Too many nightmare stories about upgrading large boards for me. 34,000 members and 700,000+ posts on my board.

I walked a client through a small upgrade today. Rebuilding the search engine alone took hours. And that was the first of five. The last one is several hundred thousand members.

For right now I plan on staying with vB 2. I guess you might say I'm a chicken. I'm afraid to change over without someone to be right beside me helping me along the way.

I'm not a great one for knowing what I'm doing. I've learned a lot yes on making my board look the way it does, but I have to follow step by step the hacks and changes.

Shoot, I'm still afraid to upgrade even to 2.3.3 and now 2.3.4 is out. I don't want to mess up what I have.

This is my board, and if you look when I set up the board, I still have upload in my url.

http://www.kindredskulls.com/Forum/upload/index.php

you SHOULD at least update calendar.php :) regradless of anything


but the longer you wait to upgrade the worse it will be

I think the best way to upgrade is to make a backup and use the backup on a local server and try it out that way first..... if everything runs smoothly and u dont find anything missing, then the upgrade should do fine on your live board

MGM out

Never again will I use vB 2, vB 3 is just that much more powerful.

[high]* Xenon agrees
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we did it that way on vb.org :)

yup, I'm doing the same with my board once Gold comes out..... but until then I've been testing like hell using RC1 and 2

MGM out

I dont see why everyones so scared of upgrading :p Then again, i dont even want to upgrade RC2 too RC3 when that comes out but thats because im to lazy to do all my hacks php edits again

Let me see if I have this correct...The longer I wait, the harder it may be to upgrade?

So a process that is purposly for the sake of improving the product, will make it worse later?

You guys need to listen to yourselves sometime. The whole point is to improve where problems are found. I expect those problems to be gone by the time this product goes gold. Not hindering me during the upgrade process.