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.

Hello everyone,

We’re going to be doing some shuffling and reorganizing of the phpBB Weekly website this upcoming weekend. Although we won’t be bringing around any radically new designs or anything (and no, we do not plan to dress this website up in Christmas lights), we’re going to make some changes to improve the organization of our site and make it a bit more intuitive. phpBB Weekly has grown exponentially since I threw this site together almost eight months ago, and so hopefully the new site will provide us with more emphasis on what we want out of our website.

That said, we have scheduled downtime for this Friday, November 23rd, starting at approx. 11 AM Eastern time (1600 UTC), and will last for a few hours, depending on how long it takes for the technology gods to cooperate. In the meantime, you will still be able to access all of our phpBB Weekly episodes via our TalkShoe page. Or, since it’s the day after Thanksgiving anyway, you can probably find some “Black Friday” store sale somewhere or perhaps fatten yourself up on some of the Turkey Day leftovers in your fridge.

Anyway, have a good Thanksgiving Day, and we’ll see you on Saturday for our next phpBB Weekly!