Good morning all!
I am very pleased to be able to share with you the news that the new Practical Caravan website and forum are just around the corner. Both the website and the forum have been totally redesigned and a lot of work has gone on and will continue to go on behind the scenes to give you the best website and forum possible.
We are migrating the forum to a new platform. The great news is that this will bring new features and functions, and we have taken great care to migrate all the content, so your existing posts should stay where they are! The bad news is that we'll need a day or two to get everything done, so we'll have to disable posting for a little while as this process is undertaken. We will likely disable the forum late Tuesday afternoon (March 18th) and if all goes well, it'll be back up in its new home by the close of business on Wednesday (19th) – if all goes to plan!
This migration process will certainly cause a few issues so please bear with us! The things that might not translate nicely are:
1. Your avatars. To keep things simple, we've enabled the Gravatar.com system. This allows you to associate your avatar with your email address. Don't worry about privacy as the system encodes your email address via a 'one-way' function before asking for the image from Gravatar.com – rest assured here is no way to turn the image back into your email address. So if you want to retain your avatar here on the forum, I'd suggest you rush off and sign up on http://gravatar.com with the same email address you use here (and don't worry if you have multiple email addresses you can manage them all via one login at Gravatar.com!).
2. Your username. In most cases we've been able to preserve your username, but as we're joining a wider network, we might run into some problems. But don't worry! With the new site you'll be able to login with your email and password. So if you find you can no longer login, just try replacing your username with your email address and keep the same password. That should let you in. If you don't like the new username we've assigned (normally we just remove all the invalid characters like spaces and such like) then get in touch and we'll endeavour to either restore your original username (if it was a clash with a now inactive user) or allow you to select a username that is better suited. Sadly the process for this is a little complex and requires a bit of manual intervention so we cannot easily offer you a nice interface to do it yourself.
3. View counts. The new forum has a "views" counter but sadly we cannot prime this with any data from the old forums so the counts will look a little odd for a while. Obviously this doesn't affect any new posts, so it's just the older posts that will look a little unloved!
4. Sticky posts and moderators. Both of these will be preserved and you should be able to continue as normal.
That is it for now. Thanks for your patience. We hope very much that you enjoy the new forum once it is up and running.
I am very pleased to be able to share with you the news that the new Practical Caravan website and forum are just around the corner. Both the website and the forum have been totally redesigned and a lot of work has gone on and will continue to go on behind the scenes to give you the best website and forum possible.
We are migrating the forum to a new platform. The great news is that this will bring new features and functions, and we have taken great care to migrate all the content, so your existing posts should stay where they are! The bad news is that we'll need a day or two to get everything done, so we'll have to disable posting for a little while as this process is undertaken. We will likely disable the forum late Tuesday afternoon (March 18th) and if all goes well, it'll be back up in its new home by the close of business on Wednesday (19th) – if all goes to plan!
This migration process will certainly cause a few issues so please bear with us! The things that might not translate nicely are:
1. Your avatars. To keep things simple, we've enabled the Gravatar.com system. This allows you to associate your avatar with your email address. Don't worry about privacy as the system encodes your email address via a 'one-way' function before asking for the image from Gravatar.com – rest assured here is no way to turn the image back into your email address. So if you want to retain your avatar here on the forum, I'd suggest you rush off and sign up on http://gravatar.com with the same email address you use here (and don't worry if you have multiple email addresses you can manage them all via one login at Gravatar.com!).
2. Your username. In most cases we've been able to preserve your username, but as we're joining a wider network, we might run into some problems. But don't worry! With the new site you'll be able to login with your email and password. So if you find you can no longer login, just try replacing your username with your email address and keep the same password. That should let you in. If you don't like the new username we've assigned (normally we just remove all the invalid characters like spaces and such like) then get in touch and we'll endeavour to either restore your original username (if it was a clash with a now inactive user) or allow you to select a username that is better suited. Sadly the process for this is a little complex and requires a bit of manual intervention so we cannot easily offer you a nice interface to do it yourself.
3. View counts. The new forum has a "views" counter but sadly we cannot prime this with any data from the old forums so the counts will look a little odd for a while. Obviously this doesn't affect any new posts, so it's just the older posts that will look a little unloved!
4. Sticky posts and moderators. Both of these will be preserved and you should be able to continue as normal.
That is it for now. Thanks for your patience. We hope very much that you enjoy the new forum once it is up and running.
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