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I'm thinking of changing over the forum software, and this isn't to add new functionality or to make it run better it's this.
The current forum software is Vbulletin. The company who make Vbulletin were taken over by another company. Now it seems all of the original developers have either left or are in the process of leaving. So this means the team who brought us this brilliant forum software will not be producing future versions, instead a whole new team will be responsible.
I'm not too pleased with that as I really like these forums.
The alternative is to change over to Invision Power Board software. This could be done quite easily with all information, forums, users/passwords, posts, threads, pm's, galleries, blogs all transferred word for word (I'm assured). Infact Invision has a few things that this software doesn't have like, you can update your status (which appears under your avatar). The friends system is a bit better, and the blogging is much better for us bloggers! (it even highlights replies from the author in the comments under the blog). And it's less 'boxy'.
However I fear change as this software really is nice to use!
It may be that I wait to see what happens with Vbulletin as their latest version of the software is supposed to be released this year.
The current forum software is Vbulletin. The company who make Vbulletin were taken over by another company. Now it seems all of the original developers have either left or are in the process of leaving. So this means the team who brought us this brilliant forum software will not be producing future versions, instead a whole new team will be responsible.
I'm not too pleased with that as I really like these forums.
The alternative is to change over to Invision Power Board software. This could be done quite easily with all information, forums, users/passwords, posts, threads, pm's, galleries, blogs all transferred word for word (I'm assured). Infact Invision has a few things that this software doesn't have like, you can update your status (which appears under your avatar). The friends system is a bit better, and the blogging is much better for us bloggers! (it even highlights replies from the author in the comments under the blog). And it's less 'boxy'.
However I fear change as this software really is nice to use!
It may be that I wait to see what happens with Vbulletin as their latest version of the software is supposed to be released this year.
