Tony
Staff member
Guys, I'm out of options. I have spent hundreds of hours looking into what could be messing with this forum and I can't figure it out. It's getting so bad that the revenue, which just barely paid for the server after the upgrade, has been cut by about 60% because of how slow this forum is. To be perfectly blunt about it, if the forum stays like it is now, Rc-Help will be dead in 3 months. That is when we will run out of money.
So with that said, I have 3 options. Two IMO suck, and one we tried, had a lot of complaining, but it worked, it was fast, and revenue actually went UP!
VB4. This is what the forum is on right now. If I could rewind, I would put this forum on a VB4.2.1 and call it done. But that option is not there. We are on VB4.2.2 PL1 and lets face it, the forum is slow as hell, pages refresh when you are making new posts and about 50% of the time, you get a double post. If not more. So what is the good? The forum is here. All of the links work. There is an article section as well as a blog section and there are no broken links.
VB5. We have been testing this and to say it's buggy is an understatement. I'm talking there is no a page on that site that doesn't have a bug. And that was when I had it on 5.1.0. They just came out with a "good" 5.1.1, and now I can't log in, the background is black (I didn't change anything to the theme...) and if you just go to the forum address without putting /index.php after the URL, it will just show a blank page. I have worked on that site just as much as this one, and like this one, it's getting worse.
XF. This is the forum software that we went to a couple weeks ago, and we reverted back. Why did we revert back? It was a combination of a lot of factors. Most notably, members were not happy (only about 2% of members that is), there were some bugs, but most were caused by me like the dark text on a black background. And the reason we came back here and lost a lot of posts was because we had THOUSANDS of broken links. Every link to the article section was broke. Every blog link was broke. Every video link was broke and most importantly, every search engine link was broke. XF uses a completely new way of linking things vs VB.
So there is my dilemma and I'm going to leave it in the hands of the members as to where to go next. Vote in the poll and post up to let us know what you think we should do and why. I'm just out of ideas and have no clue where to go from here. I do know this though, I do NOT want this forum to die. I have new plans in teh works that I have had to put on teh back burner because of these issues. I would like to put them out to the world and help spread the RCH name and get even more members here posting up.
VOTE AND LET US KNOW!!!
So with that said, I have 3 options. Two IMO suck, and one we tried, had a lot of complaining, but it worked, it was fast, and revenue actually went UP!
VB4. This is what the forum is on right now. If I could rewind, I would put this forum on a VB4.2.1 and call it done. But that option is not there. We are on VB4.2.2 PL1 and lets face it, the forum is slow as hell, pages refresh when you are making new posts and about 50% of the time, you get a double post. If not more. So what is the good? The forum is here. All of the links work. There is an article section as well as a blog section and there are no broken links.
VB5. We have been testing this and to say it's buggy is an understatement. I'm talking there is no a page on that site that doesn't have a bug. And that was when I had it on 5.1.0. They just came out with a "good" 5.1.1, and now I can't log in, the background is black (I didn't change anything to the theme...) and if you just go to the forum address without putting /index.php after the URL, it will just show a blank page. I have worked on that site just as much as this one, and like this one, it's getting worse.
XF. This is the forum software that we went to a couple weeks ago, and we reverted back. Why did we revert back? It was a combination of a lot of factors. Most notably, members were not happy (only about 2% of members that is), there were some bugs, but most were caused by me like the dark text on a black background. And the reason we came back here and lost a lot of posts was because we had THOUSANDS of broken links. Every link to the article section was broke. Every blog link was broke. Every video link was broke and most importantly, every search engine link was broke. XF uses a completely new way of linking things vs VB.
So there is my dilemma and I'm going to leave it in the hands of the members as to where to go next. Vote in the poll and post up to let us know what you think we should do and why. I'm just out of ideas and have no clue where to go from here. I do know this though, I do NOT want this forum to die. I have new plans in teh works that I have had to put on teh back burner because of these issues. I would like to put them out to the world and help spread the RCH name and get even more members here posting up.
VOTE AND LET US KNOW!!!