New website (outage imminent)

Posted by AaronClausen

 8 Apr 2020

Hi All,

Just another courtesy message that we will commence the cutover to the new website in about a day from now.

We plan to do the cut over at about 5pm tomorrow afternoon/evening.

We expect the website will only be down for approx 1 hour, but you may experience some weird behaviour temporarily in the immediate hours after that while we bed in the new platform.

Thanks for your support and patience.

Cheers

Aaron.

10 comments

Harrisi wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
Had forgotten about upgrade Aaron though when I did an upload (approx 1230am after not finding site for a while, which went fine) i then noticed I had lost 70 sightings once system came back..?
Harrisi wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
Oh, just noticed significant (8?) and unidentified (40+) were part of that...both showing zero now. Time for bed sorry, will be around tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, etc etc. :)
AaronClausen wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
Thanks Stuart. Yep we know about that one. Will fix tonight. Cheers Aaron
   9 Apr 2020
Do you want feedback on anything we notice that we think is strange?
AaronClausen wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
Yes please Matt, we are live now so anything that is odd we are super keen to know about.
AaronClausen wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
Edit sighting page will be coming soon (over the weekend!)
MattM wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
I sent tech support an email about an issue with notifications not coming through and being unable to moderate. I also notice that any sightings I view are automatically "liked" by me.
MattM wrote:
   9 Apr 2020
I just noticed that on the home screen it says our comments were posted 48 minutes ago (actual time of comment), but here it says every comment was posted 10 hrs ago.
For other feedback would you like me message tech support, or comment here?
AaronClausen wrote:
   10 Apr 2020
Thanks Matt. Yep we know about this issue. Please keep replying here with any issues.
natureguy wrote:
   10 Apr 2020
Building on what Matt said, my moderator alerts are a bit weird as well. Some aren't comeing through, such as confirmations, but the ones that do all just say someone suggested an "unknown bird" even when an ID has been suggested. The alerts also only come up as "just now" or "yesterday" which stays the same for the alert. I also somehow managed to Like a sighting 4 times even though I only pressed the like button once. Other than this, the website seems to be much better. Things load much faster and many functions/features have been improved. I would like to thank all involved as the new website is definitely better.

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