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Van Hellseek

Van Hellseek

Van Hellseek

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I think I'm probably going to abandon vB in favour of IPB. I just spent most of my free time in the last few days trying to convert the database from SMF to vB, and after all that time I still only managed to import around 60% of everything. So I gave IPB a go, expecting similar results, but it took around 15 minutes to import 99% of my other board. So looks like IPB is the way to go. :cool:

Anyway, the ACP is very different to anything I've used before, so I could use a few pointers.

How do I.......

- Set sig max size/filesize

- Set avatar max size/filesize

- Set PM inbox size

- Dissalow users to change theme/language

- Set max size/filesize for posted images

- disable user 'ratings'

- disable "who is viewing board"

So if anyone can answer ANY of those it would be a big help. :cool:
 
vB is TONS better than IPB (which is why you pay more for it), so id stick with vB if i were you.
 
Because its quicker, doesnt have as many critical errors, and has a lot more functionality not to mention being set out more.

Have a look at some LARGE forums and companies that use forums, vB rules the roost!

Even this forum for example is on vB, no slowdowns due to good server and database optimisation, aswell as good forum system..... i wouldnt like this many users on IPB.
 
My main competitor is larger than OcUK (37k members) and runs IPB. Their board runs perfectly smoothly as far as I can tell as an end-user. And as I said above, I'm having trouble converting the database to vB anyway. So for now I'll stick with IPB, and I'll consider switching to another board type if/when I experience any problems.
 
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I've solved a couple more, but the following still persist...

how do I...

- Set sig max size/filesizea

- Disallow users to change language

- Set max size/filesize for posted images

- disable "who is viewing board"
 
Are they not help files? or a website/forum with support?

If this forum setup is anything like phpBB i.e. a php forum with an advanced CMS, then all settings and such would be in the admin areas for stuff like what you want to change, surely?
 
I'm very much for IPB over vB, the ACP is lightyears ahead, lest vB has come on leaps and bounds in the past few versions. It's also a more attractive board, even with themes on both of them, the basic layout just seems nicer to my eyes.

As far as I know, no board lets you set max sig file size/length, as it somoene can link a 10mb image if they like, how can the board detect that? I've run IPB boards for a fair while and never found a way to do this.

Don't think there is an option to change the language, should be, though. Could do it manually like this.

ACP -> Look & Feel > Skin of your choice > Edit Template HTML > All Global HTML > Global Board Footer > remove "<% LANGCHOOSER %>" and it's gone.

Again for filesize, you can't really stop them posting large images as it's down to the browser to interpret and display the HTML. It would be quite an advanced task for PHP to detect the filesize of an external image. However, you can autoscale dimensions when they are larger than the board width with the option that is by default on "Automatically Resize 'Large' Images".

Disable who is viewing is done in the Tools and Settings > CPU Saving & Optimization > Remove 'Users Browsing this forum' feature?
Remove 'Users Browsing this topic' feature?


Cheers. Anything else do ask, I like to think I'm fairly good with IPB.
 
Hxc said:
As far as I know, no board lets you set max sig file size/length.
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vBulletin does. At least version 3.7 does at least.

as it somoene can link a 10mb image if they like, how can the board detect that?
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The same way it does for avatars. Basically img tags don't work in sigs. You have to upload an image the same way you would an avatar, and to add it in your sig you use the code 'sigimg' '/sigimg' or something like that.

Again for filesize, you can't really stop them posting large images
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SMF has options to limit the allowed sizes of images. Don't see why other boards couldn't have it. My old limit was 2500x2500.

There must be a way to disable the language selector from the ACP I would have thought. It's utterly pointless to most boards, which would only have "English" installed. I'll keep hunting.

Thanks for the tips though :cool:
 
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Ah right, of course if vB offers sig file uploading features, that's possible.

IPB auto prevents images stretching tables by scaling them down.

Yeah it is utterly pointless about the language stuff, never something I've thought about however.
 
Beansprout said:
Convert to IPB then convert from IPB to vB ;)
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Now that is quite a coincidence.... I just did this very thing earlier today!

So after playing with both for a while now I'm leaning towards going with vB.

And the "long way around" conversion wasn't perfect, but a lot more successful than a straight conversion from SMF (around 90% of the old database imported now, as opposed to 60%-ish before).
 
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