Updated Web Site and Blog, Forum Rollback

[BeerSmith]

I've updated the main BeerSmith web site as well as the blog with a modern responsive design - hopefully you will like it! I'm slowly working through upgrading all of the remaining pages on the site.

Also today (12 July) I was forced to roll back the forum database a few days after a failed forum update. I do apologize as a handful of forum posts were lost. I've done forum upgrades in the past with no problems, but for some reason this one created serious database issues. I will be doing future forum updates on a test database and file system from now on.

If you created a new account in the last few days or posted a question, you may need to recreate it. I've moved to nightly backups to prevent this in the future.

Cheers,
Brad

 

[BeerSmith]

After a few trials on a test site I finally got the forum upgraded to the latest Xenforo version and also initiated a nightly backup of the forum.

This should mitigate any data issues with the forum going forward.

Brad

 

[GigaFemto]

Thank you, Brad, for all you do. I know it isn't easy to maintain a software package, web site and forum these days with all the attacks, bot posts, etc. I love BeerSmith and truly appreciate all the effort that goes into it.

--GF

 

[BeerSmith]

Thanks!
The server upgrade and site redesign turned out to be a bigger job than anticipated. I'm planning a server migration for the main recipe site as well in the near future to ensure the long term stability of the systems, as well as upcoming software releases. Busy summer!

Brad