Just received the thumbs-up on my idea to transfer MyGaming to me. Hopefully it all goes through before the end of the year.
That means we can try and keep an archive of all the old posts from vBulletin and import them into Discourse. Or we can elect to just keep vBulletin.
I’ll post details as I learn them, but at this stage it looks like we’ll (at least temporarily) get hosting at Hetzner and copy everything off the current servers to the new ones. The hosting will be sponsored for a year. The idea is just to get the transfer done as quickly and smoothly as possible, and from there we can do what we want.
Personally i think keep the Mygaming name but do a major rebrand ! thus you’ll retain your entire mygaming userbase
Completely new logo, colourscheme etc. i really like vBulletin and phpBB just seems a bit more organised but theres alot of discourse that i like especially the mobile interface
This is really good news. But I think we have to really give the rebranding a real good think through. There is a reason that MyGaming is closing as we know it. It just doesn’t generate the same traffic as previously and is being cut. And while it would make the transition period easier, I still think we should rebrand. This gives us the perfect opportunity to create a new site, dedicated to all things geek, not just gaming. Through this, we may get more visitors and more traffic. If we keep with MyGaming, the same problems of lack of traffic will come along with us.
Oh absolutely!!! Most people will just let the site die and move on, but @SIGSTART really is going out of his way to keep it all going. And you’re right, we don’t thank him enough for doing that.
But not true. There are plenty of folks who are not here yet. People are probably skittish to invite others because of the confidentiality I requested of everyone, and that might work out for the better since we’ll get to integrate the two forums.
