Well, it’s not going quite as quickly as I hoped. I was looking forward to having most of it done by now, but the more I do, the more I realise there is to be done.

On the plus side, the core groups functionality, posting features (replying, editing, removing) and personalisation stuff is all there and pretty solid now as well. I was hoping to have the archive up by now, but this has eluded me. That’s tomorrow’s job. Then after that there’s visitors, file uploads, the news system, a set of pages for browsing groups and tools to create and manage them at times other than first login. I’d like to do a swishy theme manager, but that can probably wait until a later date. Autolinks-like functionality needs to go in as well, even if it’s just adding target=“_blank” to links for now. Ooh, that can be an option.

So, when I’ve done most of the stuff in the list above, I want to go live. Which means shoe-horning the 35,000 messages from the current database into the new schema first. All in, I reckon I have five or six days work left to do at least.

Nuts.