Forum migration to new platform

[sherman_levine]

In case anybody is interested.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/1080

Perhaps best to start with this thread

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4816633

and continue with this one

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4817116

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Sherm

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[OpticsEngineer]

25 years is a very long time to stick with any software platform.

Most of my career I have been listening our programmers complain about the difficulties and limitations of dealing with legacy code and having to modify it to implement new features. And bug fixes on top of bug fixes. Our lead programmer liked the analogy of metal smith work, where each blow of a hammer makes the metal more brittle, until it loses all ductility and can't be worked anymore.

 

[sherman_levine]

I think XenForo's been around for about 15 years, so it already has a head start at being inflexible

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Sherm

Sherms flickr page

P950 album

P900 album RX10iv album
OM1.2 150-600 album

 

[Detail Man]

Gag me with a spoon, Batman. New regime's (entirely inscrutable and seemingly utterly ham-handed) idea of presenting my existing uploaded JPG images (in my free DP Review Image Gallery) as: "Media added by Detail Man", a goofy "random dice throw" without any regard whatsoever to the (chronological upload) order of my 999 JPG images added over around 10 years time. My actual DPR Image Gallery still (simultaneously) exists - presently untouched at the old URL. If/when access (as it was before; not subject to alleged DP Review web-site domain "improvements") to my ("legacy") free DP Review Image Gallery "disappears", this long time DPR member and contributor will likely (myself) "disappear" forthwith.