Forum Migration Scheduled for Jan 24th
Over the last few months, we’ve been working on a new Arduino Community Forum, and it’s about to open. We’ve been listening to comments and requests you’ve made, and have incorporated several of them:
* The categories have been rearranged and simplified
* We’ve added the ability to post pictures and video from YouTube, Flickr, or Vimeo
* Added better email notifications
* Added a new profile page
* Added a new help page for newcomers
* Added notification pop-ups when login to the forum
* Made the style compliant with the Arduino Look’n’Feel
About Your New Profile
The new Community Forum will include both the discussion forum and the playground. You’ll be able to login to both with one user profile. As we add new features in the future, this profile will apply to them as well, to make your whole experience of the Arduino site easier. You’ll see your login status in the menu bar, and if you’re not a member yet, you can sign up from the menubar as well. Members will be able to post in the forums and edit the playground. When we open the Arduino Store site in a few weeks, you’ll have the option to register your Arduino boards with your profile too. This optional feature will help us offer better support, by knowing which batch of boards yours comes from, and other manufacturing details. We want to offer the best support we can for the tools we make.
The new forum and playground will still be open to discussion of Arduino derivatives and offshoots as it always has. We consider those a valuable part of the community.
Your privacy is important to us. The new profile database is more modern and secure than the old one, and the interface uses standard HTTPS transfers so your profiles will happen securely. Most fields will be optional, so you only enter data about yourself that’s it’s useful to you as part of the Arduino community. We hope this new system will make it possible to manage the community discussion and to support Arduino products better for you.
The Transition
In order to make the transition work well, we’re going to freeze the old forum and start anew with the new one. The old forum will remain open and accessible and searchable as an archive, but its content has not been ported into the new forum. If you have posts or items that you feel should be ported to the new forum, you’re welcome to do so. Having watched the Processing team make a successful forum this way, we felt it was the most effective way to upgrade our own forum.
Here’s how the change will happen:
* On January 24th we will freeze the old forum at 9AM CET/ 3 AM EST, disabling login or posting. The same will happen for the Playground. Both sites will remain browsable, however.
* We will migrate all the users to the new forum. This should take several hours. Once that’s done, we’ll open the new forum.
* The new forum should open by the end of the day CET on January 24th, assuming a quick and successful migration.
* You will be able to access the new forum with the same login and password you used for the old forum.
* We will keep a team working around the clock for 48 hours to make sure things are working and to fix any problems as they arise
January 25th, 2011 at 16:47:46
most odd
could have sworn I left a reply
seems I got “moderated”
only asked how it was going :shrugs:
I’ll guess “not going well” then
January 25th, 2011 at 17:02:32
Someone really should turn off the ability to post to your own thread, there’s a sh1t load of new posts that will never be replied to.
Even better, why not allow posts to existing threads, just not the creation of new ones (if that’s possible).
January 25th, 2011 at 18:42:54
Is it possible to inform the very BASIC information: the link of the “new” forum?
January 25th, 2011 at 18:46:05
The no port discesion is a very bad idea.
Now we need to search two forums and deal with endless confusion that will probably takes years to resolve.
The Arduino team should port the old forum or abort now.
January 25th, 2011 at 19:43:16
Um, where’s the new forum?
January 25th, 2011 at 20:11:11
graynomad,
the old forum is letting us PM to exisitng messages, I have answered a few that way.
January 25th, 2011 at 20:21:44
I have not received any responses back by way of PM, so I don’t if that is actually working…
January 25th, 2011 at 20:28:31
@CrossRoads:
I tried that too and cannot tell if its working.
I will try to send you one and see if you get it.
January 25th, 2011 at 20:29:31
Yea, but what about us poor newbies, we need to be able to ask stupid inane questions… currently I’m waiting on parts to come in actually, I got a shift register and two 555 timers from TI, and… erm something else…
January 25th, 2011 at 20:43:03
Cant register….. please send me an email if you know how to register…
January 25th, 2011 at 21:40:25
Obviously the Arduino team is having big problems with the bootloader for the new forum.
Lefty
January 25th, 2011 at 22:26:35
Seem like the new forum will be hosted on a ethershield…
January 25th, 2011 at 23:13:23
So, no news after more than 36h of closed forum..
Nice action to the community…..
January 25th, 2011 at 23:27:23
We all wait for the new forum, maybe a new arduino? LOL :0
January 25th, 2011 at 23:40:15
I received a PM sent today, but I think it was sent in the morning…
January 26th, 2011 at 00:17:35
Still no new forum? I presume it’s all gone Pete Tong – so… shouldn’t the old one be re-activated & a post-mortem take place to determine what went wrong & how to fix it next time?
January 26th, 2011 at 01:09:52
this is crazy all those posts we can not reply too. what the hell?? all those people and their interests. we can not speak to them.
BRING DOWN THE WALL.
January 26th, 2011 at 01:17:36
I got your PM smeezekitty, so they appear to be going thru.
January 26th, 2011 at 20:01:57
Looks like things are starting to work!
http://arduino.cc/forum/
Can register new & sign in now
January 26th, 2011 at 21:24:42
The new forum is very slow.
Also I still think the no migration of topics will be a serious problem.
January 26th, 2011 at 22:30:34
Where is the Forum gone ??
since 24.01. are you still working on Migration
…or i´m to stupid to find the new entry???
Information wanted…
Greetigs from Germany
LC_Data
January 27th, 2011 at 09:13:03
Well that’s me out of the Arduino world; the new forum is just too cluttered.
I will just set up my own blog now so Arduino fans can see my work.
Good look with the new forum.
January 31st, 2011 at 07:40:33
Hello administrators,
Can you please check the old forum site? The pages were up and down every three seconds because of “THIS FORUM IS READ-ONLY” banner.
February 1st, 2011 at 11:12:14
Hope someone “in authority” reads this.
The new banner message on the archived forum pages switches between being one line and then two lines with the result that the screen is constantly shifting up and down when trying to read archived messages.
Please fix it.
Thanks,
Ross
February 3rd, 2011 at 10:40:12
I’m sorry for this.
good luck.
thanks for commenting
davide
February 4th, 2011 at 07:48:48
I agree, the one line changing to 2 line message in the old forum is pretty annoying when you are try to read a post or study the code within the post.
Hope it will be fixed soon…
Ace
February 6th, 2011 at 02:01:48
Being sorry is one thing … fixing it is what actually matters … the rest is just talk.
Does anyone know who SHOULD fix it?
Thanks,
Ross
February 6th, 2011 at 06:53:20
Ross, access the old forum via the new forum. Problem solved.
If you really have to use the old forum, YOU should fix it. You can either increase the width of your browser, increase the resolution of your monitor, or: Use Firefox, install the Firebug add-on, and edit the CSS to your liking.
February 6th, 2011 at 15:03:14
The old forum is a very important source of information. Having that flashing banner on the top makes it unusable. The culprit should have his/her keyboard removed for at least a month as punishment for not checking what the consequences were.
PLEASE FIX IT.
February 7th, 2011 at 14:12:17
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you … whoever fixed the page jumping.
Ross
February 9th, 2011 at 15:16:26
Hi Helliot.
Do you mean the little header on the top telling the users that there is a new forum?
Which were the “consequences”?
February 9th, 2011 at 15:21:50
nice joke, by the way.
🙂
March 8th, 2011 at 23:08:59
I cannot get into the new forum. I am signed into the old one ok, buut the new one wont let me. Any options?
May 23rd, 2011 at 06:13:14
I can’t find a way to post on the new forum. Am I missing something??
So I’ll ask my question here. I’ve checked “Use External Editor” in Preferences but the IDE does not ask where to find my editor and there is no way to actually DO it !! What’s up with this.
Also I tried to set a file association (in Win 7) with .pde files and does not appear in the choices available. Weird!
May 23rd, 2011 at 07:56:33
Hi Art,
I advice you ro register in Arduino and post this question to the forum.
bye
Davide
July 3rd, 2011 at 17:56:06
hello,
I am very dissapointed that your FAQ / getting started collumn makes no point of the fact that uno boards do not work with os 10.4.11. I looked there first, ordered a board, thinking: wow great. Now I got it, and it seems this problem has been known for over half a year already, after delving through the forum. Please change your official information site, so not even more people have to battle with it. Thank you,
July 5th, 2011 at 10:03:51
Hi.
I’ll pass this info to the contributors and to the team.
I apologize,
Davide
August 23rd, 2011 at 08:00:23
I am a new member in arduino community and I need to login to the old forum to see a post to fix my problem, but I cant login with my new account to the old forum. If you can provide an account information which has access to the old forum, it would be appreciated (:
Thanks.
August 30th, 2011 at 09:32:30
hi sarpdoruk.
you should be able to access the forum.
Which link do you have to access?
Thanks for commenting,
Davide
September 8th, 2011 at 11:27:21
Salve a tutti,
sto usando arduino 0022 ma riscontro un eroore di compilazione quando uso la libreria Keypad.h per gestire tastiere a matrice.
Il medesimo errore si verifica facendo copia incolla dei vari esempi riportati.
Grazie Claudio
September 16th, 2011 at 23:48:41
Ciao Claudio.
Dovresti aprire un thread sul forum di Arduino, nella sezione software o troubleshooting
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html
grazie
davide
February 9th, 2012 at 18:41:42
how to Interfacing a camera with arm processor?
hi…
i am a beginner and doing an educational project, which contains a camera and a embedded processor. can anybody suggest which processor and camera i can use….??
can i use lpc1768??
i think some driver is required…. is it true??
March 26th, 2012 at 09:44:17
hello, I’m studying electronics.
and I’m planning to make a tester multicable audio. My concern with this project is that I want to use an arduino 328ATMEGA uno.
And he does not have enough pine analog and digital so I have to use at least four multiplexers, and I do not know how to communicate with each other and put in my source program, a loop that will allow me to read what this is on my pins from my analog multiplexers one by one.
Thank you kindly help me!
March 30th, 2012 at 08:00:37
When you use multiplexers like e.g. the 4051, you can use the same address pins for all of them and place their outputs into different analog inputs. Then you poll each address on the multiplexers and read all your analog inputs for each address change. This is a very efficient way of doing it. For further questions, please address the Arduino Forum, there is plenty of people that will be happy to help you with their experience.