Well, new software, anyway.
The upgrade in the phpbb forum is a major upgrade. I cannot perform the upgrade on the DH servers because of the resource usage it requires; the processes get trashed because they consume 100% of the CPU, which, on a shared server, is not viewed as "playing nicely with others".
Of course, we don't run the standard board either, so we need to set up a test site, do the conversion, and then do all of the customisations.
And "do the conversion", because of the aforementioned DH restrictions, is a major task. I need to download the data to a local server and run the conversion here, and then upload the data back to DH.
For test purposes it's about a 6 hour job. When we actually convert, it will take about 14 hours all told, because I will also need to build the search indexes off-line before uploading the data back to DH.
Yes, that means the site will be down while the conversion takes place.
Or if I leave it up, anything posted while I'm doing the conversion will be trashed and forever forgotten.
At the moment we have the basics of site up and running. Leigh is working on some cool new skins for the site, and I'm working on the bargains and the other custom bits that we need.
And we're both working on the changes that everything needs to, for instance, the portal page. That page is built only for the standard skin, so we need to rework some of the basics in the skins to make everything compatible.
I anticipate about another week's work before we can go live, but this is just a forewarning for y'all so that when the site goes down for the upgrade, you'll know what's happening, and especially so when the site comes back up.
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And oh yes ... nearly forgot: I've added a new section to the forum providing a place to post your first images.
A couple of you have already found this. Please read the section's description, and when you acquire a new camera, you now know where your first image goes. 
