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BAILOPAN
06-14-2006, 14:30
As I've hinted, and often outright said, we have outgrown our phpBB2 installation. In order to make it easier for us to deal with upgrades, customizations, optimizations, and manage accounts/projects, we're moving to vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com/)'s forum software.

This is a large process that Freecode and I have been working with on and off for many months now. As part of this migration, we are combining the forums from AMX Mod X (http://www.amxmodx.org/), SourceMod (http://www.sourcemod.net/), and SuperHero Mod (http://shero.rocks-hideout.com/) into one big installation.

We have done our best to make this seem seamless - down to even porting the phpBB2 subSilver theme and our plugin system to vBulletin. However, the start will likely be a bit rocky. The major problem is that some users have different accounts on all three forums. There is an easy fix for this, though! And I will say it in very large letters, so everyone see it:

Your e-mail addresses between AMX Mod X, SuperHero, and the SourceMod forums must match for your accounts to "combine" properly. If you have accounts on more than one of these sites, make sure your e-mail addresses match, do not just assume that they do!

With that said, we'll be unrolling this in two phases over this week. The first phase starts at Wednesday night (June 14th) around MIDNIGHT EST. There will be total downtime - the forums, CVS, and all sites hosted on DarkPeer.tcwonline.org (http://www.tcwonline.org/) will be totally unreachable. This includes AMX Mod X, WC3Mods, SourceMod, and SuperHero. This downtime will hopefully only last at most six hours, but expect an entire day for worse case scenario.

After that, we plan to install the new forum software from June 19-20th (Mon-Tues of next week). AMX Mod X, SourceMod, and SuperHero forums will remain up in "read-only mode" before the new forums go live, so hopefully there will be no downtime.

We've also finished beta testing AMX Mod X 1.75, and that will be released next week if there are no major forums problems. Make sure to check out the upcoming changes here (http://wiki.amxmodx.org/index.php/AMX_Mod_X_1.75_Scripting_Changes).

sipooo
06-14-2006, 14:45
Wooooooohoooooo YES AMXX 1.75 i Coming And CSDM 2.1 :D:D:D:D
I Have Been Waiting For The Item Mode

CS IS CRAP WITHOUT AMXX AND THE PLUGINS !!

Freecode
06-14-2006, 14:49
I KNOW you did not just post my name in your post. Next time use "The one and only, the great, no other then....Freecode"

:-D

Basic-Master
06-14-2006, 14:59
gaben

Cheap_Suit
06-14-2006, 15:16
I hope wont take more than 6 hours

v3x
06-14-2006, 15:30
can't wait 8)

Skyrider
06-14-2006, 15:33
Sounds really great indeed! Can't wait either. I just hope nothing goes wrong :P

Deviance
06-14-2006, 15:35
n1 indeed, can't w8 8)

PLZ say your gonna use a nice theme!

v3x
06-14-2006, 15:42
n1 indeed, can't w8 8)

PLZ say your gonna use a nice theme!
We have done our best to make this seem seamless - down to even porting the phpBB2 subSilver theme and our plugin system to vBulletin.

Deviance
06-14-2006, 15:43
n1 indeed, can't w8 8)

PLZ say your gonna use a nice theme!
We have done our best to make this seem seamless - down to even porting the phpBB2 subSilver theme and our plugin system to vBulletin.
... can't w8 :wink:

Silver Dragon
06-14-2006, 18:17
Sound's good.

d4rk
06-14-2006, 18:27
vBulletin? Nooo... :?
Get Invision Power Board or something.
SMF (http://www.simplemachines.org/) is becoming popular by the way.

Freecode
06-14-2006, 18:34
vBulletin? Nooo... :?
Get Invision Power Board or something.
SMF (http://www.simplemachines.org/) is becoming popular by the way.
vBulletin > Invision Boards > phpBB > anything else

BAILOPAN
06-14-2006, 18:43
The software choice isn't an on-going topic - we chose vBulletin for its vastly expansive administrative and customizability features. It also has commercial support and a strong user-base. Our own opinion is that it's also, for the most part, well-coded, which is rare among PHP applications.

allenwr
06-14-2006, 19:09
MY GOD! You People are mad!!!

This seems like an impossible task and your planning to do it in less then a day???

and for anyone who hopes it takes less then 6 hours... do you relize how big this web system is???

Brad
06-14-2006, 19:46
MY GOD! You People are mad!!!

This seems like an impossible task and your planning to do it in less then a day???

and for anyone who hopes it takes less then 6 hours... do you relize how big this web system is???
Amazing what a little planning can help accomplish, huh?

Freecode
06-14-2006, 20:25
MY GOD! You People are mad!!!

This seems like an impossible task and your planning to do it in less then a day???

and for anyone who hopes it takes less then 6 hours... do you relize how big this web system is???

1. The 6 hour task is to change Server Software.
2. I think ive done about 10+ test merges already
3. This has been planned and being worked on for a past few months
4. The main merge (Mon-Tue) will take both days.

Janet Jackson
06-14-2006, 20:33
Good luck on the merge !

P.S. vBulletin r0xx.

Spanky McNutnut
06-14-2006, 20:37
Hope all goes well

KoST
06-14-2006, 20:52
i don't hope this happens: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/redshorty4/OrionsBurningMan.gif :lol:

Freecode
06-14-2006, 20:57
i hope to see less imported_* names. That means make sure your emails match on all forums *cough* twisty *cough*

allenwr
06-14-2006, 21:18
MY GOD! You People are mad!!!

This seems like an impossible task and your planning to do it in less then a day???

and for anyone who hopes it takes less then 6 hours... do you relize how big this web system is???

1. The 6 hour task is to change Server Software.
2. I think ive done about 10+ test merges already
3. This has been planned and being worked on for a past few months
4. The main merge (Mon-Tue) will take both days.

well now that i heard this... good job on the planning and good luck when you start in a couple hours

twistedeuphoria
06-14-2006, 21:41
*stabs freecode in the eye*

's all better now happy?

Mik3h
06-14-2006, 22:01
Yeah Vbulletin is much better then phpbb!

chowdown
06-14-2006, 22:20
Good job guys! I like vBulletin, I use it at my gaming community.

Also if you need any help, I have a guy who has helped me on my site that works for vBulletin and designs many features for them, so if you have any questions or any feature requests I can relay them to him. I might be able to give them to you for free, if he agrees. He merged our forums from SMF to vBulletin as well.

Freecode
06-14-2006, 22:41
Good job guys! I like vBulletin, I use it at my gaming community.

Also if you need any help, I have a guy who has helped me on my site that works for vBulletin and designs many features for them, so if you have any questions or any feature requests I can relay them to him. I might be able to give them to you for free, if he agrees. He merged our forums from SMF to vBulletin as well.
ask him why no login page was made by default.

jtp10181
06-14-2006, 23:02
why would you need to login.... psh.

chowdown
06-14-2006, 23:20
I'll ask him when he gets back from a business trip on friday. I think we had that issue too.