Recent content by punchbowl

I love vb3.8. It's like a classic car that could explode at any time but is great fun driving. I'm never going to be able to mod xf as I refuse to understand oop. It's too late for me, I'm procedural til I die. Have to say the paid subscriptions could do with some love in xf. I'm going to...

I was overcomplicating this. Thanks to @AndyB for the help! Instead of replacing ame tags with url tags I should just have removed ame tags completely. That leaves everything just as links and you need to resave a post for xf to process the post url into an embed. Andy has a mod that automates...

I did a test upgrade earlier today and I couldn't believe how well it went. All through the browser, the upgrade did 3.5 million posts in an hour. I'm one of the last VB 3.8 holdouts. I remember many of the names on here from arguing on the various old VB forums. Anyway.

My legacy forum has embedded media links in this format tweet/youtube link I converted the forum fine. (I was very impressed tbh) but then I updated the db so went to and went to That left me with links in posts where there used to be embedded media. Could I have changed [ame] to ...

I just used the web interface as it was just a test on my desktop. if i could get under 8 hours downtime time with cli and multi-process that'd do me. I could just shut down one night with minimal impact. I'll test cli and multi-process next on the actual server. Cheers for the tips.

I've done a test and it worked very well but the process takes hours (8-9) It is possible for me to do this: 1. back up vb and use that back up to start import 2. allow people to continue to post on the original vb forum 3. close vb forum then use that db and just import the posts (and posts...

does this have member to member cash transfers? i.e. can i just send 1000 to another member easily? coming from vbookie/vbulletin here and my members love that feature (that i coded myself) also I need to reg on your xenaddons to buy the version that'll work on 2.1?

I'll take one at the $49.99 1 year early adopters price plan please!