Jamie_Beatson

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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from MySpazz in Forum Upgrade   
    Hi all,

    Just to say again I'm going to be working on the software in the background over the next two days so apologies in advance for any outages or weird stuff you see. Currently having to manually alter the format of 187 database tables that make up the backbone of the forum - which I can tell you right now is not a great deal of fun!

    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from HOODLUM65 in Forum Upgrade   
    Back up and running after an outage this afternoon. The upgrade to new software is complete and everything should be a) much more secure and b) faster now, with far fewer errors. There was a really irritating one that meant the site wasn't loading at all for non members which should now be sorted.
    Any bugs you spot please do reply here and I'll sort them out.
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from blueheaven in Forum Upgrade   
    Back up and running after an outage this afternoon. The upgrade to new software is complete and everything should be a) much more secure and b) faster now, with far fewer errors. There was a really irritating one that meant the site wasn't loading at all for non members which should now be sorted.
    Any bugs you spot please do reply here and I'll sort them out.
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Saline Saint in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from pezza70 in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from jez1971 in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from rickardo in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Havana Saint in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from PSJ.84 in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Sergei in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Aitchy in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from SaintJet in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from GMac in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Wendywho in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans.
    My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of:
    - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down.
    - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person.
    - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines.
    - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend.
    - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again.
    - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge.
    We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...
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    Jamie_Beatson reacted to blueheaven in Scottish cup 2022/23   
    Personally I felt the statement came across as a bit half-hearted (which possibly isn't surprising given Steve Brown's growing detachment from things). It's as if he's grudgingly saying the bare minimum that he feels (or has been told) he needs to say to appease the supporters. The acceptance of mistakes made, and commitment to take these mistakes into account with future decisions, are good things, but it just all feels a bit way too little, very much too late.
    You ask what we'd want him to say. Here are a few suggestions:
    Just say it properly, right at the start of the announcement: We've made some mistakes. We're sorry. We promise we'll do better. It's really not that hard to just apologise properly, and it would regain both him and the club a bit of credit among the fans. Explain to the support why these decisions were taken, and explain why that decision was followed by nearly 20 days of silence. Accept that communication needs to improve - and, to that end, announce a meet-the-board evening to allow fans the opportunity to ask questions face to face. Questions about ticket arrangements, about the sale of the club, about anything we want. Other clubs do this. Announce that, by way of apology, there will be a cut-price match later in the season. Ideally the Hibs game in April. Let fans in for a fiver in all four stands, which is what Hibs have done for Saints fans twice recently with nothing in return. That's our last game before the split, could be an important match, and could be a way of getting a really big crowd in, which is great for everyone. Season ticket holders could be offered the option of £15 off next season's renewal, to make up for them not seeing the benefit from a cut-price match (although personally, as a season ticket holder, I wouldn't see this as necessary and probably wouldn't take up the option). They didn't necessarily need to say all of the above, but these are just suggestions of things they could have said that would have felt like far more of a goodwill gesture, far more of an apology, and far more of a changing of previous ways. Had they said any of the above, I think they'd be seeing a spike in sales for Saturday's game right now.
    As it is, I'm personally pretty sceptical that anything much is really going to change, especially as the chairman is on the way out anyway, so any long-term promises are really going to be pretty meaningless.
     
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from pezza70 in Forum Upgrade   
    Hi all,

    Just to say again I'm going to be working on the software in the background over the next two days so apologies in advance for any outages or weird stuff you see. Currently having to manually alter the format of 187 database tables that make up the backbone of the forum - which I can tell you right now is not a great deal of fun!

    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Indicator in Forum Upgrade   
    Hi all,

    Just to say again I'm going to be working on the software in the background over the next two days so apologies in advance for any outages or weird stuff you see. Currently having to manually alter the format of 187 database tables that make up the backbone of the forum - which I can tell you right now is not a great deal of fun!

    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from blueheaven in Forum Upgrade   
    Hi all,

    Just to say again I'm going to be working on the software in the background over the next two days so apologies in advance for any outages or weird stuff you see. Currently having to manually alter the format of 187 database tables that make up the backbone of the forum - which I can tell you right now is not a great deal of fun!

    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Two Cups 2021 in Forum Upgrade   
    Not yet. I need the hosting company we use to perform a couple of software updates and changes to the databases that the forum runs off and that hasn’t happened yet.
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from garydavidson in Forum Upgrade   
    Afternoon all,
    Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up.
    As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost.
    Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this.
    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Dooj in Forum Upgrade   
    Afternoon all,
    Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up.
    As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost.
    Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this.
    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Cleveland-Saint in Forum Upgrade   
    Afternoon all,
    Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up.
    As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost.
    Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this.
    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from Indicator in Forum Upgrade   
    Afternoon all,
    Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up.
    As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost.
    Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this.
    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from john.w in Forum Upgrade   
    Afternoon all,
    Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up.
    As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost.
    Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this.
    Jamie
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    Jamie_Beatson got a reaction from blueheaven in Forum Upgrade   
    Afternoon all,
    Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up.
    As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost.
    Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this.
    Jamie