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Greetings all,
More than likely a good chunk of you don't know of me or remember me from back in the day. I used to post as WesL but between raising a family, running a company and all the other fun associated tasks of life, I became a lurker of sorts here at TalkWeather. Sometimes you don't realize just how much you miss something until it is gone and that was the situation a few weeks ago during a severe weather event. I missed reading all the posts (okay most of the posts) during the event and started to explore the options of helping bring TalkWeather back. As you can see with the help of Jack we have a new forum. This is the first step in bringing TalkWeather back and I will make constant updates going forward with our progress. Naturally, with something built on the fly in the course of a few hours there will be hiccups. I invite you to help us troubleshoot by leaving a message below with the issue at hand and I'll let you know what we can do to fix it.
So here is the overview as of now (and subject to change):
Thanks again to Jack for trusting me with this project and I look forward to seeing all your posts soon!
WesL
More than likely a good chunk of you don't know of me or remember me from back in the day. I used to post as WesL but between raising a family, running a company and all the other fun associated tasks of life, I became a lurker of sorts here at TalkWeather. Sometimes you don't realize just how much you miss something until it is gone and that was the situation a few weeks ago during a severe weather event. I missed reading all the posts (okay most of the posts) during the event and started to explore the options of helping bring TalkWeather back. As you can see with the help of Jack we have a new forum. This is the first step in bringing TalkWeather back and I will make constant updates going forward with our progress. Naturally, with something built on the fly in the course of a few hours there will be hiccups. I invite you to help us troubleshoot by leaving a message below with the issue at hand and I'll let you know what we can do to fix it.
So here is the overview as of now (and subject to change):
- Jack will be staying on as a moderator and I suspect he will have some help. My background includes online community management so I will be joining that team and will be handling all the technical aspects.
- Sadly we are missing 1,000,000+ posts and I don't like that. In the coming weeks we will work to see if we can restore the content from the salvaged backups. Thankfully this new forum software has some integration capabilities if the data is usable. Time will tell.
- What you see today is subject to change. I'm going to be looking at a farming out some work to create a custom template for the site design.
- In time I have several features in mind to include in the site. I'm always open to suggestions so please feel free to reach out to me if you have something you would like to see.
- Hosting includes daily backup snapshots. The model that we are now using is fully virtualized and allows for growth when and if we need it.
Thanks again to Jack for trusting me with this project and I look forward to seeing all your posts soon!
WesL
