf of the site....we've just done some work to provide an option to those who do should it be decided it's the best way forward for this site to prosper in the future (which is all Wils and I are interested in). Hopefully when North Bank is around we can showcase what we have and see if he likes the look of it. Can't guarantee the clock gets fixed though SWTOC"
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post Pub Bigot »

I’d throw in a few quid to improve the site. I’m sure others would too. Every little helps and all that.
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Post Sydney_Iron »

"Don't apologies Wils, im more disappointed i cant dish out a few yellows! Trust me there are few on here who would go full meltdown had i been able to do so.................LOL"
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Post wils »

"""Sydney_Iron wrote..."" ""Getting some weird stuff on the mobile version of WHO? Open a thread and it is giving me MOD privileges! Can hand out yellow cards, lock threads or delete them."" Sorry, unfortunate effect of the caching I set up. As I have limited access and just proxy the site it's difficult to know about all the edge cases and I find out about this sort of thing later on. But as you see it won't let you use any of those features, so it's all secure, no ones getting any mod access who doesn't have them. On a side note, I have been working with Stubbo on getting working site up to migrate too that is similar to this site but doesn't keep falling over. I should say Stubbo has been very active on that done a lot of the work and its looking great in my opinion. However, it's not our site and there are many things I do not know so I have messaged North Bank to have a look at it and to get his opinion and see if its an option to move to before the season starts."
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Post Manuel »

*pulls spaz face
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Post Sydney_Iron »

"Getting some weird stuff on the mobile version of WHO? Open a thread and it is giving me MOD privileges! Can hand out yellow cards, lock threads or delete them. Unfortunately, each time i try and hand out a random yellow card or 2 LOL (tried to give myself one as well!), a box pops up to log in with my password, i do that and it crashes?"
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Post fraser »

"It's been good for a couple of days, then shit again yesterday then not quite as good today as the two good days. But usable"
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Post Russ of the BML »

Today is the fastest its been working for about 4 months. How odd.
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Post Hammer and Pickle »

"It’s gone a bit peaky again today, hasn’t it. Bit odd really."
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Post Mickey Rat »

Turned the server off and back on again? :-)
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Post Mickey Rat »

Turned the server off and back on again? :-)
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Post Sydney_Iron »

"Well, it's still a bit dodgy down this side of the planet, although not as bad as it has been! And what's with the fucking clock?"
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Re: This Site | Bite the bullet and migrate?

Post Keep dreaming »

Well it's not even close to matcheay and still fucked...
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Post zico »

"Oh well, it was good for a day or two!"
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