Greetings everyone, I've just noticed this thread. Like you I don't know exactly what is going to happen next week, but these are a couple of posts I have made elsewhere today.
I assume we have all received this email. Firstly this is as much news to me as it is to you. It has nothing to do with my PM to you, though I suppose the changes in that may be done at the same time.
Reading the email makes me this that this applies to the livecloud site rather than this gagajoyjoy forum, so I don't know that we will see any of these changes on this forum. The main changes seem to be when you go to your profile and wall pages as those are on the Livecloud site. The other main changes seem to relate to other channels besides Gagajoyjoy, the best known here being The Sinking Ship channel.It looks as if you will have to log on to such channels directly rather than through Livecloud, and that may include Gagajoyjoy though that already has its own web address. But it may be worth you making a note of
http://talk.gagajoyjoy.com and putting it in your Favourites (IE) or Bookmarks (Firefox).
You'll be able to log in with your Facebook login if you wish, but as I'm not on Facebook, not much relevance to me.
At present, I don't really know what these changes will mean to this site if anything, but I'm not expecting anything dramatic.
They say that Livecloud will be down for 8 hours during the upgrade, so that presumably means Seattle daytime, say somewhere between our 4pm to past midnight, but as Gagajoy is on a different web address, I don't know if this will affect this site. (I have just sent a Lori querying this).
My second post reads:
The main way in which we will be affected is that the Channels listed if you use the Channels option from the Explore function that this will no longer be there. I do not know if the Your Channels from the Explore function will still be there.
So my advice is that before the 28th, if you haven't already done so, add this to your Favourites (for IE users) or Bookmarks (for Firefox users) (or the equivalent for other browsers)
http://talk.gagajoyjoy.com/forums This is the front page of this forum. As far as I know this address will not be changed.
If you use any of the other channels, then go to
this page which lists all the channelsLook up the channel you want (which includes the gagajoyjoy one as shown above). Click on the channel you want to go to.
Once at the front page of that channel, add that to your Favourites/Bookmarks.
Note that the address where it refers to Livecloud will change from livecloud.com to hoop.la but we are told that using the livecloud address will still work.