We've moved from vBulletin to phpBB
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 10:55 am
Assuming you're reading this, things seem to have gone well enough to turn the forum back on... there are still things that need doing though, like fixing some things to do with attachments and permissions. (2019/01/03: the search indexes should now be rebuilt and working again).
In essence we've moved off vBulletin because neither 3.x nor 4.x will work with supported versions of key server software shortly, and 5.x has a lot of site owners complaining about it. So this represents a slightly rushed project to keep things going and not too different from the old forum. As a bonus this layout should work quite well with mobile devices. (The rest of the site also needs some TLC in that respect, I know, and I need to recreate things like galleries -- we intend to keep as much stuff online as possible).
Apologies that the conversion script brought across most user-uploaded avatars but not user-uploaded signature images directly -- it doesn't work the same way with this software. If it's one you aren't going to change frequently we can host it here, and here's the ones I grabbed from the old forum that looked like signature images:
tfarchive.com/forums/images/oldsigs/
Also let me know if anything seems broken / you can't spot how to do something. I'm still getting to grips with it myself but I'm sure we can figure things out.
In essence we've moved off vBulletin because neither 3.x nor 4.x will work with supported versions of key server software shortly, and 5.x has a lot of site owners complaining about it. So this represents a slightly rushed project to keep things going and not too different from the old forum. As a bonus this layout should work quite well with mobile devices. (The rest of the site also needs some TLC in that respect, I know, and I need to recreate things like galleries -- we intend to keep as much stuff online as possible).
Apologies that the conversion script brought across most user-uploaded avatars but not user-uploaded signature images directly -- it doesn't work the same way with this software. If it's one you aren't going to change frequently we can host it here, and here's the ones I grabbed from the old forum that looked like signature images:
tfarchive.com/forums/images/oldsigs/
Also let me know if anything seems broken / you can't spot how to do something. I'm still getting to grips with it myself but I'm sure we can figure things out.