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Gand
July 13th, 2005, 03:16 am
Hello fellow members!

The time has come for Ichigo's Forums to cast off the cloak of IPB 1.3 and look to a brighter, (more secure) future! We have decided to move to vBulletin, the most powerful BB software out there. This will mean a cleaner, easier to use forum, with the same friendly and inviting look and feel, with added robustness and security.

First of all, vB and all enterprise-class bulletin board systems cost money. I had to pay $160.00 (US) for vB out ouf my own pocket. I'm okay with this, but I would really, REALLY appreciate donations to help pay for this. If even half of the active members chipped in a few dollars, the software would be paid for.

Please help me out here. Please go to http://ichigos.com/contribute.shtml and click on the PayPal button. Anything you can give will really help me out. Thank you in advance ^_^ If you don't have a credit card, a check, money order (or international money order) will work fine. PM me and I'll let you know where to send it.

I've set up a test forum and imported data so me and my fellow admins can start tweaking the new forum to make it look like the old one. This will take a few days and we'll keep you posted.

No posts, user accounts or other data will be lost, EXCEPT: Uploaded avatars. Please make sure you have these saved. Right click, and go to Save Image to make sure you can re-upload these after the switch.
Attachments. These will need to be re-uploaded.
We'll let you know when the switch will occur. Thanks again~ ^_^

Madmazda86
July 13th, 2005, 09:11 pm
http://www.vbulletin.com/features.php <---Looks snazzy :D The RP will be alright with the move, yeah? As in, it won't affect layout of the stuff we've already put up with regard to BB tags, character colours etc?

Eternal
July 13th, 2005, 09:43 pm
can we still get to the site when you change it @
http:// forums.ichigos.com
or is it going to be a different url?

Noir7
July 14th, 2005, 12:10 am
It's going to be the same.

Laeluu
July 14th, 2005, 12:42 am
;o; All I can offer is art! >> As a matter of fact...::Slinks off.:: X3

Gand
July 14th, 2005, 01:59 am
Originally posted by madmazda86@Jul 13 2005, 01:11 PM
http://www.vbulletin.com/features.php <---Looks snazzy :D* The RP will be alright with the move, yeah? As in, it won't affect layout of the stuff we've already put up with regard to BB tags, character colours etc?
yep, no problems with the RP. The forum permissions, etc will all be the same.

I'll double check on the color codes just to be sure

EDIT: yup, they are fine!

EDIT2: vBulletin's smilies SUCK so I deleted them all and imported ours :D

Roy Mustang
July 14th, 2005, 02:38 am
I'm not a big fan of vBulletin and have become quite attatched to InvisionBoard, but I'm happy to go wherever the forum goes ^_^ And if Gand thinks the switch is worth it, i'm all for it.

:)

Madmazda86
July 14th, 2005, 07:15 am
Yay, the RP works at least :D Thanks Gand!

Sinbios Zefiris Ark
July 14th, 2005, 08:51 am
Spent all day setting up my own VB, looks pretty good ;)

Gand
July 15th, 2005, 03:45 am
The conversion is going to begin: Saturday, July 16th at 20:00 PDT (03:00 GMT)

The forums will be inacessable for about 2-4 hours while I import data from IPB and make sure all the settings are OK. I'll post a message on http://forums.ichigos.com/ during the outage to keep you informed.

I'm pretty sure I have found a way to keep all avatars, custom or otherwise, but I have not tested it so please be sure to save your custom avatar before Saturday night!! Right click on it, and choose Save Image As.

All attachments will be deleted. If there is an attachment that is important to you, please save it before saturday.

All other forums, threads, user accounts and private messages will be retained.

Gand
July 15th, 2005, 09:22 pm
Update: The conversion is going to begin tonight!

Friday, July 16th at 20:00 PDT (03:00 GMT Saturday)

PFT_Shadow
July 15th, 2005, 11:42 pm
i''l up my donation when new solo card comes in