Arvee Club Moved to new server

[austinado16]

Too bad about this change and all the problems it's caused.  I wish you could have left it alone and good luck restoring all the lost threads.  What a shame.

If you'd like to read about another of these vbulletin disasters, google "Audi World" and their recent switch to the vB style forums.  We, the users, left.......to the tune of 3,000 members in about 72hrs and those ranks have grown to almost 5,000 members.......recreated our old forums, took our huge FAQ's with us, and haven't looked back since.

I'm not suggesting that's going to happen here, but man, this is sort of destroyed right now.....and if it's not working, I can certainly see people moving to another forum.

[dno]

Well I guess that is another good question before we get too far down the road with this version of VB. How do you guys like this VB software. I will admit that I'm not impressed with it and I've tried several. I find this software very complicated and tedius to manage. That is not to say there are no redemming features, but for me the bad outweighs the good... so far.
 
Unfortunately leaving it as it was did not seem to be an option. I needed to move the site and it did not appear I was going to be granted access to the forum files. For me the ideal solution would be to download the existing files and upload them somewhere else, set the configuration and away we go. I've done this kind of thing several times with no real issues, but this time was a bit of a challenge since all I could get was the data itself.
 
I hated to loose a days worth of posts but it is what it is I've got quite a bit of work ahead just trying to figure out where all the problems are and if those problems can be fixed.

[austinado16]

I've never been a big vB fan because I don't like that you have to go through an entire thread in order to see if there's been a new post.

That's why all of us left Audi World.  We had been using Kawf since the site was start.  Kawf was/is fantastic, and it allowed the forum to run like a group fo friend were having a chat.  When that was taken away (and we had to start slogging through forums and topic areas and then threads in order to find out if someone had responded to something we were interested in) we said good-bye, en mass.

My suggestion would be to return this forum to it's original condition, and then figure out a way to move the whole thing onto a new server if that's what has to happen.  The worst thing you can do is loose the knowledge base that's been established in the huge archives (this was another mistake Audi World made) because it's that access to knowledge that keeps these technical based sites alive.  People come here for the knowledge base, find friendship in commonalities, and wind up staying.  Loose the knowledge base, or ease of use, and the site can suffer a huge loss of membership.

If, like in the case of Audi World, which had been sold a year before to Internet Brands to the tune of 6 figures, the site generates income for the owners, based on ad revenue, it can be a huge financial hit to change the site.  In the case of Audi World, guess where the ad revenue went?  They all followed us over to the new website, //www.quattroworld.com  Huge financial hit for Internet Brands......but we had warned them long before the switch that we would not accept a change in the forum format or a shift to vB.

[dno]

Can't say I'm familiar with kawf but I've run sites using phpbb, smf and snitz, and one other that I can't remember the name of at the moment, all of which I like better than vb and they are all free vs vb's license fee system. Out of those I would lean toward SMF due to it's exetensive community of supporters and ease of modifying and updates.
 
I was thinking at first I was going to move over to SMF but SMF's converter required that VB be installed. If we had to get VB then I may as well go ahead and use it and not make this move a dramatic change.
 
Where we are at now is going back to the previous version is not an option since it was a beta of version 3, I can't get the files for that version from the old server either. The earliest version I can get is version 3.0 which I could not get working on my local machine which then would not give me the ability to work off-line. I could use this current version so that is what I moved to.
 
If anyone else feels strongly that VB is not a great package, please chime in. In fact I will make a new thread were we can discuss it.

[Tiffany]

I've noticed that my status on the stuff I've posted is now reading "guest".  I went back to the User CP and re-entered my profile info, so we'll see what my status looks like when this gets posted.  (I was happy to see that I could use an avatar now!)  Has anyone else's status changed to "guest"?  It's not a problem, I know that kinks and stuff is bound to happen when you're changing servers

[Tiffany]

Nope, it didn't work; I'm still a guest.  I'll wait a day or two and try again.

[dno]

I was comparing registrations that seem fine against registrations that show up as guest. I can't find anything wrong, a side by side comparison is not indicating what the problem may be so I'm thinking it's not the registration file itself. My current theory is there is something in the way you guys were logged in or a session cookie or something.

[Dee4j]

The one thing I would like to see is my PM Status. it used to be in the center section with the Welcome Dee4j...now unles I remember to go thru the user CP pull down menu I don't know if I have any New PM's and I also can't see how many are stored and if I'm almost full...

I really would like this feature back if possible

[dno]

I'm working on a new template that should restore the PM status. I've determined there must be some kind of corrupion in the current template so I'm starting from scratch and building a new one.

[coach]

Is it cause I'm a 'guest' or am I missing a edit post button?

It tough to change a post without an edit!

[dno]

Coach, I'm not sure what is causing your problem, but it seems to be affected several people. Looking directly at records like yours I can't see where your record is any different from the working records so now I will expand my search to other tables, there has to be something that is different than the working users. I did notice from the admin side that when I find you in the user list your user id does not show up along with others that have the same problem. My next guess is perhaps there is some kind of setting you guys have in common that I need to look for.
 
I changed the site template earilier which seemed to fix several problems but not the one you are having... I am working to solve that problem though.

[dno]

Okay coach and everyone else that was having the same problem, see if things are looking correct on your end now. On my end you show up correctly... finally.

[oreo57]

Now there isnt a view recent posts tab.

[dno]

Is that not what the "New Posts" link in the top menu bar is?

[Dee4j]

Is that not what the "New Posts" link in the top menu bar is?

yes.you lost the tabs for the buddy list, view new posts etc...

but yeah!!! you got the other stuff back:-()
as I said before...I'm glad I'm not you :compumad::banghead:

Thanks for all your time and efforts giving us a place for our "Popup Family" to meet...I appreciate everything you have done