Need some help from all of you..

[walnuts4x4]

has the "decision" been made yet??

and if we go back to the old stomping grounds... can the quick response become available....

 

[JDMitchell]

Hey Walnuts I think we got left over here. I feel so abandoned.

 

[walnuts4x4]

nothing has changed officially.... the news just broke last night and still waiting for Shaggy to decide what he wants to do.... from what I have read and what I would like to see is the "old site EF.com" will get a makeover and look just like this one FEF.... basically Shaggy owns both and will make one hopefully EF the main one and anyone that comes to this one will get directed over to the "new-old one"....

 

[panda24619]

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.

thats what i like. another forum im a member of has that. it takes anywhere from that night to the next day to get approved. and if theres more than one thread of the same subject than the mods say tell them no duplicates and delete it right there, or just lock it for a little bit then delete it.

 

[Shaggy]

Guys, all I am asking is to help me out with option 1 or 2. We can go off talking about other stuff later. Just help me with the options for now

 

[Shaggy]

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

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.

 

[Lane24]

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.

 

[panda24619]

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.

 

[GAINMOB]

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.

are you sure??? check WALNUTZ:

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[b514]

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.

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.
Let us know how it works!

 

[walnuts4x4]

ok I've seen enough people vote for option 1.... when are you gonna get started?

 

[Shaggy]

I am going to import this forum over to EF. Thats what will be happening. I just need to have a few hours free to do it. I will get it done this week, just not tomorrow, I know that

 

[walnuts4x4]

cool...

 

[JDMitchell]

So by importing this forum to the original, we will go back to our old profiles on EF.com? Sorry if that is a stupid question but I don't know what all will be involved in the switch.

 

[GAINMOB]

if i can help in anyway...i'm all for it!!!

 

[Sierra Lima1470]

Gee wiz so much change happening now! I don't know if I can handle it...
I haven't visited the old site in months.

 

[walnuts4x4]

its getting crazy here....lol... and I'm loving it... the growth potential is gonna be through the roof since Shaggy owns EF now

 

[GAINMOB]

i havent been there since 25 May 11...i have more post here in 5 months than i do over there in almost a year...

 

[GAINMOB]

@ shaggy...theres a guy on the other site...guessing he's on here as well...but he posted that he can transfer EVERYTHING from here to there...

just FYSA...

 

[Canadian Expy]

This should be fun
Just make sure the peppers come along !!!!