Welcome to the new and improved ArsenalAmerica.com

April 11, 2007

All,

As some of you may know, ArsenalAmerica.com was hacked not too long ago. This caused lots of issues with access, missing posts, comments disappearing, etc, etc.

Our webmaster Andrew, along with my good friend Dave, have been working for the past several weeks, and believe they’ve worked out all the issues caused by the hack. We’ve also taken this opportunity to push through some changes that we’ve been planning for some time.

We’re pretty certain that everyone’s usernames and passwords migrated successfully. We had several individuals test it out over the last few days, and all were able to log in. Should you have any trouble logging in, please let me know.

Everyone has been granted “contributor” level access to the site – which is the same level as in the old version of the site. If you’d like to submit news, the process is pretty much the same, although the interface is somewhat different. Those veteran posters out there should find it pretty straightforward, but if anyone has any difficulty, please let me know.

We look forward to bringing even more exciting changes to you in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

Thank you,
Mike Kavanagh
President, Arsenal America

Posted by mikek | Filed Under ArsenalAmerica News 

Comments

19 Responses to “Welcome to the new and improved ArsenalAmerica.com”

  1. Colin Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am

    I might be missing something, but is there a way to tell who contributed what from the front page?

  2. andrew Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 11:44 am

    Because of the import, everything got labeled as posted by ‘Administrator’ but we’ll be fixing that over the next few hours I suspect.

    As for a direct display, I’ll dig into that and see if can be done.

  3. Rashida Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    Nice! Me likey.

  4. Demian Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    Excellent job guys!

    even the negativity will at least be pleasing to the eye! jaja

    cheers!

    believe gooners! believe!

  5. DannyT Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Well done, looks great. Shame you can’t reply to individual posts though – is that possible?

  6. Chris Stagliola Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    Looks great.
    Well done.

  7. Mr Zog Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    As for a direct display, I’ll dig into that and see if can be done.

    Yes – that can be done. I suppressed that when the import changed all the posts to the same contributor. As soon as that is sorted out, no problem.

  8. mikek Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    DannyT – Dave’s looking into it, but for now, I think we’ll just have to copy the name of the person you’re responding to into your comment. Might be good to just go ahead and quote them too.

  9. Seattlegooner Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    I like it. Clean (white space is our friend) and easy to use and navigate. Nice work.

  10. fstanin Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 8:39 pm

    I love it. Very professional – well designed.

    I appreciate the Arsenal on TV column.

    I look forward to many more years of a great site.

  11. Stevo Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    Yes, DannyT is right. Looks good, but we can’t reply on individual posts, that should be fixed.

  12. Stevo Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

    Hey, and why my name is there, I’m Sheed.

  13. Sheed Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

    Now it’s good.

  14. nipuna Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    Great job.

    Is it possible to sort the comments latest first?

    Thanks.

  15. Arvind Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 1:09 am

    Very very pleasing on the eye. Considering the number of sites that are so badly designed and irritating to even look at this one’s a welcome change.

    Plus it seems to be much faster as well. Did you guys migrate the hardware as well? :)

  16. andrew Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 6:50 am

    I’ve actually written the code for a google map based on zip code, but I think that will be part of our next step in which we improve the premium registration process (i.e. membership cards). We had a lot of problems with that this year (long story) and we’re taking this ‘off time’ (you may notice premium registration is no longer available) to come up with a better solution.

  17. andrew Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 6:51 am

    There was no hardware migration–exact same server. It’s just that wordpress makes fewer database calls than Postnuke (our old system) and some of the stuff is ‘static’ rather than dynamically generated. Lowers server load and improves performance.

  18. andrew Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 6:53 am

    Sheed–

    WordPress had a lot of different options for ‘name’ from first and last, to login, to ‘nice name’ to ‘display name.’ The data we had coming over from the other site didn’t have as many fields, so we had to just import one into another and hope for the best.

    As you’ve notice, you can change a lot of that stuff in your profile (in fact, everyone should check their profiles to make sure they have the most uptodate contact, email, etc)

  19. SachinG Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    Testing..Testing..

    Wow :) It was a real shock to see the new & updated site. Looks very slick.

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