Almost time to switch to V5 now

While there are plenty of bugs still in Invision Community V5, they are not bad and compared to the state of this site right now it is still a big improvement. I am still waiting for the next Beta to come out though as there is a bug with the Tags that I want to have fixed before I switch over. Once that is fixed I will most likely switch over and start working on the site again.

When I switch over things will be very messy for a while, but that is expected. I will basically revert all customizations and then start over with the V5 engine to redesign certain templates. Right now I am saving all the templates as code for safekeeping, and so I can check what customizations I have done in the past. Once I have that I will make a fresh export to the beta site with the production data and production files.

Next step is to change the templates for all databases to the default ones. I will then delete the old template files to make sure there are no customizations anywhere that can cause problems. After that I will do a V5 upgrade and if all goes well then I will just wait for the next Beta release to get the Tags bug fixed before I upgrade the production site.

Once everything is upgraded I will start configuring everything. I will focus on the Articles, Stories and Atlassian Product Updates since those are the ones I will work with most after the upgrade. After that I will probably take a look at the My Projects database, Videos database and then the Atlassian CVE's. This can all change depending on what I see I need to focus on next.