Hello and welcome,
It's been a long road, getting from there to here, but the Trek BBS is now officially in the 21st century and is on vBulletin. It's been a big job, and I wish to thank the mods, the testers who helped me recently, Anti_Drone for his design skills and Robert Maxwell for his programming expertise.
This has been a big job, and there's still some work to do. During this period of transition please take the time to read my points below so that you can begin enjoying Trek BBS as quickly as possible
Login with your display name
On the old ubb.threads it was possible to have a different login name to your display name. There are no separate login names anymore. Login with your display name (i.e. the one that people see when browsing the board).
Having a play
If you wish to play with the code, and how things work, please mess up the test forum. Go crazy, we don't care what damage you do in there.
For The Neutral Zone access
See this topic in QSF.
Read/unread post tracking
vBulletin tracks posts very differently to ubb.threads. Find out more in this topic in QSF.
Quoting posts
Quoting and replying to posts has changed, please check out this topic in QSF.
ARGH I have lots of private messages
The way vBulletin imports, it finds the messages you've sent in the past and places a copy into your inbox. A bit odd, I know, but I guess they wanted you to have a complete log of what you've sent. You can just delete them. Or if you want your ENTIRE messagebox wiped for a clean start, message me.
Premium memberships
Due to continued PayPal problems it's not possible to take on offer new premium memberships, but all existing premium members should have most of their benefits in place on the new system.
Your patience please
This is a highly complex migration, and vBulletin has a gazillion more settings than ubb.threads. There's still some work to do, and if you find something is not to your liking does not mean it's that way forever -- it could just be a setting that I missed. Please bear with us as we iron out the kinks with the new system. Things I definitely know about can be found in the known issues thread.
Most importantly, enjoy! This has been a long-time dream of mine to get Trek BBS on to a better system, and I'm glad it's finally here.
Antony
It's been a long road, getting from there to here, but the Trek BBS is now officially in the 21st century and is on vBulletin. It's been a big job, and I wish to thank the mods, the testers who helped me recently, Anti_Drone for his design skills and Robert Maxwell for his programming expertise.
This has been a big job, and there's still some work to do. During this period of transition please take the time to read my points below so that you can begin enjoying Trek BBS as quickly as possible
Login with your display name
On the old ubb.threads it was possible to have a different login name to your display name. There are no separate login names anymore. Login with your display name (i.e. the one that people see when browsing the board).
Having a play
If you wish to play with the code, and how things work, please mess up the test forum. Go crazy, we don't care what damage you do in there.
For The Neutral Zone access
See this topic in QSF.
Read/unread post tracking
vBulletin tracks posts very differently to ubb.threads. Find out more in this topic in QSF.
Quoting posts
Quoting and replying to posts has changed, please check out this topic in QSF.
ARGH I have lots of private messages
The way vBulletin imports, it finds the messages you've sent in the past and places a copy into your inbox. A bit odd, I know, but I guess they wanted you to have a complete log of what you've sent. You can just delete them. Or if you want your ENTIRE messagebox wiped for a clean start, message me.
Premium memberships
Due to continued PayPal problems it's not possible to take on offer new premium memberships, but all existing premium members should have most of their benefits in place on the new system.
Your patience please
This is a highly complex migration, and vBulletin has a gazillion more settings than ubb.threads. There's still some work to do, and if you find something is not to your liking does not mean it's that way forever -- it could just be a setting that I missed. Please bear with us as we iron out the kinks with the new system. Things I definitely know about can be found in the known issues thread.
Most importantly, enjoy! This has been a long-time dream of mine to get Trek BBS on to a better system, and I'm glad it's finally here.
Antony
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