Forum Software Change Outage Notification

On the morning of Saturday, May 13th, the LF Forum will be down from 5:00 AM until 2:00 PM CDT (10:00 - 19:00 GMT).

Time has been revised to 6:00am-9:00am May 13th (see message below).

Work will be done to convert the forum to new forum management software (vBulletin).

When the work is complete members active since Sept 2003 will be sent an email containing the URL to their new user account where things can be set up as desired and the initial log in password. It is very strongly recommended that you change the password. Instructions on how to do that will be in the email & posted on the new Forum in a prominent place. There are about 3,000 emails to send, so it may take an hour or so to send them all out, so don't be upset if you don't get notified the instant the Forum is back up.

Some of our most active members have tested and commented on the test site and have given it a green light (after we fixed a few things).

During the outage, a substitute page will be displayed with basic information about the conversion. If we go into overtime, I'll post an update on that page with a new completion estimate. I don't anticipate any huge problems, though, and have run through the whole process a few times.

If you have questions, post them as replies to this thread.

Thank you