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Ubuntuforums.org Upgrade

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Over the past weekend I took the ubuntuforums.org site offline and upgraded the software to the latest Vbulletin 3.8 release candidate. Previously we had been running version 3.7.4p1 and felt the 3.8 serious was stable enough to move forward with even though its still a RC. The upgrade took about an hour and gave the forum community improved features to Social Groups, Private Messages, Profile Privacy, Albums and other misc fixes. 

Thanks again to everyone helped test and find bugs after the upgrade.

Written by Ryan

December 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Posted in Ubuntu, Ubuntu Forums, Ubuntu Planet

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  1. I think it introduced the random 503 proxy get errors though…

    Vadim P.

    23 Dec 08 at 6:29 pm

  2. Actually its been a on going problem for months now and is a known issue. We are working on a resolution.

    Ryan

    23 Dec 08 at 6:31 pm

  3. Are we going to get OpenID login? :-)

    Criag

    23 Dec 08 at 11:11 pm

  4. It still baffles me that Ubuntu Forums runs on proprietary software. Even with the whole vBulletin is better then everything else rational, some things are not worth being “pragmatic” about.

    John

    24 Dec 08 at 5:02 am

  5. I know you probably get that a lot and I am sorry about that. But I mean it’ll continue forever, because using or advertising the use of proprietary software in an FOSS community has always always been taboo, and probably will always continue to be taboo, because the FOSS movement started with the idea that proprietary software is wrong and immoral and generally a bad thing, and this idea will always stay with it because it was the founding principal.

    John

    24 Dec 08 at 5:17 am

  6. Hopefully someday we’ll get native openid support inside vbulletin. However, we have the source code and there is a powerful API and I am sure openid support could be added by creating a 3rd party application that would plug into vbulletin. It’s just a matter of finding time :)

    Ryan

    24 Dec 08 at 1:29 pm

  7. [...] Troy: Ubuntuforums.org Upgrade. The GNOME Art site isn’t the only one to get an update/upgrade, the user-to-user support [...]

    Peng’s links for Christmas Eve « I’m Just an Avatar

    24 Dec 08 at 9:57 pm

  8. do you know email address to leave ubuntuforums.org (admin) a message?
    Having problems on their website.
    Registered User,

    Ed

    Ed DeLauter

    14 Jan 09 at 9:01 pm

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