TheBatteries
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The forum will be temporarily taken offline tomorrow (December 10th) for most of the day to a facilitate a software conversion from MyBB to Xenforo.
I have been using MyBB for over 15 years now, making it somewhat saddening to see this happen, but it no longer has the functionality we need for this forum to grow and thrive. It's been full of "coming soon" promises for years now with no real action. I've attempted to bridge these gaps with a significant amount of custom coding (image uploading, mobile-friendly, etc) that has become burdensome to maintain and still does not come anywhere close to what other packages can offer.
Most of what I built custom is offered by Xenforo right out of the box - and much better. It has a new clean look, a wonderful responsive format for mobile use, features for image sharing, alerts, spam management, and many new social-based features. This will significantly reduce time spent writing and maintaining code as well as having to moderate and clean up spam. Additionally, it is much easier to post from both the desktop and mobile devices (< HUGE WIN HERE).
I will begin the migration in the morning (EST time). My priority will be getting the data converted cleanly and back online as quickly as possible. I have converted the forum dozens of times over the past few months for testing and have all the kinks worked out at this point. Everything has been running great on the test site. There will likely be cleanup tasks here and there throughout the next few days once the site is back online. No content will be lost and all existing URLs to forums, threads, users, etc will continue to work (redirected).
I welcome any feedback you may have regarding the conversion, way the forums or organized, features you would like to see, etc. If you have any thoughts at all, please speak up!! Additionally, Peter (HBPowerwall) has agreed to remove advertisements after the conversion for a little while.
Thanks!
I have been using MyBB for over 15 years now, making it somewhat saddening to see this happen, but it no longer has the functionality we need for this forum to grow and thrive. It's been full of "coming soon" promises for years now with no real action. I've attempted to bridge these gaps with a significant amount of custom coding (image uploading, mobile-friendly, etc) that has become burdensome to maintain and still does not come anywhere close to what other packages can offer.
Most of what I built custom is offered by Xenforo right out of the box - and much better. It has a new clean look, a wonderful responsive format for mobile use, features for image sharing, alerts, spam management, and many new social-based features. This will significantly reduce time spent writing and maintaining code as well as having to moderate and clean up spam. Additionally, it is much easier to post from both the desktop and mobile devices (< HUGE WIN HERE).
I will begin the migration in the morning (EST time). My priority will be getting the data converted cleanly and back online as quickly as possible. I have converted the forum dozens of times over the past few months for testing and have all the kinks worked out at this point. Everything has been running great on the test site. There will likely be cleanup tasks here and there throughout the next few days once the site is back online. No content will be lost and all existing URLs to forums, threads, users, etc will continue to work (redirected).
I welcome any feedback you may have regarding the conversion, way the forums or organized, features you would like to see, etc. If you have any thoughts at all, please speak up!! Additionally, Peter (HBPowerwall) has agreed to remove advertisements after the conversion for a little while.
Thanks!