What happened!?

[boostdemon]

The host decided last night to surprise us with a MySQL database upgrade (to the latest secure version) which our hacked board code didnt work with.

So i grabbed whatever i could get to install from phpbb so at least we'd have something up.

The plan:
I've been planning a board upgrade and redesign for a while now, it was to be next inline after the new site is uploaded. My plans are to use vBulletin which is a fully supported, streamlined version of board code thats faster, more efficient, and has all the plug-ins/features we've grown to love that i've "hacked" into our board.

The software is $160 for ownership. I would like to take this time for everyone to take a look at the raw version of it here: http://www.vbulletin.com and im sure many of you frequent boards running this software in any number of designs. One of the best forums i read runs this software, the versatility of it is amazing and i believe its something I/we want.

I will be purchasing the code as soon as i can financially, however your donations will help out immensely.
My personal PayPal address is drool@saliv8.com and I will be more then happy to send stickers out as a thanks.

Thanks guys for your patience, you are all wonderful members.
-Dana Howe

[twotwodoors]

php sucks :-D come on, ASP.NET is where its at...

[adrianpike]

php sucks :-D come on, ASP.NET is where its at...
:throwing up emoticon goes here since the board is fooked:

[boostdemon]

ASP is nice, but hasnt really cought on like php... therefor for future improvements and compatibility im going to keep everything php based.

[twotwodoors]

ya i know, every forum uses php, php is linuxs' buddy and people like linux so it works out. I use vbulletin on a couple other boards so ill donate for the cause. :)

[boostdemon]

Thanks dude *hug*

Im going to be chipping in $100 off the bat to go towards this. Hopefully everyone can chip in a few bucks and take care of the other $60? :x:

[Dan]

You have PayPal.

[boostdemon]

Thank you Dan :rock on:

[245gti]

You have more Paypal :wink:

[turbogold765]

how much should we send? :e-shrug:

[boostdemon]

Many thanks Dale! you sure you want even more stickers? lol


turbogold765: Right now we're $20 shy of the $60 goal i had set... any amount is helpfull. As i mentioned im willing to toss in 100, if you guys want to lower that amount thats fine with me ;-)

[turbogold765]

:eek: i'm on 0 with my paypal right now (forgot i paid anders for the eggcrate 200 grille :oops: )
I'm transferring more money...
as soon as the transfer is complete, I'll email you the 20 (which style of bill do you prefer: new or the newest :wink:)

[Hank Scorpio]

I never got stickers for my last donation :*(

If I had some money I would bud.

If you want to see rock stable vbulliten at work, check out www.clubvolvo.com

Oh, we had ALOT of posts yesterday :e-shrug: :rofl:

[grizlyadams]

I never got stickers for my last donation :*(

If I had some money I would bud.

If you want to see rock stable vbulliten at work, check out www.clubvolvo.com

Oh, we had ALOT of posts yesterday :e-shrug: :rofl:

Ah so thats why your sites never down, and Tbricks is up and down like a nuns......(joke censored)..... :-P

Griz

[linuxman51]

ya i know, every forum uses php, php is linuxs' buddy and people like linux so it works out. I use vbulletin on a couple other boards so ill donate for the cause. :)

asp is hampered by the operating system it runs upon...
as soon as the dust settles on my financial transactions i'll donate as well :wave:

[twotwodoors]

asp.net runs on the lunix. theres some group out there that has it running on apache but its slow... its not a port, they completely re-did everything. Microsoft said they are going to make an asp.net port to apache but i dunno about that.

theres 5$ cus im a broke ass.

[boostdemon]

Thanks Mike, and Kerry you guys rock!

[945TurboTwins]

Dana -

I've got $20 bucks from Cullen I can throw your way.

Even though you said you would put in $100, I think the rest of the board should try and chip that $100 down a bit.

[boostdemon]

Thank you so much Chris and Cullen!

You guys have met your end of the deal, so im going to go ahead and buy it today and start setting it up so we can get started.

If you want to keep donating money thats awesome, but dont forget we always need donations for the hosting and such which is off the donations page on the site: http://www.turbobricks.com/donate.php

[Dr. Volvo]

Where are the blue squares, who indicates wich topics I have partisipatet/ hijacked :-) / etc. etc.?

I dont know s*** :e-shrug: about making a forum, but I suppose they disapered as a result of the new design of the forum.

I miss :rant: them they did it easy to se if there was any replies in the topics I had posted in.

Will they come back or isn't it possible?

I'll probably don't find this post again either :-P

[turbogold765]

are you referring to the little arrows to the left of your posts that show you that you've got an answer :e-shrug:

what I like now is that you get all your posts, not only 50...

I noticed the aimchat button on the index.php seems to have dissapeared along with our avatars. and the forum likes to puke up lots of errors when you try and upload a new one ;)

[Dr. Volvo]

are you referring to the little arrows to the left of your posts that show you that you've got an answer :e-shrug:

what I like now is that you get all your posts, not only 50...

No the lightblue squares behind the icon like http://forums.turbobricks.com/templates/subSilver/images/folder_new_big.gif this!

The arrows has nothing to do with the topics I have posted in :e-shrug: !!

[boostdemon]

yeah guys, its all reverted back to "pre hacks" since all the hours of work i did getting the stuff we loved didnt work when they upgraded the server.

The new board will have all the cool stuff as i can get to them. In its stock form it will have an icon for the posts your replied in. I think it will also track which "new" threads you actually read too... which i personally cant stand in phpBB when you click on a link to another thread, opens in a new window and manages to mark the board as "read". or when your browser crashes and you come back to the board and its all marked "read". :grrr:

anyways, www.vbulletin.org has lots of mods, we'll be starting with vB 3.0.0 RC4 and upgrading from there. Should be simple enough. I spent a few hours yesterday reading through all the manuals and hacks on there (still havent found my favorite "mouse-over preview topic" hack that has been working on a 3.0 board, but it will be soon i suspect.

I'll keep you all updated.


I'll install vB and get it all working smoothly, then start changing it over to the turbobricks layout. Would you guys like brand new icons and buttons with the new board? or would you like to use these ones?

[turbogold765]

Even though you said you would put in $100, I think the rest of the board should try and chip that $100 down a bit.

I agree!

Dana: I'm still good for the 20, but my bank transfer is processing on paypal... :grrr:

will the "new style" allow us direct posting for pics? I'd rather give the $23/yr to this board than pbase...

[boostdemon]

K guys, got the latest, almost full release installed and running on here... i'll try and go through and configure it tonight after the gym.

Some cool features we have all been asking for that look like they're already part of the new board code:

user reputations - guessing this would solve the pos/neg seller feedback dilema? :x:

quick search - form box right at the top makes it easy to just go grab em all... doesnt look like theres a limit either for those that hated the 50 limit on phpBB

customer user titles - i'll probably make this as an option for those that donate

and theres a bunch more... im loving the admin options already, cant wait to get this thing converted

Yes, theres an option of image attachments, it would kill our bandwidth but i'd be willing to try it out.. maybe registered only can use it, and make sure they dont link off the site? we'll see. definitely something to play with

oh yeah, theres also a nift hack so your signatures only display 1 time (first post) in a thread... and i believe theres an option in your profile (control panel in vB) to turn off sigs or sig images.


I'll let you guys know how it goes tonight, need to figure out how to get the phpBB import script to work on vB 3.0 :???:

[Hank Scorpio]

What about those who have donated before?

Is there going to be a new front page :cough cough: :wink: lol

[turbogold765]

:cough cough:

Riiicoooolaaaaa??? :-P

[boostdemon]

yes i have accurate records for everyone who has donated through our new system (the old ezboard stuff garrett has). Anything we do that would require additional funds are all based on a point system... so dont worry doug, you've got some "points" in your bucket.

Front page is done, feature cars are 80% completed (remember i have to go back and rewrite all the old winners articles).

Anyways, we'll play with all that once the new boards working.

[jcrump84]

I am up for A fee to use the board, lord knows how much i post. I think it would be kinda fun to have new buttons or somthing but anyways, if you could have pic hosting or whatever that would be cool.


Jordan

[boostdemon]

no no, there will never be a fee to use the board... that will always be free. Some other things like custom titles or personal galleries or stuff like that could be bought using points you earned by donating. kind of like an incentive program... i dunno, again something to do later

[jcrump84]

[quote:fd10ddf778]no no, there will never be a fee to use the board... that will always be free. Some other things like custom titles or personal galleries or stuff like that could be bought using points you earned by donating. kind of like an incentive program... i dunno, again something to do later[/quote:fd10ddf778]



Sounds Cool


Jordan

[Steve O]

I still think we should all pick up part of the $100 too. You spend enough on the site with time and effort, I know my time doesn't come cheap. I will be sure to send some.

[245gti]

Many thanks Dale! you sure you want even more stickers? lol


Nope...still have some. No worries.... :wink: We'll work it out....

[towerymt]

With all the added expense of new software, there's now a charge of $0.04 per post. Double posts will be $0.05. Starting a new topic is an additional $0.06.

Starting...NOW!!!!

:rofl:

[stylngle2003]

With all the added expense of new software, there's now a charge of $0.04 per post. Double posts will be $0.05. Starting a new topic is an additional $0.06.

Starting...NOW!!!!

:rofl:

make checks payable to:
"The Michael Towery Pay-For-My-Turbo-Swap Fund"
C/O Billy Nolden
Arlington, VA 22207
:-P

[boostdemon]

lol mikes the king of wheelin' N' dealin' ... manages to swap parts around till he gets what he wants for cheap.


We could always use more donations for the webhosting... the donate@saliv8.com address is purely for the webhosting fees

[turbogold765]

no no, there will never be a fee to use the board... that will always be free.

do you mean: instead of paying $75/hr for diagnosis&repairsat your friendly volvoshop, we can actually diagnose & solve volvo-related problems for free (and actually just paying for the parts) on this board??? :eek: COOOL!!! :-D
where do I sign? :-P

wtf? :rant: my transfer is still processing :grrr:

[turbogold765]

FINALLY!!!
PayPal sent to drool@saliv8.com

[boostdemon]

Thank you Mark, much appreciated :kiss:

[turbogold765]

ur welcome

[760T man]

Dana, if I had anymore money to donate I would. Also - will we be able to save our post counts? :-P

Chris, I haven't forgotten about that $34...life just sucks for me right now. :grrr: email me, I somehow lost your addy...and I'll fill you in on the details.

[Steve O]

Just threw $10 more into the pot.

Thanks again for all your work...

Steve O

[Hank Scorpio]

I just donated my 2 cents.

[boostdemon]

I just donated my 2 cents.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
[code:1:9f4df7500d]You've Got Cash!
Dear Dana Howe,

Douglas Kauer just sent you money with PayPal.

Douglas Kauer is a Verified buyer.
Payment Details
Amount:$0.02 USD[/code:1:9f4df7500d]

[boostdemon]

Thank you Steve

[boostdemon]

Cullen: I will aim to convert EVERYTHING to the new board... posts, post counts, reg. dates, PM's etc.

However, I will be asking that people go through their PM's and delete sent receipts and ones that no longer need. Im also going to say for the safe side, move all PM's to the Inbox from your saved folder.

I'll probably prune the hell out of OT and the Classifieds as well

[760T man]

[quote:e422a258f1="TaderSalad"]I just donated my 2 cents.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
[code:1:e422a258f1]You've Got Cash!
Dear Dana Howe,

Douglas Kauer just sent you money with PayPal.

Douglas Kauer is a Verified buyer.
Payment Details
Amount:$0.02 USD[/code:1:e422a258f1][/quote:e422a258f1]

HAHAH :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Blackbrick]

Dana, if I had anymore money to donate I would. Also - will we be able to save our post counts? :-P

Chris, I haven't forgotten about that $34...life just sucks for me right now. :grrr: email me, I somehow lost your addy...and I'll fill you in on the details.
:roll: :roll:

[n xntrx volvo]

:rockon: $2u :-D

[Three Fat Tigers]

When the switch is made, will we loose the threads from this board?

[turbogold765]

I hope not :x:

[Blackbrick]

Dana, you have more paypal. I would love to see a better, stronger, faster than it was board. Keep up the good work!
Greg

[EricF]

Vbulletin is the ****... www.southfloridaracing.com and www.centralfloridaracing.com also use it, and the latter was transferred from php at one point, apparently all the settings and prior threads stay intact. And the admin panel is very fun ;)

Never had either of those sites go down, either...

[turbogold765]

www.southfloridaracing.com and www.centralfloridaracing.com also use it...

:eek: very noice

[Three Fat Tigers]

and the latter was transferred from php at one point,
apparently all the settings and prior threads stay intact :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x:
:x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x:
:x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x:
:x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x: :x:

Hmm, I just noticed post counts are visible again, me likey :-D

[boostdemon]

yeah, we wont lose anything... but some things may be difficult to convert... the things in concerned with: threads, usernames/passwords, dates and post counters, search terms (that one im worried about), and private messages.

everything else isnt important, but im hoping it will convert as well. again, the data i will save and possibly load on my home server for safe keeping while we move things around.

[Volvo4Life]

all our bitchin smileys are gone :(

[Sean]

I couldn't log in with my usedname (sean) and it sent me to register so I registered as my username now I go to the threads and ALL my posts are "Guest" and I have no Private messages I got like 2 PM notifications on sat and haven't been able to get them. tryckjävel do you have them saved on your computer? can you make this SN link to my old one?
Thanks!
Sean
volvo_p1800@hotmail.com