• Forums Upgraded to vBulletin 4.0

    by
    Absolution
    Published on 02-10-2010 03:05 AM
    19 Comments Comments
    I've upgraded the forums to vBulletin 4.0.

    Some of you may be wondering why I would do such a thing. The old main site was based on a joomla+vbulletin bridge which was literally a huge pain in [my] the ass. And as such, I never updated. It was quite a broken system and just didn't work well. I also had security concerns with running joomla; they don't exactly have a good track record. It is also quite a bit harder to update two sites instead of one, especially with the bridge mod.


    Some of you may not like the new theme, but really, it’s not that bad. I knew that people would be divided with the likes and dislikes of vBulletin 4.0 prior to the upgrade. I plan to port, and actually complete the old theme and integrate it into vBulletin. There has also been talk about porting the oivar theme to vBulletin 4.0 by a few forum members, though that will be up to them.

    As for now, blogging is enabled to any registered user group. I may or may not keep it this way depending on the amount of moderation these blogs require.
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Forums Upgraded to vBulletin 4.0 started by Absolution View original post
    Comments 19 Comments
    1. atom0s's Avatar
      Looks good for vBulletin. +1 to them for making a decent looking default theme for once.

      Thanks for the updates Absolution. <3
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    1. atom0s's Avatar
      Just noticed, the "Blog This Post" button at the bottom left corner of every post seems to repeat itself for every post in a topic. Such as first persons post will have one button, next post will have two, next three, etc. This seems to go indefinitely and breaks the template after about 8-10 posts.
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    1. c0re's Avatar
      I hate how everything looks so big.
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    1. panzer's Avatar
      Well done Abso!
      Reply
    1. GreenRaven's Avatar
      To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater.
      oh no!
      what for it?
      Reply
    1. syntroniks's Avatar
      Quick reply would be a must-have for replying to these frontpage posts. I don't even remember what we were talking about.

      --Oh NVM I see I can just reply on the forum.
      Reply
    1. qazz's Avatar
      Why did you change to Vbulletin 4.0? Does the old one have vurnablities or something?

      I am not good with changing styles of websites.

      Anyway good job. I hope it will be for good.
      Reply
    1. rickye's Avatar
      I like it.. Nice and clean visual.
      Reply
    1. K@N@VEL's Avatar
      I think the new look is good, I just miss the portal it made it so much easier to see new post and threads.
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    1. KN0WF34R's Avatar
      I like it so far, and if it's more secure, so much more the better!
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    1. learn_more's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by K@N@VEL View Post
      I think the new look is good, I just miss the portal it made it so much easier to see new post and threads.
      add this as bookmark:
      Code:
      https://forum.gamedeception.net/search.php?do=getnew
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    1. Absolution's Avatar
      There were some problems with the forums, you may have gotten a message similar to:

      The service is no longer avalible. or something to that effect. It is now fixed.
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    1. Sleepz0r's Avatar
      thank you runs realy smooth
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    1. learn_more's Avatar
      there is a small bug with url rewriting:

      when searching for newposts, there is a link to go to the newest post at every topic result,
      the rewritten url ends up like this:
      http://forum.gamedeception.net/showt...0-182&p=131921
      but it should be
      http://forum.gamedeception.net/showt...182#post131921
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    1. Absolution's Avatar
      Changed the URLs to real URL rewriting. Let me know of any problems.
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    1. learn_more's Avatar
      sorry, another issue:
      when browsing the site trough https (https://forum.gamedeception.net/search.php?do=getnew) all urls point to http
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    1. Absolution's Avatar
      ty
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    1. learn_more's Avatar
      the search box takes you from https to http:

      Reply
    1. learn_more's Avatar
      doublepost

      http://forum.gamedeception.net/threa...4-Entity%D1%8B <-- gives 404, probably weird character encoding broke it
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