(RFD) Amiga.org's future

[Viking]

bhoggett wrote:


Erm... I think Wayne's already explained that. The host requires a PHP5 upgrade and the currently used version of Xoops is not PHP5 compatible, nor is there an upgrade path to the up-to-date version of Xoops (which isn't Classic Amiga-friendly anyway).

The option to "don't change the working thing" does not exist unless one was to move to a dedicated server running old software for no other reason than to run Amiga.org. The problem with this would be cost.

Why can't the server run the old software beside the new software?
Multitasking ya know.

[Viking]

I appreciate and admire all your hard work Wayne.

As I see it, we are left with no choice really. We have to accept a change for modern and supported software. If the Amiga can't take it, well, so be it.

All I ask is that no data is lost.


About costs:
Isn't it very cheap to run a site like this? We are not that many members, and I doubt amiga.org uses alot of bandwith (compared to other forums/sites).
I belive that some forums have FREE hosting?

[Viking]

About the costs; I understand.

Was there a conclusion about the next software? There will probably be complaints by people who does not understand, but they can not be allowed to stop a change when the change is inevitable.

Out of curiousity - how much hard disk space is needed to store this whole site? Are most of it used by the image gallery?

[Viking]

Wayne wrote:
We are no where near ready to go, but just to give you an idea of where I'm at, you can review the site at http://www.amiga.org/forums

Your user accounts should work, please let me know whether you see any glaring issues.

To be honest, the perfectionist in me doesn't really *like* it so far, so I'm thinking of going ahead and buying a ready-made theme to build a custom "Amiga.org" style on.  

Primarily, I'm considering (my current favorite starting points for building a new theme)

1 - http://www.forummonkeys.com/forums/vbulletinskins/index.php?styleid=57

2 - http://www.completevb.com/demo/index.php?styleid=42

or

http://www.forummonkeys.com/forums/vbulletinskins/index.php?styleid=69

or making a very AMIGA version of this;

http://vbskinworks.com/forum/index.php?styleid=339

This is great Wayne!!

As for the colors and look, there's only one of them that I really like, and that's the "MacSkin".

But I can live with any one of them.

[Viking]

Wayne wrote:

The *huge* thing was making sure we had a platform which would actually migrate as much of that 7-year-old forum data as possible.

Not everything can be migrated? What will be lost?  :nervous:

I don't want anything to get lost. :cry: