On November 1st, the forum will be taken offline for a major upgrade. The forum will go offline sometime between 12am and 2am EST (5-7am GMT). Due to the scale of this upgrade, it will likely take several hours. My current estimation is approximately 4 hours will be required to make all of the necessary changes.

When the forum is brought back online, I will make another announcement regarding all of the new features. No posts or member data will be lost during this transition, however the SP Blue skin will no longer be usable. We will be using a single standard skin from this point forward, and for the time being it will be the default skin. We expect to have a new skin prepared for the forum as SP v3 progresses forward, but no dates have been set at this time.

I have heard a lot about these new changes. Rock and Roll

Hope the changes will make SP better

looking forward too it

Can't wait for this, should be good .

cant wait for the CHANGES.

Good luck, I can't wait to see what's going to come out of them.

Hopefully this will work out well.

cool, cant wait. wonder what it will be like.
could we see a sneak preview?

Yea, what type of upgrades wil we be getting?

Nice sig, speaks the truth.

Soccaholic, that sig is genious. Are any of the changes goin to be major?

But..but.. I like SP the way it is!

Same here but what if it's even better?

You'll like it even more come November 1st. Can't wait just like everyone

without giving too much away ... will there be some form of karma ?

Without giving too much away...No, at least from the build I've seen, thats not to say that it won't ever be included, just not in this upgrade. But the new features are more than worth the wait.

Wow, November first cannot come soon enough, can't wait.

Sounds really good. Wonder what the new features could be???

ooh, this sounds very exciting i cant wait

Hope it is will be great, My server is giving me problems yesterday and i couldnt lohin to SP throughout yesterday is it a general problem or is it only me

I cant wait for it.
Hope its good

Im all nervous and excited.

Better not be too long...otherwise i'll actually have to work. Tho maybe only for a couple of hours...so i'll let ye off

Depends what time zone you are in. Here in the Eastern US, it will be between 2am and 6am. Most people sleep during those hours. At GMT, it would be 7am-11am. Unfortunately, there is no single time that would benefit everyone. The US is still classified as our larger user base, so I still plan my work schedule around that fact, hopefully interfering with less people that way.

Crap, the first 2 and a half hours of work are gonna be painful. Ah well, the price i have to pay.

Anyways, looking forward to the changes. On the plus side, i'll be checking every 5 mins so i'll be one of the first to know how good it is.

Can we expect tweaks to improve things?

Or somthing bigger than that?

Or both?

improve what sort of things?

a chat room would be cool

Does that mean you're staying up between those hours to make it easier for everybody else Bill? You're a leg end!

General things Navigation, the look of the forum, and tweaks in the interface, to make it easier to use.

This sounds really good and a little bit of down time never hurt anyone, and neither did a bit of work dreamlander

Ya but do you wanna risk it...

Fuck it, ill just come in 2 hours late

A man with a plan, sounds good to me!

Looking forward to this,
Should be good

these changes sound awesome....hope it works!

Just wondering, will the downtime have an effect on the SPPL or is the latter by itself?
possible effect I'm talking about:
- will early prediction be necessary

It should only take about 4 hours total time during which the forum will not be available, so it should have no effect on the SPPL. However, maybe one of the SPPL leaders will be able to confirm this.

sppl gmaes go on weekends, and have NOTHING to do with the forum.. so we are fine in that regard.

2AM-6AM, dang...i just remembered that I'm on between 545 and 600 until I have to catch the bus. I guess I'll just skip SP that day.

Can't wait for the stuff though.

cant wait

Wowzers, new stuff can never get boring!!
I love the way some people think the world may end if SP goes down for 4hours, in the middle of the night, for upgrades.
Bless.

yeah we are thinking of starting addiction_counciling.soccerpulse.com as well.. lol

(im kidding, for now... )

I'll give a hand with prizing them away from their computers

Your not really on 24-7...2 hours surely won't hurt.

Sounds good.

Do you know what time It will be in Melbourne (Australia) when SP goes down?

Thanks.

I think you are at GMT +10, so that would put the approximate downtime from 3pm-7pm. Of course, daylight saving time being different there may have my calculations off by an hour. In which case it would actually be 4pm-8pm.

Ok, cool. Thanks.

I liked SP the way it was 2 yrs ago, but now it's infinitely better thanks to all the hard work the admins and mods put into it.

Trust me, when SP is concerned, any major change is a good change.

Not too long to wait now, almost there, I have off blocks tomorrow at school, therefore will check out all the changes in the morning. Yay.

awesome work mods and everyone

this site is getting better and better.....soon vodafone will be replaced by soccerpulse.com on the united kit

heh, i would sponsor man utd EVER.. maybe northern rock with soccerpulse.com though..