COPA 3 Website Upgrade

I wanted to provide the members an update on the site. Over the last few weeks our support team have been analyzing the site performance and where could be changes to improve performance. First a little discussion on how the Telligent software works...

This week our support team applied some hot fixes from Zimbra/Telligent. This included an updated version of TinyMCE Editor that is used in our site for Forums/blogs/wikis/and Private messages. Release notes indicates this should fix some formatting issues...

This week marks a milestone for the COPA 3 upgrade. We pushed in some fixes last night that have now cleared all the high priority issues we have been working on. The big items in that upgrade was fixing a problem that had appeared with our calendar integration...

Today we had a project review with the COPA Board of Directors. Below is a summary of what was presented: Overall Summary The project is now where we would have liked to have been about 2 weeks ago. By missing that window, we have slipped into a period...

This week we have had the team back at partial strength in a holiday week. Nonetheless, we have continued an intense focus on the performance of the site, as well as some of the other issues. In particular, there has been a lot of work on the primary...

We have left the site to settle for the last week as the development team got some break and recovery time. This week we are coming back to work, and will be at full strength next week. Last night a few updates went in. One change should reduce page...

Oh what a week. If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger', your COPA 3 team is now immortal! It seems fit to be writing this today, on the (Northern Hemisphere's) darkest day of the year. The feedback from the membership has been...

The visible pace of changes has slowed a bit today, but below the surface of the water feet were still paddling madly. In addition to last night's changes , 2 more changes were put in during the course of the day today. Today's changes should...

In the After Day 1 blog post, we identified 3 priority issues with the site. We since added another, Real Names. Here's a report on the status of these items after today's software updates, which address improvements in all areas of concern. ...

Wrapping up Day 2 on COPA 3, we have seen some improvements. Most of the work went into the performance side; the database indexing did indeed improve performance, for most users perhaps it has moved from excruciating to painful. We did have a brief outage...

Somehow we have survived the first day of COPA 3. There have been no major site crashes, and only one member reported being locked out. We have opened and closed over 20 tickets regarding site problems, with just a couple remaining open. It is a big...

Welcome to COPA 3.0 website. Welcome to a more mobile-friendly and media-savvy website that works well with tablets and smartphones. We ported all of the historical content as of Sunday 8 Dec 2013 — 777,000 posts, forums, blogs, photos, videos...

Tonight, Sunday between 0400Z and 0500Z 20131216 (8:00 and 9:00 pm California time), we will switch websites. COPA 3.0, this website, will answer to www.cirruspilots.org and the COPA 2.1 website will answer to legacy.cirruspilots.org The time of the...

The COPA 3.0 upgrade to our web site is open for the COPA community. This is a live site. All of the content from the COPA 2.1 site appears here — your login information, your profile and badges, your access to special forums. Forum content up...

We have finished building the site, and are just putting on the finishing touches. We are welcoming the first few users in to give it a try. Please report anything you see in the Website forum . We are still tweaking the top row and footer navigation...

Starting Sunday, we are planning to place the entire COPA website "Under Construction" for a week, to make a major upgrade. We call this COPA 3.0 and it will bring many changes and improvements. But there is going to be a lot of dust and noise...