Post by Jaysports on Apr 14, 2012 15:32:41 GMT -5
DFW Members,
We are reaching out to our valued members to let you all know that we have migrated our forum to a new provider. You'll be receiving an email from the new forum by tomorrow morning with the URL although we should be done tonight. By lunch tomorrow the actual forum page from our homepage will also go straight to the new forum as well.
Link is dynastyfootballwarehouse.com/forums
For security reasons you'll need to run the forgot password option along with your current username on the new site to set your activate password moving forward as we do not have access to that info and there was no way to transfer it over. We're going to keep the old forum open until we feel comfortable that everyone has migrated over, so feel free to post in both places during that time.
Our new provider PhpBB has been around and they aren't going anywhere, so we'll be able to expand/scale with them as we grow. Along with that there are a number of reasons why ProPoards wasn't going to be a good home for us permanently, so we thought it would be best to migrate now as opposed to later when and if we have more members
1) Our current forum is not on the actual DFW site and we didn't have a unique forum URL name for it like we do now.
2) We had two sets of log-in info, one for the main site and one for the forums. This move allows us to have one single sign-on that keeps you logged in for both.
3) We can add a plug-in/widget to our main homepage showing the most popular threads from the forums, this will be a nice feature for new folks visiting the site for the first time to help get them over to the forums for more opinions.
4) ProBoards has been ok from a user experience, but they are very unethical for many reasons. They gave us a month of ad-free credits, and when that ran out they added a really slow script to show ads on the site. It slowed the site to a crawl forcing us to purchase monthly ad-free credits. They also don't have a forum export option, they're truly hoping to get their claws in deep enough that after a month of ad-free credits you won't want to migrate away losing all your threads/posts. We are working to copy these 3,000+ posts over.
5) Lastly, we are missing a number of key features that the Warehouse was asking for with the main being an indicator showing which threads you've posted in previously.
All of this combined made it a no-brainer decision for us, and we truly apologize for any inconvenience. We're guarantee you'll love the new forum as it's the same but enhanced a tad, and it should really be a seamless transition for everyone. Please let us know your thoughts on the new forum, there will be some threads for those comments.
Thanks for choosing to be a part of the DFW community over here, we appreciate the support you all offer by choosing to post in our forums during. We also give you a Warehouse guarantee that we won't ever do anything like this again!
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns or if you don't get your email by tomorrow afternoon.
Sincerely,
Jay and the DFW Team
Founder & CEO - Dynasty Football Warehouse, LLC
303-667-4692
jay@dynastyfootballwarehouse.com
www.dynastyfootballwarehouse.com
Follow me on Twitter @jay_DynastyFW
We are reaching out to our valued members to let you all know that we have migrated our forum to a new provider. You'll be receiving an email from the new forum by tomorrow morning with the URL although we should be done tonight. By lunch tomorrow the actual forum page from our homepage will also go straight to the new forum as well.
Link is dynastyfootballwarehouse.com/forums
For security reasons you'll need to run the forgot password option along with your current username on the new site to set your activate password moving forward as we do not have access to that info and there was no way to transfer it over. We're going to keep the old forum open until we feel comfortable that everyone has migrated over, so feel free to post in both places during that time.
Our new provider PhpBB has been around and they aren't going anywhere, so we'll be able to expand/scale with them as we grow. Along with that there are a number of reasons why ProPoards wasn't going to be a good home for us permanently, so we thought it would be best to migrate now as opposed to later when and if we have more members
1) Our current forum is not on the actual DFW site and we didn't have a unique forum URL name for it like we do now.
2) We had two sets of log-in info, one for the main site and one for the forums. This move allows us to have one single sign-on that keeps you logged in for both.
3) We can add a plug-in/widget to our main homepage showing the most popular threads from the forums, this will be a nice feature for new folks visiting the site for the first time to help get them over to the forums for more opinions.
4) ProBoards has been ok from a user experience, but they are very unethical for many reasons. They gave us a month of ad-free credits, and when that ran out they added a really slow script to show ads on the site. It slowed the site to a crawl forcing us to purchase monthly ad-free credits. They also don't have a forum export option, they're truly hoping to get their claws in deep enough that after a month of ad-free credits you won't want to migrate away losing all your threads/posts. We are working to copy these 3,000+ posts over.
5) Lastly, we are missing a number of key features that the Warehouse was asking for with the main being an indicator showing which threads you've posted in previously.
All of this combined made it a no-brainer decision for us, and we truly apologize for any inconvenience. We're guarantee you'll love the new forum as it's the same but enhanced a tad, and it should really be a seamless transition for everyone. Please let us know your thoughts on the new forum, there will be some threads for those comments.
Thanks for choosing to be a part of the DFW community over here, we appreciate the support you all offer by choosing to post in our forums during. We also give you a Warehouse guarantee that we won't ever do anything like this again!
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns or if you don't get your email by tomorrow afternoon.
Sincerely,
Jay and the DFW Team
Founder & CEO - Dynasty Football Warehouse, LLC
303-667-4692
jay@dynastyfootballwarehouse.com
www.dynastyfootballwarehouse.com
Follow me on Twitter @jay_DynastyFW