Moving Forward
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Undoubtedly, many of you are waiting on a change at this site. Its a change that has been mentioned before! I’m talking about upgrading!
What is going to be upgraded? Thats a good question, you may ask. For some time, I had been looking forward to phpBB3. While phpBB2 wasn’t bad to work with, version 3 looked like it would have some fancy improvements. As soon as phpBB3 was released, I was all over it! The majority of the forums I ran I upgraded right away. And I wasn’t disappointed!
So what does this have to do with GrabAForum.com? While having user forums on phpBB2 has been all fine and dandy, everyone deserves something better. So why aren’t we updated already?
Basically, the move will take quite a bit of work. It may not take much time, but it will take lots of care. We have many member forums that would need to be updated, plus we’d have to update the backend as well.
What changes would come from this upgrade? Two main ones come to mind:
- Forum Templates
- Forum URLs
Essentially, while there are many forum templates that look good with phpBB2, the sad truth is that they can’t be used for phpBB3. The good news, though, is that over the past few months, quite a few template makers have created phpBB3 versions of their templates. This means that we can and will have quite a few templates for you to choose from.
The other change would be in how the forums are accessed. Right now, all forums are accessed via http://www.grabaforum.com/forumname. With this update, access would change over into http://forumname.grabaforum.com/. But don’t worry! We’ll let you know way in advance before we do this!
Even with these two points to consider, moving to phpBB3 will be a great change for GrabAForum!
