Updating our community servers

[Paul]

Just a quick heads up that we will soon be moving to a new setup for the community, which will involve a new URL (we will redirect from the old one, so your old bookmarks etc will still work).

We'll be moving across to using the Invision community in the cloud service which is already in use by many large communities across the world, so we're confident it'll make for a good home for us. Aside from a short period of downtime on the day of the move, you should initially notice no differences to the community as we'll continue to use the same software, but in the coming weeks and months we will have some new features and also a new default theme which will better match the rest of the Netweather site.

Edited July 6, 2022 by Paul

[Paul]

The change to new servers is going to go ahead first thing on the morning of Wednesday 13th July. That's going to result in a period of downtime while everything is transferred over, but it hopefully shouldn't be more than a few hours. 

In the meantime, there are a couple of action points it's worth taking a note of:

• Make sure your email address is up to date on your account - in case you need to reset your password on the new platform. 
• If you've installed the forum as an app, you will need to uninstall it and re-install it again once we've moved.

Beyond that, it should all be pretty straight forward on the day hopefully, and aside from the new URL, you will notice very little difference. 

[I remember Atlantic 252]

Is that Tues 12th or Wed 13th?

[Paul]

Oops, it's Wednesday the 13th, have updated.

[East Lancs Rain]

1 hour ago, Paul said:

The change to new servers is going to go ahead first thing on the morning of Wednesday 13th July. That's going to result in a period of downtime while everything is transferred over, but it hopefully shouldn't be more than a few hours. 

In the meantime, there are a couple of action points it's worth taking a note of:

• Make sure your email address is up to date on your account - in case you need to reset your password on the new platform. 
• If you've installed the forum as an app, you will need to uninstall it and re-install it again once we've moved.

Beyond that, it should all be pretty straight forward on the day hopefully, and aside from the new URL, you will notice very little difference. 

I didn’t know there was a mobile app for netweather, but I’ve just had a look on the App Store (I’m on an iPhone/iPad) and I can’t find anything.

[Paul]

It's a pwa so isn't in the app store. You can install it from safari by choosing to 'add to homescreen' when on the page. But you're probably better off waiting until after the move to do it.

[RebsAbbo]

40 minutes ago, East Lancs Rain said:

I didn’t know there was a mobile app for netweather, but I’ve just had a look on the App Store (I’m on an iPhone/iPad) and I can’t find anything.

I have an app, only downloaded it about a week or so ago…it’s in the App Store (Apple) as Netweather Radar.

@Paulis this the real Netweather’s app? It doesn’t have the ‘community’ features, just the radar features. As you say, best to wait til relaunch to download/refresh app.

[Paul]

Yes that's the real netweather radar app @RebsAbbo, the community one is separate 

[cyclonic happiness]

you can bet your life we'll have the most amazing an exciting weather the minute the server goes offline

[Beanz]

On 06/07/2022 at 21:00, East Lancs Rain said:

I didn’t know there was a mobile app for netweather, but I’ve just had a look on the App Store (I’m on an iPhone/iPad) and I can’t find anything.

There is an Invision app in development (I’m running the beta) for communities that use their platform, it’s fairly good. 

[Paul]

That's been done away with - it's been in beta for years and isn't going to be developed any further. They're all in on the PWA app which is downloadable from the page rather than the app stores now. 

[Beanz]

47 minutes ago, Paul said:

That's been done away with - it's been in beta for years and isn't going to be developed any further. They're all in on the PWA app which is downloadable from the page rather than the app stores now. 

Interesting, I have to admit to being a bit removed from things lately - I better do that 4.7 upgrade (or whichever one it is!)

[Paul]

Just adding a few timing details to this. We'll be shutting the forum at around 0630 tomorrow morning ready for the move. Hopefully all will be completed within a couple or few hours, perhaps even less than that. Assuming all goes well, we'll re-open straight away and redirect to the new url. 

[Paul]

We're now live on our new setup - the move has gone smoothly and on schedule, which is never a bad thing

If you spot any problems at all, please shout. 

[Paul]

We have an issue with the option to login using twitter at the moment, in that it's not working at all. I'll update once we've (hopefully) got to the bottom of it. Meantime, you can retrieve a password to login normally by using the forgotten details option. 

For the time being the twitter login option has been disabled though. 

[Summer Sun]

14 minutes ago, Paul said:

We have an issue with the option to login using twitter at the moment, in that it's not working at all. I'll update once we've (hopefully) got to the bottom of it. Meantime, you can retrieve a password to login normally by using the forgotten details option. 

For the time being the twitter login option has been disabled though. 

I sent you an email earlier regarding this, please ignore it as I've followed the above, which worked.

[Paul]

The Twitter login is working again now  

[Wold Topper]

Hi Team,

i cannot access the Radar/ Local tabs etc i am just getting an Error code 1S160/2 everything worked ok before the server switch today, is this a problem at my end? Everything else is working fine, i am generally on Samsung mobile,

Tia WT

[Paul]

1 minute ago, Wold Topper said:

Hi Team,

i cannot access the Radar/ Local tabs etc i am just getting an Error code 1S160/2 everything worked ok before the server switch today, is this a problem at my end? Everything else is working fine, i am generally on Samsung mobile,

Tia WT

Ah yes, good spot. I see the problem and will get it fixed in a bit .

[Paul]

That's it fixed now. 

[Wold Topper]

4 minutes ago, Paul said:

Ah yes, good spot. I see the problem and will get it fixed in a bit .

Just gave it a try, working perfect,

Many thanks Paul

Edited July 13, 2022 by Wold Topper

[Mapantz]

The menu bar that goes across the bottom of the browser while on the forum, has disappeared for me.

[Paul]

Should be back now @Mapantz?

[Mapantz]

Yep - That great.