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Posting this in the main forum as it affects everyone and not everyone reads all the various other forums! Take a read and feel free to ask any questions you may have in the thread below. I will be upgrading the site to a new major version of the forum software during the summer. The look and feel of the site will not change too much, but some features may be added or deleted based on the capability of the new software. I will also take the opportunity to merge or migrate certain portions of the site based on feedback from a few people. Here is one major change that will definitely affect everyone .... You will no longer be able to login with your display name (username); you must use your email address. This is a security feature and in preparation for this change we would encourage all users to make sure your email address in your account is up to date and valid. You can check/change this within your profile here: https://caleythistleonline.com/settings/. Not sure when we make that switch, but you can already login using your email so you may want to get into that habit and if necessary change it to a current one and/or reset passwords etc. Other changes in the software that I don't think affect too many people or may not be that major to most users include: Status updates have been removed in v5. Open tagging has been replaced with a new system in v5. Facebook & Twitter social promotion has been removed in v5. (mainly used by our admins) Forums: Q&A mode has been removed in v5. From a design perspective, we hope to retain most things but may prune older posts and content as the database is pretty huge and can cause things to slow down here and there. The older posts would still be visible, and searchable, but images or links may no longer work once archived. This preparatory work will start before we migrate to the new version as we don't want to migrate a whole bunch of stuff we will no longer use. We have confirmed with both the Supporters Trust and the Travel Club that they will have their own mini-sites (labelled as Clubs in the new version of the software). This will allow those groups to manage and maintain their own area, have a separate forum area, gallery, blog, event calendar etc but all be accessible and searchable by users from the main forum listings and 'unread content' search. We are open to any other niche forums being converted to clubs and/or adding new areas - for example, might we benefit from having a separate area for supporting the women's team? Open to ideas and or development/growth in that area. Send me a note if you think of something that might be worthwhile considering. Our stats program (https://stats.caleythistleonline.com) is getting old and while it will continue to be maintained and available on the site for the foreseeable future, we really need to get it updated to PHP8 compatibility. This will either cost us a fair bit of cash to get the original developer to do it (£750 - £1000) or we are always on the lookout for someone in our user list who has the skills to do it. I can dabble and tweak, and know just about enough to get into trouble with things, but I don't have the ability to do a full conversion. If you know anyone who would like to sponsor this upgrade (and would receive advertisements/accreditation on the stats site and pages) or someone who has the skills to donate their time to update this resource let me know. Once updated, we are happy to maintain it on a weekly basis and would even be happy to once again share it with the club as we did before (This was one of the ties that was severed by Rae/Crook a few years ago). Other than those tweaks, I don't think there will be a huge amount of change.