Dear,
A good action you have taken. Indeed it isn't always necessary to
pay for bulletin software. The page competition
shows also the other available software.
At this moment Henri has fix the "newbies" problem.
As reaction on changing to other bulletin software we can also advice
Henri not to upgrade software. No upgrade, because we are all happy
with the current version.
As reaction on topic on Kent's forum topic what's up
- no data lost during problems with "kixtart.org"
- a possible suggestion about hosting something like "kixtart.org" can be
a problem, when such site generates an upload of about 30 GB. not all
ISP's accept such upload. - to guarantee availability of such site it is very important, that the
place is a save location and it can handle supply interruption in a good
way. - there are pro's and contra's against plain text or database version
for a BB. - what the exact reason was, which prevents a simple reload of previous
version we doesn't known exactly.
Based of Henri's experiences BB shouldn't have any problems with upgrading.
Specially when the upgrade isn't very complex.
Possible the amount of active members can be a problem. In the past Henri
was upgrading the site during slowest moments.
Oh, who makes backups on a regular base. Mostly people are waiting after
the implemention before starting backing up.
Possible that Henri had make another decision, what to do. Possible Henri
was going for Infopop solution. Possible Infopop had told "we will return
very fast a solution for this problem". - support level has mostly a price.
- it isn't always necessary you find some posts about it on Infopop's BB.
- we agree with Shawn there is no kixtart board that even comes close
to matching kixtart.org for activity ... not even close. - it isn't always possible to react on mail within a short period.
- it isn't always necessary to send mails without having a new status.
greetings.
