tsc

We're migrating with an eye toward the future. Being satisfied with what we have prevents progress.

No migration has begun yet. This is a preview of what is to come a long time down the road.

As I've said, we don't expect this change to go live for another six months, and have targeted it for the beginning of Q2 2015.

To everyone raging, please do at least give it a try and make sure to interact with each other on the forum. That way you'll get a better understanding of how it works and can make a more informed decision.

I'm not paying anybody anything. I'm just having rational conversations with the people who are willing to be rational about this.

Yeah I'm calling ruse. As recently as the 12th of September tsc was talking about the IPS 4 release. ~19 days isn't nearly as much time as this "migration" has been said to take.

 

Well, it isn't like we get much of a choice when the upgrade happens... once the next version is out, this one stops receiving security updates.

So in addition to the testing forum that IPS has had up for a while now, they've released a prerelease so that we can install it and test it on our own board.

Unfortunately, it's only available to active clients, which I am not because I haven't coughed up the dosh for the renewal fee (was hoping to wait for the actual version to come out). Thus, would there be interest in getting it and testing it out? We would be keeping this version active no matter what until the GA release hits, so it would only be for testing/feedback.

 

We cannot avoid migrating to IPS4, because this is nowhere near ready, but it will not be our software in the long term. I'd estimate we're remaining on this for another 6 months while we iron things out.

Actually, Rammite just informed me that he hasn't actually been in the loop for a while now (or at least while the major changes were happening), and so he is no longer a reliable resource until he looks at the website. I didn't notice because I was too busy fixing the bugs that arose due to said major changes. I apologize for putting him on the spot when he is unqualified to talk about such things in greater detail.

That leaves binary.

I think that the apt summary for the past three pages is "gloom and doom and not much of major interest".

Nothing that I could show or say would do it justice. That's why I am deferring to binary and Rammite to make more descriptive comments as they feel necessary.

Binary's post summed it up best:

So, I just want to get things straight. These changes will not be happening any time soon, like months away. We still have a lot of work to do, but we want to let you know in advance. Also note that there are a few features that are still being worked on. Now, we know that change is a little daunting, but trust me, once you see what we've been working on, you'll know how serious we are about this.

We are not taking feedback right now because we want to get the pure, unadulterated vision out to you first before considering any changes. We had hoped to get the preview out in the same day as the announcement, but issues cropping up prevented that from happening. Again, this change will not go live tomorrow, nor within the next week, and probably not even before the year ends. It will be a gradual process as we continue to tweak it and prepare this community for a migration over.

C++ has null pointers too.

I like C++ better for some reasons, though. Other languages are very limited in what they can do.

binary and Rammite are the only ones at full liberty to discuss it.

On the contrary, the admin team (which helped me to come up with this vision and implement it) and the limited number of people I have given a preview have all expressed their excitement for the update.

There aren't any brakes on the hype train.

And, to be clear, the reason the announcement was made early was so that you would get rid of your initial preconceived notions about possible changes now and be more accepting of the experience when it arrives.

Well, I COULD have migrated us first without this massive public testing period we have planned.

Regardless of what you think, it's not as bad as you think it is. We're just doing some reliability testing before we push it live, because we want the preview to be as smooth as possible.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SPUFpowered

That's a private test site that is unrelated to the current efforts.

You all have no faith. Trust me when I say this is going to be awesome.

No, it's not a parody of any sort.

No, we've spent time tweaking a reliable software solution that we're putting finishing touches to. I think binary explained it a bit better than I did.

Thanks for your technobabble, but what I am talking about is very much well-thought-out and real.

 

 

What's "proven software basis" even mean?

It's used by some of the largest websites in the world. This will make it able to sustain our future growth that will undoubtedly occur as a result of us using this platform.

 

ok ok im calling you out on this this is some sort of joke it's like a reddit format isn't it are you suggesting we just move to a subreddit or something?

 

No, I am not suggesting that. We will very much remain independent.

What's "proven software basis" even mean?

It's used by some of the largest websites in the world. This will make it able to sustain our future growth that will undoubtedly occur as a result of us using this platform.

It is a temporary name for the preview. Once we transition, it shall simply be known as SPUFpowered, as we are all used to.

Over the past few months, the staff here at SPUFpowered have been hard at work to create our vision of the future for this community. In the next few days, we will be releasing this vision as SPUFpowered "Next", which will serve as a preview of what we will eventually transition to.

The features of this new system will include:

• sorting of content based on voting
• movement towards self-moderation
• context-rich thread system
• proven software basis

We hope that you will be as enthusiastic about this radical change as we are, and thank you for your continuing support as we work to make this the best damn community on the Internet.

Here's a preview site: next.spufpowered.com

I would provide direction in some way, but I'm unsure of what direction to push the story.