Ron Earp
Admin
<font color="blue"> In about 3 weeks we're going to switch Forum software. UBB.threads has served us well, but it is a dead system now and has been patched pretty much to the point where nothing else will help much. We're going to switch to fusion BBS, which you can find here:
http://www.fusionbb.com/
This is a full featured system that was designed from the ground up to handle a lot of modern features, unlike this 11 year old piece of code that was not designed to do anything of the things it is doing now. Fusion has been in beta for months, actually almost a year, and I know the main programmer, Joshua Pettit, since he has been helping me with .threads for over four years.
The change should go well, but I am 100% certain that some threads might be damaged and some user IDs will be lost. But, beyond that I know that lots of folks will "forget" their passwords. This is because they are logged on now on a browser, keep returning to the site, and after many months never have to logon again and forget their user names and passwords.
SO PLEASE - let's start getting our ducks in a row. Take a spare moment, go to "My Home" and take a look at your login ID. Change your password to something you remember. Write it down. Keep it and use it when the new board goes up. I'll have my hands full learning a new system and sorting out issues, I won't have a lot of time for answering those "lost password" emails, particularily when they can be avoided by just checking things out right now in the "My Home" section.
And while you are in there PLEASE UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS! The system can't email passwords to bogus or unused email address, and, while you are at it update your signature and screen name to reflect who you are, it'd be nice for a few of you whom we have no idea where you live, your name, or anything else.
Thanks much for listening, off soap box now. I'll bring this back to the top every now and again using ttt.
R
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http://www.fusionbb.com/
This is a full featured system that was designed from the ground up to handle a lot of modern features, unlike this 11 year old piece of code that was not designed to do anything of the things it is doing now. Fusion has been in beta for months, actually almost a year, and I know the main programmer, Joshua Pettit, since he has been helping me with .threads for over four years.
The change should go well, but I am 100% certain that some threads might be damaged and some user IDs will be lost. But, beyond that I know that lots of folks will "forget" their passwords. This is because they are logged on now on a browser, keep returning to the site, and after many months never have to logon again and forget their user names and passwords.
SO PLEASE - let's start getting our ducks in a row. Take a spare moment, go to "My Home" and take a look at your login ID. Change your password to something you remember. Write it down. Keep it and use it when the new board goes up. I'll have my hands full learning a new system and sorting out issues, I won't have a lot of time for answering those "lost password" emails, particularily when they can be avoided by just checking things out right now in the "My Home" section.
And while you are in there PLEASE UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS! The system can't email passwords to bogus or unused email address, and, while you are at it update your signature and screen name to reflect who you are, it'd be nice for a few of you whom we have no idea where you live, your name, or anything else.
Thanks much for listening, off soap box now. I'll bring this back to the top every now and again using ttt.
R
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