The older instances of the Strikethrough code do not seem to work properly (it just shows the [s] tags).

Would someone me to an example, please. Kthx.

http://forum.hrwiki.org/memberlist.php?mode=leaders

Why are [ramrod] and [StrongRad] labeled as Mods?

This isn't a complaint, or anything...just a comment.
Why are there always so many bots patrolling the place?

The better to show up on search engines, my dear.

They were always there before, they just didn't show up in the list.

The better to show up on search engines, my dear.

They were always there before, they just didn't show up in the list.

To Disk:
That's happened to me a couple times tonight. I think it just means that it was truly a simulpost. As in, super exact timing.

I'm pretty sure it's because, when you clicked add reply, the post was already there (so it would show up in the topic review thing you see when you're actually typing your post). It only shows you the simulpsot thing if a reply was made after you'd clicked add reply and were typing your post.

Is there any reason they should be on the online list? I mean, I think it would look better if the Bots weren't listed. They don't have any actual purpose for us to know that they're online, right?

You can find tons of cool information on this day right over here. The actual information and updates on the upgrade begin in The Actual Thing is Happening section. EDIT: Also, it's PG 13 for some language. Sorry about that.

Aside from the fact that you blogged a progress indicator instead of, y'know, going outside or something, I've gotta say that's a fun read.

A few notes: mid-morning would have been sooner, but I decided to get a Krispy Kreme Doughnut before beginning. (I knew I'd need the sugar.) Also, even though I wrote ET (Eastern Time) on the notice, I always intended it to be mid-morning Central Time (where I am). I put ET because that's what most people in the United States are used to seeing and 'cause I knew it would be close enough to that.

The upgrade actually began behind the scenes at 11 ET/10 CT, and I officially pulled the plug at noon ET/11 CT (I could have shut it down early, but I wanted to make sure every number (and "momentarily") got its minute in the sun in the countdown thread. Converting the database took 3 hours and 33 minutes, as expected. The banner and other styles I had already made beforehand, so those didn't take any time. The killer (read: the cause of all the delays) was the permissions system (well, and I got a Dr Pepper from the store across the street and watched the last two minutes of the Redskins–Seahawks game). The old phpBB2 had one page of permissions and they were really straightforward. Conversely, the permissions on phpBB3 can be fine-tuned to the point that you start to wonder if maybe working for the IRS might be a simpler way to spend your life. I'm pleased to say I think I got the hang of it by the time I was done, but it was rough going for a bit.

I'm glad I could earn you those points. I was determined, rain or shine, not to extend the deadline any further than I did. (That's why we went live without a link back to the wiki. I'll add it tomorrow. Probably.)

It's been a long day. I think I'm going to hang my titanium pants up and recharge for a while.

Oh, and you'd be surprised how many people did nothing groundbreaking besides stare at that progress bar all day.
(Chekt, MikeMcG, iKipapa for the last part, me...a few others whom I can't remember off the top of my head)

The last time I checked (I could see a list of all the users who were following along), it was Exhibit A, Inverse Tiger, gunluva, Duecex2, DS_Kid, Ju Ju Master, and Bugkiss. On average there were about half a dozen users staring at the progress bar at any given time.

I built that meter almost from scratch, by the way, for a different application (it's used on the wiki). (For those who didn't see it in action, it's dynamically generated.) The only thing I didn't do was come up with the specific shading, which I stole from the MacOS X progress bar.

You have to make it in more than four colors, though.

Oh, and you'd be surprised how many people did nothing groundbreaking besides stare at that progress bar all day.
(Chekt, MikeMcG, iKipapa for the last part, me...a few others whom I can't remember off the top of my head)