Post by Dave Schultz on Jul 25, 2011 20:05:22 GMT -5
www.nssracing.com/forums/
I gave the explaination at: www.nssracing.com/forums/showthread.php?2-Why-I-had-to-move-the-forum
Why Did the NSS Racing Forum Move?
There are some very good reasons for moving the NSS forum from nostalgiadragracers.proboards.com/index.cgi to www.nssracing.com/forums/ . Trust me I had far better things to do than spend 12 hours, $200 of my hard earned cash on Vbulletin, and burn up drive space and bandwidth on my server. I know y'all don't want to read a manifesto, so I'll just list a couple of the many reasons:
The old board was on a free board Called Pro Boards
I had little control over administering on their Free forum
They suck you in to using them, then they spring on you a big charge. Ning recently did that to me on a bunch of sites -- and paying them twice as much for 1/10 the features was not something I was interested in doing.
Pro Boards was collecting more and more on-line shopping habits of the visitors, and I began to wonder how private they'd keep email addresses.
Posting links and photos required the use of code -- rather than copy and posting into a post.
Total Control of a Premium Board
Easier to remember URL to the forum
Far more features available to the members (I'll explain them in another posting)
Far more control for me as the Administrator
Better look and feel
Smart Phone Interface
Finally, I have two other forums that use older versions of Vbulletin that need to be upgraded, and since they are far more complicated because of upgrading vs. a clean install -- this gives me an opportunity to get my feet wet with Vbulletin 4 before having to spend days dealing with all of the things that will go wrong on the conversion of those sites.
I am fully aware that it is a pain in the butt to have to take a couple of minutes to again register on the new board -- but I promise you that it will be far more worth your while to do so, and this will be the last time.
I will in the near future delete all of the membership and email address on the old Proboard, and then delete the forum so that personal information there is as private as possible. In the meantime, I'll leave the old forum up for the old posts -- but please start your new topics here, and be prepared for that forum to wind down and disappear very soon.
I appreciate your understanding in this. I am only in this to promote Nostalgia Super Stock drag racing to potential drivers, promoters, and events -- and to give all NSS racers (regardless of where they are and who they run with) a place to share information and swap lies.
Thank You
Dave 'Old Hippie' Schultz
I gave the explaination at: www.nssracing.com/forums/showthread.php?2-Why-I-had-to-move-the-forum
Why Did the NSS Racing Forum Move?
There are some very good reasons for moving the NSS forum from nostalgiadragracers.proboards.com/index.cgi to www.nssracing.com/forums/ . Trust me I had far better things to do than spend 12 hours, $200 of my hard earned cash on Vbulletin, and burn up drive space and bandwidth on my server. I know y'all don't want to read a manifesto, so I'll just list a couple of the many reasons:
The old board was on a free board Called Pro Boards
I had little control over administering on their Free forum
They suck you in to using them, then they spring on you a big charge. Ning recently did that to me on a bunch of sites -- and paying them twice as much for 1/10 the features was not something I was interested in doing.
Pro Boards was collecting more and more on-line shopping habits of the visitors, and I began to wonder how private they'd keep email addresses.
Posting links and photos required the use of code -- rather than copy and posting into a post.
Total Control of a Premium Board
Easier to remember URL to the forum
Far more features available to the members (I'll explain them in another posting)
Far more control for me as the Administrator
Better look and feel
Smart Phone Interface
Finally, I have two other forums that use older versions of Vbulletin that need to be upgraded, and since they are far more complicated because of upgrading vs. a clean install -- this gives me an opportunity to get my feet wet with Vbulletin 4 before having to spend days dealing with all of the things that will go wrong on the conversion of those sites.
I am fully aware that it is a pain in the butt to have to take a couple of minutes to again register on the new board -- but I promise you that it will be far more worth your while to do so, and this will be the last time.
I will in the near future delete all of the membership and email address on the old Proboard, and then delete the forum so that personal information there is as private as possible. In the meantime, I'll leave the old forum up for the old posts -- but please start your new topics here, and be prepared for that forum to wind down and disappear very soon.
I appreciate your understanding in this. I am only in this to promote Nostalgia Super Stock drag racing to potential drivers, promoters, and events -- and to give all NSS racers (regardless of where they are and who they run with) a place to share information and swap lies.
Thank You
Dave 'Old Hippie' Schultz