Move to XenForo software

amberwolf said:

When we move over, perhaps borrow this quote to stick in the header:
“ Let us stand on each other’s shoulders, not each other’s toes”
Dennis Allison

Maybe it would help with the attitude problem a few of the people have around here (mostly those that end up in OTD a lot, but there are others....)

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Jaraldo said:

Probably an unusual topic for a first post, but as a new member that has referenced the forum extensively in the last few months, I thank you for your effort in updating it - and to everyone who provides the content/community.

A community I was part of a few years ago migrated from phpbb to Xenforo as well and I helped with bug testing. If there is anything I can do, let me know.

I'm not technically proficient in how Xenforo works on the back-end, but just relaying information I've observed based on inquires in this topic so far:

• When the forums were being moved to Xenforo, the biggest effort/headache was getting all the uploaded files/images (there were 100'000s) to sync up with the topics they were posted in. For whatever reason all the topics 3 years or older didn't show the files/images that had been posted in them - this could just be due to the admin who wasn't experience with Xenforo.

• The PMs from the old site were able to be migrated to the new site.

• I think the banned users from the old forum had to manually have their settings altered on the Xenforo forum in order to be banned again. Iirc, it had something to do with the differences between how Xenforo and phpbb organize data differently. As that was a few years ago, maybe there is a better way to do that now.

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neptronix said:

Something along those lines is a priority in the later stages of development. We should brainstorm some ways to nudge the tone of the forum towards more positive and engineering based.

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neptronix said:

If anyone knows some jpeg recovery tools, i'd like to hear about them.

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amberwolf said:

I don't know if it's useful, but I've used XnConvert in the past to process extensionless images. It's been long enough that I don't remember any details though, so it might not do anything useful for you.

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