• Hello Guest, welcome to the initial stages of our new platform!
    You can find some additional information about where we are in the process of migrating the board and setting up our new software here

    Thank you for being a part of our community!

New board, new host, new year

boostdemon

creative mastermind
Joined
May 31, 2002
Location
Cary, NC
So as you can see, this is the new board. I have (i hope) successfully converted all our data from the last 20+ years from vbulletin to xenforo and moved to a new host with different server software and a faster more efficient database software as well.

This is NOT the finished product!

I'm still working on everything, right now as of this post everything is fresh out of the box vanilla. Eventually once everything looks to be working normally I'll start working on designing a site and board that looks like home. Until then, I wanted to let people come and play and test and let me know below what kinds of things are still broken. As for feature requests or changes feel free to add those as well but keep in mind i will be making changes while things get sorted out and I already see a few things that will be removed and probably a couple that need to be added.

I know a lot of people have asked me where to send donations and I really appreciate all the support. As some are aware, our host went out of business and in doing so cut us 2+ years short of our pre-paid hosting. Additionally the software and addons and new host were additional out of pocket expenses as well. That being said, i think going forward we will be operating at a much more affordable rate. For now, if you want to donate you can use our paypal donate@saliv8.com and put your username in the notes.

Once the board is all set to go we will do a real fund raiser like in the past with things to win and fun events.

Thanks guys, looking forward to the next 20 years of tbricks forums fun
 
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Nice Work! I was looking for the Off Topic and couldn't find it until I realized I didn't log in to the forum! 😂

Embedded videos from You Tube aren't working btw!

Thanks for getting this thing back online! I will send some $$ for sure!
 
Nice Work! I was looking for the Off Topic and couldn't find it until I realized I didn't log in to the forum! 😂

Embedded videos from You Tube aren't working btw!

Thanks for getting this thing back online! I will send some $$ for sure!
yeah so the old html iframe style of formatting isnt going to work on modern stuff... the new way to post media is cool though, i will look to see if theres perhaps some kind of way to go through and update any iframe formatted links to use the new style
 
Hey Dana, looking good so far! Once you get that far I'm ready to get back to work doing whatever it is I do on here. 👍
 
Wow. I love it so far. I will however miss the old look as I have been enjoying it since I join in '08. Great work Dana! I can't wait to see what is to come. Happy New Year!
 
FYI - I needed to flush the DNS cache on my desktop windows PC this morning to be able to find turbobricks.com. I'm assuming something moved overnight.
[To flush the cache on a Windows PC: type "cmd" into the lower left search box, then type "ipconfig /flushdns" in the dos command window.]

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One quirk that I've noticed, really low priority, is:
- login on the Forums tab (with keep me logged in NOT checked)
- click on the Home tab
and the login is lost. Doing a back (<--) restores me to the Forums tab and logged in.
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Looks like PMs and user photos haven't been migrated yet. What's the plan for local photo storage and/or caching? Is this economical enough now?
 
I miss seeing location and join date below avatars, much easier to know who to talk shit to if they live across the country

Overall super excited to have TB back, awesome work!


Looks like PMs and user photos haven't been migrated yet. What's the plan for local photo storage and/or caching? Is this economical enough now?
My Vbullitin PMs still show up? And the "conversion" format is much nicer IMO than dealing with the old PM system. Also email alerts for PMs finally work me
 
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