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.

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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I'm sitting here, listening to Metallica's "The Day That Never Comes" (from their new Death Magnetic album) and drinking Yuengling...

On Saturday, you're going to notice a few merged forums, one disappearing forum, and one new forum. Along with that, you'll notice a few other changes. Here are those changes...

• "Roller Coasters" and "Other Rides and Thrills" will be merged into "Roller Coasters, Thrill Rides, and Other Thrills"
• "Trip

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We added new software that makes them easier for Google and Yahoo to crawl them and gather information. If you noticed, there were some times when you couldn't get to your favorite forum or thread, and getting redirected back to thrillnetwork.com's hompage.

We worked out the kinks with that part. Now, we are going to work on the other features, such as your own URL. That will be more complicated to implement, and will take some time, and along with that, more chances for there to...