Pro Boards Vol 5

[Elsordo]

Has anyone here played with this version yet? We are getting ready to upgrade. Since it will be mandatory by the end of the year and since we re making changes anyway I have decided to do this.
lots more bells and whistles and apps. a shout box for instant chats and other neat stuff for me and security which is another reason I want to do it. so....if I screw up and loose all our stuff you know what happened. I screwed up. I will try not to. I will have to load all the pics and stuff manually so it may look dumb around here for a while but when I learn everything, I should be able to make a cool site.
so PLEASE STAND BY.....
~E~

[California gal]

Good luck! I haven't seen it or heard of it. Is there a link where we can preview it?

[Elsordo]

I can't find a board that is using it yet. I will show you the video they sent us.
I wonder if this violates pro boards rules against showing youtube videos since it's theirs? lol

[Elsordo]

I am copying the forum to the beta tester now and it may take a while , not sure how long but they say up to 12 hours . the board my run slow while this is going on.

[Apple]

I haven't had the guts to try the beta version over on my forum. I have no idea what I'm doing with it to begin with, let alone trying something new...

[Double Take]

Thanks for taking good care of us, Elsordo! It sounds like a lot of work, but the pictures make the board very attractive and welcoming.

[zimmerman]

I did work with version 5 in the final weeks of Ace's forum.

I was getting used to figuring out all of the new bells and whistles and where everything is before it was deleted.

There is a very good chance that many threads might possibly get deleted in the upgrade. I lost a couple of threads I started on Ace's forum using the new system.

The one thing I did not find was a printer-friendly button. I hope version 5 has this, becuase I use it a lot.

[zimmerman]

Also, this new version does not have the multi-smiley icons that this version of the forum has. Only one regular smiley icon (unless they are hidden.)

[Elsordo]

I am still waiting for ours to load. we are 118 in line @ 45 to 60 minutes a site, we could still be a couple of days away. I am thinking about making a new site on the Illuminati just to use it and delete it. I am sure the smileys are there maybe ace had them off. How could we live without smileys? geesh.

[zimmerman]

Another thing that Volume 5 will have is that the most recent posts on the main forum will appear as ...minutes and hours ago instead of Today in this edition.

[Elsordo]

Not sure whats going on with it. I started it last Friday and it has not got to us yet, cant tell after the initial start of the process. we were 118...got to be getting close now. I started my own little forum to learn how to do it. Don't know if it will help. The more I read about Proboards and the other options and how this place has deteriorated to about 9 posters, I am starting to question if it's even a good idea to bother with the work to move it. Would be a lot easier to start all over again somewhere else with a new name and the ability for me to get it cashed in search engines and attract new members. I could change the name here but it cost $ and again, not sure I shouldn't save my money and do something else with it. There are a lot of pretty fillies out there looking for the Elsordo brand and good cigars are expensive.

[rielle]

jmo, don't do anything that you will be charged for, that just doesn't make sense. Getting a fresh start with another provider doesn't sound too awfully bad from where I sit, but I don't know how much work that would involve added to what you've already done and are already doing.

Mainly I'd hate to lose the best parts of this forum, our friends here, who would surely make their way to another forum, your artwork, CG's caps, the stories and so forth. But unless I'm very wrong the art and other digital elements could also be moved. They don't belong to proboards. Right?

[Elsordo]

Thanks for your input. No ProBoards will not let me take the forum and move it. All the content and such is ours. but there is no way to back it up in a format that I can move to another Forum host. We would have to get all our stuff and load it ourselves at the new place.

Proboards just makes it really hard to leave them.

10 bucks to change the name, which is not a lot. I would spend that much to buy you a drink if we ever met.

For about 100 bucks a year I can buy a domain reg. and an add free forum just about anywhere.

As far as the Members go, We have fallen and can't get up.
We seemed to have turned into what we ran away from and maybe worse. Most of the members here are members there still. I don't know for sure if everyone is as I wont waste my time figuring it out. I did go there for a minute to see how many were lurkers here and posting there. Which isn't that much on the front page. IF I went deeper into the posts I might find a few more. But why bother.