wetpixel 0 Posted January 23, 2004 Hello, readers. As some of you know, the moderators and I have been working hard on a board redesign, rewrite, and complete migration. The board content can easily be moved over, and the new board will support user submissions for news and other content, so we can try to get some of you who want to contribute more involved in maintaining certain areas of the site. There is one problematic decision I've been vacillating over, however, and that is the issue of forum software. I believe Invision to be the best out there. It's clean, fast, and has great admin facilities. but it won't integrate into the new board. People have hinted that they are working on integration with postNuke, but it ain't going to happen in the near future. And since Invision is actively owned as a money-making business, they probably will hesitate to relinquish control over Invision's fate to a bunch of open-source developers. We're running postNuke on the rewritten board, and what we've got installed is pnphpBB2, which has most of the features Invision has... but just isn't as good. Actually, it pretty much does everything that I actively do as a user here on the forums. But the administration tools are definitely much worse. I have found a converter which will probably be able to move over most of the forum content. I'm not sure what happens to attached files yet, but since most of you tend to link images, anyway, it shouldn't be a big deal. So we have two options. One is to migrate to the new board, which will give us unified logon and other facilities. The secons is to continue to use this board. I'm leaning towards migrating everyone because it integration really is better. But I haven't decided 100% yet. What I'll definitely do is include this board on the new server as an archive area. Eventually, we'll outgrow its need, and we can just shut it off. I'll give you a bit of a warning. The forums will have to be shut down for a bit to do the migration -- probably in the next few days. Your Faithful Administrator, Eric Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wetpixel 0 Posted January 23, 2004 FYI, I am experimenting with migrating our forums over to new software. If this works, NO CONTENT FROM THIS POINT ON WILL MIGRATE OVER. 2:26pm, Jan 23, 2004 I'll keep you informed. It will likely take a couple of hours to know for sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JPS 0 Posted January 24, 2004 Test posting as per request on old forum. BTW, it would be better if not that much space would be wasted above forums for forum title, different icons etc. IMO. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
