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DJ (Godfather)
Junior Member
Username: Godfather

Post Number: 80
Registered: 11-2002
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:02 pm:   

I always wondered why this board wasn't on vbulletin software. Its good to be a little different.
David R. (Rodsky)
New member
Username: Rodsky

Post Number: 37
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 8:24 pm:   

Rob - Congratulations on 5,000 and thanks for all you do
Rikky Alessi (Ralessi)
Junior Member
Username: Ralessi

Post Number: 133
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 8:07 pm:   

Just a suggestion, if/when you go vB... try to get the thread preview (where you mouse over the thread title and get the first 10 lines or so...

Also, try to keep the same font/color scheme if you can. I really like this, and think that it sets the site apart. The normal blue/gray vB theme wouldn't go well with the site, I think.
Matt (Matt_lamotte)
Member
Username: Matt_lamotte

Post Number: 373
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 5:12 pm:   

Congrats Rob on the site and the 5000 post. Your fingers must have some serious callouses
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator
Username: Rob328gts

Post Number: 5000
Registered: 12-2000
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 11:58 am:   

No, vB is still several months down the road. I'm waiting for their 3.0 to come out. I like some of their new features, but may or may not switch. I've really been impressed with how Kevin from Discusware has helped us. He's answered any question I've ever had within a couple hours. He logged in to our server and worked on the archives for almost 2 hours last night. Now that's personalized service. He's a small IT shop and there's many benfits to having that. Although vB is attractive because of the advanced features and it's more Db driven, so more scalable. All the problems I've had with DW have just been the pure size of our board. However, like the stuff this week Kevin pointed out several ways to improve the performance and they've worked. Kevin treats us really well, he actually has FC at the top of his marketing page list.

5,000!!!
Mr. Doody (Doody)
Intermediate Member
Username: Doody

Post Number: 1107
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 11:51 am:   

rob - what's the schedule for the vBulletin stuff? or is that monday?

doody.
Peter (Bubba)
Member
Username: Bubba

Post Number: 347
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:42 am:   

Cool stuff, Rob! BTW, you are 1 shy of 5000 posts!!
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator
Username: Rob328gts

Post Number: 4999
Registered: 12-2000
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:25 am:   

I'm not done making the improvements yet, but it's started. The GFD archives are now in another main page at the bottom and TQ&A will be going down there early next week.

We still have some rogue processes eating up memory now and then, but at least I know how to identify them and get rid of them. Eventually I'll find the root cause so they never come back, but that's just typical day to day operations for administrating the system.

Monday I will also be updating to the latest version of this software and that will help a little too.

I'm looking out for y'all, you drive fast cars, so you expect a fast site!
Jim E (Jimpo1)
Intermediate Member
Username: Jimpo1

Post Number: 1809
Registered: 7-2001
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:22 am:   

Holy crap, Dave's right. This thing ROCKS!
Dave (Maranelloman)
Intermediate Member
Username: Maranelloman

Post Number: 1655
Registered: 1-2002
Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:21 am:   

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