I hope everyone is OK

[Kin Hell]

<snip>@Kin Hell: How much did you donate <snip>

That's a bit like asking a woman how old she is....

It's also a bit like giving a gift, of any type. - Doesn't matter what it is, it's always the thought that counts.

[Harrison]

Lol.

Right I've been thinking about this.

My plan for the autumn is to upgrade these forums to current software, then we can start to try and inject some new life into them and concentrate on the retro stuff we still find interesting. Like the old days, not taking it too seriously but sharing retro and emulation stuff. Posting about up coming new releases etc.

After that we can look at doing other stuff.

For this I will need to ditch vBulletin as the forum software. We are running version 4, and it's now long abandoned. The current vBulletin 5 is bad. I upgrade Amibay to it and had regretted it ever since. All plugin and mod developers jumped ship and abandoned it so it had no support or features. The vBulletin 4 devs left and created the forum software they had always wanted and that is Xenforo. I therefore I plan on migrating this forum to Xenforo. But that does cost money so I need to work out a way to buy it. Donations would be welcome but not expected.

Anyway that's my current plan for classicamiga. I'm on holiday for 3 weeks in August then I will start planning things.

[Kin Hell]

160 Bucks for self hosted....

Crikey @ their cloud rates though.

[Harrison]

The licence isn't a bad price. Although they then charge 50 extra per year for support and access to software updates.

Thr cloud hosting is really aimed at businesses that don't want the hassle of don't know what they are doing. Many are doing this now. VBulletin offers a similar hosting.