• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

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Hi all,

I'm planning to do some maintenance on the website in the near future. This will include an upgrade to the latest version of the forum software and also a move to another hosting company to make it easier for us admins to maintain the site in the future.

When this work is done I'll have to close down the website. And the transfer of the domain to the other hosting company might also give a small downtime later on.

I'm not exactly sure when I will start with this work, maybe tomorrow already. But at least you are warned if the forum will be turned off for a while in the near future.
 
Thanks Arno

By the way, when would be a good time to make donations for the website? I usually do it in this early days of the year.

In advance, thank you.
Sergio Kauffman.
 
I didn't have the time today, so most likely it will be somewhere during the next week that I will start preparing the move.

For us any time is good for donations :). We are very grateful for all the donations we receive during the year and for the last couple of years we have been able to keep this site running (ad free) based on those donations without too much cost for ourselves (except for the time of course). We typically have slightly more cost at the start of the year (renewal of support for the forum software, etc), but we have a big enough buffer by now to pay those things.
 
I have started copying some of the files to the new server, so at this moment the site might be a bit slower to respond.

Tomorrow or Wednesday I will most likely start to migrate the databases. When I do this I will have to close the forum. I'll keep you posted about that. And while the site is closed I'll use our Facebook page to keep you informed about what is going on:

https://www.facebook.com/fsdeveloper
 
Small update. My job kept me busy the last evenings, so I'll reschedule the maintenance for Friday evening CET. That also gives me time in the weekend to work on issues if they occur.
 
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