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Hi everyone,
Firstly, thanks to those recent donators. We really appreciate your continued support.
TLDR - We are close to launch - possibly this week.
Wordpress VIP are doing some final load testing after the initial testing a few weeks ago. We've made some significant code changes and it looks to have made the right kind of improvements to performance.
When we make the switch over it won't be instant and a heads up for maybe 24 hours there may be some odd things happen to your browsing. This is normal when DNS changes are made to a site. Not every single page in your browser will suddenly originate from the new server and that might result in some oddities. Please bear with us while the internet gets used to the new home of our site.
On the t-shirt front we are just waiting for delivery now. As soon as they turn up I'll let you all know. Then it's down to us packing them up and getting them in the post.
In other news we've had a spate of deliveries to you from us that have turned up without postage on that has meant some of you have had to pay the post to get your orders. This is obviously really shit and when we've been told of that happening we have of course refunded any extra costs. While this is entirely our fault we have tracked down the issue. We take all our postage over the road to our local post office where we have an arrangement where they then add all the necessary postage and bill us monthly for the cost. It seems some of our bags of post have been put in the system without them actually adding the stamps, which is sub optimal to say the least. Now we know where the problem lies it should not happen again. Sorry for anyone who was faced with a bill for unpaid postage.
here's hoping it allows you to move forwards in the way that you want.  I love both the mag and the forum, it's one of my favourite corners of the internet
You're welcome @euan They will be there for the rest of the issues published this year too. All new donations will get added to the list each issue.
While I'm here. A heads up that we are doing a dry run today on our test site of getting a dump of the live site database and setting it up. Nothing for you guys to see today but this is in preparation for the migration to the new server to happen on Tuesday next week (2nd July). On migration day the site will have the maintenance page up for quite a while. Andy is starting the process at 2am and working through to the afternoon when Anthony will takeover. The site could be down for a good portion of Tuesday.
Sorry about that but it's a great opportunity to catch up on the manifestos of the all the parties taking part in the election on Thursday...
or just go ride your bike 🙂
Ride my bike? What's a bike? I'm only here for the bantz 😉
I too was pleasantly surprised to see my name in the mag, thanks for that. It really made me smile to have my 15 mins of fame.
Keep up the good work everyone.
As for next Tuesday, I'm working that day so STW being offline is going to impact me hard. I might have to do some teaching.
This is really exciting news, Mark, fingers crossed for all the testing and next Tuesday.
Good luck and I hope it all goes nice & smoothly.
Awesome.
Andy is starting the process at 2am and working through to the afternoon when Anthony will takeover. The site could be down for a good portion of Tuesday.
Good luck (and prep of course 🙂 ) to Andy and Anthony tomorrow. The final real migration of these things is never fun
Sorry about this but we are postponing until Thursday for technical reasons.