Regular visitors to the site will have noticed a few extra-ordinary goings-on of late.
To begin with, we've had ongoing problems with the smooth functioning of the forums - which have been running fine for 7 years but have decided to act up a bit of late - and also the fact that we've moved not only the SimplyDV main website (this one) but a whole collection of other related domains onto a single web host.
The move hasn't been without its problems even though the migration was necessary. It's left us with a bit of a dilemma: what to do about the forums.
The migration of the forums hasn't gone well; the phpBB-based package we use has decided that it doesn't want to include almost 60,000 posts and nothing I (or some experts) can do will persuade it otherwise. So I've decided to drop the forums as of now. Finito.
I know this will disappoint some of our regular users but it can't be helped. It had to be done.
Anyhow, the good news is that the whole SimplyDV website is being treated to a bit of a make-over in order to make it much easier for myself and others to manage - and, yes, there will also be new forums! It's just that they'll be in a slightly different form. You might even be able to have your own!
The new site is already taking shape; it will have a wider focus than just camcorders - taking in stills cameras and mobile phones that shoot video, home media centres, Blu-ray and HDD recorder/players, HDTVs, editing systems and - of course - software designed to help you acquire, edit and share your digital video content with the world. In other words, it'll be much more comprehensive.
In the meantime, if you want to be kept in the loop why not sign up to the SimplyDV Digital Video Newsletter? If you do you'll receive your four daily downloadable PDF "eGuide" documents entitled "Choosing A New Camcorder : The SimplyDV Guide for the Complete and Utter Newbie" absolutely free!
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You'll also be the first to know about upcoming changes to the website - as well as some competitions and special offers!
So, sign up now. And thanks for your patience during the recent changes.
Colin
Website Owner / Editor
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Ongoing changes to SimplyDV
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3 comments:
Bummer :\
Will the usernames/password be preserved in the new forum?
And what about the posts from the late forum? What are you going to do with them?
It would be nice to have access to them, even if in read-only mode.
Problem is that it's the user posts database tables that have been corrupted - and that's what led to the decision.
Oh! In that case, out with the old and in with the new :)
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