We have set it up so that all subscribers at isaacbrocksociety.com will continue to receive a notice each time there is a new post at the isaacbrocksociety.ca.
At 2:30 pm, we will end the ability to make new posts and comments at isaacbrocksociety.com. Every current author will also receive an email presently with a password to login to the new site at this page: http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/wp-admin/
Good luck to us all.
UPDATE: Mission accomplished at 3:00 pm. All authors should have received an email with login information. If anyone has not received their email, please send me a message:
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*okie dokie. Waiting with great anticipation! 🙂
Oh look, there’s an html tag just for me and it’s all about <em>emphasis</em>. Too cool! Congratulations, Petros, on getting the site expatriated to Canada. Of course, IBS.ca like IBS.com is for anyone in the world who shares our particular dilemma. Our meeting place has just been moved to Canada that’s all. And that means everyone will have bring their long underwear in the winter now. 🙂
*Thanks for all the hard work you have done to move the site to .ca. It completely baffles this old brain on how it would be done.
*Welcome to Canada. Bienvenue au Canada.
Well done Petros!
*Fantastic! Hope this is the last time. 🙂 And so great we haven’t lost all of our posts/knowledge in the process.
Thank you Petros, for all that you do. And should you change your mind at any time in the future, I would be happy to assist with any accounting and/or related duties.
Was thinking of all of you as we drove through Brockville yesterday and will do so again tomorrow on our way back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville
In 1785 the first United Empire Loyalist to take up land here on the site of Brockville was William Buell Sr. (1751–1832), an ensign disbanded from the King’s Rangers, from the state of New York. Residents commonly called the first settlement “Buell’s Bay”. Around 1810 government officials of Upper Canada designated the village as Elizabethtown.
About 1812, leading residents of the small village decided to suggest a name which differed from the surrounding township of Elizabethtown. This was during the ensuing second war with Canada’s American neighbours, known as the War of 1812. The commanding ranking British General in Upper Canada and temporary administrator of the province was Major-General Isaac Brock. He was celebrated as the “Hero and Saviour” of Upper Canada because of his recent success in securing the surrender of Fort Detroit. Perhaps to curry favour with Gen Brock, certain leading citizens in the village, including Charles Jones, proposed the name of Brockville. They began using this new name in their correspondence and dealings with Isaac Brock. Gen. Brock was soon involved in other battles on the Niagara Peninsula, and on October 13, 1812, he was fatally shot while leading troops up the heights near the village of Queenston, then being held by American militia.
The general had been aware of the honour being offered by the residents of Elizabethtown, but had no chance to give it his official blessing before his death. Provincial officials accepted the new name, which was soon commonly used by residents and visitors.
Brockville became Ontario’s first incorporated self-governing town on January 28, 1832, two years before the town of Toronto.
Is the forum staying with the .com address?
@johnnb technical difficulties has prevented us from moving it here. But as soon as is moved, it will be announced.
*Thanks, Petros, for moving us all to Canada. Your skills and speed are amazing. I hope you know how much we all appreciate all your hard work! Bravo.
Looks great, Petros! Thanks for all your hard work.
Looks good. The website wouldn’t take my password after I logged out and tried to log back in, will check again and see if it’s OK now.
OK seems to work now.
Do we continue to get daily summaries and/or email reply notifications of replies to threads we’ve subscribed to, as we did on the old site? I don’t see a subscription box for this thread …
Did you renounce or relinquish your .com domain? 🙂
@schubert1975. It is not there yet. Petros is working on it..
*Looks Great Petros.. Another Great Job!!
*Great migration job, Petros! Glad we’re still on WordPress, though the standalone version will give us a lot more flexibility for customization.
Just wondering about the hits counter – does that have to be reinstalled and can it be set to pick-up where we left off on the .com site (660,412 hits)?
@Deckard1138
Good question
Ok, everyone, I’ve checked into and the redirect should happen like this: The only difference between the urls for posts between this site and the last is .ca vs. .com. So I will redirect the .com to the .ca. So that if you try to reach a particular post it will redirect you straight to the correct post. Now, I could do the redirect from WordPress, but I’ve learnt that wordpress will then charge $26 per year for the redirect and domain registration. Our Canadian host will do the redirect for free. So I will transfer the .com to them, and then have them do the redirect–they will do this for $13 per year for the domain registration. So we will actually save money by getting the hell out of Dodge (i.e., the USA), at least on the registration and redirect of the .com.
Now when I do that, the following will remain in place: isaacbrocksociety.wordpress.com–that is the old blog will revert to its native name, and the data will rest there as an archive. This is important because we have all our old media stored there (and the URLs already point to the wordpress.com, so that we don’t have to change their names). So this is thing: be patient. You don’t have to go into any of your old posts and change the URLs because I believe that everything except permalinks to comments will work (the comments have been assigned completely different urls, unfortunately).
As for stats, I guess we start over. But in terms of prestige of the .com, I guess it stays the same. I’ve never done this before, so I don’t know. But I know this: we are not starting from scratch. We’ve had already 5484 hits here yesterday. Pretty good for its first day of operation.
@all, if you do contact me, make sure that you tell me your alias. Some
people are using their real names when contacting me. Then, I’m trying
to figure out who it is! Cheers!
@Petros
Great job!!!!
Thanks for all the blood, sweat and time you’ve spent on this endeavor.
Why does it say “Howdy, Don Pomodoro” in the Dashboard now? I feel like I’m in a Spaghetti Western or something 😛
Thanks so much for your work Petros. IBS and you have been lifesavers. And perhaps literally so for some.
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@Petros…
Well done indeed.
On my wish list remains these items…
1. The ability to edit a comment for some period of time, to allow us with dyslexia some time to correct our spelling, grammar and formatting errors.
2. A widget to allow a person to subscribe to Isaac Brock for automatic email notice of new Posts. Maybe on the banner next to the Archive button.
3. An ability to follow comments by email notice, like was there on the .com site.
I am sure I will come up with some others over time, but I am happy with what you have done so far, so will keep my list short.
Thanks for improving the archives. Those are great improvements. The fastest way to find an old post, is to use the Archive button on the banner, and then go “CTRL F” and do the find function on words in the title that you are searching for. Much faster way to go back and find a Post you want.
Thanks again.
I’ve been tied up the last couple of days (and no, not by an IRS agent). But congrats Petros and everyone else who made this transition as smooth and trouble free as it was. I must admit, although I wasn’t really worried about the long arm of Uncle Sam, I feel better knowing this is all hosted in Canada.
BTW — found out yesterday that the North Shore Credit Union switched all their data-hosting from a US server to a European server (not sure why not Canada — but that’s for the follow-up) in 2007 because of concerns about the Patriot Act. Took a lot of effort and time apparently, but if they had any doubts about the rationale, FATCA took care of them.
DW*
@Arrow The United States will probably never learn that if you die through death by a thousand cuts you’ll still be dead. Our moving the site to Canada means $120 worth of web-hosting service are lost to a US business; WordPress losses about $25 per annum business, and a Canadian hoster gets about $133 before tax of gross sales (until we grow and need more services). It is not much but it adds up over time.