Sawatdee Network Announcement

[Jellybean]

IтАЩm glad to hear that the future of Sawatdee Network is assured and that you have someone to share the burden Surfcrest.

And best of luck Moses in your new role!

[Manforallseasons]

Good luck to you both. Am glad that Surfcrest will be staying on.

[christianpfc]

Congratulations to both of you for the deal!

I hope the transfer of Bangkokbois goes without loss.

[Manforallseasons]

BTW my iPad remains dark grey I've changed my setting which was on "simplicity" and tried using chrome, the issue still presits (only on this site)?

[a447]

Same, same.

I've given up but hope it will go back to normal once the new board is up and running.

Oh, and congratulations on your new partnership.

[Surfcrest]

It will be a 50/50 partnership, I'll continue moderating and populating related articles and driving the membership upwards.
Moses is free to pursue whatever he likes and thinks would be good for the site and his own interests.

Some of the other parties interested in Sawatdee are also in the Web business and I would like to support their sites as well.

I would like to finally expand the site to support Facebook, Twitter and Pictogram, whether you chose to be apart of that shared social network too, or not.

This is going to be great!

Surfcrest

[francois]

. My English is quite poor, so I mostly prefer to keep silence

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue. Moses Exodus 4:10

Welcome aboard Moses. :ymhug:

[Moses]

Thank you everyone for warm welcome.

Now about future transfer from phpBB to vBulletin platform. I will write not about technical details, but about things which can concern everyone. What have you know: it is difficult path - to transfer data from one database to another, I made it 2 times already for training, and every time some data has been lost, so please backup your avatars, signature pictures.

For security every forum keeps your passwords encoded with strong cryptography. This made impossible transfer of your passwords from phpBB forum to vBulletin and at new platform everyone will must to restore password via standard form "password lost". That why we strongly suggest you to check your e-mail addresses in your profiles: robot will send new password to your registered e-mail. If your e-mail address is outdated - then you never will receive password to new forum.

Also by reasons of security both forums keep attachments encoded. This algorithm is more weak, but anyway transfer of big attachments is time-consuming, so mostly we will omit attachments over 1 Mb because if we will save all of them then transfer could take a week. You can overview and backup your attachments on your account page if you want to save them for personal use.

Both platforms - phpBB and vBulletin are quite sophisticated software. No one can give 100% warranty of smooth transfer, but we will do our best for it.

Last point. New forum engine - vBulletine demands clear installation of software before importing old forum to database. That means we will add all additional forum possibilities (add-ons) only after transfer. From start it will be "just a forum". It is the price we have to pay for living at new, modern, secure and solid software platform like vBulletin.

Summary: backup your avatars, signatures and attachments, check your e-mail addresses.

[lukylok]

Very happy with the good news ! I wish you every success !

[Moses]

How to request new password at new forum.

1. Please find Login Box at top of the right sidebar and click "Lost password"

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2. Fill your e-mail address registered on Sawatdee Network (1), answer question "Thailand is known as a Land Of S..." with word "smiles" (2), click button "Request Username/Password Now" (3)

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3. Check your registered e-mail address in 1-10 min. If your e-mail box will be empty after 30 min. check your "Spam" folder.

Warning! Words "registered e-mail address" means not any e-mail which is registered by you but e-mail address which you have recorded in old forum profile. It is only data by which new forum robot can recognize you as a old Sawatdee Network member.