[Terry Myers]

All,

We'll be upgrading our forum software to IP Board later today. The forum will be down for a short period of time while we convert all posts, and users over to the new database. The upgrade to the new forum software will allow us to add additional value to the VPS.NET product line, and continue our close involvement with our user base.

[anthonysomerset]

thanks for the heads up terry, do you have any rough timescales of when and how long?

also any reason to dump vbulletin? just curious

[Terry Myers]

anthonysomerset said:

thanks for the heads up terry, do you have any rough timescales of when and how long?

also any reason to dump vbulletin? just curious

Conversion will likely start shortly. Downtime shouldn't be much longer than an hour.

IP Board has a product roadmap that fits VPS.NET's needs a little bit better than vBulletin.

[nickn]

Terry Myers, on 25 October 2010 - 03:08 PM, said:

Conversion will likely start shortly. Downtime shouldn't be much longer than an hour.

IP Board has a product roadmap that fits VPS.NET's needs a little bit better than vBulletin.

And we're back!

[Jake]

Looking great! Much better than vBulletin in my opinion, although I did like how simple the old forums were.

[boeki]

looks great!

but where are the giant emoticons?

[Phil]

The new forum looks nice, but am I the only one spotting that some things have gone missing?

Wheres the technical support/chat area gone for example?

[Dan Cryer]

boeki, on 25 October 2010 - 05:09 PM, said:

looks great!

but where are the giant emoticons?

Should be able to get those back for you.

Phil, on 25 October 2010 - 05:10 PM, said:

The new forum looks nice, but am I the only one spotting that some things have gone missing?

Wheres the technical support/chat area gone for example?

Back now. If you notice anything else is missing, just post it here again.

[Phil]

Dan Cryer, on 25 October 2010 - 05:14 PM, said:

Should be able to get those back for you.



Back now. If you notice anything else is missing, just post it here again.

Nope. still not there for me.

[dattas]

When trying to edit my profile I get this error message:

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An Error Occurred
Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information.

[#1026] You are not permitted to modify all or some of your profile information.

[Dmart]

When not logged in there is a super user forum and a network status forum but when i log in they go away

[Dan Cryer]

dattas, on 25 October 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

When trying to edit my profile I get this error message:

What were you trying to change? Some permissions might be a bit wonky after the conversion.

[Dan Cryer]

Dmart, on 25 October 2010 - 05:17 PM, said:

When not logged in there is a super user forum and a network status forum but when i log in they go away

These are old/unused forums, they should be invisible now.

[Phil]

Phil, on 25 October 2010 - 05:16 PM, said:

Nope. still not there for me.

Correction, thats working. Thanks.

On the new look, does the black bar at the top have to be so massive? It looks like the "Mod Tools" is pushing all the links on the right down.

[anthonysomerset]

looking good... only issue for me, is had to mark all forums read first time through<br><br>scratch that...<br><br>

#1026 You are not permitted to modify all or some of your profile information.

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This post has been edited by anthonysomerset: 25 October 2010 - 05:30 PM

[Kyrra]

Can you give any specifics as to why you like IPB more than vBulletin? vBulletin 4.0 does look kinda behind.

Nice to see that the transition was rather seemless.

This post has been edited by Kyrra: 25 October 2010 - 05:42 PM

[nickn]

Kyrra, on 25 October 2010 - 05:41 PM, said:

Can you give any specifics as to why you like IPB more than vBulletin? vBulletin 4.0 does look kinda behind.

Nice to see that the transition was rather seemless.

The decision was very much security related. There is vulnerability after vulnerability in vB.

[sam]

Huzzah, I can finally complain again! Very strange that I had the access rights of someone who is banned when I wasn't, heh.

nickn, on 25 October 2010 - 05:46 PM, said:

The decision was very much security related. There is vulnerability after vulnerability in vB.

Dan Cryer works for IPB, that's why they chose it, or at least a large part. I assume subsidized license fees and access to a developer of the software as and when they need it makes it much more appealing than vbulletin

Also I now have access to mod tools for some reason...

This post has been edited by sam: 25 October 2010 - 05:53 PM

[Jake]

Any chance of getting rid of the black bar at the top?

[Dan Cryer]

sam, on 25 October 2010 - 05:53 PM, said:

Huzzah, I can finally complain again! Very strange that I had the access rights of someone who is banned when I wasn't, heh.

You only had access to one specific forum. I just had to switch you over to customer access.

sam, on 25 October 2010 - 05:53 PM, said:

Dan Cryer works for IPB, that's why they chose it, or at least a large part. I assume subsidized license fees and access to a developer of the software as and when they need it makes it much more appealing than vbulletin

Also I now have access to mod tools for some reason...

It doesn't hurt to have someone around who knows the software, indeed.

I'll look at the mod tools thing now.