has the "decision" been made yet??
and if we go back to the old stomping grounds... can the quick response become available....
and if we go back to the old stomping grounds... can the quick response become available....
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A few of the racing sites I am part of have a new member section where they have to do an introduction. Once they are approved they can post elsewhere. It keeps the spam down to 0 except for a few in the new member area.
Hi Shaggy.
I vote for option 1. I think keeping two separate forums only confuses new Expy owners. After I bought my Expy last week I googled for a forum and came across both EF and FEF, and didn't really know which is better. So I ended up registering on EF and then noticed that ppl had migrated to FEF months ago lol.
Did you take a look at the ImpEx option in VBulletin? https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/impex
This is what i'd do:
1.rearrange the sections on EF to look just like FEF.
2.make a backup of the FEF database.
3.make a backup of the EF database.
4.use the ImpEx feature to import the FEF backup into the live EF database.
5.if the import doesn't work, revert EF to the backup db and start copy/pasting important threads manually. I bet many users would be glad to help out. I sure will.
BTW: I hope you plan on keeping both domain names, even after you take this forum down, right? It would be nice to have both domain names point to the same forum.
my 0.02
Option 1. I would shut this one down, and build that one into something like this. Way more members, and info over there. In your hands, that site will kick ass. Don't worry Walnuts, we'll strart a ***** thread again.
why? i have the most posts from the most active members. haha i think the owner had the most posts, but i know i topped 1000. but here over 2000 now! haha we would need to have a ***** thread.
Yup, hope it works well. Hope it's smart enough to deal with duplicate thread IDs and with users that have the same username in both databases.I am going to give the impex a try. It would be sweet to be able to move all posts/new users over to ef.com automatically.