Re: Problems with using PowerDivX board

I vote for #2
Because a hidden forum is the opposite of what we need (public, open, 
everyone welcome).
And setting up a private board as the PDX one is still up and running is 
not necessary...

ChristianHJW wrote:
 > Guys, i am sorry i have to inform you that using the PowerDivX board 
as we
 > do now may be problematic. In contrary to what i thought and was 
convinced
 > about it now becomes obvious that corecodec.com can   n o t   use the old
 > database from the powerdivx.com forums, because the postnuke 
interface can
 > not transfer old users.
 >
 > So, as a matter of fact the old PowerDivX forum will soon be 
abandoned, and
 > with it all old threads, including the ones we started recently.
 >
 > I am very very sorry that i m telling you this with an unnecessary delay,
 > but in fact Steve surprised me when posting the first threads to the 
board.
 >
 >
 > We have a few different alternatives now :
 >
 > 1. Everwicked offered to setup a private ( hidden ) forum on his 
board or on
 > the vdub support board
 >
 > 2. Dan Marlin had mentioned that we maybe can use the brand new corecodec
 > forums, being still under development, even befor the site is really 
up and
 > public.
 >
 > 3. As we can expect the forum to be real small and not much traffic to be
 > generated i could setup mySQL and PHP here on my little dynIP server and
 > host the forum here for us ( means no p2p for me to save bandwidth  :-(
 > ..  ).
 >
 >
 > The question whether we go for 1. or 2. will IMHO be also depending 
on our
 > future coperation with corecodec.com , mainly if we would like to be 
hosted
 > on their site in future or not.
 >
 > Please let me know what you think
 >
 >
 > Christian
 >
 >
 > BTW : Dont care about the existing threads and its contents, i will 
take the
 > time and copy them and everything that was said over to the new 
database by
 > hand, wherever this will be.





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