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First of all, your primary gripe with Yuku has been the resampling of your avatar and its impact on our max file size limit. That's a concern for about .0001% of our users. If we move to vbulletin, the file size limit will remain and you'll probably have to find off-site hosting for it. We're not looking to incur the associated bandwidth costs of image hosting.
remember when everyone was excited when we moved to yuku. everyone was excited because you can host pics on yuku and our home pages looked cool.
Those features still represent improvements over ezboard. All of this newfound ezboard love is pure nostalgia. Did you love the Voltron cartoon series as a kid? If so, NEVER watch an episode again. EVER. The reality won't measure up to your purified memories of it.
You may remember having fun on the ezboard version of the site, but what you're forgetting is that people HATED ezboard. It was archaic. You wouldn't even believe how remedial their administrative control panels were, how stripped down the feature set was, etc. People were thrilled by the prospect of a platform upgrade, and in the early days the Yuku team was more cooperative and better able to execute our feature requests.
Yuku now is reaching the same stage ezboard was before we upgraded. It's cyclical.
Just out of curiosity, as I always wondered this about ezboard/Yuku, does Yuku allow forum admins to export their user data? Or would that option require all members to start from scratch/re-register?
Yuku's proprietary, which, I have no problem admitting, just plain sucks. You can't export your own data to another platform. In part, that's due to privacy agreements. Since it's all centralized, individual community operators can't access user email addresses, passwords, etc. So, there's no way we could possibly convert that data. Public content, like posts, can potentially be converted via script. It's a rough, inefficient process, but it's better than nothing.
What we'd probably wind up doing, because we know some of you are really invested in your current accounts and we'd like to minimize the issues associated with impostors etc., is offer a pre-registration service in the months/weeks leading up to any potential move (assuming we commit 100% to another platform.) Obviously we don't have the person power to convert 50,000 people by hand, coordinating with each one, so we'll need to keep the numbers down. The best way to do that is to charge a small fee for the service, since it is quite labor intensive and involves manually reentering your post count, join date, and a new password which could then be sent to you via Yuku PM or the email of your choice. It wouldn't be a huge fund-raiser, but it could either help to offset the moving costs a bit or chip in to a worthy charity. This is all speculative, of course, but it's something we would almost certainly have to deal with if/when we shift platforms.
I've strongly advocated cross-platform data portability for years now, but you can understand why it's not a big priority for Yuku's developers. They don't get a lot of vbulletins etc. looking to shift over to Yuku and it's not really in their best interest to help us move off-site. The problem is, that actually gives us additional incentive to get a move out of the way so we can claim full ownership of our community's data and it can never again be effectively held hostage.
The good news is that, either way, we expect and demand superior performance from our forum platform - and we're attacking the problem from multiple fronts. Our goal is to not only boost performance but boost donations dramatically this year. If we can do both on Yuku, fine. If not, we'll make it work somewhere else. Either way, we will not accept or tolerate a continuation of the status quo. We're building our options, but it's an extensive process and not something you can phone in overnight. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
Have you looked into the Instructions I pm'ed you about moving yuku over to another platform, in their explains how to do it. Its meant so that you dont have to manually enter the information.
First of all, your primary gripe with Yuku has been the resampling of your avatar and its impact on our max file size limit. That's a concern for about .0001% of our users. If we move to vbulletin, the file size limit will remain and you'll probably have to find off-site hosting for it. We're not looking to incur the associated bandwidth costs of image hosting.
remember when everyone was excited when we moved to yuku. everyone was excited because you can host pics on yuku and our home pages looked cool.
Those features still represent improvements over ezboard. All of this newfound ezboard love is pure nostalgia. Did you love the Voltron cartoon series as a kid? If so, NEVER watch an episode again. EVER. The reality won't measure up to your purified memories of it.
You may remember having fun on the ezboard version of the site, but what you're forgetting is that people HATED ezboard. It was archaic. You wouldn't even believe how remedial their administrative control panels were, how stripped down the feature set was, etc. People were thrilled by the prospect of a platform upgrade, and in the early days the Yuku team was more cooperative and better able to execute our feature requests.
Yuku now is reaching the same stage ezboard was before we upgraded. It's cyclical.
Just out of curiosity, as I always wondered this about ezboard/Yuku, does Yuku allow forum admins to export their user data? Or would that option require all members to start from scratch/re-register?
Yuku's proprietary, which, I have no problem admitting, just plain sucks. You can't export your own data to another platform. In part, that's due to privacy agreements. Since it's all centralized, individual community operators can't access user email addresses, passwords, etc. So, there's no way we could possibly convert that data. Public content, like posts, can potentially be converted via script. It's a rough, inefficient process, but it's better than nothing.
What we'd probably wind up doing, because we know some of you are really invested in your current accounts and we'd like to minimize the issues associated with impostors etc., is offer a pre-registration service in the months/weeks leading up to any potential move (assuming we commit 100% to another platform.) Obviously we don't have the person power to convert 50,000 people by hand, coordinating with each one, so we'll need to keep the numbers down. The best way to do that is to charge a small fee for the service, since it is quite labor intensive and involves manually reentering your post count, join date, and a new password which could then be sent to you via Yuku PM or the email of your choice. It wouldn't be a huge fund-raiser, but it could either help to offset the moving costs a bit or chip in to a worthy charity. This is all speculative, of course, but it's something we would almost certainly have to deal with if/when we shift platforms.
I've strongly advocated cross-platform data portability for years now, but you can understand why it's not a big priority for Yuku's developers. They don't get a lot of vbulletins etc. looking to shift over to Yuku and it's not really in their best interest to help us move off-site. The problem is, that actually gives us additional incentive to get a move out of the way so we can claim full ownership of our community's data and it can never again be effectively held hostage.
The good news is that, either way, we expect and demand superior performance from our forum platform - and we're attacking the problem from multiple fronts. Our goal is to not only boost performance but boost donations dramatically this year. If we can do both on Yuku, fine. If not, we'll make it work somewhere else. Either way, we will not accept or tolerate a continuation of the status quo. We're building our options, but it's an extensive process and not something you can phone in overnight. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
Have you looked into the Instructions I pm'ed you about moving yuku over to another platform, in their explains how to do it. Its meant so that you dont have to manually enter the information.
150 KB and SMH at bumping this thread to ask that.Originally Posted by LLCoolMichael
What IS the avatar size limit??
150 KB and SMH at bumping this thread to ask that.Originally Posted by LLCoolMichael
What IS the avatar size limit??