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maybe change of forum software...

as you might all be aware, im not the worlds biggest fan of VB. whilst its not so bad for a user, to admin it is quite simply, a major pain in the ass at times. therefore might possibly change to what i think is by far the best forum out there atm, IPB.

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php

check it out, see how it works etc, cos i'll put it to eggs when its reached RC status or Final, as its still not stable enough yet for a board of this size (i run PDR1 atm, and it runs ok, but a few too many bugs) lots of new functions (as outlined in the skins post) and the moderation functions will let us strip the comments thread to pieces within a matter of seconds, rather than half an hour (believe!)

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<Dwaggy> i caught you a delicious Bass
<The404> This is because you are an idiot

you know what i said, as long as x approves it (which he will as the vb license runs out soon afaik) im all for it as i hate vb too.

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so what's going to happen in the interim between our VB license running out and IPB reaching a stable release?

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Scrobble all you want, we'll make more!

the vb license ran out ages ago. just stops us going on the hacks site n stuff, nothing particularly important.

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<Dwaggy> i caught you a delicious Bass
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I'd go with that. I reckon Eggs will approve. It's much nicer than VB.

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Originally posted by Mystic Slippers
I'd go with that. I reckon Eggs will approve. It's much nicer than VB.

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This might be the most stupid question ever but i know jack about the background gubbins etc but if you change over do you lose all the current threads/messages/users etc

I'm expecting Cuffs and pHo to point and laugh at me now but what the hell! Nowt new there!!

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there's usually database converters to move communities to new forums.

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<Dwaggy> i caught you a delicious Bass
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Originally posted by cofferscuffs
eggs doesnt really give a shit about this site anyway so just do it. or get tummie to do it.

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The thing with invision is that its a free trial. Besides the small notice on the bottom of the page, they could change their licensing system any time and deny you updates.

I'm going to download it anyway and play around with the templates to see if i can make it xhtml 1.1 strict + css valid.

Also, what are the reasons for picking invision over for instance phpBB?

phpbb makes me want to vomit. im not sure why, i just really really hate it.

and invision (and previously ikonboard, as the dev team used to work on that and left) has always been free with the option to pay. now the pay option gives you tech support and other addons, and i think they're happy with the way that system works, so i don't think its going to change any time soon.

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<Dwaggy> i caught you a delicious Bass
<The404> This is because you are an idiot

Has this already been done....as I notice I am now logging in to
http://forum.vcdq.com....or was it just a domain change..??

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just a domain change, x didnt tell anyone heh, made me have to think about my password for a while before i could log in

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