Had to take a couple of months off from this project, unexpectedly. I have a new day job now, and a lovely new house in a different part of the state. On a related note, things have been busy!

I’ve uploaded my test files to the server and reconfigured most of what’s necessary to make them work on the server—as deploying from the testing environment to the production environment always requires at least a few configuration changes. I’ve imported the user data from the old site—current as of New Year’s—without any detectable glitches in the database conversion. Now I’m continuing to test all the functionality, to make sure the move to the production server didn’t break any of the smaller features.

Also, I’ll still need to run the database conversion again before the site is officially deployed. The data needs to be current as of the actual launch! It wouldn’t do to lose those last few days worth of user activity. But it’s very close now.

And there are more features to implement post-launch. But enough is ready now to make launching the site worthwhile.