Well, this weekend was supposed to be dedicated to work on the new site. But, of course, technology has its way of throwing a monkey wrench into things.

We use a special piece of software called vBSEO, which allows for search-engine friendly URLs to be used on the forums, as well as provide other functions related to search engine optimization.

Well, about 6 hours after the upgrade was complete, somehow it broke. Many of you were met with a PHP error as soon as you tried...

Yeah, it's short notice, but to begin the prep work for TNv4, we need to upgrade our forums. We will be down starting at 9:00pm EDT, and hopefully we will be down no less than an hour.

We will be upgrading all vBulletin components... that is, vBulletin, our blog software, and some related software.

There will be some new features available (to both the Blog and the Forums). More will be available later.

I haven't updated this blog lately... lots of stuff getting in the way.

It was December of 2003 when we launched the current revision of this site (TNv3). Knowing that sites tend to get old, We have been planning to do a major revision of our site for a couple of years now, but three things have been getting in the way... time, money, and resources.

Running ThrillNetwork is not a full-time job by any means, because we only make enough to support the hosting as well as...

We will be doing some maintenance over the weekend (11/14-11/16), so at times, there may be some momentary downtime. We need to do some maintenance to vBulletin, as well as some other parts of the site.

Also, some people may have noticed this thread...

http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/...s-stories.html

Here is how I saw the posts... the staff made their comments, and the members who posted came...

We have made the forum changes. We still have to add the other new features. However, from this point forward, all "Official xxx thread" megathreads are no longer allowed. This includes "xxx general discussion" threads (they fit the same idea that we really need to split up).

Exceptions are in the Rumors and Construction forums. As far as the new "Sports Bar" forum, we'll keep an eye on it, and find ways of keeping some organization.

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