AngelsWin.com Forum Move & Upgrade Scheduled this week!

[Chuck]

So I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is we'll be offline for a couple hours sometime this Thursday after 2 pm or sometime on Friday for a major upgrade & relocation. 

The good news is, I'm upgrading to the current forum version which fixes a lot of bugs (including no more cookie policy pop-up's @Lou), has new feature enhancements, better performance AND I'm moving the site away from GoDaddy where I've been hosting at since 2013 to a new Cloud hosting solution which also means I will have a secured SSL connection (HTTPS) @John Taylor,and a bunch more capabilities. 

The URL after the transfer and upgrade will be angelswin.com/forums/ like it was way back in the day. 

Nothing should change as far as our logo or overall design, just better features, faster performance, less nuances and a secured connection. 

That said, I'm going from paying $50 to GoDaddy a month to $70 a month and based on traffic, it could go up to $130 a month if I exceed a certain number of unique visits. 

I know that many of you here enjoy AngelsWin.com as much as I do, so I'm doing this both of us. It's an extra $240 a year + an installation/transfer cost, but I think ya'll are worth it. Well at least some of you.  The ad money helps, but I'll pretty much be breaking even at the end of the year unless something changes. Your donations are always welcome, as is your Ad-free memberships (which I need to audit soon for those who paid for just a year). 

Anyhow, let me know if you have any questions and I'll be happy to answer them. 

Cheers! 

 

[Chuck]

6 minutes ago, rafibomb said:

Me trying to get into the forums for the past 12 hours

https://tenor.com/5VFr.gif

No need to go and fetch .gif links as we have a new and improved button from Giphy now.

 

[jsnpritchett]

1 hour ago, Chuckster70 said:

No need to go and fetch .gif links as we have a new and improved button from Giphy now.

 

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Was the URL Stradlingisalwaysright.com  unavailable?  

 

thanks for the SSL cert.  like seeing the Green URL instead of the red Site not secure. 

[eligrba]

[Chuck]

4 minutes ago, The Ghost of Bob Starr said:

Was the URL Stradlingisalwaysright.com  unavailable?  

 

thanks for the SSL cert.  like seeing the Green URL instead of the red Site not secure. 

Yeah that was another reason to move to the new server. We're 100% secure now yo! 

I also like that we're ANGELSWIN.COM  and then Forums, just like the old days. 

[Chuck]

1 minute ago, eligrba said:

[Lou]

NO COOKIES TAB! 

[Claude]

Stradling and blarg are still here? I thought it was an upgrade. 

[John Taylor]

3 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Yeah that was another reason to move to the new server. We're 100% secure now yo! 

I also like that we're ANGELSWIN.COM  and then Forums, just like the old days. 

The AW domain has come home to papa.

[Chuck]

10 minutes ago, John Taylor said:

The AW domain has come home to papa.

Indeed. Super stoked about this! 

Going to start working on the homepage now. 

[tdawg87]

[John Taylor]

5 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Indeed. Super stoked about this! 

Going to start working on the homepage now. 

Is there any affiliation with The Sports Daily anymore?

[Chuck]

42 minutes ago, John Taylor said:

Is there any affiliation with The Sports Daily anymore?

Yeah, but we will post our blog articles off of the homepage and from here from now on and secondarily I'll be posting them at Sportsdaily since we're affiliated with them. 

[Lou]

9 hours ago, Lou said:

NO COOKIES TAB! 

guess what's back?

[nate]

Gotta give @Chuckster70 credit for unknowingly taking the forum down when the biggest Angels story in years comes out, lol.

[Lou]

[Chuck]

22 minutes ago, Lou said:

lol. No luck for you with Cookie Policy popups. The only recommendation I can make is clearing your mobile device's cache/cookies and disable popups. 

I'm in a new server now and with the latest version so it could be a cookie that's referencing the old site's behavior on your mobile device. 

[Chuck]

4 hours ago, nate said:

Gotta give @Chuckster70 credit for unknowingly taking the forum down when the biggest Angels story in years comes out, lol.

Actually we launched just 30-45 minutes after the story broke. So it wasn't bad. 

Now signing Joe Maddon or a big FA would have sucked. 

[Stradling]

My only suggestions would be to add the thread title to the “Next Unread Topic” tab and I would prefer that when you hit the large AngelsWin.com at the top of the page that it takes you to the forums, since that is the most used portion of what we do.  Obviously that second part is just something to get used to.  

[Jason]

Stupid question. What's the difference in the gold and premium memberships?

[Jay]

Not sure what can be done but I'm finding a lot of broken links when browsing around from topic to topic

 

[Lou]

26 minutes ago, Jay said:

Not sure what can be done but I'm finding a lot of broken links when browsing around from topic to topic

 

same here 

[Chuck]

@Jay and @Lou can you screenshot the error you're getting the next time you get one?

[Lou]

I was getting a 502 Bad Gateway Error.

it seems to have stopped for now 

[Blarg]

Same here. The pages have been slow updating as well.