Admin Post: Important News about the SWG Site/Archive

[dawn_felagund]

As some of you might remember, in August 2019, we woke up to an upgrade of our host's software (a good thing!) and, subsequently, discovered that our aging archive software no longer worked with the most up-to-date versions of PHP (a not-good thing!). We had the choice to accept the slow death of the archive or rebuild using new software. We chose the latter.

After eight months of work on that rebuild, we are finally ready to open the new site. This coming week, we plan to complete the final steps to migrate the new site onto our silmarillionwritersguild.org domain. As a result, the current site will go to read-only on Wednesday, March 31, and will go offline shortly thereafter. We anticipate--maybe hope is a better word?--that we will only need to keep the site down for about 48 hours while we make backups, migrate the last of the content from the old site to the new, and finally, move the rebuilt site onto our domain.

As always, questions are welcome in the comments, and our inbox is always open at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.