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It contains a lot of historical data.

Quotegrimw wrote:
It contains a lot of historical data.

Just to be clear, everything after early May, when the last back-up was performed, was lost.

What if we simply put up another forum to use. We could still keep this forum around and if we find a need for the older posts, that is when we start working on converting them to the new one.

I don't really consider this a knee-jerk reaction, just a "why don't we want to start from scratch" reaction. (As long as we consider all of our options before we do move)

I like that idea, of starting from scratch but keeping this one around.

Moving this site to an archival area sounds reasonable.

i say we get a big huge post board in the lab. and everyone can write on little pieces of paper and tack them up there.

Quotei say we get a big huge post board in the lab. and everyone can write on little pieces of paper and tack them up there.

So not funny Scott...   :-P

Am I the only one that finds it amusing that one of the longest threads on this board is about replacing it?

If you guys start tacking posts on a board, then I need a proxy to post my messages, and I'm going to need someone to take photos of new posts to put on flickr or something.

shawn....i think your calling has finally arrived

Is anyone interested in having me port the existing DB to new forum software?  It's fairly basic to do, and I'd rather not lose the past history.  Plus, I like this idea better than an archived version of Xoops, because it would mean that Xoops would still be something CAOS has to maintain.

When you decide on the next forum to use, just notify me, and I'll get started on it.  We should coordinate so that the new forum software isn't released until the data is ported.  Right now, I don't think that should take too long, but we'll see.

If its easy to do then you might as well do it. I think we should use phpBB because its easy to use and can look really good.

sounds good

QuoteCS_Freak wrote:
If its easy to do then you might as well do it. I think we should use phpBB because its easy to use and can look really good.

Agreed

Well, you guys pick out some forum software and get it setup, and I'll write the script.  You acn feel free to make the site available for demo while I'm working on it, but make sure everyone knows that their data will likely be wiped out while I do my testing and prepare it for production.