New website is coming soon, ignore email and sit tight!

Apparently some people received an email with the website and a new password. While you will be needing to do this in the future, the installers goofed on their second attempt to migrate the site and sent these out by accident. Go ahead and ignore it because I may need them to do another install. 

In the meantime, I'm excited to say, we are getting close!

There are a couple of quirks that I want to let you know...

1. I have no way to do a partial migration so if a forum topic was discussed after I archived the site, it will be lost. Sorry, I wish there was a way I could transfer it. I am going to try to find some way to carry the content over. It won't be perfect but it will be the best I can do.

2. It will look different. I know. Change is scary. But Ning hasn't been upgrading or maintaining their forums so it left us no choice but to find another platform. While some of you may be super pumped about this fact, others may feel a little out of sorts getting used to the new platform. It was the best platform to go to and included a data migration path so that I could move our site over as seamlessly as possible. It also has some nice new features, a full mobile site, and lots of goodies.

3. Passwords & Friendships - there are things like passwords and friendships that Ning does not allow you to archive so we will have to reestablish who our friends are and create a new password. 

4. We are all in it together! I am with you, experiencing a learning curve and hopefully we will all be super pumped once we get the hang of the new site. Woot!

Thanks for bearing with me while I work through the weekend to make Chainlink an awesome digital playground for all things bikey. 

Cheers,

Yasmeen

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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 15, 2016 at 5:52am

Hi John, Thanks for your input and questions. With regards to your question about the domain - yes, I am moving to thechain.link but thechainlink.org will also work. 

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on August 15, 2016 at 9:08am

Put me on the list of people who are super pumped about the mighty Chainlink moving off the much despised ning platform. Whatever the short term pain, it will be worth it! (Assuming of course that ning isn't being replaced by something even worse, which I can barely imagine is even possible.)

Best of luck with the migration Yasmeen and thanks for all your hard work for the community!

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 15, 2016 at 9:15am

Ha! Thanks Tony. I hope you love it and it meets everyone's dream expectations. It's been some dedicated work after a long search for the right replacement and a good $ investment in a much better server and (hopefully) application. At the very least, it should be super speedy! ;-)

Permalink Reply by bk (aka: Dr. Mambohead) on August 16, 2016 at 9:22am
Here is to metric tonnes of success in your endeavor here!!! Thank you for having us.
Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 16, 2016 at 11:01am

Thanks bk! And thanks for being a part of Chainlink - it's great having you all here. :-)

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 16, 2016 at 11:00am

I'm glad too. Just wish they had managed to shut it down. Thanks for having a sense of humor about it. :-)

Permalink Reply by Carter O'Brien on August 17, 2016 at 3:13am

Change is great, can't wait to see the new site!

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on August 17, 2016 at 3:15am

Thanks! I delayed it a bit so that I could re-archive the entire site to refresh the content. This gave the developers time to connect with the software company so that they are better prepared to handle the import. 

Permalink Reply by BertG on August 18, 2016 at 10:07am

Woohoo!!! I'm so excited to see the new site! Good luck on the migration. 

Permalink Reply by Steve G on October 17, 2016 at 12:04am

Any news on the new site?

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on October 19, 2016 at 5:24am

Hi Steve, thanks for asking. I needed to put the project on hold to launch Memphis (using the new platform) and will start up again when it's a little quieter for The Chainlink. Right now I run the risk of losing so much content with every week because the site has been so busy. I think it was optimistic to try to do this in the summer when so many threads are full of conversation. I did a successful import on the new site only to realize so much content was out of date and I didn't have an adequate way to updating everything.

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on October 19, 2016 at 8:13am

woo hoo! 

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