Author Topic: Were Did The Private Squads Bbs Go??? (Read 139 times)

GA · « **on:** January 12, 2002, 06:29:56 AM »

Yep were did they go;) ???

daddog · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2002, 07:32:43 AM »

Wondering that myself.

I do like the new BB, just trying to figure out all the new buttons.

jordi · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2002, 08:19:40 AM »

Thorns · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2002, 08:24:26 AM »

Hmm,

Seems we are missing an important part of AH........our Squad BBS! HEY! WHERE'S THE SQUAD PAGE?

SOB · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2002, 08:58:35 AM »

They probably wanted to get the BB back up as soon as they could and will get the squad pages up later.

Revvin · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2002, 11:28:27 AM »

vBulletin does'nt have passworded forums, you need to create groups such as if there was a CM private forum you would create a group 'CMs' and add the player usernames into that group then set the permissions for that group so only that group can read it. I'm guessing the squad forums have been delayed while they create groups to setup the private squad forums again but they would have to add every squad members to say a group called '9 Squadron'

I've not seen a hack or method for passwords for vBulltein so I'm guessing this is the delay in gettign them up. There's a script for transferring from UBB to vBulletin so I'm sure your posts are safe they are just setting it all up.

Thorns · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2002, 06:37:58 PM »

Ok, thanks for the info. One question though....what was wrong with the old BBS, if it had better features like passwords?

Thorns

Revvin · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2002, 07:02:49 PM »

Most modern bulletin boards use the same system, PHPbb, XMB, IkonBoard, YaBB. UBB has been stuck in some kind of timewarp and they've stayed with the same flat file system for years instead of using a faster mySQL database format.

One benefit is that once you log in one time and a cookie is given so that you never need log on again or type in a password to gain access to a private forum as the software does it for you. Another benefit is that you can control users access in a closer user by user way so you don't need to worry about passwords falling into the wrong hands. One such example would be users wanting access to an Axis or Allies forum as in the Big Week scenario would have access and apart from a few dweebs who may pass on info they read you know a password has not gotten into the wrong hands. Also if you need to change a password for a forum you don't have to e-mail everybody or run the risk of somebody not getting the appropriate access if you don't have an e-mail contact.

There may be a password hack for vBulletin but I've not checked for a while as my forums are for my squad so don't have the high traffic like this one does so the default way of granting access suits me just fine.