- Joined
- Feb 5, 2016
No date as far as I am aware. I am focusing on some personal stuff and then a hiring process ZI is going through atm to bolster our team as we start to prepare for E3 coverage while I continue to expand our video stuff, and Mases cancled Mases Mart this week and a management meeting so he can focus on the TPHD walkthrough.
Thanks for the well wishes. I'll know later today if things are taking a turn for the worse or if she is on the road to recovery. It's totally up in the air until she reacts or doesn't react to new meds.
For starters, it is my understanding you folks were using VB4. Pretty much everything post VB3 is garbage. Hot garbage. When you switched, you likely chose Xenforo because it was more familiar to older versions of VB and created by former VB team members. Naturally since you folks used VB - if you were to get off VB, Xenforo is preferred. There is really no general consensus anywhere on the internet if IPB or Xenforo are better. A lot of IPB's advantages comes from the fact it's been around longer, so they have some well supported addons and additions that work flawlessly across the board. Xenforo's advantage is that it's basically VB before VB went to crap, with less support still. Even going to VB's site today - it's extremely sluggish. I wouldn't be surprised if they cease to exist in less than 5 years.
We've used Xenforo before, but it was unfortunately during the time of the lawsuit and it was rarely updated since they had to worry about investing their money into lawyers. Now that it is settled, they are releasing regular updates again, which is nice. Xenforo isn't a bad forum. There are basically three extremely viable premium forum packages (and no, VB isn't one of those three) and there is no real consensus on whats better.
Personally, I am going to be starting a new project that is build around IPB, but it's all preference for the forum aspect. I am pushing for Xenforo now over IPB mostly because my #1 goal is preserving user data. Since PM trasnfering isn't clean at this time, I worry about losing some of that data and while in the grand scheme people move on, there is a risk/reward benefit that has to be weighed. In this case, Xenforo is probably the best choice at this juncture. I'd presume we're sticking with Xenforo.
Obviously you folks came from ****ty forum software to Xenforo. I think if you switched from VB to IPB instead, you'd equally be loyal to IPB in such a transition too. People love what they know and got accustomed too.
There really isn't any way to make it truly seamless. It;s going to be hard switch even as we know the day it approaches (when we know).
Everything is moving to either forums.zeldainformer.com or zeldainformer.com/forums (with or without the s). Regardless, the goal is to move the forums over to Zelda Informer and "somewhat" distance ZD's responsibility for them. There is an addon out there that plugs Xenforo into Expression Engine that is workable, so we can still create a universal account environment to connect tour news and original content plus comment users to the boards and vice versa.
I'm just a messenger. Keeping you folks informed. I have a say over things certainly (like me pushing Mases to stick with Xenforo now), but I don't really know much of anything. This was all Mases' idea in the first place. I'd still much rather not merge at all.
