Maybe you guys should consider that the archaic version of Vbulletin that they were on was the cause of them repeatedly getting HACKED. Someone could have deleted all your posts (including this lame one) if they wanted to and done a myriad of other things. The version they were running was old enough it could have been EOL and unsupported. I am a server admin for a large message board (theturboforums.com/turbomustangs.com) and have done server admin work in the past for a myriad of other boards as part of my job. If you think it is easy to tweak a MySQL config, patch the hell out of the OS, optimize the services and deal with the day to days of a board be my guest try it some time. Jayc:It's been a long time since I've talked with you man, congratulations to you guys on stepping up to the plate with a huge upgrade.
Great to see you on buddy! Hope you are doing okay!
Shane, I'll quickly say you come across as a very diplomatic, friendly person, even when you're having to be firm about something.I think what Jay was getting at was simple. We have said from the BEGINNING that it was a work in progress. No where did we say it was going to be working 100% off the bat... After several nights of not sleeping doing upgrades to the board only to have the same people complain about the same thing over and over would piss me off too...
We avoided any down time at all, didn't loose any info. Would anyone have rather us have shut the forum down for a week or so?
When your old car breaks down and you can't buy parts for it anymore what do you have to do? Get an updated model right?
Also, the "old car" analogy is a little out of place since this board is solely directed toward owners of cars that, at the youngest, are 25 years old now. LOL!
Maybe you guys should consider that the archaic version of Vbulletin that they were on was the cause of them repeatedly getting HACKED. Someone could have deleted all your posts (including this lame one) if they wanted to and done a myriad of other things. The version they were running was old enough it could have been EOL and unsupported. I am a server admin for a large message board (theturboforums.com/turbomustangs.com) and have done server admin work in the past for a myriad of other boards as part of my job. If you think it is easy to tweak a MySQL config, patch the hell out of the OS, optimize the services and deal with the day to days of a board be my guest try it some time. Jayc:It's been a long time since I've talked with you man, congratulations to you guys on stepping up to the plate with a huge upgrade.
Well, there is that part. LOL!We can still get parts!:biggrin:
The old version of the board was broke and no way to fix it... Maybe I should change it to your old computer LOL!
See the bold & underlined parts. THAT'S what makes you come off as a childish dick. You don't like someone making complaints, so you offer a solution in a most childlike manner basically saying "If you don't like the way I pee in MY sandbox (that you don't pay for) you can take your ball and go to someone else's playground you meanie pants!"My problem is pretty simple. It doesnt cost people anything to use this board. Even when people have offered donations, Shane has turned them down. So he comes out of pocket to upgrade the board, we spend the time and effort doing it and for what? So a bunch of unappreciative people can come on here and bitch and complain about stuff they dont like. If that makes me come off as a dick then so be it. It sucks spending hours over here optimizing, making backups, patching the forums, etc only for people to bitch and moan about stuff that doesnt work, isnt how people like it or in this case, how much better the old forum was. I guess people forgot about how slow the old board was and how the board was basically hacked for 3 or 4 months while we worked on the upgrade.
If people dont want to use this board, they can head over to Turbobuicks and post there. Im sure Vertical Scope would love to have more than 10 people posting over there to offset the stupid investment they made in that forum.
Well, there is that part. LOL!
See the bold & underlined parts. THAT'S what makes you come off as a childish dick. You don't like someone making complaints, so you offer a solution in a most childlike manner basically saying "If you don't like the way I pee in MY sandbox (that you don't pay for) you can take your ball and go to someone else's playground you meanie pants!"
We avoided any down time at all, didn't loose any info.
Mmm-kay. What who paid for whatever other site has exactly what to do with the subject at hand? And what facts do I need to be privy to in order to state an opinion or suggest a bit more tact on your part considering the position / title you hold here?Im giving people options. If they dont like it here, there are other places to go. Cant please everyone. Thats why there are different forums for the same subject. And do you know how much VS payed for that site? I do because I was involved in the negotiations to the point I tried to talk them out of pissing their money away so again, just because YOU dont know all the facts doesnt mean others dont.
Lookee down in the bottom righthand corner.
Mmm-kay. What who paid for whatever other site has exactly what to do with the subject at hand? And what facts do I need to be privy to in order to state an opinion or suggest a bit more tact on your part considering the position / title you hold here?
Now that is TRICK