Senior Admin Will 4,660 Posted March 5, 2018 Senior Admin Share Posted March 5, 2018 Hello all, This is an important announcement regarding the Forum. Higgins and I have been discussing this for a bit as well as the other admins and we've come to decide that we're going to move the VHL Forum off of IPB's hosting and migrate it to the same server holding the VHL Portal and, as of the other day, the indexes/games. The two major reasons behind this are: 1) As most people know, we've had some issues with not being able to use 3rd party addons like chat with IPB hosting 2) Cost So first, we will be able to bring back Chat immediately, which there is pretty much no way we can do with IPB hosting due to restrictions put in place. Chat is the main thing but this move will give us much more control over the site for other things in the future. Second, IPB hosting is very expensive compared to outside hosting companies - we aren't have issues paying the bills or anything but when you consider the restrictions we face on it and that we already have another capable server running that's free of said restrictions, it doesn't make much sense. Moving requires a upfront cost of about $200 for the self-hosted license, but should also reduce our monthly expenses by approx. 20-30 dollars so it will pay for itself eventually. What to expect I'll have another announcement with the exact day we plan on making the move and some more details. However, you shouldn't expect much more than some temporary downtime. Everything will be transferred to the new site, including the vhlforum.com domain. Any downtime we have should only be related to waiting for the vhlforum.com domain to update so that it points to the new server. They say it can take 24-48 hours to correctly point in all cases - in my experience it starts to work on and off pretty quickly but tends to take about a day to work correctly every time. That said, I believe I'll be able to provide you with a direct link to the new site before we move the forum (I'll also include in the message you'll see if vhlforum.com directs you to THIS community) so you'll be able to access the site that way while we wait for vhlforum.com to come along. We will probably do this late this week or early next week. Quik, MWHazard, eaglesfan036 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushito 1,945 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Nice, can’t wait to have chat back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Possum Queen 58 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 11 minutes ago, Bushito said: Nice, can’t wait to have chat back The only part of this announcement anyone's gonna read. Cutting down costs is great, and it'll be good to have more control over the back end. Very interested in seeing what other features/integrations are planned moving forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DollarAndADream 3,356 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 What is it going to look like? The same as this? Or will it have that SHL/GOMHL look to it? I much prefer this SBA/EFL/VHL look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaviss 4,957 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 43 minutes ago, DollarAndADream said: What is it going to look like? The same as this? Or will it have that SHL/GOMHL look to it? I much prefer this SBA/EFL/VHL look. I was also wondering this. I’ve checked the SHL out before it’s hard on the eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotAVHLM-GM 1,858 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 if chat is brought back, and 'bring back chat' will change his name to 'eaglesfanrandomnumber', we can call him a bandwagon fan right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Admin Will 4,660 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Senior Admin Share Posted March 5, 2018 50 minutes ago, DollarAndADream said: What is it going to look like? The same as this? Or will it have that SHL/GOMHL look to it? I much prefer this SBA/EFL/VHL look. The exact same Nothing really changing other than chat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedgehog337 3,483 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Will said: we will be able to bring back Chat immediately, When's your recreate coming out? @Bring Back Chat eaglesfan036 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banackock 8,044 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Cool. Hope it works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boubabi 4,725 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STZ 5,358 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Draper 2 gud to us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,021 Posted March 5, 2018 Commissioner Share Posted March 5, 2018 2 hours ago, DollarAndADream said: What is it going to look like? The same as this? Or will it have that SHL/GOMHL look to it? I much prefer this SBA/EFL/VHL look. On the user end here won’t be any difference at all visually, aside from having chat back. We aren’t changing the way the board functions or anything, just the server that hosts it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Baozi 1,658 Posted March 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2018 Whats wrong with discord that we need the old chat back? You can also embed discord chat into the websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boubabi 4,725 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 17 minutes ago, tfong said: Whats wrong with discord that we need the old chat back? You can also embed discord chat into the websites. Stop it eaglesfan036 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Baozi 1,658 Posted March 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2018 3 minutes ago, boubabi said: Stop it Wut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boubabi 4,725 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 The discord was garbage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Baozi 1,658 Posted March 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2018 15 minutes ago, boubabi said: The discord was garbage Whats wrong with it? you mean discord or just how it was utilized? Discord is pretty comprehensive, what about normal chat can it not beat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrick 4,741 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 46 minutes ago, tfong said: Whats wrong with it? you mean discord or just how it was utilized? Discord is pretty comprehensive, what about normal chat can it not beat? I liked it. Weeded out the bad apples as well haha Baozi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Baozi 1,658 Posted March 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2018 I think its just lacking general widespread adoption and integration with the site for the moment. Which can be fixed. My other hockey forum discord is popping and hyper active too. I recently put in a free music bot in there too lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Baozi 1,658 Posted March 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, Banackock said: SHL seems to like it - but the league is full of 16 year olds. GOMHL too, but it doesn't consist of conversations and more so retarded words, pictures and well, what seems like 16 year olds.. lol Banackock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Baozi 1,658 Posted March 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2018 The other discord i manage is a bit more comprehensive but thats cuz its user based driven conversations of different types. Banackock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 9,021 Posted March 5, 2018 Commissioner Share Posted March 5, 2018 1 hour ago, tfong said: Whats wrong with discord that we need the old chat back? You can also embed discord chat into the websites. We looked into embedding discord but everything we could find claimed that Discord no longer supports that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Admin Will 4,660 Posted March 5, 2018 Author Senior Admin Share Posted March 5, 2018 1 hour ago, tfong said: Whats wrong with it? you mean discord or just how it was utilized? Discord is pretty comprehensive, what about normal chat can it not beat? I just think the IM facebook-style chat is so well-suited for a forum like this where there's constantly a need for communication between GMs, players, ect. And I don't think you can really beat the convenience of old chat, I don't know how far you can go with discord integration and IPB but I can't imagine it being more convenient. Plus, we already have the chat purchased from long ago anyways so its just a matter of being able to install it. Plus, moving opens the door to more than just chat. Right now we're basically restricted from installing anything that requires us accessing the site files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Trifecta 1,896 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 Now there is only one thing left to bring back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaviss 4,957 Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 10 minutes ago, Bring Back Player 2 (Tri) said: Now there is only one thing left to bring back. @Tagger ? STZ, Tagger and Spade18 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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