Fair play. Thanks for your confidence boosting and reassurance. I'll have a final discussion with my team and see how they feel. I very much doubt they will support the opposition (VB and IPB) so I would imagine you will be hearing my cries of woe soon!
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I did the install myself using a converter from Forumotion. It took about 16 hours and a copiuos amount of coffee. I did it a couple of years ago and have lost faith in my abilities ever since. If I have support, from people who actually understand that I haven't got a clue what I am doing then...
So at worst, I'd lose the $140 of investment. That's something I can live with!
I still get a bit worried about many things but it might just be me worrying too much. I am confident enough doing the switch from PHPbb, just worried about the updates there after. The way it is described on PHPbb...
I have a few concerns. Obvioiusly there is the legal battle hanging over XF that kind of worries me a little. What will happen to my forum and investment IF either XF runs out of money to continue the battle or (god forbid) VB actually win. Would I then have a defunct forum that is useless and...