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brunotl
Pterodattilo

France
1090 Posts

Posted - 21/04/2023 :  10:31:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
HI all,

The Post Frontal server will definitely stop later this summer, even if it's bad news for me, i would like to thanks Guiliano Golfieri for the very long partnership between PostFrontal and LK8000 !

So, we need to move the forum to another platform, that can be a huge work, any help is welcome...




JBlyth
Aquilotto

Australia
229 Posts

Posted - 21/04/2023 :  10:43:05  Show Profile  Visit JBlyth's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I'm not to sure what needs to be done, but if you can point me in the right direction, I'm sure I can be of help....

Cheers
John - in Sunny Carnarvon, Western Australia
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brunotl
Pterodattilo

France
1090 Posts

Posted - 21/04/2023 :  11:14:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
two options :
- we found a windows server : we can just move forum to this server (after removing reference to 'Postfrontal SAS'...
- we don't found a windows server : we need to convert database to other forum platform

currently : forum is a old school "snitz forum", a ASP Classic website and Access database ( https://forum.snitz.com/ )

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JBlyth
Aquilotto

Australia
229 Posts

Posted - 23/04/2023 :  04:02:22  Show Profile  Visit JBlyth's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Would this be of any help? I'm sure we could raise enough donations to cover what ever the cost is:-
https://gconverters.com/convert-snitz-forum-to-vbulletin-forum/

Home Page:-
https://gconverters.com/
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brunotl
Pterodattilo

France
1090 Posts

Posted - 24/04/2023 :  10:03:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Vbulletin cloud start price is 14.99$/Mo, we already payed 53€.99€ for website hosting without any donations ...

Edited by - brunotl on 24/04/2023 10:55:56
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brunotl
Pterodattilo

France
1090 Posts

Posted - 24/04/2023 :  13:51:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
another possibility could be to that : https://snitz2phpbb.sourceforge.net/

Edited by - brunotl on 24/04/2023 14:29:36
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aleit
Pulcino

Italy
53 Posts

Posted - 05/05/2023 :  18:16:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The old snitz forum could be statically exported as HTML pages and frozen (I can help with this). This way you can put it anywhere.

IMHO the new one should be powered by a modern forum software, not necessarily capable of importing from snitz.

For hosting, you can get a rather powerful server for free here: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
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aleit
Pulcino

Italy
53 Posts

Posted - 05/05/2023 :  18:33:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
By the way, since you already have a github repository, just enable the "discussions" tab and you get your new forum: https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/quickstart

You can also probably host the frozen old forum in "pages": https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages
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brunotl
Pterodattilo

France
1090 Posts

Posted - 09/05/2023 :  00:11:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
we need to have the full ownership of data, if one day github change the rules, i don't know if it's would be possible to migrate github discutions to other platform...
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oj17
Pulcino

10 Posts

Posted - 02/06/2023 :  12:09:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Bruno,

have you considered adding https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ to the website - easy way to get donations...perhaps suggest a few euros for a download...
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brunotl
Pterodattilo

France
1090 Posts

Posted - 02/06/2023 :  14:57:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by oj17

Bruno,

have you considered adding https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ to the website - easy way to get donations...perhaps suggest a few euros for a download...



i've already added "github sponsor" on github project page : https://github.com/LK8000/LK8000
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davesalmon
Pterodattilo

United Kingdom
1620 Posts

Posted - 02/06/2023 :  19:05:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Probably not many users go onto github.
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bambuko
Aquilotto

United Kingdom
209 Posts

Posted - 10/06/2023 :  17:21:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by brunotl
...i've already added "github sponsor" on github project page : https://github.com/LK8000/LK8000



thank you!
good place
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obetz
Falchetto

131 Posts

Posted - 25/06/2023 :  14:35:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
porting the old discussions to a modern system would be nice for the forum users, but I wouldn't spend too much effort if it's not possible easily. Static pages with the old threads would be o.k. for me.

I agree with bruno that it might just create a new dependency to use github discussions.
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Marco from Hangar 5
Pterodattilo

Netherlands
886 Posts

Posted - 27/06/2023 :  16:26:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
When I do a search for Open Source Forum software I get tens of links to tens of open source forum software applications.. there must be something usable for us...Our forum is not really complicated or fancy with special features or something. I think if you can download the current forum in some generic format, you should be able to import it into something new.


Marco
BU (PH-588)
Mini Nimbus HS7, s/n 039
http://www.zweef.nl/
Zweefvliegcentrum Noordkop, NETHERLANDS
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