GTPlanet's Social Groups & Photo Albums Closing

[Jordan]

Any progress report? I saw the site go down for the better part of an hour last night. Kept getting parse errors on the app.

I'm doing several test runs to prevent any data loss or corruption during the transfer. It places a lot of stress on the hardware infrastructure; I shut the site down with the maintenance notice you see so you're not subjected to slow loading pages and to prevent server errors from being displayed to the public.

Once again, I'll make a formal announcement shortly before the new site goes live when it's ready.

 

[Slash]

Gotcha, thanks for the update.

 

[Furinkazen]

Profile pictures are about to be replaced by your avatar, so you'll have just one image to represent your account. This change will happen within the next several days, so it's safe to ignore the error message for now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Will avatar sizes be increased for standard or premo users? I rather liked having a Profile Piccie....

 

[TB]

^ I'm inclined to say I doubt it.

 

[Jordan]

The specific time and date of the launch of this new site update has now been announced:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=289550

 

[Wardez]

Wohoo! Battlefield 4 and a new GTP, gonna be the best Monday night everrr

 

[Firehuntah]

Nice, really looking forward to the new GTP and all new features. Hope all goes well.

 

[Skython]

Wait, midnight GMT/UTC time? Could this be, for once the update will occur while I'm at school? So I come home on a Monday to a new GTP? Wait, tomorrow's Labour Day... Dammit!

Good luck on the site update!

 

[Akira AC]

Was looking forward to this, with the release of BF4, FM5 and GT6 it comes in an opportune time.

Looking forward to explore the site and check out new features.

 

[Slash]

Awesome, can't wait for the update.

 

[zzz_pt]

Oh my god. This is incredible news. Now I don't need to make a Flickr account to post my pictures! I can't wait for the new site!

This! 👍

Amazing stuff!

 

[Carlos]

Very good news! I really like the active version, I hope I won't miss it. I'm excited to see the new version and the new photo sharing options are awesome!

 

[SilverFire]

GTP just went from 100/10 to 1000/10. Much applause from me. 👍

 

[CinnamonOD]

Can't wait

2 Days and 1 minute and the maintenance should start, am I wrong?

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Can't wait, Jordan! 👍

 

[Wiegert]

I've saved all I need from the social groups. I won't miss some of the other outgoing features too much, but change always takes a little getting used to.

It's a change I've been waiting almost a year for now, so I am a little excited to see the final result. 👍

 

[SilverFire]

I've saved all I need from the social groups. I won't miss some of the other outgoing features too much, but change always takes a little getting used to.

It's a change I've been waiting almost a year for now, so I am a little excited to see the final result. 👍

My signature agrees with you.

 

[Northstar]

Hope all goes well this time.👍

 

[XS]

I'm very excited! Thank you for the usability updates and hard work Jordan!

 

[Cano]

:0 I had not seen any of this until the red "update" thingie popped up in that other yellow panel thingie. Can't wait to see what's in store, all that's been said so far sounds too good to be true, and there's still stuff we don't even know about.

 

[nascarfan1400]

Fantastic! Cant wait!

 

[DaveTheStalker]

Thanks for your diligent work to always make GTPlanet the best site on the web for all things Gran Turismo!

 

[White & Nerdy]

The only thing I'm going to miss is being able to use formatting in my signature. When I first saw there was going to be a major update, I though we might finally get sig pics

Social groups are a cool thing, but I've needed to get my group an offsite forum and try to get things back on track for a long time, and this'll be a good push.

 

[mattythedog]

Thanks for all your hard work Jordan, and I hope the move goes smoothly! 👍

 

[Fazerfan]

Good luck with the transition! Also thank you for the awesomnes you are giving to this community.

 

[Darren.]

Well then, this is it. Congratulations on going gold with GTP12!

 

[Ross]

The only thing I'm going to miss is being able to use formatting in my signature. When I first saw there was going to be a major update, I though we might finally get sig pics

Social groups are a cool thing, but I've needed to get my group an offsite forum and try to get things back on track for a long time, and this'll be a good push.

You've been around here long enough to know how Jordan feels about pics in sigs. I think that is one thing that we won't be seeing anytime soon. And that's good. pics in sigs look so untidy.

Anyway, I can't wait for the update. Thanks for all your hard work Jordan

 

[Samus]

Sig pics are the worst thing in any forum. Totally unnecessary and clutter up everything.

 

[m8h3r]

Sometimes sig pictures are used right like I don't mind when you have the PS3 trophies banner picture, but when most have random clutter I do agree it looks messy and can understand why Jordan would prefer not having them.

 

[Samus]

Sometimes sig pictures are used right like I don't mind when you have the PS3 trophies banner picture, but when most have random clutter I do agree it looks messy and can understand why Jordan would prefer not having them.

I don't get the point though, it's not like anyone cares to see them over and over again.