Forum upgrades

[Wizzup?]

Its been done before and I believe Wizzup did it with scripts, so its not that hard.. just might be down for longer.

I wouldn't make those promises if I were you, since I'm the one who'll have to do it.
Anyway, yeah. It might be possible, but it is possible that it's not possible (yep) to import the complete database. I'll just have to try and see how it works.

[Wizzup?]

Right, so I think I've personally made up my mind about a new bulletin board for the future, and it'll be phpBB3. We can style it ourselves to make it look somewhat like the old theme, it has a great security record ever since the security audit(s). They also provide very quick updates. They have lots of plugins, extensions, theme's. I think you'll find it very comparable to vB 3.x. And for what it's worth, I heard vBulletin 4.x was pretty bad anyway.

Feel free to discuss / comment / rant. It won't be happening that soon.
Oh, and I think it'll be very possible to port the database.

[Sabzi]

The sound of progress, my friend.

[Harry]

vb4 sux

phpbb will be cool as long as everything will be ported over and look pretty well the same (including stuff like proggy tags).

[grats]

Right, so I think I've personally made up my mind about a new bulletin board fro the future, and it'll be phpBB3. We can style it ourselves to make it look somewhat like the old theme, it has a great security record ever since the security audit(s). They also provide very quick updates. They have lots of plugins, extensions, theme's. I think you'll find it very comparable to vB 3.x. And for what it's worth, I heard vBulletin 4.x was pretty bad anyway.

Feel free to discuss / comment / rant. It won't be happening that soon.
Oh, and I think it'll be very possible to port the database.

sounds good imo, phpBB has a nice look to it.

I never saw this thread earlier.. I can't believe they don't give you the updates after your license expires.. that's some hefty price tag on it too

maybe we can do something like
new.villavu.com and have a semi beta test for the new forums while all the data is all ported over? just a suggestion, but if you think it'll port over no problems then sounds great!

[Hobbit]

Yeah I would like the beta.villavu.com especially so the staff can get use to it before opening to public. I hated PHPBB in the past, mainly because their admin controls looked like someone took a box, took a dump in it, shook it all up and called it a CP. That is my only concern.

[Wizzup?]

http://www.phpbb.com/support/documen...trol_panel.php

[Hobbit]

Beautiful, much better. My qualms have been resolved, still would enjoy that beta idea though if you need any help wizzy let me know

[BraK]

The ACP looks nice When do you expect to have some free time to port the database?

~BraK

[Wyn]

Sorry for the small bump but I'm surprised no one brought up Xenforo.

I've used it alot in the past and it's very customizable; including a very clean Admin panel.

http://xenforo.com/

[P1nky]

No , Don't close close it! </3 I'll miss SRL.

[[XoL]]

I may be posting completely out of the blue on this topic (Only read a few posts)

MyBB has been a great forum for my usage at least not sure if it matches the security standards of a high level forum (as this) though. (Free)

I just took a look at xenforo looks great, is the company new?

[Wyn]

I may be posting completely out of the blue on this topic (Only read a few posts)

MyBB has been a great forum for my usage at least not sure if it matches the security standards of a high level forum (as this) though. (Free)

I just took a look at xenforo looks great, is the company new?

There little over a year old.

[Nava2]

Sorry for the small bump but I'm surprised no one brought up Xenforo.

I've used it alot in the past and it's very customizable; including a very clean Admin panel.

http://xenforo.com/

This does seem quite nice.

[Wyn]

This does seem quite nice.

If this idea is really brought up upon I'm willing to put up a test board so people can play around with it.

[Markus]

Too bad they charge money and have the same problem as vB: Only MySQL support.

[Wyn]

Too bad they charge money and have the same problem as vB: Only MySQL support.

What other support besides mysql would you want for a forum...?

Also 140 isn't as expensive as Vb...And Xen has alot more.

[Hobbit]

If this idea is really brought up upon I'm willing to put up a test board so people can play around with it.

They offer their own test boards and if we really needed a long term test board it would be restricted to staff to play around with and almost all of us individually have enough resources to be able to host it. Thanks for the offer though

What other support besides mysql would you want for a forum...?

Also 140 isn't as expensive as Vb...And Xen has alot more.

From looking it as briefly as I did, it doesn't seem to have anything vB4 doesn't have. AdminCP wise, I would say vB gives you more direct control.

I like how clean cut it is but it's too... noob friendly... for my liking (Administration wise).

[Wyn]

They offer their own test boards and if we really needed a long term test board it would be restricted to staff to play around with and almost all of us individually have enough resources to be able to host it. Thanks for the offer though



From looking it as briefly as I did, it doesn't seem to have anything vB4 doesn't have. AdminCP wise, I would say vB gives you more direct control.

I like how clean cut it is but it's too... noob friendly... for my liking (Administration wise).

Owell. Thought I could give a purpose for my Xen license but eh.

VB admin side I find it way to messy.

[Markus]

What other support besides mysql would you want for a forum...?

Wizzup wants to trash MySQL for PostgreSQL as it can handle the load better.

[Wizzup?]

What other support besides mysql would you want for a forum...?

Also 140 isn't as expensive as Vb...And Xen has alot more.

PostgreSQL. It's stupid to run two different database engines on one machine.

[grats]

Wizzup wants to trash MySQL for PostgreSQL as it can handle the load better.

is mysql just slow? I use mysql for a few things, just wondering I don't really know all the differences between sqlite, mysql, postgresql etc

[Hobbit]

Interesting comparisons:
http://www.forum-software.org/forum-...in4-vs-xenforo

[grats]

wow, xen seems to be pretty good and compatible (besides databases) never heard of it until the other post

I like the mouseover to see first post, I assume that is a plugin any other forum can install though

[Wizzup?]

If I can properly convert our current database to phpBB, I will go for phpBB. If it proves to be hard, we'll have to upgrade to vB 4.0 and install mysql as well, which would be stupid. I'm not sure a fresh start on phpBB would be a good idea.