# The Straight Dope Software Switch Countdown thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901 "2020-06-18T12:19:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/21 "2020-06-18T15:11:02Z")
It’s like waiting for Godot. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/22 "2020-06-18T15:17:52Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It’s like waiting for Godot. Fortunately, Dopers are more interesting than Vladimir and Estragon, so at least the company’s good while we wait. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/23 "2020-06-18T15:48:56Z")
It seems like I kill a lot of threads, so this will probably just be another in that long line. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/24 "2020-06-18T16:29:26Z")
Yeah yeah yeah, when we gonna switch, yaddadda yaddadda, boooooooring! What I really wanna know is… …_ **who’s making Lovers’ Lane safe again for lovers!?** _ ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/25 "2020-06-18T16:35:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > …but of course, every time that happens, it’ll be more work for her, and it’ll be easier all around if she doesn’t have to do that, so we’d really prefer for people to make sure their e-mail address is correct now, when it doesn’t require manual overrides. Of course. Sorry that I didn’t think to include that; I just didn’t want Richard\_W to be waiting for an email notification if there isn’t going to be one. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/26 "2020-06-18T16:43:42Z")
Over in another thread we’ve just been reminded of this, which was part of the first announcement: > [@It's that great getting up morning: The new site is nearly ready for you.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-great-getting-up-morning-the-new-site-is-nearly-ready-for-you/855380/1): > > Sometime that Thursday we will set the board to be in “Read Only” mode. We will get a final data dump of all of the posts/content up to that point, and send it over to Discourse to do their migration. Hopefully the migration will be finished by Friday. > > Then we will kick the tires of the Discourse install, make sure everything is good to go, then switch the DNS settings to point the existing SDMB to the new Discourse install and we will be open for business as soon as that propagates. This means you’ll use the same URL for getting to the SDMB as now. And it also means all the old existing thread URLs should automatically work properly, in case you have any bookmarked. So presumably the first symptom will be, not an inability to get at the boards to read them, but an inability to post; at least, if I’m understanding it right. Then, possibly simultaneously but that’s not clear, trying to get to the boards will get us to Discourse, and presumably looking at a page telling us to update our passwords. I’d think that the inability to post wouldn’t show up as a 502 or 504, but either as a “down for maintenance” or as its own message; but I don’t know about that, that’s just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/27 "2020-06-18T17:31:17Z")
Well it’s 8:25 at night my time, which means it’s about noon in Chicago. So I’m thinkin’ that the technicians have had the morning to set up equipment, and now they’re on lunch break. And now that they’ve eaten most of their lunch, they’re gonna take another couple minutes to finish their coffee. And when they finish the coffee, they’re gonna set the processes in motion… And so any minute now,they’re gonna p… …pull …pull the …pull the plu… (oops!,dammit, this site is still running, so I don’t win the countdown prize.) I’m gonna come back in an hour or so,and type the final “g”. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/28 "2020-06-18T17:35:13Z")
“g”…oing to be be a loooong night. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/29 "2020-06-18T17:40:36Z")
Oh my. I hope the goddamn transporter doesn’t scramble my brain? Oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/30 "2020-06-18T17:46:46Z")
Just got a flash of ‘temporary offline’ screen ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/31 "2020-06-18T17:47:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Oh my. I hope the goddamn transporter doesn’t scramble my brain? > Oh wait… Even more terrifying…it might put it back together. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/32 "2020-06-18T17:53:42Z")
I don’t know if the board in read-only mode, as they make the transition, would be visible to ordinary users or not. It’s possible that it’ll be readable only to the database script that’s copying everything over. Or it’s possible that _all_ read operations will be allowed, and so everyone will still be able to see the current board frozen in time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/33 "2020-06-18T18:18:01Z")
I intend on being frozen in time. (Where’s my winter coat and gloves) ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/34 "2020-06-18T18:38:07Z")
Hope this is the last post ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/35 "2020-06-18T19:01:03Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Hope this is the last post Nope. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/36 "2020-06-18T19:01:57Z")
Doesn’t look like it. Maybe this one? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/37 "2020-06-18T19:06:30Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Doesn’t look like it. Maybe this one? Nope. Switch is scheduled for 6pm Central. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/38 "2020-06-18T19:10:54Z")
No, not that one either. You know what I’m going to miss most (hopefuully)? The way that Show Posts From Last Two Days mysteriously resets itself to ten days for no apparent reason. My favourite bug. j ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/39 "2020-06-18T19:15:48Z")
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJVa0fl01w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJVa0fl01w) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901/40 "2020-06-18T19:16:17Z")
Bugs in the works don’t bother me too much. I just like to know what they are so I can adjust myself to work with them, not against them. I’m nice like that. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-software-switch-countdown-thread/855901.md?page=3)