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And no, that doesn't mean banning anyone in particular!
I just purchased a license for Xenforo forum software, a modern upgrade over our current vBulletin software. I have no idea how to do the work so I hired a freelancer to do it. If all goes well we may have a working Garage again! The current Garage software is third-party add-on that the developers abandoned about a decade ago and the Garage has not worked in a while. It's very likely we can migrate over through custom mapping but it's not guaranteed. But migrating the Garage is a requirement in the job description.
The forum may be down for a few hours to do this change and a notification will be sent out ahead of time.
This will probably happen in the next couple of weeks. I'm trying to retain all of our current functionality and perhaps add more. I may elect to add some very limited advertising on the forum to offset these costs. I'm not trying to get rich off of the forum but it would be nice to offset costs. I know this is a break from what I've stated in the past. When we started this forum, ads often slowed down a website considerably but I don't think that's the case as much anymore. I'll look at it on the test server to see how it looks.
The hardest thing is that likely everyone will be logged out. I hope you remember your passwords. If you do not remember your password, do NOT use the current forum's password reset feature. It will probably fail and it may ban you because it's so screwed up. Instead, please do either of the following:
Password reset procedure options
1) Private Message (PM) me before we do the change and send me the password that you want to use. I will set your password and notify you when it's completed
2) After we change the forum use the new password reset feature.
I'm also hoping we get better registration security so we don't see these spam registrations as much anymore. We get from 10 to 40 spam registration attempts each day and I have to manually review them and decline them. Most are easy to identify, some are harder and this leads to delays in approving registrations for legit individuals. VBulletin is too old to put in updated security.
One of the nicest features of Xenforo is the use of a "responsive" website meaning Tapatalk will not be necessary to use the forum on a mobile device. I'll likely maintain the Tapatalk integration but I may sunset it over time.
I don't know if the Photo Gallery will migrate or be used as it seems like the Garage does the necessary work. Any thoughts on this?
Any other requests for the new forum, features you want to see migrated, items you want to see removed, items you want to see added? I don't know our capabilities yet but I'm open to suggestions.
I just purchased a license for Xenforo forum software, a modern upgrade over our current vBulletin software. I have no idea how to do the work so I hired a freelancer to do it. If all goes well we may have a working Garage again! The current Garage software is third-party add-on that the developers abandoned about a decade ago and the Garage has not worked in a while. It's very likely we can migrate over through custom mapping but it's not guaranteed. But migrating the Garage is a requirement in the job description.
The forum may be down for a few hours to do this change and a notification will be sent out ahead of time.
This will probably happen in the next couple of weeks. I'm trying to retain all of our current functionality and perhaps add more. I may elect to add some very limited advertising on the forum to offset these costs. I'm not trying to get rich off of the forum but it would be nice to offset costs. I know this is a break from what I've stated in the past. When we started this forum, ads often slowed down a website considerably but I don't think that's the case as much anymore. I'll look at it on the test server to see how it looks.
The hardest thing is that likely everyone will be logged out. I hope you remember your passwords. If you do not remember your password, do NOT use the current forum's password reset feature. It will probably fail and it may ban you because it's so screwed up. Instead, please do either of the following:
Password reset procedure options
1) Private Message (PM) me before we do the change and send me the password that you want to use. I will set your password and notify you when it's completed
2) After we change the forum use the new password reset feature.
I'm also hoping we get better registration security so we don't see these spam registrations as much anymore. We get from 10 to 40 spam registration attempts each day and I have to manually review them and decline them. Most are easy to identify, some are harder and this leads to delays in approving registrations for legit individuals. VBulletin is too old to put in updated security.
One of the nicest features of Xenforo is the use of a "responsive" website meaning Tapatalk will not be necessary to use the forum on a mobile device. I'll likely maintain the Tapatalk integration but I may sunset it over time.
I don't know if the Photo Gallery will migrate or be used as it seems like the Garage does the necessary work. Any thoughts on this?
Any other requests for the new forum, features you want to see migrated, items you want to see removed, items you want to see added? I don't know our capabilities yet but I'm open to suggestions.
