Vbulletin 4 was released a couple of months ago and comes with a number of new features. It also comes in two flavours:Forum onlyForum + CMSA number of the forums I run / manage / catherd are still running Vbulletin 3.* and I wasn't in too much of a hurry to upgrade until I was sure that Vbulletin 4 was stable (ie. they'd found the big nasty bugs). The other thing that I had to … [Read more...] about Upgrading Vbulletin 3.* to Vbulletin 4.*
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Vbulletin Change Licensing And Enrage Customers
I've owned Vbulletin licenses for years. It's a great product.BUTI am seriously considering switching to something else.Why?Because they obviously don't care about their existing customers.Vbulletin emailed license holders earlier this evening to announce a "wonderful" presale event (I'm not even sure if the word "presale" even exists!)If you have active licenses ie. that … [Read more...] about Vbulletin Change Licensing And Enrage Customers
Rebuilding A Damaged Community Progress Report
A few days ago I mentioned the issues I was facing with the mess that was the UK Webmaster forum I'd taken over.Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes, so I wasn't expecting immediate results. However a pleasant surprise is always a good thing, so I was delighted to see how quickly some of the issues were getting resolved.The most obvious area that needed attention was … [Read more...] about Rebuilding A Damaged Community Progress Report
Rebuilding A Damaged Community
I recently acquired a webmaster discussion forum that had been semi-dormant for a period of time ie. it was like a wild garden where the weeds had been left unattended.Looking back over the archives you can see that it once was quite a vibrant community, but that after the founder left to move onto other projects, or possibly a more demanding dayjob, the quality of the site … [Read more...] about Rebuilding A Damaged Community