Forum Software Conversion This Spring

[Greg]

Just wanted to start a thread about this. The plan this spring (probably in May) is to convert this forum from phpBB to vBulletin. I did this with the AlpineZone Forums in February 2006 and haven't looked back. Feel free to post any questions or concerns here. I will post updates as we approach this conversion in this thread.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Will we lose the pixs already uploaded in the gallery?

 

[Greg]

Will we lose the pixs already uploaded in the gallery?

Good question. The old gallery will not be accessible through phpBB any more obviously, but I can preserve the current photos like I did with the old AZ gallery:

http://www.alpinezone.com/gallery-archives/

The PhotoPost Gallery that is integrated into the AZ vBulletin forum is commercial software and I don't plan on purchasing a license for SkiADK and SkiMRV at this point. My recommendation would be to use your AZ gallery instead.

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Dang, know I have to learn how to do something new, I hate that. :wink:

 

[sleestak]

can you say "bunch of dorks"

HA!

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

Yeah, HA

 

[Jack the Ripper]

Just wanted to start a thread about this. The plan this spring (probably in May) is to convert this forum from phpBB to vBulletin. I did this with the AlpineZone Forums in February 2006 and haven't looked back. Feel free to post any questions or concerns here. I will post updates as we approach this conversion in this thread.

Why? What's the difference in the two? I don't know jack about that stuff.

 

[Greg]

Just wanted to start a thread about this. The plan this spring (probably in May) is to convert this forum from phpBB to vBulletin. I did this with the AlpineZone Forums in February 2006 and haven't looked back. Feel free to post any questions or concerns here. I will post updates as we approach this conversion in this thread.

Why? What's the difference in the two? I don't know jack about that stuff.

Better administration tools, spam management, more functionality, better security, easier to update, etc...

 

[Lbtchnlgs]

do we get new smiley's?

 

[Greg]

do we get new smiley's?

Some and I'll import the old ones.

 

[Nick]

So this is from way back in 2007... I might still look @ purchasing Vbulletin licenses to upgrade this to Vbulletin, instead of PHPBB. That might make things easier than switching to anew version of PHPBB. One less forum software to track.