The Future of Nabble

[Gesvilsur]

tengo estos foros

http://construccion.100.s1.nabble.com
http://acero.101.s1.nabble.com
http://inmobiliaria.102.s1.nabble.com
http://carton-y- papel.103.s1.nabble.com
http://minerales.104.s1.nabble.com
http://cereales.105.s1.nabble.com
http://chatarra.106.s1.nabble.com



y cuando quiero entrar en ellos con mi e-mail y contraseña no me deja ,

me pueden decir que es lo que pasa ?

[Gesvilsur]

tengo estos foros

http://construccion.100.s1.nabble.com
http://acero.101.s1.nabble.com
http://inmobiliaria.102.s1.nabble.com
http://carton-y- papel.103.s1.nabble.com
http://minerales.104.s1.nabble.com
http://cereales.105.s1.nabble.com
http://chatarra.106.s1.nabble.com



y cuando quiero entrar en ellos con mi e-mail y contraseña no me deja ,

me pueden decir que es lo que pasa ?

[Gary Lewis]

Franklin, or others, is there any news on the replacement for Nabble?  I'm toying with moving to a new platform and want to know if I should consider the replacement.

Having said that, I'm very grateful for the support you've given my forum for the last several years.  But I'm assuming that at some point Nabble will become a burden for you that you won't want to carry, so am wanting to be ready.

So I'm reaching out to get the latest status.  Thanks!

[Franklin]

I originally planned to write a replacement for Nabble, but I changed my mind and won't do this.  I only support Nabble for my own use.  Nabble will be around for a while but I think users should look for an alternative.

[Gary Lewis]

Thank you, Franklin.  That's not the answer I wanted, but I fully understand where you are coming from.  And thank you, again, for supporting my forum.  I'll start looking for a replacement, but I would like to continue to have the existing one to search for answers, even if we are not actually posting in it.  Will that be possible?

[Franklin]

Gary Lewis wrote

Thank you, Franklin.  That's not the answer I wanted, but I fully understand where you are coming from.  And thank you, again, for supporting my forum.  I'll start looking for a replacement, but I would like to continue to have the existing one to search for answers, even if we are not actually posting in it.  Will that be possible?

Sure, that's fine.

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, a bunch.  We have a lot of good answers in that forum, and a lot of history documented, so do not want to lose it.

But we have started looking for a replacement so we can get the traffic off your servers.

[Marc Martin]

Gary, would be curious to know what (if any) replacement you've found?

[Gary Lewis]

Marc - We are moving over to Invision.  We've already paid them $2050 to do the migration and they will move everything to their hosted service, which will run about $55/mo.

You can see our test forum here.  I hope hear from them tomorrow on getting started on them writing the code to decode our backup from Nabble and will maybe be moving in a few weeks.  But they've not moved anyone off of Nabble before so it may take more time.

[dingaling]

Hi Gary. Did you succeed, because your Nabble Forum appears to still be running.

Weebly are promoting Nabble as a Forum Solution - not so smart if it is shutting up shop!  For 4 years now.

I'll check out Invision - it may be embeddable into Weebly also (Javascript)

[Gary Lewis]

WE did succeed.  Not "I", but "we".  Go check out the Bullnose Forum on InVision.

The folks at InVision know their stuff.  They'd not migrated anyone from Nabble before, but they knew what needed to be done and took Pass 1 at it.  That we very close but there were a couple of things and they fixed them quickly.  Then after the migration we spotted a couple more things and they fixed them as well.

So we are migrated and loving it.  We have all of our old posts, including pictures and links, and even our own emoticons.

As for the old forum, it may be running but we can't log into it because of the way we set up the DNS.  I'm waiting until Nabble says it'll be deleted and then we'll let it go.  There's apparently nothing there we need.

The pluses are many.  For one, we got the joining process automated so people are required to create a signature and post an introduction before then can post elsewhere.  Works a treat.

And posting pictures is sooooo much easier!  We used to have to train newbies for weeks after joining.  Now we have no complaints.

Plus the messaging system works.

The only downside is cost, and the members are supporting it.

[{{DHK}}HolyLord]

Were they able to migrate people's actual accounts too?  Or did everyone using your forum have to make a new account?

And, who did you contact at InVision to make this happen?

Thanks!

[Gary Lewis]

Everything came over.  People's accounts, the # of posts they'd made as well as the posts themselves, the emoticons, everything associated with the people and accounts.

What didn't come over were any rules that you might have for what Admins can do, members can do, etc.  So there is some setup.

But they give you a first crack at a conversion and you can do the setup on that.  Then they move the real forum after fixing any little glitches and you should be good to go.

I don't know if this is the right place to make your first contact, but give them a try here: [e-mail].  And tell them that Gary Lewis at the Bullnose Forum sent you.

[dingaling]

It looks great.  I'll try Invision to add a similar Forum in a Weebly site...

[wgma-admin]

So sorry to but into a possibly private conversation, albeit a year or to back.
I have a couple of questions about the future of nabble. and my use of a particular forum.

I am the sole adminitrator of the West Gallery Music Association Forum site at
http://west-gallery-music-association-discussion-forum.417.s1.nabble.com/ 

I have possibly found the wrong section of Nabble to approach, and this message may need forwarding elsewhere. If so, sorry in advance!

Nabble has never been a successful forum site for us, and has now been over-run by obnoxious advertising - betting, sex, drugs, viruses etc. I cannot control this.

So:
(a) how do I shut down / remove the existing Forum site permanently? (Many other Nabble sites are over-run an the same way, but seem just to have been abandoned). I could just remove all its content and my admin role, but can I prevent others being swamped by email copies of the content of others' postings?

(b) I need to restart on another platform, preferably at little or no cost because its use is not great, but used by the public to raise questions on inter-related subjects from time to time as well as researchers seeking advice. Thus it needs to be bomb-proof when it comes to scams and nasty people! I see othersare making such moves, so can you please suggest where I should go? I am not a techi sort of person!!

Many thanks,
Edwin Macadam
Forum web master WGMA

[Gary Lewis]

We moved from Nabble to Invision about 18 months ago and love it.  It is costing $54/mo, but it cost $2000 for the Invision folks to migrate our Nabble forum itself.  They did a wonderful job and we are happy with it.