new forum software

[YTSupport]

I had to rewrite the guts of the input routines in about 2019 in order to keep the old MV code working. It was a matter of getting these forums to work on later versions of the OS. Many things were casualties of that change because some features just wouldn't work with the changes. That problem you see may be one since the problems would occur when searching through a list returned from the DB, but another similar issue was being able to view the thread below the posting window (it's busted), and searching has places where it breaks.

Just more reasons to get in a forum package that matches all the support software on a modern server, or simply put, getting the new forums in.
 

[HFJ]

ps: i should add that the same bug exists in other forum software as well. i know at least one non-phpbb forum that did the same thing.
 

[YTSupport]

If it was PHPBB2 then it probably is the same. When PHP was upgraded (had to be due to security changes), it would no longer support the old input routines in 2. I couldn't duplicate the original routines fully and bugs like that appeared. If someone went through the same process, it might have turned out the same.

The right thing to do would have been to migrate to 3, but we couldn't do that since our schema was totally different by then with the inclusion of CV stuff. The CV updates depended on the 2 schema. I had both because we were running the KountryLife forum on 3. They were totally different right down to the basics of how threads and posts were stored. It would have been a nightmare to hack 3 to support a 25 year old forum package. At that time, we were going to update both views to a single new forum. A lot happened in between and we are only now getting to finally doing that.
 

[Rich'sToys]

HFJ, thanks for the heads up on that. I was not aware that that's what that little icon was for. I tried it this morning and it worked for me--at least this time! We'll see what happens later. Thanks again!
 

[HFJ]