Hi, guys.
First, a thousand thanks for your notes about the new board. Chip has read them all, responded directly to some folks and is trying to track down options to address other concerns (e.g., in the new software, unread threads are gray and read threads are black, which strikes folks as backward).
Second, Chip hopes to trigger the migration on Saturday, 3/21. The site will be offline during the migration; she estimates 2-3 hours, max. We will post a heads-up an hour or so in advance. Sunday would mostly be cleanup operations.
Third, you will need to log in again on the new board, so be sure you have your username (not your email) and passwords handy. Chip can reset passwords manually (she cannot see your current password but can overwrite it with a generic password like "newboard"), after which you can customize it again. Eventually the site will have a viable "I forgot my password" button, it exists now but seem to be really slow.
Fourth, this week's posts will have to be manually transferred, one by one. The automated migration works only if we're moving all 56,000+ posts at a time, which is time intense and touchy. We did the mass migration already, so Chip will be working to move just the last hundred or so individually. It's possible that we'll have to copy an entire discussion thread and then place it in a single post (as if the OP and 10 comments all were typed in the same box and the same time), but responses from there would work as usual.
Thanks for your time, support and patience. We'll share more as it becomes available.
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Thank you!