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  • anime4christanime4christ
    edited August 2006
    Well, I can't figure out whether or not my members want me to switch, one guy said yes, a few more said whatever I choose, and the rest didn't pay any attention.
  • BenWilsonBenWilson
    edited August 2006
    @anime4christ: When the group is ambivalent, tie goes to the admin. I had a very, very inactive punBB board and migrated the users with a perl script from the punBB DB to the Vanilla DB. Only problem was that punBB uses sha1 (varchar(40)) and Vanilla still uses MD5(varchar(32))---the latter is considered less secure, but I'm not a security guy. I thought about having a dual log-in system, until I saw the complexity of Vanilla's code (helps to understand the underlying philosophy, and I dove in head first). I decided to require returning users to ask for a new password. I did not port over any of the threads, etc. I've seen other sites (e.g. Ubuntu) which migrated between fora. I think the trend is to freeze the old forum as an archive (for historical purposes) and start fresh with the new forum. I think the hybred approach would be to migrate the users as I have done, and leave the rest well-enough alone. (FWIW, the old forum was really only used as a gatekeeper to a PmWiki section containing the sorts of things law students crave--outlines.) Regards, Ben Wilson P.S. Cool handle.
  • JazzmanJazzman
    Just wanted to say: I like the SqlBuilder class!!
  • anime4christanime4christ
    I like both PunBB and Vanilla. PunBB is the best traditional forum, IMO. And Vanilla has a nice fresh flavor.
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