Get ready, we're about to DUMP UBB!

[StangFlyer]

You read it right. The time is well past due, and we are about to dump the UBB bulletin board system in favor of the much more powerful VBulletin 2.x. VBulletin is drive by the PHP engine, which we have built into our webserver, so it will be MUCH faster and use LESS resources. In addition it uses a MySQL database backend instead of saving all its data to flat files (text files). This again makes it WAY faster, it will use less server resources to power it, and it can handle way more traffic.

Furthermore, the who's online piece of UBB that I hacked into the UBB code some time ago is NOT accurate. I'm looking forward to have VBulletin's nice who's online, buddy lists, and complete calendaring system which will now be what powers the never created "Event List" section.

All in all, I think everyone will find VBulletin much more enjoyable once you get used to the new system. But, for the most part, it will look very similar to this.

This change will occure at the very beginning of November (about three weeks) and most likely on a weekend. When it does, the forums will be down for part of that day.

Thoughts? Comments?

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Dan McClain, President
The Mustang Works Magazine
ICQ: 2937586 - AIM: DMcClain91GT
1991 Mustang GT - NOVI Supercharged 377 Stroker
1999 Ford Lightning SVT - 2000 Prototype updated by Roush


[This message has been edited by Dan McClain (edited 10-20-2001).]