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I was adjusting the smilies.... hehe

yes I know... I'm not finished lol

You mean "There" ?

fixed

:crylooks like I need to fix that one...

:blushI knew that was coming from the gixxer group :gay

Yes I will be skinning it this weekend... there is a little learning curve involved lol

Well the chat application is still in beta mode.... so it will be a few more days or weeks before that is rolled out... for now I will proceed with skinning and then start moving. :cryAnother cool feature is alt+S works with this software and there are no issues... I love that alone

I will probably add a NEW POST link on the top though like the other sites have... just to keep that part simple and the same.

yes thats it....... and depending where you are, gallery, forum, members tab ets, it will show new content in that section...

Good to hear.... change is tough... but I think this will be a good move to keep us ahead of other sites.... If your not moving forward then your being left behind...

sweet!

:hb

Just a test thread to BS in for a while to play with things.:blush

With the latest issues with vBulletin management and their license problems, I have decided to switch over to IPB, this will be a transition in the making over the next two weeks or so. Once this is completed and I'm happy with the performance and abilities of IPB I will then start moving over my other sites. If you are also interested in Switching to IPB, please let me know and I will include you in the transition. I will be doing a complete how too on IPB and it's features for all members. Change is tough for some people but if we include a simple step by step procedure I think all the members of the sites will enjoy IPB. Stay tuned.....

There have been some recent changes at vBulletin in this past 10 months... In short vBulletin (ie:Jelsoft) was sold to an internet advertising company called Internet Brands, they are a publicly traded company and on the exchange. While vBulletin has been the leader in forum development for the past 6-8 years, it seems this new company has a new approach. As with 100% of all publicly traded companies they are in this business for one reason and one reason only... MONEY. While in fact vBulletin was started out of pure enjoyment of coding and building a community.... this is not the case these days. First off they fired or removed several of the "old" coders and founders of vBulletin forums. Secondly they changed the way the company is ran, and have put the customer in the back seat and their own best interest (MONEY) as first priority.... while this is great for them.... shitting on the customers whom put you where you are today is not the proper way to conduct business. I have a moto I go by, Take care of your customers, or someone else will" I live by this day and night in everything I do. This applies to more then customers as well. To wrap this up for now without all of you having to read through several pages of post and threads on vbulletin.com, here is my suggestion at this time. vBulletin has back peddled recently on a couple of bad decisions, so I expect another one in the short term.... but for now here is my take on your licenses and their status as I posted on vbulletin.com as well.________________________________________________________________As disgusted as everyone here is with the way things have been handled here this year with vBulletin and the poor manner in which the management has decided to treat the members in which have made vBulletin what it is... I offer a solution for those long time members and new ones alike. I currently have several owned vBulletin licenses, these are paid in full and I own them. These licenses entitle me to run and use them for an unlimited period of time according to the license agreement which was in place at the time of purchase. According to the recent developments here, when your vb 3.x license expires you are able to upgrade to the new vb 4.0 series or even upgrade for free to the forum only version..... this new software carries a NEW license agreement with it..... this new license only entitles you to use it for the life of that product series only. While we don't know the length of product, one can only think of the history and assume this will be the case in the future? I would not take the history here and apply it to the future, just as we have seen by the way this company is being ran... things are different now. The versions could change at any time and there are no set schedules for this change, this leaves a very large door open for the owners of vb. The solution for those feeling like they have been bent over and rammed very hard is to keep the current OWNED LIFETIME license that you have now.... you pay nothing to vBulletin ever...... you can run it for as long as you see fit for FREE. Those with leased licenses, well you are pretty much taking it, so enjoy it and smile. Remember that once you upgrade to vb 4.x you are now under the new license agreement and not the old one that entitles you to run the software forever. You can only run it until it expires, which Im assuming will be the date of the new release. This would be fine and great if there was a time frame for the series.... but there isn't.... so it could be 6 months, or it could be 1 year... we don't know. To be safe I'm recommending to all my customers and fellow forum members not to upgrade and to keep the versions they have now.________________________________________________________________There are other options our there for your forum needs, I'm currently proceeding with a couple of VB > IPB sites and I will keep this thread posted with updates. If things change I will let you know.

Site Statistics:- $totalthreads - Displays the total number of threads in the forum $totalposts - Displays total number of posts in the forum $numbermembers - Display total number of members in the forum $totalonline - Displays the number of total users currently online $numberregistered - Displays the number of total registered users currently online $numberguest - Displays the number of total guests currently online $recordusers - Displays the number of most users ever online $recorddate - Displays the date on which most users were ever online $recordtime - Displays the time on which most users were ever online $activeusers - Displays a list of currently active/online Users (i.e. logged in) $activemembers - Displays the number of members who are active in the forum $newusername - Displays the username of the newly registered user $birthdays - Displays list of users whose birthday is today $upcomingevents - Displays list of upcoming events $BBuserinfo Array, this can show anything thats stored in the user table $bbuserinfo[username] - Username $bbuserinfo[userid] - User ID number $bbuserinfo[posts] - Users postcount $bbuserinfo[signature] - Users signature $bbuserinfo - User Email Address $bbuserinfo[homepage] - Users homepage in profile $bbuserinfo[msn] - Users MSN address from profile $bbuserinfo[yahoo] - "" Yahoo "" $bbuserinfo[icq] - "" ICQ "" $bbuserinfo[usertitle] - Users custom usertitle $VBoptions Array, these are the options stored in the settings table, i.e things that you configured from vbulletin AdminCP>>vbulletin Options. $vboptions[forumactive] - Status of whether forum is turned on/off $vboptions[bbclosedreason] - Reason why forum turned off $vboptions[bbtitle] - Forum title $vboptions[bburl] - Forum URL $vboptions[hometitle] - Site homepage Title $vboptions[homeurl] - Site homepage URL $vboptions[copyrighttext] - Site copyright text $vboptions[privacyurl] - URL to forum privacy statement $vboptions[webmasteremail] - Webmaster email address $vboptions[contactuslink] - contact us URL $vboptiions[enablehooks] - Status of plugin/hook system $vboptions[imagetype] - Determine if using GD or Imagemagick $vboptions[timeoffset] - forum time offset $vboptions[cookiepath] - forum cookie path $vboptions[legacypostbit] - Determine if using legacy (side) postbit or new horizontal postbit $vboptions[use_smtp] - If SMTP mail is enabled $vboptions[smtp_host] - SMTP hostname $vboptions[smtp_port] - SMTP port number $vboptions[allowregistrations] - Determine if new users can register $vboptions[welcomemail] - Determine if welcome mail is sent on registration $vboptions[avatarenabled] - Check if avatars are enabled $vboptions[reputationenable] - Check if reputation system is enabled $stylevar Array, this contains all the paths to forum images and other style variables that are editable in the Styles and templates >> Stylevars $stylevar[titleimage] - Path/filename for top banner $stylevar[outertablewidth] - The width of your forum $stylevar[spacersize] - Spacing betwen main body and content $stylevar[cellspacing] - Inner border width $stylevar[cellpadding] Table cell padding $stylevar[formwidth] - Form width in pixels $stylevar[imgdir_buton] - Path for forum buttons $stylevar[imgdir_statusicon] - Path for status icons $stylevar[imgdir_attach] - Path for attachment icons $css array, this is where all the CSS attributed can be located $css variables[body] - Body background colour $css[body] - Body text colour $css[body][LINK_N] - Body normal links $css[body][LINK_V] - Body visited links $css[body][LINK_M] - Body link hover colour $css[.page] - Page background colour $css[.page] - Page text colour $css[.tborder] - Table border background colour $css[.tborder] - Table border font colour $css[.tcat] - Category strip background/colour $css[.tcat] - Category strip font colour $css[.thead] - Table header background gradient/colour $css[.thead] - Table header background colour $css[.tfoot] - Table footer background colour/gradient $css[.tfoot] - Table footer text colour Ad Location Template variables:- $ad_location[ad_footer_end] - Displays content of ad_footer_end template $ad_location[ad_footer_start] - Displays content of ad_footer_start template $ad_location[ad_forumdisplay_afterthreads] - Displays content of ad_forumdisplay_afterthreads template $ad_location[ad_forumdisplay_afterforums] - Displays content of ad_forumdisplay_afterforums template $ad_location[ad_header_logo] - Displays content of ad_header_logo template $ad_location[ad_header_end] - Displays content of ad_header_end template $ad_location[ad_navbar_below] - Displays content of ad_navbar_below template $ad_location[ad_showthread_beforeqr] - Displays content of ad_showthread_beforeqr template $ad_location[ad_showthread_firstpost] - Displays content of ad_showthread_firstpost template Miscellenous:- $notices - Used to display notices (for 3.7 onwards) $notifications_total - Used to display total number of unread notifications (for 3.7 onwards)

This program works great for those of you who hate to delete old pm's. Here is how it works.Download and install the program from here http://vcldeveloper.com/downloads/vBulletin_PM_Reader.zipRun and install it.Create a database with the name of the site you want to start with, ie: yamaha, sportbikeforum, etc. Then go to you private messages area of the forum, on the bottom right side of the page you will see an option to down all pm's as an XML file, click this link and download the file. Now on the proram on your computer, click import XML file and your done. You can click file, then create a new database for each vBulletin forum you would like to archive pm's for. If you need any help post up here.

SSH access has been removed for all clients on a temporary basis, I will update this thread when this will be restored, also it will only be restored/turned on on a per user basis as needed.

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CP software update current version is now 5.0.16182

All servers were updated this morning with the following updates. If there are any issues please start a ticket in your control panel.

Due to conflict with an update that occurred last night there was some un expected downtime today. I apologize for this issue and will take steps to prevent it in the future. There are still a couple things to be sorted out which I will take care of tonight.I hope you all got some work done today....