Upgrade to latest version of XOOPS?

[tonyyeb]

Hi Wayne

Any plans to upgrade to the latest version of XOOPS for the site?

Cheers

Chris

[tonyyeb]

Wayne wrote:
There is no upgrade path from what we're running to the current path, plus the newest version isn't backwards compatible with the old Amiga browsers.  

We tried at one point long ago to move forward but had to revert back to this.  It was a nightmare as most will recall.

Wayne

That's a shame. No chance of moving to another BB?

[tonyyeb]

The new features offered should be worth the upgrade with the possibility of choosing a theme for users (old for bloodline etc... and new one for those who want a change).

[tonyyeb]

I'm not bothered about the look. It is features like a better gallery, ability to see sent PM's, links to who was the last poster, a faster search (man it is sooooo slow) etc...

Keeping the old posts/data would be a MUST for any upgrade. There is too much valuable information here for it to be lost. There must be a way to write a custom script to do the job (as already stated by arnljot).

[tonyyeb]

Is there anyway we can at least look at adding a way to see your sent PM's? Does the database track this? What version XOOPS are we running?

[tonyyeb]

dammy wrote:
Just keep this current xoopsh*t based Amiga.org in read only form for archive purposes (guess archive.amiga.org?) and move to something better.  AO has a lot of history, but it's the current users that keep AO special, not it's old threads.

Dammy

Well said Dammy. I say go for this idea!