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    Socialist Utopia Donkey Punch's Avatar
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    Wow. Finally upgraded.

    The work involved must be a total pain in the ass.

    One question. Why didn't you opt for 3.6.x? It's just as much work...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Negative
    Can you say "hidden agenda"...
    Noooooo. Never. =)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Egaladeist
    clean up those buttons
    eg,

    the vbulletin site running 3.6.2 is also having the same buttons. i copied the button to my pc and it ended up with that white border. Its the grey post background which is the culprit. vbulletin uses a different background so it doesnt show up there.

    http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

    JP,

    Just curious. Why are we on 3.5.4 when there are refinements as far as 3.6.2 available?

    JP. These guys do vbstyles. http://www.vbstyles.com/ This is one of the forums designed by them http://forums.tybcom.com/
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    Another solution is to grab the 2.x skin from vb.org, grab the SDK (to change the buttons and stuff) and woo hoo... looks just like the old one but with the new features.
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    *crawls outof the shadows*

    Quote Originally Posted by Negative
    I thought you didn't sweat the small things, yet here you have been for 4 days straight whining about "depth". You're good at trying to make it look like you're speaking for the majority, while I seriously doubt that the majority of those who are really interested in what AO has to offer care about aestethical "depth".

    ill have to second his opinion.
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    3.6.2 wasn't out yet when we did the 1st attempt in dev. Since that's what we tested, that's what we could predict, so we went with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPnyc
    3.6.2 wasn't out yet when we did the 1st attempt in dev. Since that's what we tested, that's what we could predict, so we went with it.
    Ah okay, that makes sense then.

    Good luck with the upgrade. I bet ImpEx took forever to run...

    Holy moly, a SarinMage sighting. How are things going?
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    We couldn't use any of their import scripts. This site was so customized it was no longer a vbulletin forum. We had to do most field imports one at a time, with custom import scripts. Even the database was changed from the original.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPnyc
    We couldn't use any of their import scripts. This site was so customized it was no longer a vbulletin forum. We had to do most field imports one at a time, with custom import scripts. Even the database was changed from the original.
    Yikes. I feel pretty bad for you. That must of taken forever and day manually. My hat goes off to you for pulling something off this complex and cuss-word evoking.

    Looks like there is tons of work left to be done... I can see some all nighters with lots of coffee and cold pizza...

    Wow...
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    mnstrgrl worked on the database dump for 48 hrs straight. I did the skin in dev, and added the plugins that we did use, then created the modules for the main page. Then before it went live, corrected most of the forum permissions, which didn't transfer over. Beyond the customization issues, vb stopped supporting 2.x a while back so the script wasn't even designed to work with that version to begin with.

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