Part of the reason I’m using Vanilla is in the hopes of vanilla->vanilla easy migration. Assuming we can get the backed up data in the first place…
So does that mean we’re stuck with Vanilla? Aren’t there ways to convert databases for vb?
vB is dead.
If people died when they moved to Vanilla I’m not sure how they’ll handle a migration to Discourse…
But it is a nice, modern platform.
Please tell me they are hosting it themselves…instead of paying a cloud hosting fee again.
Every time we get new forum software its a big change. As long as we get some decent dark hued themes, it should be all good.
Gonna unsticky this since SRK is no longer closing down.
maybe this isnt about the cost of maintaining the forums.
mayybe its because the forums are…hm. how do i put this? controversial. liberal. loose. decadent.
in the forums…we curse. we post up things of adult nature. sexual talk. drug talk. just…not “family friendly” nsfw talk…
and mr.wizard who’s always hated the gd forums possibly has plans to expand his evo/esports business and doesnt want the forums to be a financial liability to his esports/sponsored enterprises.
ever thought of that?
more i think about it, the less i think its about money. and more about cutting the liability(these forums) loose.
i mean just look at my avatar for god’s sake lol lol
hard to ask pepsi to sponsor evo/srk with a nigga rocking a barbie in a s&m dungeon haha.
corporations HATE controversy or anything…yunno.
especially in this super sjw politically correct age we now live in.
saccharin > sugar these days boi.
just a thought
did you even read the post right before yours? SRK no longer closing down.
i was actually on page 14 when i wrote it.
oh good.
By the way how many times has SRK moved onto a new platform? I’m only aware of switching from some old ass forum system onto Vanilla Forums (and AFAIK it didn’t happen all that long ago)
vbulletin =vbulletin crash=> vbulletin ==> xenforo ==> vanilla =?=> discourse , iirc
Somewhere in there a lot of old accounts got purged and killed a ton of old legendary threads. :sad:
- added in server crash
Yeah I lost like 5000 posts lol
i’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that the same people who thought 2k a month to host a forum were the same people that didn’t backup the old data…???
Damn what a roller coaster. Glad to see SRK stayin alive
When they switched to vanilla and got rid of premium I lost over 15k posts.
I shitposted hard for those Galaga ships god dammit.
Preppy be strong my brother, just purge all the unjust from here, starting with mcribs.
I’m actually laughing at the dumbfucks who decided to YOLO show their true selves and will spend their time on Discourse banned. 
I was wondering what all this Vanilla talk was about because I thought we used Vbulletin. Then I checked last night for the first time in years. When and why did we start using Vanilla? I’ve heard of other types of forums but not Vanilla. I would’ve thought the second best choice would be phpbb or some other well-known community forum software.
In a month you’ll wish we were using Vanilla