Greetings from FusorHQ.
If you’ve made it this far, then you’ll notice things have changed considerably. We have relocated Fusor.net to a new server host. Everything about the site has changed.
The front page (that you are looking at now) is no longer hosted by TypePad; it is now it’s own, stand-alone, WordPress installation.
And the heart of the site – the Fusor Forums – have been converted from the platform that has served us for the past decade (called w-agora) to pretty much the industry standard for this sort of thing, phpBB.
Basically, what we have done here is throw up the frame and roof, and moved right in. Now we have to finish the walls and the trim, plug in a few appliances and hang some paintings on the walls before this is going to feel like home again.
And we’re all going to have to get used to doing some things differently. The new site has been active for less than 24 hours as I type this, and those of us who try to keep the wheels turning here are just getting under the hood to start tuning things up. (House building… engine tuning… my mother always loved it when I mixed metaphors…).
It’s up, it’s running, but it’s a really a whole new site in many respects.
So bear with us…
And thanks to all who have helped get us this far: Tyler Christensen, Carl Willis, Frank Sans and Richard Hull. Thanks also to Marc Druilhe, the developer of the old w-agora format, who implemented the conversion to phpBB. And welcome aboard to Michael Lovett, my friend and a developer here in Nashville who will help with some of the UI/UX details as the new site evolves.
And thanks too to the nearly three dozens members/users of this site who contributed sufficient funds to finance this transition. Their generosity has assured not only the successful transfer/migration of the site to its new host and platform, but is sufficient to keep the site running for another year or two, at least.
So we’re in good shape, just gotta get a few changes under our belt.
That’s all for now…
Paul Schatzkin
aka “The Perfesser”
Fusor.net Founder and Host
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*Fusor.net v3.0? I think the songs.com installation – which served from about 1998 to 2000, was like version 1; the very short-lived “Intranets” forum was… let’s call it v1.5. The w-agora platform that served the past decade was v2. So consider this Version 3.