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We’ve spent months getting ready, and contiguous (around 1 americium ET connected Wednesday) we’re flipping the power connected a large upgrade to our assemblage platform, which supports some nonfiction comments and the OpenForum. We won’t beryllium losing immoderate data, and you won’t request to acceptable up a caller relationship oregon alteration your password. You volition person to hold a fewer hours, though, and for that we’re sorry!
We expect that some systems volition stay offline until astir Wednesday day arsenic we process our monolithic 22 years of comments (that’s 1 cardinal topics and much than 28 cardinal posts). All logins and idiosyncratic registration functions volition beryllium unavailable during this time. That means nary nonfiction comments, nary forum browsing, and unfortunately, it besides means subscribers volition not beryllium capable to entree their sub benefits for a little time. We’ll marque it arsenic abbreviated arsenic possible. When it’s done, conscionable log successful again with your aged credentials and you’re set.
For much item connected what we’re doing and why, support reading.
Community is captious to Ars Technica
When longtime Ars readers speech astir however agelong they’ve been astir they often constituent to their forum registration day (mine is June 8, 2001). It tin beryllium a badge of pride! The oldest of the old-schoolers person 1999 reg dates connected their profiles, which is arsenic acold backmost arsenic our information goes (Ars was founded successful 1998, but the WWWThreads information from the precise archetypal forum was lost).
Not galore communities connected the Internet tin laic assertion to progressive users who’ve been astir for much than 2 decades. It’s thing we clasp arsenic our ain badge of pride. Thank you for sticking with america for truthful long! That said, adjacent if you measurement your tenure present successful years oregon months alternatively of decades, we’re inactive thrilled to person you, and galore of our champion participants are our astir caller recruits, if you will.
In an epoch wherever galore sites are closing their remark sections, and societal media progressively treats radical similar a commodity, we’ve chosen to refocus connected however we tin amplify the large contributions readers marque here. To bash that, we needed an wholly caller forum and commenting system, and we’ve recovered it successful XenForo, a modern forum strategy with a acquainted feel.
Everything you expect from the Ars forums, similar level discussions without threading and mean reverse chronological speechmaking bid volition beryllium there. Your station number and registration day volition stay intact, arsenic good arsenic each of the forum contented going each the mode backmost to 1999.
The aforesaid BBCode you’re utilized to utilizing volition inactive work. But you won’t person to manus benignant tags if you take to usage the convenient exertion tools interface. Just astir each facet of our forum volition get a akin “still works, but it’s better” touch.
No much moving into punctuation limits oregon trying to edit a wide of nested tags. Quotes volition present default to a azygous level (you tin edit the tags to adhd much if you genuinely wish). We’ll person afloat mobile support, the forum volition beryllium casual to work and usage connected your phones now. You’ll beryllium capable to spot erstwhile idiosyncratic replies to you easily.
There volition beryllium a acheronian mode.
We are breaking with aged Ars forum contented successful 1 way: There volition beryllium avatars. Just astir each societal level uses them now, and they’re enormously adjuvant with a idiosyncratic basal arsenic ample arsenic ours to assistance visually place posters. (No animation, and anyone who abuses the strategy whitethorn find we take an avatar for them.) Enjoy picking thing to further explicit your forum personality.
As with immoderate large modulation similar this, we expect immoderate hiccups. We’ve tested everything successful a beta forum with our moderation team, but there’s thing similar a unrecorded situation with thousands and thousands of users to find the borderline cases. We’ll person a thread to study issues and a developer squad to assistance america negociate bugs and issues. Please carnivore with america arsenic we hole anything.
XenForo offers a modern architecture that’s easy extensible, truthful beyond getting bug fixes sorted you tin expect a aboriginal with much features, some for each users and upgrades for our subscribers. We person our ain plans, but we’re blessed to instrumentality comments and suggestions for improving your experience.
We anticipation you bask the caller forum and remark system. Our committedness to our assemblage remains strong. We’ll person caller tools for our moderation team, which we’ll look to grow moving forward. Ars volition stay a spot for unfastened and respectful discussions, arsenic good arsenic a spot to stock and bask your geeky passions.
Whether you’re a 1999er oregon reasoning this mightiness beryllium the clip to motion up for a caller account, we look guardant to your contributions.
