411 on What's Going On on NT
Hi Everyone,
The download of the site has begun and it is hard to know when it will be finished, since it's 4 years of material. When it is finished, we will go offline for a short period of time when the site is repointed from Ning to Jamroom. Once that is done, emails will go out to you for your passwords to the new site, but we will still be running here, but at this addy:
thenewstalkers.ning.com
During that time you can still post here, but some of your comments might not be picked up in the second round of downloads.
Once you get your passwords (you can check here to see if I have sent them out), then you can sign in at the new site. This site will remain active at the addy above, so no worries.
If you are having problems for any reason, please take down this email address:
perriehalpern@gmail.com
Fingers Crossed!
Perrie~
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Perrie
Thanks for the update
Looking forward to the new site
That sounds grim!
Thanks for the update! Hoping all goes well!
You've worked so hard on this-- I hope you know that all of us appreciate your enormous time commitment, and energy! Thank you!!!
I've already started posting on the new site - I hope I'm not wasting my time.
Noooo... the new site isn't ready yet. New passwords have not gone out yet either. Wait till I tell you.
Thanks Dowser.
RavenWing:
Have you not already posted on the new site? How did you do that without a password?
How long is this Ning site to remain active? Doesn't that complicate things?
Any news?
No she didn't. We are in the middle of being repointed.
The Ning site will remain up until the 19th. No worries if you have stuff here that you want.
Yes, we are being repointed:
YAY!!!
How exciting!
I can easily do #4.
Buzz...which #4? There are two of them!
Sorry for the delay folks... here is the issue..
It's because Ning doesn't allow for transfer of groups. So here is what happened. I didn't transfer over deleted accounts... and because of that, any group that's owner left, even if it was temporary, the group didn't transfer to the new site. So now we have to import all the deleted members to get the groups to transfer to the new site. That is slowing up the show here.
Let the groups start over. It's not the Congressional Record.
Too many of them and they would be upset. It will just take a bit longer than expected.
No worries. No passwords have gone out yet.
Yup.
We've probably all lived through big IT mutations... and I'll bet that not a single one has ever gone exactly as planned.
No problem, Perrie. We're anxious, but patient.
Just to make all of this simpler, my ISP is flickering on and off tonight.
Thanks guys for the understanding.
I like that plan . I am looking at using Russian . It is very scary if only because of the weird alphabet :
!!
Go with Smoke Signals....
No worries Perrie, shit happens...
That google translate works both ways !
The News Talkers is down for maintenance!
Top 5 things to do when The NewTalkers is offline for maintenance:
5. Go outside to check for drones.
4. Constantly hit the refresh button.
3. Make an aluminum foil hat to stop the NSA from reading your thoughts.
2. Call internet service provider and curse at them in a foreign language.
1. Check back in about 30 min. We should be up by then.
I've already done # 2 on many occasions. In my case the foreign language is English.
A couple of questions/points
Still no email with password info
When I go to the "pointed site" all I see is the "down for maintenance message"
Are you guys trying to tell something?
Robert -it's only you. Everyone else is over there having a great time.
What RW said. This cannot be an easy process and I thank you for the update.
They said this was going to be "easy". hee hee.
Ning NT is fairly huge. Huge ! It's gonna take a while.
Nigel
I thought it might be something like that...
Well back to the patio and watch the "waves" on the pond, life is so exciting in a country village
No worries.
Here is what happened. When we went to upload all of our discussions here, the download was corrupted, so we had to redo it. I never knew we talked so much, LOL.
Fero, you always crack me up!
I have been informed, that we are the single largest download they have ever taken on. I guess we talk a lot.... a real lot, LOL. Also had a lot of customization, since Jamroom started out as a music platform, hence the name. They have never dealt with a forum format before.
I don't own a server, so I am renting space on Jamrooms' server... but at least I will never have to worry again that I could lose all our info like I did with Grouply, and could have, with Ning (as we can tell from how glitchy the site has become). Also the benefit of using a server service is that they attend to your needs better.
Easy.... not so much with us. Friendly support, for sure!
Perrie
Thanks for the update
I confirmed my settings allow for emails and search through my spam folder and to date no email - is it possible to have it resent when (if) you get a spare moment in the near future
Thanks again for all your hard work on this transition - I am sure all members echo those thanks
RiO...the only email sent so far said the same thing as this article...
Indeed, many thanks are in order.
Ning has become glitchy in the extreme over the last several months. Maybe they aren't maintaining it like they used to. When I first joined, things ran very well. Now not so much. I figure Jamroom will get more and more Ning refugees as time passes.
The single most thing I hope and pray for with the new platform: I would dearly like to be able to take the stuff I have no interest off the tracker entirely. Like Newsvine does. (Sorry for the Nv reference, but it's a nice feature.)
Uppy
Thanks for that - I thought the temporary passwords had been sent to us in emails and I had not received one as yet
Thanks again