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Folks, I received an "angry letter" from a user this morning and in drafting my reply, it occurs to me that the same sentiment may be shared by many, so I'm making a public reply in the hopes that I can address concerns beyond the single user. The trigger for the note was the recent banning of...

Folks, This morning the site's underlying servers were upgraded. There should be no noticeable change to the site "look and feel" or operation, but please let me know if something has stopped working. Thanks!

Folks, we just had our first outage on the new software. Thanks to @Bruce Monkhouse for notifying me. For the techies in the group, the 'xf_session_activity' table was full. I raised the database max_heap_table_size parameter, but in the end just truncated the table... which means, this may...

Folks, Just wanted to note that a few new site Trophies have been added: Attachment Issues: Add a Resource to the site. 30 points Contributor: Add 5 Resources. 120 points I'm with the Media: Add 1 piece of Media. 30 points Media Manager: Add 5 pieces of Media. 120 points Legit: Registered...

Seeking Infantry Mess Kit jacket in a "Medium" size. (No issues if some tailoring is required, but can't go XL for example!) OK with straight up purchase, but also willing to trade for a Mess Kit jacket I have that is "Large," with Major's accoutrements. Thanks!

Folks, I am very happy to welcome you to the new Army.ca! You will notice a lot of changes, most for the better, and some we will have to work through. For the techies in the group, we have migrated away from using Simple Machines to using XenForo. The former was a great foundation, but was...

Folks, I am planning to attempt a major forum upgrade in the coming days. The upgrade will swap out much of the software we use in an effort to simplify and modernize the site. In order to head off problems, I need everyone to do two quick things: [list type=decimal] Confirm your registered...

All, A few years back, we added a Wiki to Army.ca, and many members contributed to its content: https://army.ca/wiki Recent changes in the forum and mediawiki software packages have made seamless login from one to the other impossible, and so the Wiki contents have stagnated. I am looking for...

Folks, While much of the discussion occurring in the Canadian and Global Politics boards is great, we are finding that a disproportional amount of our moderating effort is being spent there. After a great deal of consideration and consultation with the Staff, I have made two simple changes to...

Folks, Although it doesn't have the Army.ca green (yet), Mobile view is available. To switch back and forth, use the following: Mobile View Desktop View Note, mobile view does not look good on a desktop. Try it on your phone. :)

Please see: https://army.ca/forums/threads/127903.0.html

Folks, BLUF/TL;DR: All old threads are locked. Rules of conduct will be strictly enforced. Repeat offenders of any stripe will be barred from the Political forums. You may notice that all existing threads in the Canadian Politics and Global Politics boards are now locked. After review with the...

Folks, Last week I received word that there are crown copyrights on Army.ca and Navy.ca. Air-Force.ca is not affected due to the addition of the hyphen. Unfortunately starting in April we are legally unable to use the other sites and their proprietary colour schemes, so moving forward we will...

Folks, This year (the 25th year that Army.ca has been online), we are set to hit 1.5 million posts before calendar year-end. We are also likely to break 50,000 days of accumulated time spent online for all registered users (this does not include time guests spend browsing the site). We are...

Folks, for the first time in a long time, good news. According to our monitoring tools, Army.ca had 100% uptime in December. That means that for the entire month of December, the server was never unavailable.* For the keeners in the group, our monitoring report from 30 Nov to now is attached...

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish our visitors a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I hope this time finds you with loved ones and some time to unwind and relax. It has been an eventful year at Army.ca, with some significant server upgrades, important security improvements, and of...

Folks, A quick note to let you know that all sites (Army.ca, Navy.ca, Air-Force.ca, and Milner.ca) now default to secure mode using SSL. This change means that email addresses, passwords, posts, etc. are encrypted in transit between your decvice and my server. If you have any problems please...

This topic has been moved to Global Politics. https://Army.ca/forums/threads/123289.0

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Folks, unfortunately the site was down for a few hours this morning due to a server upgrade that introduced some serious issues. The problem has been resolved and we are back up as of a few minutes ago. Thanks for your patience. Cheers Mike