LittleBigLand Is Moving (Again)

Posted by bludhound on Sep 10 In LBL News | 11 Comments

Hey folks. I’m here to tell you all that the LBL forum is going to be moving to a lovely new home very soon. Or rather a new software.

 

Due to many various reasons (security issues, terrible back end and front end experience, etc) vBulletin has become a real pain to work with. So we will be moving to IP.Board.

 

Now, some of you may be wondering why move to IP.Board ? Well, back when we wanted to move from our old software PHPbb, we had a choice. vBulletin or IP.Board. At the time IP.Board was still fairly new and vBulletin was on top of all the forum software choices. However, I feel that vBulletin has really gone down hill and IP.Board has really gone up hill. Amazing back end and front end experience, brilliant security, clean code development and so much more. These are the things IP.Board can offer. I believe IP.Board will enable the LBL staff to better do our jobs and allow a much better experience for our users.

 

Now for some of you who may be a little curious of the details about this move. Listen up!

 

IP.Board offers a tool to convert almost everything from vBulletin to IP.Board. Here’s a list of what can be converted.

 

 

So as you can see, the only things it can not convert are things that are not of much importance and most importantly it can convert member passwords. But listen up!. Although it can convert passwords, it will not remember them. So if you are unsure of what you password is and rely on your browser remembering them. Find out and save your passwords now!

 

I did state that this move will be soon and when i say soon, i mean soon. If i have time tomorrow then it will be done tomorrow. If not then the day after, or the day after that. When the move is made the forum will be down all day and night! The conversion will take a few hours and then i will have to do loads of things to get the forum set up. The blog however, will not be down A blog post will be made once the conversion is all done. So keep checking back.

 

So, that’s about it. I hope you all be looking forward to the move as much as the LBL staff is. :)

 

If you have any other questions about the move then please post them in the comments and i will try to answer them.

  • Kand2ts

    Thats good, especially with the security issues Vbullein always seems to have

    I honestly think IP.board is the software of the future, not meaning to sound corny. It’s just more modern and just looks a bit better.

    • http://www.melovewebdesign.com/ bludhound

      Yep, i truely believe that too. :)

  • Mnniska

    Exciting news, good luck with the move blud! :D

  • DrPepper96

    Sounds Awesome! :D

  • sackbot14

    IP.Board is amazing. IMO I really dislike vBulletin. In just about every way. :P

    Still, I prefer phpBB, however.

    • That morris6267 guy

      I agree with this kid.

      The parts about disliking vB and preferring phpbb. I know nothing of IP.board lolwut

      • sackbot14

        IP.Board is used on LBPlanetarium and Sackomediablog Forums (there may be others). I like it because it is probably the most modernized and well designed (as a base, of course) forum software.

    • That AgressivePandas chick

      phpBB was pretty awesome. I think we can al agree on vBulletin being crap.
      Except maybe Jake.

  • http://twitter.com/Sport_dude Sport_dude

    This is great news! If anyone needs me I’ll be trying to remember my password ;P

  • L-I-M-I

    Cant wait til this is all back up and functioning :D

  • Darkwolf

    I used iPB for a year and it was the worst investment ever. I wish you luck but it’s a spambots paradise even with protection.