DDO Store, DDO Market and Web Site Downtime: Tuesday, April 12th 9:00AM-1:00 PM EDT

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: This downtime has been postponed until Wednesday. Thank you!

The DDO Store, DDO Market and DDO.com will be unavailable on Tuesday, April 12th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) so we can release our new DDO.com! We will let you know when the web site and DDO Store are available.

[rabidfox]

Awesome.

[GoldyGopher]

Will the forums be available?

[Cordovan]

Will the forums be available?

Going to say probably, but maybe with some spottiness, and with some disruption possible to log in.

[Graskitch]

Going to say probably, but maybe with some spottiness, and with some disruption possible to log in.

just to confirm tomorrow then is not the date that the ddo forums are migrating to the new system? will we still be logging in with our current credentials/username?

[Arkat]

just to confirm tomorrow then is not the date that the ddo forums are migrating to the new system? will we still be logging in with our current credentials/username?

Cordo said that would happen towards the end of the year.

[Cordovan]

just to confirm tomorrow then is not the date that the ddo forums are migrating to the new system? will we still be logging in with our current credentials/username?

Correct, tomorrow's work will launch a new DDO.com. The existing forums will remain. For people who have seen this on the LOTRO side, it'll be the same as over there: Since we can't really change out the header to the forums right now, and there is still some value in being able to access old stuff, links that existed previously under ddo.com/whatever will continue to exist as forums.ddo.com/whatever. Everything relevant will have a new article on DDO.com as well.

In terms of scope, I've managed to get the entirety of our release notes moved over in addition to all relevant guides and many other articles. The one outstanding piece of work yet to do is to move over the DDO Screenshot of the Week Gallery; yup, all 500 and some images. We need to get a specific bit of gallery tech hooked up to the new web site yet, so for a little while I will continue to store the gallery on the old site. Otherwise, everything should look great. Your actual log in remains unchanged.

One last bit of tech will remain under the old "content management system" as well, and that is the game launcher news feed. Eventually we would love to replace that as well, but for now at least it will remain, which also means that you won't need to worry about your existing links to it.