We're upgrading to XenForo 2 tomorrow (Friday)

Niall

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The time has finally come, we're upgrading the site to XenForo 2.

This is a major update to the site and will likely take most of tomorrow to complete. I intend to start the upgrade in the early hours of Friday morning and hope to be live by the early evening.

A holding page will be in place to keep everyone updated on the progress of the upgrade.

There's lots to look forward to with XenForo 2, including a brand spanking new design which I will share more about during the upgrade tomorrow. If you want to get a feel for what XenForo 2 is like, pop over to the official site and take a look.

No doubt some of you will suffer withdrawal symptoms tomorrow. I know it'll be a tough time for many of you (you might actually need to get some work done! :eek:), but hang tough and your daily dose of Caf will be back before you know it.

See you on the other side... :)
 

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nimic said:
I could swear we just had a forum upgrade? Did I dream this, or are the years flying by at a worrying rate?
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Not an upgrade of this scale. XenForo 2 has been out for a couple of years already. This upgrade has been like Brexit!
 

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I decided to stop dithering and just do it. It’s long overdue.
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Good idea. Though this has fecked a bit with my LMS plans :lol: will send out reminder alerts tonight for people to submit their predictions (usually I do it Friday). Should still give them enough time to submit their predictions before the first fixture of the weekend.
 

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Looking at the link in the OP, oh boy can't wait for the meltdowns tomorrow :drool:
 

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Damien said:
How did you get hold of SirAF's phone background?
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If I remember well it was the summer when Manchester United signed Yorke. SAF was invited to Malta and he took Yorke, Rai, Van Del Gouw, Clegg and Wallwork with him. I remember that the club was filled with supporters who came to the club 2 – 3 hours before just to book a good place. I was assigned by the club to take care of the players inside the premises, something that I always like to do because it enable you to have close contact with the players and develop a good friendship. At about 3 pm SAF came with the players at the club, but Yorke wasn’t there. SAF seemed to be at ease and in a joyful mood. The first thing SAF did was to tell the supporters that Yorke would be there in about 30 minutes due to “important personal issues” and then he joined the supporters, signing autographs and socializing with them. I gave little notice to SAF (which was surrounded by the Supporter’s club committee whom I don’t link so well with) and decided to spend the afternoon talking with Rai whom I consider as one of the most down to earth players in the world. Time passed (about an hour) when suddenly SAF raced angrily from the main room right to the committee room. It was clear that something was wrong. Rai told the lads to leave everything and join the gaffer in the committee room and I escorted them to the committee room.

SAF was furious. His face was red, his eyes were filled with anger. The committee was trying to calm him down but it was in vain

“I will not let Yorke making me look as an idiot that was sure” he roared as he took my mobile (without my permission) and called Yorke on the mobile

From the argument I could understand that Yorke lateness wasn’t due to a personal circumstances but do to the fact that Yorke was doing some extra homework with a Russian whore. SAF was furious with him calling Dwight an idiot and a liar, and threatening him that he would surely fine him for such actions. We stood there silent
As if paralysed by SAF and everyone was surprised by the man who turned from a great gentleman into a monster in a split of a second. When the call finished, SAF looked at everyone right into our eyes, one after the other starting from Rai and finishing with me. He knew that he managed to scare the hell out of us and seemed satisfied of that result. He grinned and said “Yorke is not coming today but Ill sort him out, don’t worry”. Then he walked towards me, gave me the mobile and said “Thanks for your phone. As a favor, I uploaded a photo for you to keep”. I confess that in my life I was never afraid of anyone, but SAF did managed to scare the hell out of me.
 

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Florida Man said:
If I remember well it was the summer when Manchester United signed Yorke. SAF was invited to Malta and he took Yorke, Rai, Van Del Gouw, Clegg and Wallwork with him. I remember that the club was filled with supporters who came to the club 2 – 3 hours before just to book a good place. I was assigned by the club to take care of the players inside the premises, something that I always like to do because it enable you to have close contact with the players and develop a good friendship. At about 3 pm SAF came with the players at the club, but Yorke wasn’t there. SAF seemed to be at ease and in a joyful mood. The first thing SAF did was to tell the supporters that Yorke would be there in about 30 minutes due to “important personal issues” and then he joined the supporters, signing autographs and socializing with them. I gave little notice to SAF (which was surrounded by the Supporter’s club committee whom I don’t link so well with) and decided to spend the afternoon talking with Rai whom I consider as one of the most down to earth players in the world. Time passed (about an hour) when suddenly SAF raced angrily from the main room right to the committee room. It was clear that something was wrong. Rai told the lads to leave everything and join the gaffer in the committee room and I escorted them to the committee room.

SAF was furious. His face was red, his eyes were filled with anger. The committee was trying to calm him down but it was in vain

“I will not let Yorke making me look as an idiot that was sure” he roared as he took my mobile (without my permission) and called Yorke on the mobile

From the argument I could understand that Yorke lateness wasn’t due to a personal circumstances but do to the fact that Yorke was doing some extra homework with a Russian whore. SAF was furious with him calling Dwight an idiot and a liar, and threatening him that he would surely fine him for such actions. We stood there silent
As if paralysed by SAF and everyone was surprised by the man who turned from a great gentleman into a monster in a split of a second. When the call finished, SAF looked at everyone right into our eyes, one after the other starting from Rai and finishing with me. He knew that he managed to scare the hell out of us and seemed satisfied of that result. He grinned and said “Yorke is not coming today but Ill sort him out, don’t worry”. Then he walked towards me, gave me the mobile and said “Thanks for your phone. As a favor, I uploaded a photo for you to keep”. I confess that in my life I was never afraid of anyone, but SAF did managed to scare the hell out of me.
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@SirAF
 

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Damien said:
Good idea. Though this has fecked a bit with my LMS plans :lol: will send out reminder alerts tonight for people to submit their predictions (usually I do it Friday). Should still give them enough time to submit their predictions before the first fixture of the weekend.
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:( Hope it's not too disruptive. Doing it so close to a match day weekend is definitely not ideal but the matches come thick and fast now in December and January. So it was either now or wait until the New Year.
 

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This is typical of you Neil. Taking our money to line your own pocket. I'm a Full Member and yet I'm subjected to adverts. Seriously Nail get your act together and stop spending all our Full Member revenue on your coke and used shoes habit.

None of us voted for this. Maybe Cina, but who actually gives a shit. But you're hellbent on carrying out this unnecessary "upgrade" that will just make YOU more money and screw the rest of us over. I have a PhD in Computers from Harvard ffs and I can tell you that there is categorically no reason to move to Zenforo 2 because it has the same architecture and memory cards in it as Zenforo 1. This will just help you line your own pockets.

Fecking Neel. Screwing us FULL MEMBERS again.
 

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Niall said:
:( Hope it's not too disruptive. Doing it so close to a match day weekend is definitely not ideal but the matches come thick and fast now in December and January. So it was either now or wait until the New Year.
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It is all good :)

Giggsyking said:
I hate change, I hope Xenforo is not Moyse level of change.
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We're already on Xenforo, so technically it is less change than the last upgrade when we switched from vBulletin to Xenforo in the first place, but at the same time things will be a lot more different.
 

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Mr Pigeon said:
This is typical of you Neil. Taking our money to line your own pocket. I'm a Full Member and yet I'm subjected to adverts. Seriously Nail get your act together and stop spending all our Full Member revenue on your coke and used shoes habit.

None of us voted for this. Maybe Cina, but who actually gives a shit. But you're hellbent on carrying out this unnecessary "upgrade" that will just make YOU more money and screw the rest of us over. I have a PhD in Computers from Harvard ffs and I can tell you that there is categorically no reason to move to Zenforo 2 because it has the same architecture and memory cards in it as Zenforo 1. This will just help you line your own pockets.

Fecking Neel. Screwing us FULL MEMBERS again.
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Who da f'ck promoted this guy?! :D
 
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