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So as many of you know, we have explored the possibility of leaving patriotsplanet.com (owned by Chiefsplanet), and migrating to patriotsplanet.net (owned by me) because of the neglect here and our inability to fix it.
So I worked very hard last week setting up alternative boards, having to be creative to get at the data here, but we have it, all 2.6 million posts.
So I am looking for opinions from the membership, and I will post a poll. Your vote is not visible to the public. The options are:
I tried to be impartial in my descriptions. Please note, we could take a hybrid approach and upgrade part way, with an upgrade again down the road.
If we move, I will take this massive responsibility seriously and will be invested in the board and its growth and maintenance. If you entrust me with hosting and leading the site on patriotsplanet.net, I plan to reevaluate everything from forums and topics and SEO to moderation and bannings. So the leadership style may change, but I will never stop believing that the board belongs to its members.
If we move, we will need to decide on a day to do it. I will attempt to once again export all the posts from here for a new install. Once that is done, any posts here after that will not migrate. The entire project will probably take a full day.
Thank you for your time and opinions.
So I worked very hard last week setting up alternative boards, having to be creative to get at the data here, but we have it, all 2.6 million posts.
So I am looking for opinions from the membership, and I will post a poll. Your vote is not visible to the public. The options are:
- Do Nothing - Stay here and hope it gets fixed eventually and doesn't crash
- Move - to a carbon copy of here vBulletin 3: https://www.patriotsplanet.net/BB/index.php Same version as here, its comfortable and familiar. It is way beyond end of life and will not be supported or updated further. May be prone to security issues.
- Move - to vBulletin 4 - https://www.patriotsplanet.net/vb4/forum.php
- Massive upgrade from 3. Adds a ton of new features while retaining many of the old. Very customizable. Also end of life with no further updates. May be prone to security issues. Last version of vb made by Jellsoft.
- Move - to vBulletin 5 - https://www.patriotsplanet.net/vb5/
- Complete rewrite of VB by the new owners. Works very differently. What you see here is not very customized with colors and styles yet. Less customizable than 4. Not reviewed well. Is current and being updated, should be more secure, yet there was a zero day exploit on it just last year that completely ruined boards. Mobile friendly out of the box. Social media sharing and integration out of the box.
- Move to something else (like Boston Sports Uproar) and lose our history.
I tried to be impartial in my descriptions. Please note, we could take a hybrid approach and upgrade part way, with an upgrade again down the road.
If we move, I will take this massive responsibility seriously and will be invested in the board and its growth and maintenance. If you entrust me with hosting and leading the site on patriotsplanet.net, I plan to reevaluate everything from forums and topics and SEO to moderation and bannings. So the leadership style may change, but I will never stop believing that the board belongs to its members.
If we move, we will need to decide on a day to do it. I will attempt to once again export all the posts from here for a new install. Once that is done, any posts here after that will not migrate. The entire project will probably take a full day.
Thank you for your time and opinions.