Matt
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Post by Matt on Jul 27, 2007 9:32:19 GMT -5
Simie and I were talking about this. We were a little curious as to what the members would say. Also, I'd just like to say right now, this thread means nothing. This is merely to answer our curiosity. Now, the new forum would be nearly a replicate of the ProBoards interface everyone is used to, but it would load much faster without the need to use JavaScript coding to customize it. It would also allow us to make giant customizations beyond the reach of a ProBoard's forum. Anyways, this is just an opinion. This doesn't mean we are moving. Even if we decided to move, it'd be at least a year away. Comments would be nice.
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Post by RoGeR on Jul 27, 2007 10:41:40 GMT -5
Move to Simie's But make sure he doesn't have problems or I'll slap him ;D
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Post by Smangii on Jul 27, 2007 13:19:56 GMT -5
RAWRSHOOTWTFIKEEPDOINGTHAT!!!! I checked the wrong one =( I say yes, move. Especially if you can customize it more... just will it break PB TOS, or will that not matter?
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Simie
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Post by Simie on Jul 27, 2007 15:46:20 GMT -5
We wouldn't be able to move all the posts and users without breaking the TOS, so we'd have to sort of start again =(
All the resources and codes would be moved over though.
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carnageX
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Post by carnageX on Jul 27, 2007 18:44:14 GMT -5
It's impossible to move all of the members/posts... I've already asked if it is possible, and it's not =P.
Anyway... I probably wouldn't join the new forum, because, I hate it when sites do this kind of stuff.
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Edwards
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Post by Edwards on Jul 27, 2007 18:53:33 GMT -5
I would stay here, the idea of starting over isn't something I would want to think about.
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~CrAzY~™
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Post by ~CrAzY~™ on Jul 28, 2007 4:56:53 GMT -5
My opinion would be to stay on the proboard host for the forum.
Reasons: - We would lose all our posts, our threads, and more importantly, our members. - We might lose a butt-load of affiliates because we would not meet requirements anymore and it would be like the affiliated with a forum of 20 members and 50 threads. - Why should members have to go through the hassle of creating a new account when they posted tons on their last one? Most people would just shrug and move on to other forums. - What if members are afraid to join because they don't trust non-proboard sites? - Proboards servers rarely, if ever, go down. I've seen how your server loads at 2am some nights... Would we start to see days where the forum is down or have to go through the pain of you switching hosts for some odd reason? - What sort of host would it be? Would it be a php forum thing added to a domain name, or would it start with proscripts.co.uk?
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Simie
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Post by Simie on Jul 28, 2007 5:28:28 GMT -5
.. it would still be forum.xd-designs.com.
It would be almost the same as a proboard forum, just nicer.
Also, about the server load thingy, after a while upgrading to a new server would be neccessary. This would mean it would be faster than a proboard.
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Post by danvari on Jul 28, 2007 10:44:49 GMT -5
Hard quetion. For the moving cons -We would have to start over -You would have to put all codes and graphics back and will loose more then half of them... -Skinning is differn't then proboards skinning.
For the moving Pro's -It is more unique -Faster. -I've seen everything on proboards and it gets kinda the same... -New Experience
For the staying Con's -Nothing new. -Everything is the same.
For the staying Pro's -Keeping the people. -You don't have to transfer the codes and graphics. -You k now how everything works on proboards.
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Samuel
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Post by Samuel on Jul 28, 2007 16:45:39 GMT -5
Why move from proboards? This whole site is based around proboards. Proboards Skins, Proboards codes, proboards everything!
If it's cool updates your looking for, suggest them for PB V5.
Moving would also be the biggest hassle... ever.
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Post by carnageX on Jul 28, 2007 18:16:12 GMT -5
Exactly my thoughts. I would personally be one of those members most likely, because it's just a pain in the ass to move.
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Matt
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Post by Matt on Jul 28, 2007 19:42:58 GMT -5
Alright, based on your opinions, we won't be moving. Now let us say that ProBoards releases a feature in version five allowing us to move every post and member account to a different service. Would you guys be interested in moving then?
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Post by Smangii on Jul 28, 2007 20:02:31 GMT -5
Alright, based on your opinions, we won't be moving. Now let us say that ProBoards releases a feature in version five allowing us to move every post and member account to a different service. Would you guys be interested in moving then? YESH! I would still be, especially with that as an extra bonus.
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~CrAzY~™
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Post by ~CrAzY~™ on Jul 28, 2007 21:33:02 GMT -5
Alright, based on your opinions, we won't be moving. Now let us say that ProBoards releases a feature in version five allowing us to move every post and member account to a different service. Would you guys be interested in moving then? I'd be down with that.
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Edwards
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Post by Edwards on Jul 28, 2007 22:12:54 GMT -5
That sounds good, as long as it doesn't affect our advertisements
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Post by No, it's Cymbals. on Jul 29, 2007 18:44:57 GMT -5
YAR!
I think it would be cool to have a totally unique forum
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Post by CrazieGrafix on Oct 8, 2007 13:39:57 GMT -5
I don't mean to bring up a dead topic but since i haven't been around in while hopefully the mods cut me some slack lol As far as moving i say stay i have already ttried to move to a different forum service and lost over a 100 members out of 145.The rest just faded away lol But that beign said i have played around with SMF forums and they are awesome and alot more customable with a web site. so i vote stay your better off
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Post by Gamoc on Oct 8, 2007 19:33:38 GMT -5
I say move. If it can help with loading. Then again, I also say stay, since I love PB. So I guess I'm saying it really doesn't matter to me which one you do. Dang, I just realized when this was made. RAWRSHOOTWTFIKEEPDOINGTHAT!!!! I checked the wrong one =( I have no idea why, but that made me laugh really hard. I don't mean to bring up a dead topic but since i haven't been around in while hopefully the mods cut me some slack lol As far as moving i say stay i have already ttried to move to a different forum service and lost over a 100 members out of 145.The rest just faded away lol But that beign said i have played around with SMF forums and they are awesome and alot more customable with a web site. so i vote stay your better off They're talking about making their own, and not using another service.
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Post by ~«Jesse»~ on Oct 9, 2007 15:57:57 GMT -5
I don't mean to bring up a dead topic but since i haven't been around in while hopefully the mods cut me some slack lol As far as moving i say stay i have already ttried to move to a different forum service and lost over a 100 members out of 145.The rest just faded away lol But that beign said i have played around with SMF forums and they are awesome and alot more customable with a web site. so i vote stay your better off I agree with him. It's still a pain no matter how you look at it. I just moved VSD! Designs to another url and I lost a lot of staff members and members due to it. Even if you can move us over without us having to redo everything it will still hit us on the users no matter what.
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Post by Gamoc on Oct 9, 2007 20:03:15 GMT -5
But still, if you do decide to move, wait until PB v4.5 is released on all forums, once they do that, they can transfer all of the databases to yours, since they will be using mysql for it and not text files.
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Post by CrazieGrafix on Oct 10, 2007 7:30:36 GMT -5
but i doubt PB will let members have access to the server database to get all the user and files for every forum.That could cause a huge secruity hole for hackers.
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Post by Gamoc on Oct 10, 2007 16:06:10 GMT -5
How, sending the database of this site to another server. They don't have to let anyone in, they just have to convert the database over to their server, I remember conqueringwolf saying something about how they couldn't do it, since they were apparently on a service that used MySql, and not text files, like PB used to. When the forums here are upgraded to 4.5, then they will be MySql also and easily convertable, apparently.
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Simie
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Post by Simie on Oct 11, 2007 14:14:43 GMT -5
They still won't let people access the database.
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Post by Gamoc on Oct 11, 2007 22:45:52 GMT -5
They won't, man, that sucks. Oh well, either way, if you guys did I'd stay loyal to XD. I've been loyal longer than I expected to be, and I'm not about to quite if you switch hosts.
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Post by Ajay on Mar 16, 2008 16:38:46 GMT -5
I think you should switch.
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Simie
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Post by Simie on Mar 17, 2008 12:00:46 GMT -5
We would, if we could
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Post by footballcool on Mar 17, 2008 16:26:13 GMT -5
Switching hosts would be pointless Plus V5 has loads of new features
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Matt
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Post by Matt on Mar 17, 2008 19:30:29 GMT -5
Switching hosts would be pointless Plus V5 has loads of new features Switching would be far from pointless actually. ProBoards doesn't allow a lot of things that could make XD Designs that much better. As for v5, the ProBoards features don't really mean a lot to me. If we were off of PB we could probably make them ourselves and better customize them to suit our needs.
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Samuel
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Post by Samuel on Mar 18, 2008 15:35:39 GMT -5
However, look at it this way - Proboards is already coded XD A new forum would take ages to make, and then you would have to make a template... v4 is taking long enough already lol
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Matt
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Post by Matt on Mar 20, 2008 9:38:28 GMT -5
However, look at it this way - Proboards is already coded XD A new forum would take ages to make, and then you would have to make a template... v4 is taking long enough already lol Yeah, it definitely isn't something that is going to happen overnight.
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