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"NEW" SPEX - Information
« on: November 21, 2012, 12:58:05 am »
Hello everyone!

As you may have heard, we have closed the SPEX for a complete redo. We chose to do this because any activity that happens between now and the relaunch will be lost. In fact, all activity on the SPEX thus far will be lost. Although this may be disappointing, fear not! It will be worth it. There has been minimal use of the SPEX thus far, so not much will be lost.

The new SPEX (which will still be a beta exchange for us) has a hopeful launch timeline of 1 week. Though, technology sometimes screws up and RL can get in the way. Stay tuned for updates here. The new SPEX will be on a temporary hosting account, and will be different from our current host of the SPEX. The current host, Zymic, is pretty much useless to us at this point.

Blakesterville, a member here at Simopsis as well as administrator at Simmania, will be helping me with the development of the exchange. Once we make considerable progress, we will open it up to a beta test.

The SPEX will be an actual downloads system now (HURRAY!) instead of a forums-based system. As to what software it will be running - that's a surprise. As is the new URL. :P

Thanks for your patience everyone during this process. I was hoping to just make improvements to the current incarnation of the SPEX, but that just became impossible with our host - and moving the existing site is too much work for the content we currently have there. Besides, our new system may not use SMF... [/sayingtoomuch]

So please stay tuned for information about the "NEW" SPEX (BETA) over the next little while. We're very excited to get this going.


Thanks, everyone! :D

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2012, 11:28:08 am »
Congrats on the upgrade, I am super excited for more!

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2012, 06:44:59 pm »
Looking forward to it!

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2012, 11:19:42 am »
The new SPEX is coming along very well, and we should be (save for any unforeseen hiccups) able to launch the official beta testing version of the NEWSPEX sometime by tomorrow afternoon.

I'm hoping it will be up tonight, but I make no guarantees. ;)


Thanks for your ongoing patience, everyone. It helps!

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2012, 01:44:00 pm »
Congrats, good luck with the new exchange!

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2012, 05:01:20 pm »
Keep us updated Link!

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2012, 10:01:58 pm »
The NEW SPEX has gone live!!

http://thespex.netau.net/drupal-7.17/

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2012, 10:34:32 pm »
If people don't receave there e amil right away I found a work around- click on lost password and then type in your e mail address- after that check your SPAM box not regular- thats what worked for me.
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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2012, 03:15:02 pm »
When I registered, I got the email first thing in the SPAM folder.

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2012, 06:50:01 pm »
You should be getting the emails off the bat. If not, let me know here or in the beta testing topic over on the SPEX. If it becomes a common problem I'll open a support topic about it here in the forums.

Look forward to seeing everyone's files up on the SPEX. :D

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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2012, 12:24:29 pm »
I finally joined the SPEX after some time now :P
It looks really nice :)


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Re: "NEW" SPEX - Information
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2012, 12:26:05 pm »
Glad to have you on board... perhaps we'll see some of your TS3 creations. ;)
Also glad to hear you like the look of it... I'll be going through changing some minor details in the coming weeks.