I'm sure you have noticed there has been a dramatic change on VGC's home forums. And indeed, there has been quite a mighty one.

VGC has successfully converted from phpBB to MyBB! (thanks to Evil Eye)

In other words, we have converted our Forum Software.

phpBB was quite an annoying system to get things done around this forum. Installing mods on it took 15 min or more, simple theme edits had to take place within the depths of our servers, and it wasn't equipped with the largest essentials a forum would need.

MyBB has this. And we can install mods easily in under a minute. Along with the fact that it's easy to make theme and style edits. And as such, we felt the switch was the best way to help us and help serve you as the users.

Passwords, and posts have all been retained. And additionally, we have been able to easily remove the more unprofessional elements of VGC (using a forum to display affiliates, using redirect forums to get to other sections of the site, etc)

Anything that you could access via the redirect forums that were once here, can now be accessed via the forum navigation bar.

You may experience a few bugs at the start. These aren't really a problem though.

*You may login only to be seemingly kicked out
-Soultion: This is a bug that comes with being logged into phpBB at the time of the switch. To fix this, simply log-in, and if it seems that you never even logged in, simply click VGC's banner.

*Unfortunately, Avatars that were too large in size for the default MyBB (which has now been remedied) were removed. Simply re-upload an avatar of your choice.

*Some BBCodes may be messed up since MyBB's BBCodes and phpBB's BBCodes aren't the same. Posts that used phpBB BBCodes in the past will not be remedied, but you can easily amend your signatures to MyBB's BBCodes.

*When you first login, you'll likely be displayed as hidden (you'll know this if it displays a * next to your name on the "Who's Online" statistic on the index page) You'll have to remedy this via the User Control Panel.

Any others, please report to me, here.

And we now have a quick reply feature, which is just plain awesome.

And a quick edit.

Which is also awesome.

Boy you guys change things around rather quickly indeed.

As at PLE, I don't like the navigation choices at the bottom of the page. Can that be modified to be similar to the old one? I like the one-click to get back to the index.

What do you mean? There's a "Return to the Top" button, and at the top, choices to return to the index immediately.

If you would prefer a click in the footer to return to the index however, it can be arranged.

I guess I'm used to having "Board Index - This Forum" at the bottom. I didn't see the "Return to Top", just the Forum Jump, which I find very clunky.

Does that mean you're fine then?

I can live with it.

I'd like to point out that I couldn't get the attachments copied over so everyone has to re-upload them.

Also, My join date was lost when my previous account got merged into the new admin one :dodgy: