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Community Update: Upcoming Downtime

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Kei_M
Community Manager
9 hours ago

Hi everyone 👋

Just a heads‑up that the community will have some downtime at the end of the month. We’re moving to a new platform as our agreement with the current provider is ending. This migration will take a little while as we move everything over. The community will switch to read‑only next week before going offline for a bit.

We’re also taking this opportunity to bring the Virgin Media and O2 communities together. Our aim is to merge as much as we can - posts, stats, member accounts, the lot.

Thanks so much for everything you’ve contributed so far. From me and the whole community team, we really appreciate it - and we’ll see you on the other side!

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6 Comments

    • roy247's avatar
      roy247
      Hero
      1 hour ago

      Let's hope it's an improvement on this one. 🙄

    • gitty's avatar
      gitty
      On our wavelength
      2 hours ago

      Whatever it is, it will be an upgrade compared to this flawed forum. :)

      • PMC45's avatar
        PMC45
        Just joined
        1 hour ago

        I understand that the new platform will be a Raspberry Pi 5 (no expense spared) running the cheapest software that VM can find and physically located in Kei’s house.

        What could possibly go wrong?

        Now I’m going to make a prediction, "The community will switch to read‑only next week before going offline for a bit"; yes I suspect that out will go read-only, but 'offline for a bit', is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting - weeks, and when it does stagger back into life, the complaints will be a miracle to behold!

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    9 hours ago

    Fingers crossed it all goes to plan and we do indeed meet on the other side ...   ;-)