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[W:11]It's official, DP is moving from vB to xF starting 9/17/20

Which style(s) do you like?

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RedAkston

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After a lot of testing (and by a lot, I mean "a lot a lot"), we are moving forward with the software upgrade from vBulletin 4.x to xenForo 2.x. The plan is to take the site down this coming Thursday evening (9/17/20) to start the conversion. It will take 2 or 3 days to perform the initial import, re-index, import the likes, install more add-ons, tweak the settings and do even more testing. That will mean that DP will be down until Sunday (9/20/20) most likely.

This weekend I will be making instructional "how to" threads. Some of the terminology has changed, but the content is the same. PM's, likes (total # of), posts, threads, forums all carried over. Blogs carried over (but are in a forum format - for now). The only two things that won't transfer are the "Groups" from the 'Community' link above and the Albums on each user's Member Profile page (hint: if you want to save any of those pics, download them now).

Below are some screenshots of the various "styles" we will be using initially. We may add more down the road, but that isn't a "showstopper" like getting the search to work, likes imported, etc... There will be a thread created for "bugs" if they are detected and a thread created for suggestions. Thanks for everyone's patience as we've been working on making this a reality.

xF Default:

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DP 3.0 (in progress):

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Shades of Blue:

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Shades of Grey (my personal fave):

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RedAkston said:
After a lot of testing (and by a lot, I mean "a lot a lot"), we are moving forward with the software upgrade from vBulletin 4.x to xenForo 2.x. The plan is to take the site down this coming Thursday evening (9/17/20) to start the conversion. It will take 2 or 3 days to perform the initial import, re-index, import the likes, install more add-ons, tweak the settings and do even more testing. That will mean that DP will be down until Sunday (9/20/20) most likely.

This weekend I will be making instructional "how to" threads. Some of the terminology has changed, but the content is the same. PM's, likes (total # of), posts, threads, forums all carried over. Blogs carried over (but are in a forum format - for now). The only two things that won't transfer are the "Groups" from the 'Community' link above and the Albums on each user's Member Profile page (hint: if you want to save any of those pics, download them now).

Below are some screenshots of the various "styles" we will be using initially. We may add more down the road, but that isn't a "showstopper" like getting the search to work, likes imported, etc... There will be a thread created for "bugs" if they are detected and a thread created for suggestions. Thanks for everyone's patience as we've been working on making this a reality.

xF Default:

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DP 3.0 (in progress):

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Shades of Blue:

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Shades of Grey (my personal fave):

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Can they be user selected?
 
Sup RedAk...Could you possibly leave the subterranean filth behind? The stench is awful!
 
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RedAkston said:
After a lot of testing (and by a lot, I mean "a lot a lot"), we are moving forward with the software upgrade from vBulletin 4.x to xenForo 2.x. The plan is to take the site down this coming Thursday evening (9/17/20) to start the conversion. It will take 2 or 3 days to perform the initial import, re-index, import the likes, install more add-ons, tweak the settings and do even more testing. That will mean that DP will be down until Sunday (9/20/20) most likely.

This weekend I will be making instructional "how to" threads. Some of the terminology has changed, but the content is the same. PM's, likes (total # of), posts, threads, forums all carried over. Blogs carried over (but are in a forum format - for now). The only two things that won't transfer are the "Groups" from the 'Community' link above and the Albums on each user's Member Profile page (hint: if you want to save any of those pics, download them now).

Below are some screenshots of the various "styles" we will be using initially. We may add more down the road, but that isn't a "showstopper" like getting the search to work, likes imported, etc... There will be a thread created for "bugs" if they are detected and a thread created for suggestions. Thanks for everyone's patience as we've been working on making this a reality.

xF Default:

View attachment 67295083

DP 3.0 (in progress):

View attachment 67295084

Shades of Blue:

View attachment 67295085

Shades of Grey (my personal fave):

View attachment 67295086
Click to expand...

Thanks for all the hard work you folks do to keep this site going!
 
RedAkston said:
After a lot of testing (and by a lot, I mean "a lot a lot"), we are moving forward with the software upgrade from vBulletin 4.x to xenForo 2.x. The plan is to take the site down this coming Thursday evening (9/17/20) to start the conversion. It will take 2 or 3 days to perform the initial import, re-index, import the likes, install more add-ons, tweak the settings and do even more testing. That will mean that DP will be down until Sunday (9/20/20) most likely.

This weekend I will be making instructional "how to" threads. Some of the terminology has changed, but the content is the same. PM's, likes (total # of), posts, threads, forums all carried over. Blogs carried over (but are in a forum format - for now). The only two things that won't transfer are the "Groups" from the 'Community' link above and the Albums on each user's Member Profile page (hint: if you want to save any of those pics, download them now).

Below are some screenshots of the various "styles" we will be using initially. We may add more down the road, but that isn't a "showstopper" like getting the search to work, likes imported, etc... There will be a thread created for "bugs" if they are detected and a thread created for suggestions. Thanks for everyone's patience as we've been working on making this a reality.

Shades of Blue:

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Shades of Grey (my personal fave):

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I love those two. Particularly the dark blue.

Thanks for all your hard work, Red! :thumbs:
 
Empirica said:
Sup RedAk...Could you possibly leave the subterranean filth behind? The stench is awful!
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That’s not where the stench is coming from. ;)
 
I voted DP 3.0 because it looks like what I’m most familiar with. I also voted shades of blue because it would look really cool with my avatar. :cool:
 
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X Factor said:
I voted DP 3.0 because it looks like what I’m most familiar with. I also voted shades of blue because it would look really cool with my avatar. :cool:
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Voting twice is very chic. The Donald would approve.

I voted shades of blue so your Dallas Cowboys logo will be cancelled by the background.
 
I like the current simple format, I don’t want anything to change.

It’s simple to use, easy to read, quick to load.

Why mess with perfection?
 
Aberro said:
I like the current simple format, I don’t want anything to change.

It’s simple to use, easy to read, quick to load.

Why mess with perfection?
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vB is outdated and missing a lot of features that any good forum needs. This change is long overdue. As you can see, it looks very similar but it will give us the features we've needed for quite some time (years). Some of the terminology will change and I've already recorded a video highlighting these (I will post later this week).

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk
 
Aberro said:
I like the current simple format, I don’t want anything to change.

It’s simple to use, easy to read, quick to load.

Why mess with perfection?
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I use XenFro in a swimming pool forum, and it is easy and clean, no more funky characters due to bad code. V bulletin has gotten complacent and unwilling to improve. Good for them, but they aren’t the only new kid on the block anymore.

Glad the chiefs decided to make the move.
 
Voted Shades of Blue. The small font is most readable in white.

There're alot of older people on this forum that will appreciate that :mrgreen:

And personally I like less glare from a white/light background.

Edit: Nevamind. Not sure what the poll was about then.

Praxas said:
Can they be user selected?
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Redress said:
The styles? Yes.
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This is the barely coherent and grammatically inept speech of a man who desperately wants to be able to claim that he "cured coronavirus."

That's it, in a nutshell. When we do get a handle on this crisis, he wants to be able to pull out footage and declare "I called it! I said use this! I said try this! I told them to do this, it was my idea!" He's just doing it with lots of stupid stuff because he doesnt want to miss an opportunity. He's afraid 'the big one' will be mentioned and he wont get credit for it.

It's all about declaring himself the savior of the cv crisis and we'll hear all about it, esp in his campaign. (Which is basically each of his press briefings these days) --- Lursa
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Aberro said:
I like the current simple format, I don’t want anything to change.

It’s simple to use, easy to read, quick to load.

Why mess with perfection?
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New functionality, some of which will likely be very popular. I was playing around with the embed feature today. You can embed tweets, music files, gifs from a bunch of sites that I never could make work here at DP, and more video sites(including embedding videos from facebook and twitter). All of this in a format that is really easy to use(I figured it out, which means most everyone can figure it out).

And I find it every bit as quick if not quicker than vb.
 
I'm glad the interface looks relatively similar and easy to use as the current vB. :)
 
Looks sweet to me.
 
RedAkston said:
After a lot of testing (and by a lot, I mean "a lot a lot"), we are moving forward with the software upgrade from vBulletin 4.x to xenForo 2.x. The plan is to take the site down this coming Thursday evening (9/17/20) to start the conversion. It will take 2 or 3 days to perform the initial import, re-index, import the likes, install more add-ons, tweak the settings and do even more testing. That will mean that DP will be down until Sunday (9/20/20) most likely.

This weekend I will be making instructional "how to" threads. Some of the terminology has changed, but the content is the same. PM's, likes (total # of), posts, threads, forums all carried over. Blogs carried over (but are in a forum format - for now). The only two things that won't transfer are the "Groups" from the 'Community' link above and the Albums on each user's Member Profile page (hint: if you want to save any of those pics, download them now).

Below are some screenshots of the various "styles" we will be using initially. We may add more down the road, but that isn't a "showstopper" like getting the search to work, likes imported, etc... There will be a thread created for "bugs" if they are detected and a thread created for suggestions. Thanks for everyone's patience as we've been working on making this a reality.

xF Default:

View attachment 67295083

DP 3.0 (in progress):

View attachment 67295084

Shades of Blue:

View attachment 67295085

Shades of Grey (my personal fave):

View attachment 67295086
Click to expand...

We can all use a break. Looks like you’ll be very busy though. Three days of crunching data and converting files, booting and rebooting only to need more debug and rebooting...I get a headache just thinking about it.

Thanks for your efforts.
 
calamity said:
We can all use a break. Looks like you’ll be very busy though. Three days of crunching data and converting files, booting and rebooting only to need more debug and rebooting...I get a headache just thinking about it.

Thanks for your efforts.
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I bet he wishes it was just 3 days...

Srsly tho, he has been putting in a ton of work on this(Schweddy too!). He deserves all the back patting he can get for this. And maybe a hear pat or two too.

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WCH said:
DP 3.0 seems easy on the eyes.
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Vauge has been working diligently on that one.

Once we get the new software up and running, I'm going to work on a green theme as well.
 
RedAkston said:
Vauge has been working diligently on that one.

Once we get the new software up and running, I'm going to work on a green theme as well.
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Will the old shortcut work by being automatically re routed, or will we need to search out the new address via Google?
 
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