The Aussie Pinball Arcade
Aussie Pinball Forums => General Discussion => News & Announcements => Topic started by: Creech on March 26, 2010, 09:40:52 PM
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One and all,
We are currently in the midst of updating the forum to vBulletin. This will give all AP members greater flexibility in terms of usability and look and feel. We think this is an exciting time for AP and is the next logical progression for this forum to move onto bigger and better things after a great first 18 months using free forum software.
We may need to bring the site down while the upgrade happens but you will be notified in advance when this will happen. Please be patient while we make sure we do things properly, ensuring a painless transition for everybody.
Here's to AP V2.0! #*#
Cheers
Creech
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Good luck with the upgrade Creech. Ive never had an issue with the original so lets hope the new one runs as faultlessly as the original ^^^
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Great news Creech.
If you need any help / testing let me know.
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I think Creech and all those who make this site tick behind the scenes should be applauded for such a bloody great job. ^^^
AussiePinball brings alot of enjoyment to alot of us and its the work u guys do that makes it all happen. The new version should look great. ^^^
Thanks for the updates Creech. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
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No probs guys. It's all for you!
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Good Luck Creech & co....
Cross-fingers, and hope we're all still here after the updgrade ;-)
Pin-owners lists are backed up here at home anyway ;-)
MM.
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Good luck with the upgrade.
And thanks for the forum!
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Kudos to Creech - without his work on the software side we'd not have this forum, hats off to the man!
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Kudos to Creech - without his work on the software side we'd not have this forum, hats off to the man!
+1 - No doubt we would not be here if not for his dedication and talent with all things on the web ^^^
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I still don't know how to drive this one properly... #@#
Here's to AP v2.0! $&&
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No probs guys. It's all for you!
Awww, he lubs us @@*
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No probs guys. It's all for you!
Awww, he lubs us @@*
Well most of you anyway. <.>
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? V2.0
Surely the next one should be V4 or V5
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Really? How so?
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I would go some grunt, and go V8.
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Really? How so?
+1 - that's gone over my head as well Pink? !@)
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Think he was refering to board software version? AA use Version 3.8.5
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V2.0 is that the new vegimite V 2.0. Are we all getting some :lol :lol
Well done Creech, look forward to the upgrade and u and Nino keep up the great work... #*#
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Really? How so?
This is the third or forth forum you have set up
I thought you had a nice set up here, curious about what features you will be able to add in vBulliein that you cannot add to this forum
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Really? How so?
This is the third or forth forum you have set up
I thought you had a nice set up here, curious about what features you will be able to add in vBulliein that you cannot add to this forum
Actually, it is the second forum. Inventforums was shut down as there was no control over the spammers that continually posted porn etc etc.. Do a quick search and you will find all the info there.
SMF is OK, but we want to add more features and benefits - so we are trying it out. If it meets our needs, we will go live with it.
I don't see any issue with the process of evaluation and improvement. Tony does a fantastic job with keeping this site up and running - to the best of my knowledge - there has been not one single outage.
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Really? How so?
This is the third or forth forum you have set up
I thought you had a nice set up here, curious about what features you will be able to add in vBulliein that you cannot add to this forum
I think you are making things up just for a sh*t stir!
This forum we run here is based on free software. As we have installed a non-standard theme, it's almost impossible to install any nice mods/features as they simply don't install over the top of a non-standard theme. Plus we don't get any support from SMF developers. Think of some of the things that are missing from this forum e.g. arcade, shout box, awards etc. and that's what we can do in vb.
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regardless of what is done, if it still exists i will be here. I find this an invaluable source and the people i have met, and yet to meet are why i keep coming back. Keep up the good work guys !
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regardless of what is done, if it still exists i will be here. I find this an invaluable source and the people i have met, and yet to meet are why i keep coming back. Keep up the good work guys !
Thanks for the support Rob ^^^
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regardless of what is done, if it still exists i will be here. I find this an invaluable source and the people i have met, and yet to meet are why i keep coming back. Keep up the good work guys !
Thanks Rob, nice to hear some positive feedback.
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Ill be here aswell ^^^ Have also met many great people through AP and hopefully meet many more
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Tony does a fantastic job with keeping this site up and running - to the best of my knowledge - there has been not one single outage.
I never said he was doing a poor job
I was of the opinion that he had tried the invent forums twice
While shout-boxes and arcade ad-ons are nice, they are not, IMHO, needed
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I was of the opinion that he had tried the invent forums twice
While shout-boxes and arcade ad-ons are nice, they are not, IMHO, needed
Give it up mate, you're wrong. Inventforums happened once, not twice. Your other post said 2 or 3 times. I guess your next one will say I tried it 5 times.
Add-ons have been requested many times by many users and we simply can't do it with the software we currently use.
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Creech - there was a thread you(?) started a few months ago, re bringing old topics out of archive?
I thought that was for the "old aussie pinball" forum? I hadn't heard of Inventforum before?
Maybe that's we are getting confused?
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OK, here we go...
There was never an old Aussie Pinball. The one and only forum we had was hosted on the Inventforums website and was known as Aussie Pinheads.
Hope that's clear now.
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Clear as mud now mate! ^^^
I'd forgotten the Aussie Pinheads bit !@)
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Well, I'm not going anywhere. I enjoy it too much.
If you need to change the software, change the software.
Hope the transition goes really smoothly!
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we loose all out stars and high post counts then lol
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we loose all out stars and high post counts then lol
Hopefully not; that's my definition of a smooth transition!
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Hi folks, it seems this upgrade will not be happening after all. After many hours of investigation and practice conversion runs, there are just too many data conversion issues which cannot be overcome. vBulletin have assigned many of our issues to their developers and I indicated to them that we cannot go live until these are resolved. Due to the uncertainty surrounding when they would be fixed, I have asked for a refund and they have obliged. Sorry folks! I am so dissapointed - spending so much time on this to have it result in nothing.
We are now investigating other upgrade options so stay tuned!
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I wouldn't say its resulted in nothing. If the upgrade had been rushed through and it all went pear shaped...that would be worse!
The SMF 2.0 (only RC) but once released has some good management features and hopefully will meet the needs..
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Hi folks, it seems this upgrade will not be happening after all. After many hours of investigation and practice conversion runs, there are just too many data conversion issues which cannot be overcome. vBulletin have assigned many of our issues to their developers and I indicated to them that we cannot go live until these are resolved. Due to the uncertainty surrounding when they would be fixed, I have asked for a refund and they have obliged. Sorry folks! I am so dissapointed - spending so much time on this to have it result in nothing.
We are now investigating other upgrade options so stay tuned!
That's a bitch - you would think these guys would know how to talk to a competing product?
Oh well - here's to aussie pinball v2.01RC1? ^^^
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Shame about all your lost time on the new version Creech but i wouldnt worry to much i think AP is perfect the way it is any other extras the new program had would only take away from the pure pinball of AP with crappy look at me Gifts etc
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Shame about all your lost time on the new version Creech but i wouldnt worry to much i think AP is perfect the way it is any other extras the new program had would only take away from the pure pinball of AP with crappy look at me Gifts etc
Very true, Daniel. AP has always been about the members and content, not about how many kisses you can give to your bum chum %.%
Tony was very thorough with his research and testing, and we wanted to ensure that the entire content could be migrated, including post count @@^ and avatars. We have had some great feedback, and it seems many VB sites are moving across to the new version of SMF - so we are in a good position to upgrade.
It is a very good outcome, and will enable us to move to a fully supported platform.
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Thank you for looking into it anyway
I used to be a member of a forum (vBulliein) where the Admin did not bother with upgrades
After a few years he found he had to (The server was upgraded and it was incompatable with the older version)
The short story was, it was a disaster, Attachments lost, avatars lost, the posts were OK, but nearly everything else was lost or corupted
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The short story was, it was a disaster, Attachments lost, avatars lost, the posts were OK, but nearly everything else was lost or corupted
And that's what would have happened here. I'm glad I just found out before we actually went ahead with it.
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if it aint broke, dont fix it. ^^^
The current style of Aussie Pinball is straight forward and it works real well, in my opinion.
I have looked at Aussie Arcade recently, and i find the format to be a bit busy and lots of stuff everywhere, a bit messy.
Dont get me wrong, a fine site with good info, but i like the simple straight forward layout of Aussie Pinball.
Creech, what was the upgrade going to do for our current site ? what benefit or changes were we likely to have seen or experienced ?
was it a major benefit or change ?
At least you know the majority of us, as i am sure, are very happy with Aussie Pinball the way it is now. ^^^
Great job I say. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^
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Creech, what was the upgrade going to do for our current site ? what benefit or changes were we likely to have seen or experienced ?
was it a major benefit or change ?
The benefits were mainly "under the covers". Better security against hackers, spam users plus features some of the members wanted like shoutbox, arcade games, award systems etc. This can all be done via SMF 2.0 anyway which is a free product.
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This can all be done via SMF 2.0 anyway which is a free product.
Looking forward to seeing the results of all your efforts Creech, and thanks again.