loquax has shiny new far more secure and much more fucntional forums.

• time taken getting wound up and annoyed with the lack of security and other features in our old forum software: approx 2 years
• time taken sussing out new version of forum software and getting annoying with the holes in its upgrade mechanism: approx 6 weeks
• time taken doing test upgrades of the software and sussing out all the problems: approx 2 weeks
• time taken getting servers ready for the upgrade and upgrading the real database: approx 2 hours
• time taken swearing at unforeseen problem that didn’t happen in the test and caused all users (including the administrators) to be banned from all forums: approx 1 hour
• time taken for first “urgh i don’t like it!” message to arrive: approx 2 minutes
• time taken for me to swear loudly and attempt to bash monitor in: approx 5 nanoseconds.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! not all users are ungrateful buggers who don’t realise how much work is put in on their behalf, but sometimes it feels like they might be.