Dear 8er friends,
we have been working on a new forum software for months due to the nevertheless clearly noticeable inadequacies since the last update of vBulletin 5.x in Q4 2021. We would now like to inform you about this work and changes.
Due to the very large database of 8er.org, we are dependent on a professional forum software. Briefly summarized we have the following characteristics on our platform
- 15 BMW Clubs, partly accredited by BMW
- 4 languages, German, English, French and Spanish
- 16'200 topics in 154'000 posts since 1999
- 45'000 attachments in the contributions
- 85'000 documents, pictures, movies in fileshare and linked in posts
- Data volume 12 GByte for attachments, 1 TByte for documents in fileshare, 2,66 million downloads
- 6'200 members of which 120 are active weekly
In order to migrate this data to a new platform, only the following forum software can be considered:
- XenForo
- Woltlab Suite
Due to the fact that XenForo is based on vBulletin 4.x and also various programmers have changed from vb4 to vb5 to XenForo, we do not use this forum software. The range of functions and complex administration we already know from the current forum software and no longer convinces anyone of us.
It has to be simple and understandable and not have thousands of functions and no one, not even us administrators find their way around it. We are since the last forum migration burned children and also cautious with the announcements become.
But now it's time to give some first information about the state of our work. It is not ideal, if you are informed only shortly before a big change. We are currently testing how we can transfer this data into the new system.
So please be patient, if everything works out we will do the migration in one week.
Many geetings