Time for a forum swap?

[Spinning Hat]

Now that the Gold period is coming due, do we want to consider the fact that we may all be better served if we migrated over to a newer forum? (i.e. vBulletin,phpBB, etc.) Then can we setup a redirect from here to the new site? I know ezboard has been our home for 5 years and everything, but they destroyed our humor forum, and now with this unknown post issue, I'm kinda fed up. I could even host it if we so desired, I just need a bit o help from the evil webmaster. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[Scorch]

Well if we leave ezboard, I would suggest we redo our whole site and incorperated the forum directly into the site. <p></p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

I think so too, but I think the forum should be priority first. Then we can talk about redoing the site to match the forum. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Iceman]

Ok with me. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Is there some way to redirect people to our new board auto if they try to come here? <p><table border=0><tr><td><embed align=left src=http://www.thzclan.com/avatars/ezice.swf menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#000000 width=217 height=166 type=application/x-shockwave-flash pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... <td><table border=0 style='Filter: Shadow(Color=#BB1403,Direction=255)'><tr><td><span class='usertitle'>XMEN Iceman [DTM]<br>Founder and Leader of the Base Tribes XMEN Clan<br>Proud member of the Dragon Talon Mercenaries teamplayers Guild<br>Citizen of New Fenecia<br><br>You weren't much of a challenge - T2 bot after killing Iceman<br><br>- click on avatar for links - no, not sausage links!</span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Yes, it's possible. Not sure how long it'd last, though. <p></p><i></i>

[Spinning Hat]

If nothing else, I think we can change the header into a little message telling people we moved and to give them a link. <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[THZGryphon]

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[Spinning Hat]

Yeah, we can do what Gryph did. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Okay, I've done it.<br><br>I've created a new phpBB on our domain, here:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.xmenclan.org/forum">www.xmen ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I'll probably change the link to /forum instead of /phpBB2, and there's obviously a lot of work to be done, but it is operational. Feel free to go have a look. This was primarily an experiment to ensure that it would run on our host and, indeed, that I could do it. Actually had no hassle getting it running. At all. Was nice.<br><br><br>*edit - changed link <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> * <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p090.ezboard.com/bxmenclan.showU ... ambit>XMEN Gambit</A>&nbsp; <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.xmenclan.org/images/x.gif" BORDER=0> at: 12/10/04 5:25 pm<br></i>

[Spinning Hat]

Nice work Gambit. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> I'm registered, and have posted, so it's all working good. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><!--EZCODE CENTER START--><div style="text-align:center"><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;"><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Never, Never, Never Quit"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> -Winston Churchill</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></div><!--EZCODE CENTER END--></p><i></i>

[XMEN Gambit]

Ok, everything that I think needs to be converted has been, with the exception of the main pub forum here, and the private forum. I'd have liked to get the apps forum over there, but there's an error and it won't convert. I don't really see a need for site feedback & testing, or a server database for T2 now that T3 is out, and old polls, etc. If anyone feels otherwise, please let me know.<br><br>Anyway, the main public and private forums are obviously the largest, and it'll take probably over an hour just for the conversion process to run. I'm not going to do them tonight, but pretty much at any given point I can convert them and we can close up shop here. <br><br>Now I need to go put up a couple of announcements regarding the user conversions... <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>