Forum system moves from IPB to vBulletin

Jeremy · 07-23-2006, 12:50 PM

Forum system moves from IPB to vBulletin
CycloneFanatic.com
7/23/06

As you will have noticed by the time you read this, I have made the move from IPB to vBulletin for our forum backend. The change was necessary due to the numerous security issues that have come about over the past few days for our previous software package. I have been working on this new system for the past month and a half in the case that a change was going to be necessary and that obviously paid off in the fact that everything should look very similar to the end-user.

Hopefully the benefits of this more robust and secure package will be evident as I will be able to add recruiting, schedule, roster, and other static pages more rapidly and easily. You should notice a lot more features cropping up a lot sooner than I had previously expected to have them live due to the programming differences in the backend. Please accept my apologies for this change but I felt it was necessary due to the security and functionality limitations that have cropped up with IPB.

NOTE: The only restriction that will be evident with this change is that you will no longer be able to have a different login and display name (i.e. login with "jeremy" and have "Crazy Clone" show on the site). You will need to PM me if you wish to change the name you login with to be something you would rather have show on the forum for posts, etc. Please note that you cannot use spaces or odd characters in your login/display name going forward.

Thanks for understanding,

Jeremy
Site Admin

P.S. I realize that it's not fun switching systems but this change will prevent a lot of issues that we have had over the past couple of months. This change will correct the login problems that many of you repeatedly had where you tried logging in with the correct password but it would still lock you out, among other authentication issues.

TheHelgo · 07-24-2006, 08:47 AM

Jeremy, just curious if this is about it on the system changes. I realize you have to do them if required, but hopefully they are about done??

Also, I have donated once and will do so again at some point soon. However, have you also thought about selling some advertising to your site? I'm sure there are some Cyclone-friendly businesses that would love to have the exposure that your site brings. Just a thought.