As you can probably see, we are now running XenForo software for the forum. This is similar to the original vBulletin before they decided that they didn't want to just do forums and then they went nuts. So this is a forum only. No blogs, media centers, etc.. I hope it will be a more pleasant experience, especially on my end. 
Even though this is similar to the old vBulletin, this is still new to me. I spent a lot of time after the migration setting up permissions, cleaning out old forums, etc. but I may have missed something. So if something isn't working the way you think it should then put it in the Forum Q&A forum and let me know by Direct Message. I'll try to keep my eye on it.
Some of the changes include a more robust search engine. That was causing a lot of the problems with vBulletin in that it would crash the system cache. ElasticSearch which XenForo is using is working very well and isn't causing any system problems at this point. Just understand that our database is huge so depending on your search terms, it could take a while to give you results.
With this new software I am not sure what if any restrictions signatures have when editing them. But with this new environment, I would like to see signatures fixed so that they aren't displaying broken links, etc.. That's just a peeve of mine. I'll give you some time to fix them but after a while, say a month or so, I may just go and delete sigs that look broken and trashy. So get them fixed up and save me having to do it.
Also, I've done a lot of work with forum permissions. If you had access to "The Vortex" or the GS Bible Study group but don't now, then send me or dpep a DM.
So give this software a whirl and let me know what you think.
Even though this is similar to the old vBulletin, this is still new to me. I spent a lot of time after the migration setting up permissions, cleaning out old forums, etc. but I may have missed something. So if something isn't working the way you think it should then put it in the Forum Q&A forum and let me know by Direct Message. I'll try to keep my eye on it.
Some of the changes include a more robust search engine. That was causing a lot of the problems with vBulletin in that it would crash the system cache. ElasticSearch which XenForo is using is working very well and isn't causing any system problems at this point. Just understand that our database is huge so depending on your search terms, it could take a while to give you results.
With this new software I am not sure what if any restrictions signatures have when editing them. But with this new environment, I would like to see signatures fixed so that they aren't displaying broken links, etc.. That's just a peeve of mine. I'll give you some time to fix them but after a while, say a month or so, I may just go and delete sigs that look broken and trashy. So get them fixed up and save me having to do it.
Also, I've done a lot of work with forum permissions. If you had access to "The Vortex" or the GS Bible Study group but don't now, then send me or dpep a DM.
So give this software a whirl and let me know what you think.
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