Software – Schwarz Network

Introducing 2 New Communities – Update

Posted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 by Admin Reports

These communities were merged into the new Off Topic Forum. If you were a member at these communities your posts can be found at Off Topic Forum.

I just opened 2 new forum communities. I haven’t opened any new forums in a while and thought I’d add a couple new sites to the network.

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vBulletin v IPB – The Final Chapter

Posted on February 13, 2011July 3, 2024 by AWS3 Comments

As some of you know I bought a site database. The site vBnt.net was a vbulletin site and is no longer online. I was going to convert it to IPB. Problem was it wouldn’t convert. I have done my share of vbulletin to IPB conversions, over 20 in fact, for myself and clients and this is the first time I could not work through the conversion issues so I just upgraded to the latest stable release of vbulletin, version 4.1.1.

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xenForo Test Site Set Up

Posted on February 2, 2011July 3, 2024 by AWS

I bought a copy of xenForo when it first went on sale. I had it setup on my test server. During my server upgrades and general network maintenance window I upgraded the test server and took the old one offline. I moved the test site to one of the production server. That didn’t go well.

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Might Use vBulletin For One of My New Sites

Posted on January 30, 2011January 30, 2011 by AWS3 Comments

I am getting ready to open a new site. It’s been one I have been wanting to open for a while and is in a niche that is rather new. There are some established sites in the niche so the sledding will not be easy, but, since this is a somewhat newer niche there is a good chance of being successful. For this site I will use IPB. I still think IPB is the best forum software to date.

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Review: vBulletin

Posted on January 21, 2006 by Admin Reports2 Comments

vBulletin is the software of choice for thousands of communities. vBulletin began its life in April of 2000 when John Percival and Jelsoft released the first version. Since that time it has surpassed Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) as the defacto forum package.

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