Just asking if any had problems getting to new forum

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 6:57 pm

I've opened up this topic to ask if any of my
readers/forum posters had any undue problems
getting to this new message board setup. Any
lost passwords, lost message posts, inability
to post, etc. So far, (except for a little
bit of hassle logging in sometimes - it has
on a couple of occasions not recognized my
password) it seems to be much faster and more
reliable than the old forum software. If any
of you have had a problem, please let me know
here. Thanks!

Ekevu Cheetah · Post by **Ekevu Cheetah** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 7:50 pm

"Webby-dusty-old" forum archives don't seem to have been sucessfully converted. Well, that's not too bad, nobody was using it anyway. *cough,cough*

There's the Arial thing, but I can get used to that. I also missed the last # days feature, but the forum is not slow enough to make me bother with it anymore.

The black background was kind of strange at first sight, but I like it better because my eyes won't get as tired as they used to be in UBB.

Bottom line, if it depends on me, UBB stays at the dunghill, shot and abandoned.

ZOMBIE USER 7262 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 7262** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 11:05 pm

Today, it's intermittently been completely unavailable. I've only just been able to load it up, and I've been trying for half an hour. Most of the time my browser just tells me that it can't connect to the server (pinging forums.keenspace.com gives 100msec ping times...), but at one point I got a server message that said phpBB couldn't connect to the database.

Something's fishy.

Oh, and it doesn't store my password in a cookie, though I've tried to get it to several times (something that UBB did do), but it does know my name.

But, overall, it *is* working faster...when it works.

JFD62780 · Post by **JFD62780** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 6:29 am

Pros: Now, I can read from and post to here from school!

Cons: No "next topic" or "previous topic" links.

ZOMBIE USER 487 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 487** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 7:07 am

I guess they managed to get things migrated from one forum software to another. Impressive.

I think you'll find these forums to be more resonsive than the old version of UBB they were using. phpBB is the forum software I use for my site. I've had no problems with it thus far, and it was a cinch to set up.

ZOMBIE USER 5169 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 5169** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:19 am

No problems, seems fine and pretty fast. The only thing I've noticed is quotemarks, "", sometimes coming up as blank white rectangles, but I can't find any examples now so it's probably been fixed.

I imagine the Keenspot forums will be next.

Sunblaze Wildfire · Post by **Sunblaze Wildfire** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 6:53 pm

I had no problem.

The keenspace forum is beginning to look like my ezBoard forum. *laughs*

Katra · Post by **Katra** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 8:54 am

I really liked the old look better.

ZOMBIE USER 487 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 487** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 12:04 pm

The look of the forums can be changed quite easily. I'm sure they just want everything to migrate over properly first before they tweak the theme.

Genecatlow · Post by **Genecatlow** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 6:31 pm

Thanks, everyone who posted! Those are the
things I wanted to know. Apart from the
problems I mentioned before, it's run very
fast and smooth for me. And apparently no
outright horrors for forum members, except
for perhaps accesibility (which seems to be
linked more to Keenspot servers than the new
forum software).

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