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3 versions behind in vBulletin :(.

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sux2bfilefront

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:nodding:

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Filefront Forums also have more bugs than a roach motel. It's sad.

Please go poke the admins so they can fix them.

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I figure the only way we can fix this is to make a cunningly devised plan.

Ideas, anyone?

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all get naked and sleep with eachother

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:hump:?

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I say we lurk around in the contact an admin forum for 3 days, and 3 nights.... until all kinds of admin-type creatures become, acclimatised to our presence. Then, on the third day, we rope ourselves a couple of admins, lash 'em together and make a raft! I mean.... we could ask/force them to upgrade to the latest version of vb.

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Aye aye!

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Maybe we could even persuade them to change the forum system for a better one. vBulletin is not really the best...

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:Puzzled:

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What do you know that's better than vB?

Sea turtles, mate. ;)

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Sea turtles... admins.... do you see a difference.
I mean that in a nice, complementing way to any admins who see this...

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Simple - we upgrade it ourselves!


*Gets tins of paint and splashes it everywhere*


....uhh....second thoughts... no.That didn't work out well.

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:lurk:

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I'd say MesDiscussions.net . Uses much less resources to handle the same number of visitors.

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I just looked it up, did some research. No. MesDiscussions does not support plug-ins, it does not allow for custom BB codes, like this:
Also, it has no calender, and it appears to only support French as it language.

By far, vB is the most comprehensive, most reliable forum software out there. The modding community for it is next to none- in a class by itself. Pound for pound, there really is no comparison to vB.

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Well said Ki. ;)

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filefront is good place but it has a lot of problems, sometimes slow connection etc...

still great for nerds!

:p

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Especially this morning, i took me ages to load the hompage. :(

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I looked at it too, and it seems that there's also no spam bot protection, which would be REALLY bad for a site like this. Also, there's no file attachments, which is something I'm sure too many people are used to for them to just give it up. I'd say the reason it uses up less resources is it just has less features users would want. Personally, my only problem with vBulletin is that it only supports MySQL and I can't afford it. :(

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- It does have spoiler, just works a different way. You mean it's a customization and spoilers don't even exist in basic vB ? Damn :/
- It does support english language.
- Who needs a calendar ? ^^ That's a forum...
- If it has no modding community or add-ons, that may be because it doesn't need any :angel:
And for what is about reliability, how about those lots of post jumps we had lately ?

Oh and yes, there are spam protections. You can't post more than a certain number of replies in a certain number of threads in a certain time, etc... We use it at forum.judgehype.com (sorry people, it's all in french there ^^ ) and never really had problems with spambots.

For what is about attachments, well people are given a limited (admin defined) room for uploading pictures ; and for the rest that will teach them to use the lots of free webhosting services out there instead of consuming more disk space than necessary on the forums themselves.

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Post jumps are not a problem with the vB software itself. That problem is connected to sync errors on the server clusters hosting the forums.

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Well, you'd certainly need only one server with that other software I already named...

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With almost 160,000 members? With close to 3.4 million posts? I doubt it. It takes incredible MySQL resources to run this forum, regardless of the forum software.

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http://forum.hardware.fr/
508084 members, 38295487 posts at the moment. 1 server as far as I know. often around 2000 users online (well, it's around 5 am at the moment in France, so they are only around 230 for now).

Hmm in fact no, it has 2 servers. But I guess for 160000 users "only" and 10 times less posts, 1 would be quite enough.

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In short, we need better servers or faster connections, right?