03-22-2014, 04:51 AM
I'm posting this here, because it's where all Cabinet and admins can see it.
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I've been researching various forum software, both free and paid. We are running the latest version of IP.Board, which actually causes a huge problem. Pretty much all of the forum software out there doesn't support converting from IP.Board 3.4.6. There are some beta converters out there, but they don't convert everything, and the developers say they're too buggy to be used on a live forum.
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So it's looking increasingly like we will be starting anew. We will still have a backup of the database, but no way to transfer it to a new forum until the converters are completely written (and nobody knows how long that will take). Hileville wants to shut down this server altogether, which means he likely won't keep it up as an archive, since he would have to pay for that.
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I've been researching various forum software, both free and paid. We are running the latest version of IP.Board, which actually causes a huge problem. Pretty much all of the forum software out there doesn't support converting from IP.Board 3.4.6. There are some beta converters out there, but they don't convert everything, and the developers say they're too buggy to be used on a live forum.
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So it's looking increasingly like we will be starting anew. We will still have a backup of the database, but no way to transfer it to a new forum until the converters are completely written (and nobody knows how long that will take). Hileville wants to shut down this server altogether, which means he likely won't keep it up as an archive, since he would have to pay for that.
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minister of foreign affairs