Originally Posted by
bridger
I really fail to see why we have to use Facebook, photo bucket, or any other source. Is it cost prohibitive to upgrade this site?
Not sure about cost prohibitive but it's a big undertaking, there may be prices for new licenses and they may require new hosting charges as with pictures much easier to post they will likely need more storage to work with. I've been trying to type a reply in the 'plane' thread in the Mainland forum....every time I type a reply about the forum software I get kicked into a weird error and booted from the site. Anyhow...below is a copy and paste of what I was going to type there; just kind of gives you an idea. Some kind of pertains to your inquiry...some to one of the ones in that thread.
So big issue is that we all want this functionality but problem is that this is an old version ofvBulletin. I just don’t think it supports a lot of the picture/functionality and other advanced features you see in newer software. Iwould caution Marc/Spink from moving to new versions of vBulletin without doingplenty of due dligience. A BC sportfishing forum did last year and it was an absolute mess with tons of data (threads) and pictures missing, poor functionality and bugs and slow just to name a few and the worst thing was NOBODY from vBull was there to help them out. ZIPPO for support.
They made the tough decision to limpalong with it and quickly find a new platform. I don’t think moving to the new one was cheap as they hired developers/data type guys to map everything over from vBull to Xenforo the new platform. That new platform…..is AWESOME. Everything people want to do with images is fully supported and you can put pics from any device right into a post/thread with no issues. Also can be tailored to accept larger files as so many pics are these days withthe advancement of camera technology.
The bad part…..it’s a big undertaking, one that would take plenty of prep to get ready for. Other bad part is it’s the dreaded change! Lots of tech savy folks will figure out new platforms quickly while taking 30 minutes to navigate, read the help sections etc. Not sure if you’ve been around when Marc has upgraded software here but it ain’t pretty….I’ve seen a few in my days, hahaha.