In case you didn't know the beta site is now at version 0.3. Support was added to close threads and there are a few bug fixes. Version 0.4 will be about filling out a lot of the static content. I'm thinking I might take a little different approach and make the static content at least semi-editable from admin so it's easier to update things.

That's the update so if you didn't know, now you know.

Made another update.

From a user perspective it just adds a static etiquette page. From the admin perspective there is a lot more as pages can be added and edited in the admin portal. Such pages can then be edited by admins without having to write HTML or dealing with having to check files in and out.

I need to add a preview option in the admin section still as the WYSIWYG editor isn't always.

or dealing with having to check files in and out.

Is there a check to make sure more than one admin isn't editing the same page at the same time?

Nope. I'm sort of assuming that pages won't be edited all that often.

It could be added. When the edit form is loaded there could be a timeout period and disallow loading the edit form until either the edits are posted or the timeout expires. But that has its own drawbacks if someone starts editing and then comes back in an hour or so then their editing session will have timed out.

I'm sort of assuming that pages won't be edited all that often.

That is a reasonable assumption.

Inserting links in the page editor doesn't work right now. I'll need to find the right settings so the editor doesn't keep mangling urls.

Overall, the beta board is getting pretty functional now.

Some minor tweaks. Replaced the page editor with something that has a more comfortable license.

With pages now editable, I'm considering static pages largely taken care of as far as code goes.

Need to take care of the optional left sidebar, messaging admins, archiving threads, and enabling the random quotes before bumping to beta 0.4.

At that point it's just minor features and bug fixes to polish things up , but the board will be pretty much ready to go.

I've thought of an idea for migration without migrating user accounts. I could suck in the current threads and set all the users to a special legacy user. I can store the legacy time, legacy user name, and legacy tagline with the post and display those instead when a post is created by the legacy user.

Those posts would be a little different in that the user name wouldn't be a link and you couldn't block the user, but I don't think that would be that big a deal.

What's the issue with migrating user accounts?