nathy_87
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Location: West Mids. Drives: Škoda Fabia VRS 5J
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I currently moderate (yes you read it, I'm a moderator etc etc), a car forum. But imo it's on the cheap, I've got permissions to do more/less what Admin can do (long story, short: guy 1 had it, sold it to, two guys who own 207oc & now 208oc, guy 1of2, has 'quit' due to trying to do a runner with the proceeds etc and now guy 2of2 has more/less given up and wanting to sell it, I was going to buy it but I haven't got a spare Ł300 lying around). Anyway, I was trying to do what Ian does on this, with the new members for the post count but I can't seem to find it, now is this because Ian & Co. have paid X amount to have decent software installed so they can modify the website, to their hearts content, and SMF is a cheaply ran version with limited access?
Thank you.
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Whittie
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Link would be handy.
What software is it? SMF FOR FREE?
Post count seems viable as in their test forum....
demo
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Brett
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It's likely that site will be running some off the shelf script. If you've got access to the server and know the language you could easily add your own functions into it mind.
Ian's quite a clever chap and as far as I'm aware the CS script is massively customised by himself/Tim.
[Edited on 13-08-2012 by Brett]
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nathy_87
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Location: West Mids. Drives: Škoda Fabia VRS 5J
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oh sorry yeah it's
www.107oc.com
If I u2u you my username/password for the site, want to pop on and have a look? (Whittie)
[Edited on 13-08-2012 by nathy_87]
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Whittie
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Aye got a spare 5 mins so go ahead
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nathy_87
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Thank you.
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Whittie
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Just had a look. You're extremely limited as to what you can do. You'll need the details of whoever set it up I think.
Best thing to do would be to find some migration software and move over to phpbb or invision power board / vbulliten etc.
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nathy_87
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Ok thanks mate, will have a look/talk to you later.
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Sam
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Your version of SMF seems outdated (1.1.6 whereas the current downloadable version at http://download.simplemachines.org/ is 2.0.2)?
SMF is just as good as the other forums free or paid for, if I were you I'd try getting access to the website control panel and do a backup of the database, and then either set up a test site on your webserver/your PC with webserver software running and import that database info just to see what the upgrade does to your existing site.
The last thing you want to do is upgrade the site in-situ with no backup and it completely fucking up 
Either Whittie or myself can help you with that if you've any questions.
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Sam
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Also - can't remember what CS runs, I think it's a heavily modified version of XMB.
http://www.xmbforum.com/
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AlunJ
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Also - can't remember what CS runs, I think it's a heavily modified version of XMB.
http://www.xmbforum.com/
aye I used to play around with xmb a lot years ago and seem to remember them having a list of most popular xmb based forums and CS was like number one.
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