Hi all,

 

The club as it stands is more than just a forum and we would like our members to have the same opinion and support it.

Having rich content, lots of videos, pictures, online competitions and other features would enhance the club 10 fold.

 

Thats all great but we have an issue and its the root of our enture website and forums.

 

The forum is run on vBulletin version 4.2.5, which has been for the over 10 years the back bone of this clubs social hub,

However vBulletin has run its course and has become end of life with no futher updates and is rapidly falling behind in both

features and security.

 

vBulletin has an upgrade path which is called version 5 and is a complete disaster; we attempted an upgrade at the start of the

year and quickly moved back after multple failures with the system.

 

If we want to stay ahead of the game then we simply need to upgrade our system.

 

But vBulletin isn't going to cut it so its time to change things completely and migrate to a new platform.

 

Invision Community is the new system i propose we get.

 

You can all go and see it in action at :

 

https://invisioncommunity.com/

 

This new software is not simply Forum orientated so we can create a full rich website full of content pulled directly from the community.

 

Every member can have there own Blog section, Gallery (that works) and many more features.

 

The mobile experience is first class too as you no longer have to zoom in to click forums or to read threads.

 

This new platform is top quality and has great support from the creators and owners who create their own apps for it.

 

If you want a quick view of what the forum side of it looks like go here :

 

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/

 

This upgrade will be a major game changer for us but i hope that it will bring together even closer what a great community we have.

Edited October 29, 20196 yr by JaiKai

New theme installed on the test site.

Everything is now fully operational and functional.

 

only thing that needs sorted is how the hell we migrate the current subscriptions.

 

Seems no easy way to do it and even by a manual process its near impossible.

Everything is now fully operational and functional.

 

only thing that needs sorted is how the hell we migrate the current subscriptions.

 

Seems no easy way to do it and even by a manual process its near impossible.

 

If they have migration for the data why not subscriptions

No idea,

 

And searching support forums tells me nothing.

 

You cant even easily create a subscription either as it required billing information.

 

 

If they have migration for the data why not subscriptions

Yes said club members no mention of membership.

I can migrate all premium members as a group.

 

The issue after is that there is no subscription linked to the group.

It's perfectly fine for new users, it's just the current ones I can't add

It's perfectly fine for new users, it's just the current ones I can't add

 

They want a lot of money to do it for you.

I can understand why.

 

Managed to find a way to do it.

 

I have to create a new invoice for every premium member then mark it as paid, then edit ti to match the subscription dates.

 

They want a lot of money to do it for you.

I can understand why.

 

Managed to find a way to do it.

 

I have to create a new invoice for every premium member then mark it as paid, then edit ti to match the subscription dates.

 

You are a star, well done we all owe you a beer.

I still need an address for every invoice created to make a subscription.

 

looking at the database tables i might have a way to create a custom script that makes invoices, and subscriptions based on previous users details.

 

i don't know whos everyones address is but i'm sure i can create a dummy address just to allow the script to run.

Premium Member

Nissan Road

Zedsville

Twinturboshire

VG30 Z32

Time to push the button.

 

Just prepping some stuff and i will start the migration to the new platform.

 

Hopefully it will all go fine, worst case i just restore the files and turn this old site back on.

 

So can everyone give their condolences to the old site and take some screen shots if they want of how it looks for old time sake.

Nice work Lee.....!!! Thanks for your hard work mate, you've done a great job....!!!

 

Looking good Lee and thank you for all your work.? Lot of stiff to get used to but will get there.

Its been a fast week, thats us been on the new system for a week now.

 

Everyone settling in ok ?

So far so good. Liking the new lay out a lot. Thanks again. ?

14 hours ago, JaiKai said:

Its been a fast week, thats us been on the new system for a week now.

 

Everyone settling in ok ?

Its a lot for an uneducated, computer illiterate fool like myself to take in but I’m slowly getting there and enjoying it so far. ?

 

I was so used and loved the old site but this is the way forward and slowly getting used to it and can see the advantages it has over  the old. ?

I’m still using Tapatalk at the moment whilst a try and find a way to use it that can match it’s simplicity and ease of use.

22 hours ago, JaiKai said:

Its been a fast week, thats us been on the new system for a week now.

Everyone settling in ok ?

Nice work, congratulations. (btw, has the change colour setting been implemented and if so, where? I'm being a luddite and can't find it ? )

2 minutes ago, Gio said:

Nice work, congratulations. (btw, has the change colour setting been implemented and if so, where? I'm being a luddite and can't find it ? )

I've enabled it now to let everyone see what it does but as the logo is not transparent it wont change so it looks naf.

Click the paintbrush tool at the top right to get the colour picker.

I Managed to upload a transparent image of the logo.

The colour picker should work just fine now with it.

25 minutes ago, JaiKai said:

Managed to upload a transparent image of the logo.

 

The colour picker should work just fine now with it.

The colour picker is a nice touch, although it has got me wondering if there is a 'dark mode' which can be enabled anywhere?

Having spent some time using (and configuring) vBulletin 5.x, IMO this is a much nicer alternative. ? 

 

 

 

Now my view of the site matches my zed ?