Forum moving

[Scratchbuilder]

Jakko.....you seem to forget one thing.....we are not living in a democracy.......we are in a dictatership.......john is the guy in charge......he can do whatever he wants without consulting the population......he can switch off the forum if he wants.....we have no say in the matter......so just chill and go with the flow




I now have a mental image that john looks like kim jong un :flushed:

No it is Kim John Un.... And do not forget to smile when you mention or think about our illustrious leader.... :sick:

[Waspie]

No it is Kim John Un.... And do not forget to smile when you mention or think about our illustrious leader.... :sick:

I’m ready, been to the barbers and now sport a fashionable North Korean hair cut just like who he said!!!!

You can stick the forum on X Box for me. I’ll still be there!!! (And I don’t even own a XBox!!!!!!) :rolling:

[Andy T]

Exactly when is the transfer starting? And aprox. how long will the transfer take?

It will allow us to plan when to 'not' post to avoid the loss of our posts/threads!!

I'd suggest not posting anything significant until it's done, and/or back it up locally in case it disappears.

John ,I'm sure you've had to put extra preparatory work into this so thank you. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for a smooth transition.

[John]

sucks to be you if you don’t like it

No one is making you stop here, if you don't like it feel free to go elsewhere. I am not here to get your approval on anything I do

[papa 695]

I believe John is doing this for the benefit of the whole forum, and not just to mess us around. So let’s just chill and enjoy what we have here.

[Guest]

All the best, hope it goes smoothly!

[PaulTRose]

No it is Kim John Un.... And do not forget to smile when you mention or think about our illustrious leader.... :sick:

We are safe with our glorious leader.....hes got the latest technology to keep us running

[Lee Drennen]

I will be moving the forum to a new host and also having it migrated to a new platform, vbulletin, I'm not sure how long this will take, it will be within the next week or so and there will be downtime and maybe a couple of posts losts if they are replied to or created in-between the migration.

Will we lose our threads we created

[PaulTRose]

Will we lose our threads we created

Only if you make them whilst the move is happening......but you dont know when its happening....so perhaps best to hold off making any new threads til everything has gone through

[Guest]

No one is making you stop here, if you don't like it feel free to go elsewhere. I am not here to get your approval on anything I do

I’ve mentioned it before to some people here in private messages when it happened to come up, but now I’m going to say it out loud: This forum is good despite the people who run it.

You are running this forum as a service to its users. It probably started because you decided that you’d like to run a forum related to your hobby, but by now, it’s clearly a forum for other people to talk about that hobby, since you yourself hardly ever get involved anymore. I’d say (and you will likely disagree, as will the various people around here who clearly feel that the mods are always right) that this means it would be at least a courtesy to run major decisions about the future of the forum by us, rather than dictating from above that This Is How Things Will Be.

Sure, a lot of the regulars don’t care about the changeover, or won’t even be able to really tell the difference once it’s done. Good for them, I guess. But when somebody asks serious questions about the reasons and you just blow him off, IMHO this does not reflect well on you or the way you run things.

Had you just taken a little time to explain your reasons in response to my questions, I would probably have said, “Oh, OK. Maybe I don’t quite agree, but fine.” Now, you are just pissing me off by both the content and tone of your replies. I would like to stay here, because the other users in general are nice folks, but I’m now seriously debating whether I will.

Now I guess I’ll just wait for this message to get deleted, as messages of apparent criticism around here too often are

[Waspie]

Oh good for me. I'm categorised. I'm a 'regular who doesn't care'. Yup - sums me up nicely!! To ****** old to give a oop: . It's a forum not a heart transplant!! Sorry, just my simplistic outlook on life!

[John]

Will we lose our threads we created

I gave them a copy of the database yesterday so any post from then will be lost, but hopefully I will get a chance to give them a new one before they start, if they don’t do it soon I will make sure they have a new one.

[John]

you yourself hardly ever get involved anymore.

You’re right, running a model shop has spoilt the hobby for me, I spend all day dealing with models, talking about models, I don’t always feel like modelling when I get home, but I don’t see what that has to do with this.

means it would be at least a courtesy to run major decisions about the future of the forum by us, rather than dictating from above that This Is How Things Will Be.

why? Most people are happy to go with the flow, and most things are discussed with the mods and admin, I’m sure when Coca cola brought out the new spicey flavour it was put to everyone on the shop floor first, it would have been the board that decided on it.

Now, you are just pissing me off by both the content and tone of your replies. I would like to stay here, because the other users in general are nice folks, but I’m now seriously debating whether I will.

Feel free to leave if you don’t like it, no one is forcing you to stay

[Guest]

I don’t see what that has to do with this.

What it has to do with it is that the decision to move from XenForo to vBulletin is based on your preference, when you in fact hardly use the forum anymore.

why? Most people are happy to go with the flow

That will to a good degree be because they don’t know the first thing about the differences. I don’t claim to be fully versed in them, but I do know I have a preference for one over the other because I have a good deal of experience (almost certainly more than most people here) with both, as well as a number of other common forums. That is why I asked about the move, and why we’re having this discussion about the discussion now.

I’m sure when Coca cola brought out the new spicey flavour it was put to everyone on the shop floor first, it would have been the board that decided on it.

I’m pretty sure Coca Cola asked a representative sample of its customers before deciding to invest in selling it.

[David Lovell]

I just can't see what your problem is Jakko its not your forum nothing to even do with you keep it up and I can see us losing the forum John doesn't need to even have to justify his decisions