Forum Upgrade This Evening (May 10, 10:00 pm Central)
Here’s a “heads up” for our Forum members and site visitors. This evening, we plan to install new software for our SHOOTERS’ FORUM. As a result, the FORUM will be offline for a couple hours on TUESDAY, May 10, starting at about 10:00 pm Central Time. After the upgrade, we will activate a new URL to bookmark. The upgraded forum software will be installed on a dedicated server. This should give us improved security and stability, and it should allow the FORUM to run faster. In addition, the upgraded software has a new “look and feel” that should improve the user experience. You will still be able to use your same forum name and password.
So guys… don’t freak out if you cannot access the FORUM tonight. God willing, everything will be in place within a few hours. If all goes according to plan, all existing FORUM threads and posts will be preserved — there will simply be a “time out” for two or three hours.
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Sure hope there will be improvement to the forum search engine. This is definately the weakest link for this site..
EDITOR: Barry, with the dedicated server and some tweaks to the database, we are hoping that the FORUM search function will be faster — maybe a lot faster. But again, when searching, it is always important to pick the right search terms. If you just types in something like “6BR” or “reloading” you’ll get so many results that it may be overwhelming. Folks also need to understand that the FORUM search is separate from the search for the editorial side of the site. When you use the FORUM search you’ll only get results from FORUM posts.