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Jul 4^th, 2006 at 4:33am

Wingo Offline
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Yes, I know I'm likely to be shot down for this, and that it's probably been posted a bazillion times before.

Is it possible to convert to a newer version of YaBB, or even convert another forum altogether, such as phpBB. I am assuming your server supports PHP Tongue

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. The benefits of phpBB are it is one of the most stable boards at a high work load, I know of one that can handle millions of users, up to 20,000 on at one time with hundreds of millions of post.

I have heard things such as there are too many posts/members to convert, the forums are to large and other such things from various people but was hoping for confirmation and a full explanation if any of these are true from Pete.

If it does help, I have been doing my homework into these ideas:

Converting to YaBB 2 -> http://www.yabbsupport.com/Upgrading_from_YaBB_1.x

Converting from YaBB to phpBB -> http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4051&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlig...

Script to convert -> http://www.pocketmatrix.com/chris/YaBB2phpBB2-v1.2.1.zip

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Reply #1 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 5:08am

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Have been tried before, even with the help of the creators of YaBB, and even they failed to succed..

Lets face it, it's "Mission Impossible!"

Cheers Theis

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Reply #2 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 5:19am

Wingo Offline
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When there is a will, there's a way!! I'm quite sure there would be a way to convert this mess of a forum into something a lot more stream-lined, even if it is fully converted by hand....

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Reply #3 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 5:23am

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Now what is exactly wrong with this forum?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

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Reply #4 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 7:37am

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Main problem, the damn profiles page!! I hate waiting for that crap to load, 3 hours later and it's still loading. Also when a few people start to get on the script starts to slow down. CGI scripts can't keep up with too many people on at once. There'll be performance improvements across the entire forum. YaBB leaves a lot to be desired. I work with phpBB and it leaves YaBB for dead.

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Reply #5 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 9:07am

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Patience is a virtue and I don't see the problem. Only this morning I changed 6 profiles for having linked or over-sized avatars! You just need to do this when there aren't excessive numbers of people logged-in and not every five minutes. Why do you think my pics only change about every couple of years?

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #6 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 1:32pm

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It will be done. The Yabb guys couldn't do it though so maybe a PHP conversion would be something to look at.

Think Global. It's the world we live in.

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Reply #7 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 3:32am

Wingo Offline
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Sweet. PHP, I think, is the way to go. It is cleaner, smoother, faster and can handle huge loads. The only problem that I can think of is the upload script. Is it part of YaBB, or seperate?

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Reply #8 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 4:01am

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The image upload script is separate & shouldn't be a problem with a new forum.

Think Global. It's the world we live in.

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Reply #9 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 7:16am

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Sweet

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Is there any timeline in place yet, or still looking into things?

Hope you have a great break and return refreshed!

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Reply #10 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 5:42pm

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Sweet

Grin

Is there any timeline in place yet, or still looking into things?

Hope you have a great break and return refreshed!

Still looking - We need to do another site first, and then we;ll look at Simviation.

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #11 - Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 12:59am

Wingo Offline
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http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php here there is a YaBB to phpBB converter under the "Forum Converter" section. I hope this can help

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Reply #12 - Jul 22^nd, 2006 at 7:33am

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http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php here there is a YaBB to phpBB converter under the "Forum Converter" section. I hope this can help

<perk> Thanks!

Felix/FFDS

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Reply #13 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 1:10am

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If not that I would like to see IPB (Invision Power Boards). But that cost's $$.

Definantly better than the...this looks like Pro Board software?

I always liked the option of searching all threads by users in IPB.

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Reply #14 - Jul 24^th, 2006 at 6:16am

Wingo Offline
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This current system is YaBB, a CGI-based system and, in my opinion, a very slow and wasteful one. I'm suggesting phpBB which is the most popular free PHP system. It has the search option you have specified as well as search by user and string. Many sites that charge for services use phpBB because it's free, extremely flexible, open source and very reliable. I'm a member of a free site with over 1 million users, 100 million posts and over 100 forums that uses this phpBB, which goes to prove its worth.

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