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Ian:
To all Members:
You may have noticed we've been down for a few days. That's been caused by our hosting providers forcing us to upgrade our php version and having to bring the forum itself up to date. This is the new forum, which is missing the old photo gallery, which had become extremely out of date and was causing the forum to crash. However, we're now back and hopefully back for good!
Apologies again.
Ian & DaveR.
Bri Roberts:
Welcome back.
Can you please explain how the Photo Gallery had become extremely out-of-date?
Ian:
It wasn't the photos, Bri; it was the actual gallery software that had aged and hasn't been upgradable for some time. It was adequate running it as long we didn't upgrade the forum version of php but once we were forced to that was it.
I suspect the photos themselves are still there, but I'll need to download the entire database and see if they are.
Ian:
Because we no longer have our image gallery, this is the easiest option to upload pics onto the forum.
It's completely free; ignore the images about payment.
DaveR:
I have to confess...it was I that broke the forum by trying to run the upgrade. :(
Unfortunately, the forum software was becoming very out of date, which results in increased security risks etc. Because we (ok, I ;D ) had added new features over the years, like the photo gallery, it made upgrading the forum software extremely difficult and resulted in the software breaking when I ran the upgrade. Ian has had to reinstall the software (taking the opportunity to upgrade it to the latest version) and upload all the old posts etc to get the forum working again.
This means that certain features will be missing. Adding back a photo gallery at some point would certainly be nice and if you notice a particular feature missing that would think should be reinstalled, please let us know on here.
Dave
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