That would be Pete Lamberty. I was the 26th to walk from Badger Pond to Keith’s open door.
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I'm not much more than a toddler compared to you old heads. Congrats on your long tenure. I get a lot from all the knowledge here. Once in a while I even have a good idea to contribute. Keep things going Keith! Your doing a great job.
Congratulations Rich and all of you long-time members!
I too enjoyed Badger Pond. It was a great place.
I stumbled onto SMC years later after a google search and put down roots!
Fred
Keith,
What is the new software you eluded to?
Roger
Roger,
We have purchased Xenforo and have a test site installed so we can get acquainted with how everything works.
Keith,
What is the reason for the change from vBulletin to Xenforo? I am so familiar with vBulletin on Sawmill Creek and other forums and it works really well from a user perspective.
Roger
The vBulletin version SMC has is "broken", and the "upgrade" isn't much better and also cannot do many things natively like Xenforo can. Xenforo was written by a bunch of folks who left the vBulletin team a few years ago when they got tired of all the problems. It's more stable, more extensible and pretty much works the same way from the end-user standpoint. No worries. I've already been through this conversion at another site I help moderate (different topic) and it went smoothly. And folks had pretty much instant, native support for the kinds of devices that they use today to interact, unlike with vBulletin.
Jim's right, we are running vBulletin version 4 which they have stopped offering support and security upgrades. We purchased version 5 and installed it as a test site and it had so many problems/bugs we wouldn't dare use it for The Creek. The current version 4.2.5 we are now running required our server adminstrator to correct a multitude of problems when he installed the upgrade.
Xenforo provides native support for mobile users which is a major improvement and since over 40% of our Members are connecting using mobile devices its important that we improve access for mobile users. There is a pretty long list of other improvements but the bottom line is that we can't move forward at this point with vBulletin.