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Under Consideration: Migrate the Forums to Discourse
Post 303045032 by Neo on Wednesday 11th of March 2020 03:39:42 AM
03-11-2020
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Well, over at meta discourse, they have been "kinda bullying me" to upgrade vB3 to vB4, but when I started the discussion over there with the fact it is a non-starter.
First, they told me to migrate to vB4; then they told me the would help us upgrade to vB3 and we would all work together, then they backtracked and closed the discussion.
I guess when you have forum which has been around for over 15 years and helped upwards of 600 million unique users, this is the payback
What is the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished".
LOL
Even thought there is no upgrade path to get vB4 (and has not been for some time). See control panel:
It's obvious we cannot buy vB4 updates... and it's obvious that Discourse it not going to help with vB3. They have made this clear by kinda bulling me over there, advising strongly we upgrade to an upgrade which does not exist for us.
LOL
So, as I thought before. I will have to do this all my myself; but at least we have a starting point vbulletin.rb script I can modify.
Let's THANK Discourse for that. and THANK them for Discourse.
I understand these folks at Discourse. Dealing with vB forums are a pain (especially vB3) and not fun at all. I know, I have owned one for over 15 years
The bottom line is that Discourse does not support vB3 migration to Discourse, they have made that very clear over the past few days.
(and it is perfectly OK they don't.... I understand their viewpoint, but they do not understand vB versions, licensing.... and make recommendations which are impossible to follow... sadly)
In a nutshell, it all boils down to Discourse does not support vB3 migration, period.
First, they told me to migrate to vB4; then they told me the would help us upgrade to vB3 and we would all work together, then they backtracked and closed the discussion.
I guess when you have forum which has been around for over 15 years and helped upwards of 600 million unique users, this is the payback
What is the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished".
LOL
Even thought there is no upgrade path to get vB4 (and has not been for some time). See control panel:
It's obvious we cannot buy vB4 updates... and it's obvious that Discourse it not going to help with vB3. They have made this clear by kinda bulling me over there, advising strongly we upgrade to an upgrade which does not exist for us.
LOL
So, as I thought before. I will have to do this all my myself; but at least we have a starting point vbulletin.rb script I can modify.
Let's THANK Discourse for that. and THANK them for Discourse.
I understand these folks at Discourse. Dealing with vB forums are a pain (especially vB3) and not fun at all. I know, I have owned one for over 15 years
The bottom line is that Discourse does not support vB3 migration to Discourse, they have made that very clear over the past few days.
(and it is perfectly OK they don't.... I understand their viewpoint, but they do not understand vB versions, licensing.... and make recommendations which are impossible to follow... sadly)
In a nutshell, it all boils down to Discourse does not support vB3 migration, period.
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DH_SYSTEMD_START(1) Debhelper DH_SYSTEMD_START(1) NAME
dh_systemd_start - start/stop/restart systemd unit files SYNOPSIS
dh_systemd_start [debhelperoptions] [--restart-after-upgrade] [--no-stop-on-upgrade] [unitfile...] DESCRIPTION
dh_systemd_start is a debhelper program that is responsible for starting/stopping or restarting systemd unit files in case no corresponding sysv init script is available. As with dh_installinit, the unit file is stopped before upgrades and started afterwards (unless --restart-after-upgrade is specified, in which case it will only be restarted after the upgrade). This logic is not used when there is a corresponding SysV init script because invoke-rc.d performs the stop/start/restart in that case. OPTIONS
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