phpBB Weekly

Hello everyone,

As we have mentioned over and over and over again, we will be launching a brand new website, new album artwork, and some other new features for the podcast this week, coinciding with the retirement of phpBB2. While the website and new features are being kept under wraps (after all, we like to keep secrets as much as the teams do), here’s what the new artwork will look like, if you haven’t seen it yet:

However, because I’m just a little bit behind on finishing up my college applications (don’t ask), I will be postponing both the release of our phpBB Weekly “Best of 2008″ clip show episode and the new website by a day. Therefore, the clip show episode will be released this Thursday, January 1st (instead of Wednesday, December 31st as originally announced).

That said, phpBBWeekly.net will be taken offline beginning at 1:00 PM EST (1800 UTC) on Friday, January 2nd, which is the day that we will launch our new website. During this time the files and database for the new site will move in and we will also do some last minute revisions and bug checking on the new site–this will hopefully only take an hour or two depending on whether the technology gods will be willing to cooperate. You will still be able to access our episodes during this period on our TalkShoe page.

Thanks for your cooperation. I’m sure you’ll love our new website as much as I do! Until then, have a very happy new year.