Sodaplay is on the move

As this blog has been announcing, we’ve had our heads down working on the new version of sodaplay.com. While there are loads more features we’d like to add in, we don’t want to keep it just “in development” any more.So today’s the big day where we turn the old sodaplay.com off and finish off the migration of data from old sodaplay.com to new sodaplay.com .It may be a slightly bumpy ride initially, so hold on – slightly bumpier than we had hoped and planned, but isn’t that always the way? Here are a few bumps we can predict:

     
  • Migration won’t be finished until about 5/September
  • Existing users won’t be able to logon for a few days after that.
  • If you have any problems with the url “http://sodaplay.com” over the weekend (1/2 September) use “http://new.sodaplay.com”.
  • constructor will be a minimal “player” interface till we iron out some last minute bumps with constructor2 (a big badness we know – have a go with newtoon in the meantime)

Existing models and users are being migrated across. Existing sodaplay.com links should be translated into new sodaplay.com urls (obviously can’t be 100% reliable until migration is complete).To help you out, we will post here again when:

     
  • migration is complete (this means that all the data has been moved over from the old sodaplay server)
  • all existing users can login
  • new users can register
  • the new constructor is available

Our ambition is to keep rolling out new web features and new applications and we’ll announce here whenever we do.

New Sodaplay forum found

We asked the Sodarace forum to help us choose new forum software and the power and simplicity of phpBB3 proved popular. You can now join the Sodaplay conversation in our fresh new forum at sodaplay.dailyforum.net.

Finding a new forum for a new sodaplay

Our old forum at sodarace.net/forum have enjoyed a long, productive and sometimes turbulent history since they were created way back in 2002. The forum software there is getting too old to maintain or upgrade so we’re looking for a new forum for the new sodaplay.We’re testing two very different styles of forum using Tangler and phpBB…Tangler: http://www.tangler.com/group/11032phpBB: http://sodaplay.hostingdelivered.comOver the coming weeks the old forum will be converted into a read-only archive so now is the time to explore the new forums or suggest/create your own. I look forward to seeing you post in the new forums and finding out which you prefer.