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I had been threatening to move the Breakfastroom to a new format for ages. The old forum software didn't allow the security or moderation that this does so it had to be done. I tried for ages to find a way to migrate all the threads, users and posts, but sadly that wasn't possible so the big decision was whether to start again from scratch with better software.
Thanks to you all this has worked I think. Already we have a healthy daily postcount and even better, looking at the statistics:
158 members, but (this is the important bit) 147 active members. Very few forums can boast that ratio of active to inactive.
All the old posts on the old forum are available to browse (see top right link), but soon I think that will be superceded by the info on here anyway.
I also had a bit of a sweat with moving hosts just after we started when I discovered that there was a problem. This entailed moving the newly created database and transferring domain names to a much better and more reliable server at Zen Internet and I would like to thank everyone there for amazing technical support during this hairy switch. Not that they are reading this but maybe I can show my appreciation for recommending them. Not the cheapest ISP, but in this case money well spent.
:welldone
And thank you all for sticking with the Breakfastroom.
Thanks to you all this has worked I think. Already we have a healthy daily postcount and even better, looking at the statistics:
158 members, but (this is the important bit) 147 active members. Very few forums can boast that ratio of active to inactive.
All the old posts on the old forum are available to browse (see top right link), but soon I think that will be superceded by the info on here anyway.
I also had a bit of a sweat with moving hosts just after we started when I discovered that there was a problem. This entailed moving the newly created database and transferring domain names to a much better and more reliable server at Zen Internet and I would like to thank everyone there for amazing technical support during this hairy switch. Not that they are reading this but maybe I can show my appreciation for recommending them. Not the cheapest ISP, but in this case money well spent.
:welldone
And thank you all for sticking with the Breakfastroom.