Songcrafters 2.0 upgrade just in time for the 10th Anniversary

64Guitars · November 30, 2017, 03:41:16 PM

Songcrafters will be unavailable for perhaps a few hours tonight while I install a major upgrade which I've been working on for over a month to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. It has a new cleaner look, easier navigation, and upgraded forum software which includes, among other things, a new WYSIWYG message editor (similar to this).

Please note that the forum URLs are changing from songcrafters.org/community to songcrafters.org/forum. So some of your old bookmarks won't work. Also, the portal page at https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php will no longer exist. Instead, we'll be using the new portal page at https://songcrafters.org/. This page has actually been active since November 8th, so you've probably already seen it. It doesn't yet have all of the features of the old portal page but it will eventually.

I'll put the site into Maintenance Mode at about 1:00 am UTC/GMT tonight. I'll try to update the new portal page at https://songcrafters.org/ occasionally to give an indication of my progress.

Although it's been over a month in the making, there are still lots of minor things for me to fix in the coming weeks and months. So don't be surprised if you find a few minor quirks such as old, seldom-used BBcode tags that no longer work. Also, a modern up-to-date browser is a necessity with the new site. It works well with Firefox 57 (Quantum) and Chrome, and should work with the current releases of most other browsers. But don't expect it to work with Internet Explorer or other ancient browsers. It won't.

I hope everyone likes the new site.

Flash Harry · November 30, 2017, 05:00:26 PM

Thanks 64G!

I've been looking forward to this. I really appreciate all the stuff you do for is here. This is a massive change and fitting for out 10th anniversary.

64Guitars · December 01, 2017, 06:36:04 AM

Some of the jukeboxes aren't working. It's fairly easy to fix but I need some sleep. I've been up almost 22 hours.

There may be some other minor issues too but the site should be usable. I'll continue tweaking it and fixing things after I've had some sleep.

Enjoy the new site!