SE Future...

[kurgan]

is it just me or is there no upgraded.php i sight*?!!!?!?!??  

[kurgan]

ok Im blind, or stupid... found the upgrade zip...  

[dwp]

Yeah...make better coloring system in this software, stright choices like in wBB, and not this systems where some bgcolor2 change half boards all colors, and this change in 2 places is stupid, why can it not be made so all colors are changable in one place. Would make this software more popular.

[Jeff Lewis]

Agreed  We just ported the old style for now but DO look for that to change for SURE.

[Shaylanna]

Coming from a Vbulletin forum to YaBB I was disappointed to find no import feature.  Losing all the posts from the old forum is going to hurt, and I don't have time to individually repost all of them.

[groundup]

welp.. we are looking for people to write converters.

[Shindou Hikaru]

I have been working on a vB member converter. But since vB uses the 1-way md5 encryption, it took my little script about 10 minutes to crack one member's password and revert it to yabbse crypt. So it is probably stupid to use it with 100+ members.

[Jedi~]

Ok, let me ask you a question then, coming from a vBulliten, what features does it have that YaBBSE doesn't? I've been trying to get a computer support forum to switch to YaBBSE, but they are still thinking about vBulliten, I told them that any major differences I could make up with a custom mod for them.. so any idea on my work load would be nice

[MI Zombie]

Without trying to sound totally dumb what is post nuke and what good is it?

The only thing I can think of is the creating a mod for PostNuke.....

Other than that, I'd say this was perfect.....

[groundup]

mephid.. why not just do what every other converter is going to do (for the most part) and just re-email the passwords to people?

[David]

I have been working on a vB member converter. But since vB uses the 1-way md5 encryption, it took my little script about 10 minutes to crack one member's password and revert it to yabbse crypt. So it is probably stupid to use it with 100+ members.

Why not just have it send random passwords to all the members?

[Shindou Hikaru]

I guess that would be a good idea. Accept that a lot of boards have dead members or members with fake email addresses. But I don't have that much time to work on a converter since I am very busy with se2. FOr anyone that is planning to write a converter, hold on until after yse2. I can assure you, there is a lot in stock for it.

[Wiziwig]

Well, we're naturally going to tackle the remaining bugs and things like that but what else do you want to see to take YaBB to the next level?

Was there something about another forum you liked or thought would be good for YaBB?

I went through the registrations today and we've got most requests in here now but only a few remain...

Most everyone here are giving great ideas on improvements based on what the sysadmin desires for features, but hardly any user feature improvements. Yabb's profile feature was a great start but seems to be lacking. How about adding additional customizable data fields into the profiles, such as user interests, hobbys ect. And /also customizable series of questionaires/surveys the user can fill out in the profile. Many of the more robust web sites have these such features that are highly attractive to special interest groups. I can invision where the survey questions and interest essay questions can be customized in the admin control center and also can be disabled/enabled in the same control center. Anyone of the more experienced coders up for the challenge of developing say a 3 essay/10 questionaire profile enhancement that is customizable/enabled-disabled through the control center?

[Shaylanna]

I don't care about importing the members, their passwords and all that crap.  I just want to import he actual posts.

VBulletin managed to import all the posts from EZboard with a simple email to a VB support person.  It took them about 1 hour to do it all for us.

[Ben_S]

Vb costs a lot more than YSE though so they have more of an incentive to create custom converters for you...

eek sorry bout the multipul posts was just getting a page with emailed1 on it ant thought it hadnt been posted