We hope to have it all done within less than an hour. 30 minutes is our goal. But we assume there will be some unforeseen surprises so be prepared for a 2-3 hour process.

Update: I guess I should list some of the upgrade improvements...

We are changing Galleries from 4images to Coppermine which will be a vast improvement! (A new announcement will be made once the change is complete that will include a detailed list of the improvements - which include custom member galleries + lots more.)

We are upgrading the Forums from vBulletin 3.0 to vBulletin 3.6 which allows for a lot more behind-the-scenes functions like voting, posting, editing, etc within the same page (without a new page-load) using AJAX. See a full list of the new features here

Things should run much smoother, be faster, and posting (images, art, fics or just forum posts) will be easier than ever before!