Hello old website...

[Hamish Gill]

You maybe a little surprised to see this site again ... I certainly am!

I have decided to ditch vb5, it was trying to be too clever ... ... and in trying to fix it, I broke it, irreparably!!

So, Back to this for the time being!


I'm really sorry about all the lost posts from today and yesterday!

We are now planning on moving to a much more basic forum platform calle xenforo http://xenforo.com/
I have worked on it before and found it to be very simple and a lot more intuitive than vbulletin!

I regret not moving directly to it!

Anyway, sorry again for the loss of posts, thanks for your patience with me!!

 

[Kev Pugh]

[banghead]thought I was still in yesterday mode [doh]

 

[Pete Askew]

Given what you were saying earlier, this sounds like a sound move.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Have a look at the xenforo demo, it's very clean... And responsive, which was the main reason to stick with vb5

 

[Brian Moore]

Groundhog Day!

No worries, Hamish!

 

[Lesley Jones]

I popped in for five minutes and thought it was me. Refreshed and wondered what was happening. From the sound of things I'm glad you're using something else. It seems pointless trying to work with software you don't like. I don't think we've posted that much, have we?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Pardon the downtime this morning, would you believe, it's completely unrelated to the last few days of fiasco!

 

[Ralph Thornton]

I'll believe it. There are way too many gremlins floating around the web.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Hamish...When it rains...it pours. Some days...[banghead]

 

[Hamish Gill]

This is going to make my life nice and easy on Monday

- - - Updated - - -

http://xenforo.com/community/attachments/vbulletin_4-to-xenforo_1-2-png.53230/

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Can't see anything here, so copied and pasted the link - but just got a log in page...

 

[Brian Moore]

Hamish,...have you noticed that a grassroots campaign has been launched by certain members who seek freedom for Hugo?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

HHF!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Don't worry, Hugo will be back he is just on his holidays

 

[Dave Young]

Oops! Have to say Hamish Xenforo is very sweet - I've used it before and it's very nice as an admin and user experience. Good luck with it all. I do wonder if vB has had it's day?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Two days of VB5 tell me it is indeed past it's best.
I find configuring good web software enjoyable, Wordpress, Prestashop, etc they have their issues... But ultimately I enjoy finding the solutions.
vb5 is wholly unintuitive to use and the idea of returning to a second day of tinkering with it was not something I was happy about Friday morning. I just wish I had looked at XF better first. The main attraction of vb5 was he responsive design... XF does even that better! Basically, I wasted two days... You live and learn!

 

[Pete Askew]

HHF!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I'm not convinced we live and learn...plenty of examples to the contrary!

 

[Beth Carter]

hugo better share his vacation photos with us.

 

[Hamish Gill]

They would appear to us as binary Beth. I can ask him but I know he will be sceptical about the response a "mere mortal" (his words) as your self would give