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Merry Christmas all!

Sorry dark theme users if you've been flashbanged this evening. Every major IPB update I wipe the theme and apply our changes afresh (thereby wiping your default selected theme).

Spam issue has been addressed with the addition of an extra plugin that claims to help. We'll see I suppose...

Merry Christmas all. Hope you all find BFGs under your trees.

A lot of new faces around here apparently

To the guy who emailed me about changing your username: Please PM me here directly as I believe the email you gave me to respond to is incorrect. Cheers.

Brace for spam, I just approved 3 pages of members who've been waiting since last year and were in the spam filter. Some look legitimate but many might not be.

500/502 errors in profiles, the classifieds, status updates etc. are fixed. Appreciate the patience from you all. Just have a couple of edits to make to the classifieds to make and we're back to normal business.

Latest batch of patch orders will go out Monday. Final chance to order for October (if you were considering doing so).

Got around to applying the new logo. Please let me know if this cocks up anywhere on the site as it's a scalable vector (which IPB doesn't support by default) so it's a bit hacked in.

you dint see nothin

Some of you are leaving feedback in the old place. That's fine, but you may lose it if/when we move over to the new feedback system.

As such, you may wish to double-up and also leave feedback through the new system too by going here: https://airsoft-forums.uk/feedback/

We're looking into ways in which we might be able to migrate old feedback to the new system if we keep it, but this is not guaranteed.

Quoted items will now collapse into their top 7 lines of text (same will go for photos).

There will be a 'read more' button to expand the whole quote.

Look at this post for an example:

IPB update has broken the classifieds. Fixing now.

So it turns out that forum-breaking bug is still very much alive and kicking.

Apologies guys, but do have slightly more to go on this time as I ruled out some stuff last time this happened.

Any suggestions for colour of Cerakote on an AK? Probably just going to get black.

Forums were down again due to an issue identical to the one from the other day. Looking into it.

Ok, done.

Server restart tonight. Could be 5 minutes, could be 15. Don't panic.

Good time to remind everyone that the forums do have a Twitter and Facebook account used almost exclusively for tracking any down time and making announcements on any maintenance or crashes.

Might be worth checking the links at the bottom of the page so that you know where to check if there's an next time (here's hoping there's not)

Which one of you is responsible for this

Can someone try uploading some images to an advert and see if it works? I'm getting an error when I do.

Done testing the new anti-bumping stuff. Thanks for all your help (you did nothing to help).

Tonight (Friday)/this morning (Saturday) the forums are archiving everything more than 2 years old and resizing/compressing oversized images.

You'll still be able to look up these threads but they'll be on another table in the database (again, this shouldn't affect your experience at all - it's just technical stuff). Should improve performance marginally but is mostly future proofing against using up too much disk space or the database becoming too big to read rapidly.

There might be a slow down whilst this happens as it's moving ~27,000 topics and resizing ~33,000 image thumbnails. Full sized images will be resized through Saturday.

For a lot of you this should reduce your total attachment sizes (allowing for you to upload more). Remember you can visit https://airsoft-forums.uk/attachments/ to delete your unwanted images.

We've just migrated so there might be some general buggy-ness, downtime or just slow speeds for the next couple of days.

If you're having as serious issue with the forums related to the move then consider posting here: