Groups?

[cescfabregas]

So, I was looking at my profile today, and I saw this:

Group Memberships
cescfabregas is not a member of any public groups

It made me wonder... Why is this even shown? I don't see anywhere where I can make a group, or join one.

It isn't anything big or important, I just want to know if I'm missing out on something.

Thanks

 

[Grave]

I've wondered this as well. It's probably just some lame vB social networking system that isn't enabled.

Mhmm. I still wish we could upgrade to vBulletin 4 sometime soon.

 

[Hank]

Hmmhmm good question at all, maybe they will upgrade later?

 

[xeleration]

Upgrading costs a reasonable amount of money. I'd prefer that the money goes towards the server and not a new version of vBulliten if the updates aren't vital.

 

I don't think the group option is enabled, but it automatically shows up in the user CP since it's an addon.

Hmmhmm good question at all, maybe they will upgrade later?

Upgrading costs a reasonable amount of money. I'd prefer that the money goes towards the server and not a new version of vBulliten if the updates aren't vital.

It's less of a money deal and more of a database migration issue. Whenever you upgrade an immensely large website, you risk data loss or general site errors. Sythe doesn't want to take this chance.

 

[xeleration]

I don't think the group option is enabled, but it automatically shows up in the user CP since it's an addon.





It's less of a money deal and more of a database migration issue. Whenever you upgrade an immensely large website, you risk data loss or general site errors. Sythe doesn't want to take this chance.

I always thought the database migration was a pain, but still possible to do, so I assumed it was a money issue.

I suppose your right though, losing a chunk of the database would be disastrous.

 

[jeltin]

Backup the db before upgrading?

 

[Kadaj]

I always thought that was to do with the '5$ Donator' and '25$ Donator' groups.

 

[cescfabregas]

Well, you're not in a group

 

[wizardzgame]

Most likely a useless feature that isn't added on. No big deal.

 

[Jimmy Recard]

omg i was wondering this as well, on rsbot.org we had public groups and then i go on sythe, it sais it VB but no groups

y dont u just risk the chance of lost data, the forum could use deleted posts as a lot of them are usless

 

[Necromancer24]

omg i was wondering this as well, on rsbot.org we had public groups and then i go on sythe, it sais it VB but no groups

y dont u just risk the chance of lost data, the forum could use deleted posts as a lot of them are usless

But we could lose vital information. This isn't going to happen any time soon.

 

[Brendan]

What can you do with these "Public Groups?"