08-06-2022, 08:26 AM
(08-06-2022, 06:05 AM)strudders Wrote: I did have a question though - I don’t want to add to your workload unnecessarily, but is there no way you could reinstate the user accounts from the old forum ? It would be a shame if a lot of these users never returned because 1) The old forum address changed and 2) They couldn’t log in.
Just a thought.
Well, no one really adds to my PBM-related workload but me, as I only undertake something if I want to do it. That said, I'm sure there is a way to reinstate the user accounts from the old forum. However, that's beyond my ability to do. I made an attempt to restore the old forum into a fresh install of the forum software via phpmyadmin (which is not a place that I should be tinkering around in, because I'm basically a human guinea pig lost in a technological software maze, there). Doing the wrong thing, even by just a wee little bit, can quickly yield disaster, when one doesn't know what they are doing in phpmyadmin.
It went well enough, and took only a minute or so, but it also yielded close to a thousand errors. Literally! Now, those errors may have been due to plugins on the old forum that weren't on the freshly installed forum, but even one error that needs to be fixed in phpmyadmin tends to be a bridge too far for me, with my limited "expertise" (ahem!) in and with phpmyadmin.
Could I pay someone else to do it for me? Sure, but a zero-budget approach to doing such things, while it does result in me learning to do things, it also inhibits rapid fix of software-related problems that pop up. As a general rule of thumb, I try to avoid "inviting" others with technical expertise and a soft heart to into my Jumanji situations. And the combination of it all tends to yield less than perfect, less than optimal, working conditions for forums that I install. I do make some use of the main MyBB forum for advice and guidance, at times. Some problems I have fixed by going that route, but not all. In fairness, though, I don't seek help there, each and every time, though perhaps I should. That, too, takes time, and at the end of the day, it is all a never-ending exercise in ball juggling and time management.