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| Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 08:32 pm |
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High Hopes, Frank Sinatra - whoops there goes another rubber tree plant, etc.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 08:34 pm |
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Robert wrote: High Hopes, Frank Sinatra - whoops there goes another rubber tree plant, etc. thanks! 
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 10:37 pm |
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Mag License Holder
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It is called "High Hopes" Di by Frank Sinatra lol. Hang on Robert, if Jim can possibly help you he will do. You won't get service anywhere else that you will get from Jim and Di.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 10:05 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder 
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Robert wrote: I am currently hosted with Siteground with a v.2.0.22 phpbb forum at the link shown below. Hi Robert, I'm also running a model railway board using WowUltra, to support users of my track software: http://www.templot.com/forum So I've registered on yours! There is a possible migration route you could use but it would be a bit more expensive as it means paying twice! WowBB forum software includes a migration option from phpBB 2.0.x in the installation. WowUltra is derived from WowBB, so if you first converted to a WowBB board, it would then be easy for Jim to convert you to WowUltra. It might not be necessary to go live on WowBB before converting to WowUltra. WowBB is at http://www.wowbb.com . The note about php migration is at: http://www.wowbb.com/faq.php#1.8 (it won't include everything from your existing board, though -- just the users and topics). Several users here are ex-WowBB. I'm very pleased to have made the switch. There's history here, so I will leave it to Jim to expand on the above if he wishes. regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 10:42 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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wingnutter wrote: That's a nice forum Robert. 28,000 posts from 86 members is very impressive. Hi Steve, One reason for that high ratio (over 300 posts on average per member!) is that Robert doesn't allow lurkers. If you don't post within 7 days of joining you are removed. It seems a bit draconian, but it has certainly resulted in an active community feeling on there (I've just joined). It would be interesting to know how the membership figures of several other forums would change if a similar policy was adopted. regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 01:52 pm |
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Robert Member
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martin_wynne wrote: wingnutter wrote:Just seen your registration Martin, great to have you on board. Yes I suppose we do run a tight ship on the forum but that's the way the membership likes it. They had the say on all aspects of the forum, on what went in and what got cut when I set it up. It's run purely for the benefit of the members, hence the title, Your Model Railway.That's a nice forum Robert. 28,000 posts from 86 members is very impressive.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 06:07 pm |
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wingnutter Forever Learning 
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martin_wynne wrote: One reason for that high ratio (over 300 posts on average per member!) is that Robert doesn't allow lurkers. If you don't post within 7 days of joining you are removed. It seems a bit draconian, but it has certainly resulted in an active community feeling on there (I've just joined). I have been doing this since early this year Martin. If they don't make a post within 24 hours I delete them and there is a warning on the registration page about this. I also send them a PM letting them know when the next cull of non-posters will take place. I can't say for sure if it has increased the numbers of people registering, I mean people will lurk regardless if they can read the posts. But it has increased the numbers of newbies actually posting regularly. Once they make an introduction post, what happens is that lots of the regular members welcome them and that gets the newbies involved. So it's a good thing. I have to add that since Jim moved my forum over to his servers here and upgraded to Ultra, the number of new daily registrations has at least doubled. Similar story for the daily post counts (about 40% up) and number of members online (up about 35%) at any given time. But that's all because the servers here are more stable and can be accessed from anywhere in the world. No more problems with the forum bogging down with 80 members online or people in Australia, Japan etc. getting the 404 error page of death when they visit.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 06:24 pm |
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Robert Member
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We have a policy of deliberately keeping numbers down to where members can get to know each other. That's why if anyone does find us on the internet all they see is the header and footer of the forum, not what's on offer.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 04:23 am |
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Jim I work here 
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UPDATE First off some history. The old Wow system had a routine for using a phpBB database. Well that's exactly what it did, it added a few fields to the phpBB database and just used it. Sounds good eh? Well reality is it made certain things react differently since it used a different filesystem. Not a true wow database just band aids and chicken wire though I applaud the gallant effort by the creator. Ultra decided not to use this system because we have added so much to the database as far as fields go that the phpBB routine would have had to be re written with all the additions that Ultra sported. It still would have been a "patch" and unpredictable. The only REAL solution we feel is to convert the data to a full ultra format. As of tonight I have a converter that will convert categories and forums to Ultra format... 100%. It isn't easy and when it is done I hope we can gain customers from it.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 05:03 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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Jim wrote: As of tonight I have a converter that will convert categories and forums to Ultra format... 100%. It isn't easy and when it is done I hope we can gain customers from it. Brilliant! Well done Jim.  There are a huge number of old phpBB boards out there and no-one likes them very much. I'm sure your hard work will be well rewarded with converting customers. I know Robert will be pleased!best regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 10:11 am |
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Robert Member
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That is good news Jim. What's my next step then in getting everything on here and hosted by Data 1?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 11:28 am |
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Jim I work here
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Depends on who holds the domain name and the red tape surrounding that, also the REAL access we have to the database at your current host. If you want to start exchanging PM's so we can start looking at more sensitive info that is fine.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 01:42 pm |
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TVDinner Go UCONN! 
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wow - this sounds like REALLY great news for a lot of people who want to convert to WowULTRA. Great job Jim. Very exciting!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 07:28 pm |
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Mag License Holder
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Good luck Jim with lots of new customers.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 07:47 pm |
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Robert Member
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How goes the phpbb conversion then Jim? Daylight at the end of the tunnel yet?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 08:18 pm |
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Di Administrator
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Robert wrote: How goes the phpbb conversion then Jim? Daylight at the end of the tunnel yet? with all the late nights hes putting in, I certainly hope so!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 08:27 pm |
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Robert Member
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If it's as successful as we all hope it is Di then perhaps the late nights have only just started when all the phpbb customers start rolling in.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28th, 2009 10:01 pm |
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Robert Member
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I'm updating this topic because I am curious as to whether all those late nights and hard work that Jim put in on my behalf have benefitted him with more conversions from phpbb. If not then I cannot understand it because, apart from things that I have brought down upon myself, I cannot fault the software, and I am still using the original 1.15v, although with quite a few modifications to fit my particular forum. I have no wish to know your business Jim, or volume figures, I just want to know if it was worthwhile. Last edited on Mon Sep 28th, 2009 10:02 pm by Robert |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29th, 2009 02:27 am |
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Jim I work here
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PhpBB customers are USUALLY the kind that need a free solution. Also we didn't do any "real" advertising, just dropping posts here and there. So there has really not been a lot of action on the phpBB front. The conversion taught me valuable lessons on MySQL tables... converting and accessing AND writing. It was like an exercise in database manipulation that I needed to take a "next step". I don't regret it at all Bob. Our problem is lack of advertising. If it were to grow quickly we could not keep up AT ALL with our family at current ages they are. So in my opinion the things I learned from doing your conversion were priceless, and we got out of it a devoted customer and any of his friends he has influence over. Jim
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