
As you know I am currently working on a new version of the Website, information about that is available in this topic
http://www.euadvantage.com/forum/index.php/topic,838.0.html
During this time, I am considering changing to a different forum software which I will try out on the test version of the new site, after spending a few weeks reading recommendations comparisons and reviews of the different forum software available the one that seems to top the reviews is myBB version 1.6.
In order for me to transfer all of the existing topics, posts, members and membergroups to the new forum software I will need to set the forum back to its default settings with regard to things like the default theme and no plugins, the forum will still work as normal but it will look different for the next day or so, also, during this time I will have to put the forum into maintenance mode for a very short while (hopefuly no more than a few minutes to maybe one hour during the actual transfer) after that this forum will be set back to its current settings and will function exactly as before.
Please bear in mind that no content will be lost from this forum, the conversion is purely a copying process whereby the contents of this forum are just copied to the new forum and converted to the database layout that myBB uses
In essence myBB appears to function in a similar way to phpBB3 but is a lot more secure it has also rated the top free forum software of 2010 with version 1.6 it equals paid for versions of forum software such as VBulletin and IPBoard with respect to security, flexibility, advanced admin and moderators tools (you can even design your own) and supporting modern web standards.
Please take the time to have a play with it and let me know what you think.
JJG.

