Upcoming Changes to ODJT - September 2013

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Dan The Man

Dan The Man

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Hi Folks,

I've been planning a move to the Xenforo software for some time now. Xenforo released version 1.2 two weeks ago and it's a great release with many enhancments that make it comparable to our current software. vBulletin our current software is old news. The newest version of vBulletin is all but useless I won't be downgrading us to that. The move to Xenforo will keep us up to date the latest and greatest in forum software and enable us to offer more features in the future.

I've already leased a staging server to handle brunt of the transfer as our current server is a bit bogged down at the moment. The move will take place the last week of August. I'm shooting for the 29th time depending. Following the move, once everything is stable ODJT will move onto it's own VPS as this one hasn't been as snappy as it once was due to the amount clients I have hosted along side us.


Thanks,
Dan
 
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Big Dan said:
We will have 301's in place for what's currently out there. I'm not too worried about Google they re-index pretty fast once a new sitemap is submitted.
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I don't submit a sitemap -- I hard code all of my pages, then just submit the main page,

I think the older version of vB worked much better. I gave the offer to mod anything you needed.
 
SoftJock Rick said:
I don't submit a sitemap -- I hard code all of my pages, then just submit the main page,

I think the older version of vB worked much better. I gave the offer to mod anything you needed.
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Sitemaps are necessary for a site like ODJT with constantly updated content. For static sites with < 100 pages the spiders will find everything not so for sites like us with thousands of dynamic pages.

Agreed on the older version of vBulletin (3.8). I've been hacking around 3.8 to make it run on the latest PHP for clients that won't purchase new licenses for vBulletin 4 or move to another platform. For my sites, I won't run anything that old that lacks a guaranty of future security patches from the developer.

vB 4.2, our current version is probably on par with 3.8 but development has pretty much ceased since vB announced vB 5. We're currently at 4.2.1 which was released in April and that was only a maintenance release. We may or may not see 4.2.2 & 4.2.3 but I'm betting neither will include new features. Instead everyone's supposed to upgrade to vBulletin 5 which is missing many features compared to vB 4 and is generally a mess. It so bad that vBulletin restricted licensed customer feedback on vB 5 to only vB 5 customers it's a mad house over there. Worse than the Bose Wars! :eek:

Xenforo has settled the lawsuit with Internet Brands (vB's parent) and subsequently put out an awesome release with many new and updated features. Xenforo is also building a community of add-on developers and stylists that will be on par with vBulletin in it's hay day. Xenforo is the future of forum software and the future of ODJT.
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Previously when we ran XF, there were some complaints of the fonts being hard to read and too much white space. That can be addressed fairly easily. The only features we're giving up in the move is the Photo Gallery and the Arcade. Neither are used very much. We'll probably add in a photo gallery as soon as one become available but the arcade doesn't have a suitable alternative yet.

My plan is run everything pretty much at the defaults for a while and have a custom theme designed for ODJT in early 2014.
 
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Big Dan said:
Bumping this up.

If all goes well (ie.. I don't get buried in work) the switch over will take place on Tuesday August 27!


:cheers:
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NOOO!! Not 8/27 ... That's the planned date of our next 37 page rant filled and diatribe laden thread !! :eek:

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Oh .. and I think you should turn off the ignore feature ...
 
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Big Dan said:
I agree it is a little shortsided, IMHO but it's there an option for those who want to use it.
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It has no logic to it. If someone can't handle talking to others, then they go to the food channel or something.

A lot of people have left since Knut took charge.

He has monopolized the board, with his spam to make money.

I hope he's paying you for the kickbacks he's getting.
 
Big Dan said:
I agree it is a little shortsided, IMHO but it's there an option for those who want to use it.
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Is there a possibility that when you make the Changes that a user can mark certain Threads to be skipped or viewed as read??
 
SoftJock Rick said:
It has no logic to it. If someone can't handle talking to others, then they go to the food channel or something.

A lot of people have left since Knut took charge.

He has monopolized the board, with his spam to make money.

I hope he's paying you for the kickbacks he's getting.
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I sincerely doubt there are any kickbacks. He's just a DJ on a lot of mailing lists. Jeez, I know he can get under your skin but accusing him of spamming is just mean.

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ahoustondj said:
Is there a possibility that when you make the Changes that a user can mark certain Threads to be skipped or viewed as read??
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I believe the ignore system is more robust on Xenforo in that if you ignore someone you won't see threads started by them. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

Edit: See the second and third post (by the developers of the software) in this thread http://xenforo.com/community/threads/ignore-system.19633/
 
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