Forum issues: word from TGR HQ

**Mod Team** · 02-09-2025, 05:54 PM

Yo maggots, please bear with the forum issues!

Contact has been made with the mothership. We laughed, we cried, it was better than cats.

Seriously, we explained that the forum has been pretty jacked lately and seeming to be in a downward spiral for a while, and that the maggot community was worried and wanted to do what we could to make the forums thrive again. We were told -- these are direct quotes with very minor editing and some cut/pasting -- that "we want to solve this problem and we are committed to the forums. We are making an upgrade to the main site currently and want to address the bigger picture forum issues asap. It would be great to have an option if we were to migrate. The other thing I was thinking of is hiring a vb expert during the main site upgrade and taking measures to fix them during that time and have legit ongoing support.

We are hoping to start the major overhaul to the main site in 2-4 weeks. It will be a 4-5 month process. I am not sure exactly what stage of this the forums will be addressed, but it should be a few times along the way as there will need to be things that are undone, retired together, etc.

Let's try to put together some options and work on a better solution."

So, we have seen XenForo mentioned as one possible forum software option, perhaps there are others. For those who have expertise in this area or experience with other forum software, please PM us or post in this sticky in the Padded Room or Ski/Snowboard (so we don't have to read 9 threads to put the ideas together).

Thanks for your patience and let's keep this going. It's gonna be HUDGE!

**RShea** · 02-09-2025, 07:08 PM

Pertinent discussion- Does it have to be PHP based?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comment...day/?rdt=53043

**Bunion 2020** · 02-09-2025, 07:20 PM

Thanks for the missive.Appreciate all of you the mostest.

**yeahman** · 02-09-2025, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Bunion 2020

Thanks for the missive.Appreciate all of you the mostest.

Word

**Diamond Joe** · 02-09-2025, 09:33 PM

Bring back tags!

**Dantheman** · 02-09-2025, 09:35 PM

Well hot damn. Thanks for the update.

**BmillsSkier** · 02-09-2025, 09:40 PM

Appreciate this update and the ownership’s attention to this broken ship of fools.

Bring back the tags. Seriously.

**schwerty** · 02-09-2025, 09:45 PM

Thanks for the update! Nice to know there seems to be interest in keeping this thing rolling.

**Core Shot** · 02-09-2025, 09:48 PM

I have $37

Plus change from a nickel

**spanky** · 02-09-2025, 10:29 PM

I administer killingtonzone.com. It runs phpBB. Pretty low maintenance. Then again, we do not have the traffic like the TRG and we have very little customization/add-ons. I’m more than willing to help out here.

**rideit** · 02-10-2025, 01:05 AM

Xenforo has some really, really great features. For example, you almost never have to bracket anything, you just copy and paste whatever URL, and it simply appears as a clickable link, with a headline description. This also works embedding YouTube, just save the link, paste into your thread, and voila, it’s completely embedded, ready to view without any monkey business.
(Just for fun, check out Ridemonkey, easiest forum software out there right now. (It’s a subsidiary of Bike Magazine)
You don’t need to host images on your server, I believe, they just plain work as a copy/paste.
It’s fast, almost never crashes, and has robust anti spam measures.

https://ridemonkey.bikemag.com/

Binary Visions is the volunteer host/mod/contact, he does an outstanding job.

**KillerMonkey** · 02-10-2025, 01:09 AM

looking forward to some fixes like bing able to login again. Probably easier to just trash the whole thing and start anew.

**Full Trucker** · 02-10-2025, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Xenforo has some really, really great features. For example, you almost never have to bracket anything, you just copy and paste whatever URL, and it simply appears as a clickable link, with a headline description. This also works embedding YouTube, just save the link, paste into your thread, and voila, it’s completely embedded, ready to view without any monkey business.
(Just for fun, check out Ridemonkey, easiest forum software out there right now. (It’s a subsidiary of Bike Magazine)
You don’t need to host images on your server, I believe, they just plain work as a copy/paste.
It’s fast, almost never crashes, and has robust anti spam measures.

https://ridemonkey.bikemag.com/

Binary Visions is the volunteer host/mod/contact, he does an outstanding job.

Also of note: Ridemonkey was a vBulletin forum and migrated years of content to XenForo. Ski Talk and MTBR forums are both XenForo as well, MTBR having also migrated from vBulletin IIRC.

**toast2266** · 02-10-2025, 08:09 AM

In future versions, can we still have the feature where random users are assigned the guyonabuffalo account for a week at a time? That was entertaining.

Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

**BmillsSkier** · 02-10-2025, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by toast2266

In future versions, can we still have the feature where random users are assigned the guyonabuffalo account for a week at a time? That was entertaining. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk

That was one of the more odd things I've ever seen around this place and was totally enjoyable (if it wasn't your account).

**babybear** · 02-10-2025, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

That was one of the more odd things I've ever seen around this place and was totally enjoyable (if it wasn't your account).

that was hilarious.
I can’t recall, was there ever an actual user that was guyonabuffalo?
might have to revisit that thread

**S_jenks** · 02-10-2025, 10:49 AM

This better not be some tease-and-denial you are pulling on us...

**singlesline** · 02-10-2025, 12:32 PM

Yeah, XenForo seems to be a really solid product...and I imagine that by now they have gotten really good at migrating vBulletin boards (even ones running an old of a version as this).

It was founded by former vBulletin developers and generally seems to work better.

There are people who will migrate your vBulletin boards to XenForo for what seem like pretty reasonable prices:
https://xenforo.com/community/thread...agement.55328/

Seems like he'd do it for like $360 total given the forum's size...seems like a steal for someone intimately familiar with the process and making it work on big boards with tons of media.

**Core Shot** · 02-10-2025, 12:51 PM

I like this idea of former Vbulletin people making a better Buffalo. Or Bison.

Let’s gooooo

I got $37 burning a hole in my pocket
So many places have annual fund raisers. I swear we could raise$360

**BmillsSkier** · 02-10-2025, 03:58 PM

Whenever we complete the great migration of 2025 to our new promised forum software, it would be smart for ownership to try and offset some of those costs by offering a limited number of TGR branded terrycloth bathrobes with a second logo on the opposite lapel that states, "Change for a DNS error: I survived the TGR Forums 2012 software fix".

**BCMtnHound** · 02-10-2025, 04:03 PM

I wonder if Greg will be able to find us after this migration.

**EWG** · 02-10-2025, 04:09 PM

Id buy a TGR robe with Change for a Nickel? embroidered on the back. Which actually reminds me, I have a bunch of those stickers from a run many years ago. Hit me up on the slopes sometime if you want one. No bathrobes though.