4.0 networking? multiple forums into one?

[betts02]

Good luck in getting this ported to v4 and hopefully released to us all soon

Been after something like this for ages and would be a great mod for my forums

[merk_aus]

Am testing it out now

[betts02]

Good luck with it mate and really hope you get it sorted

Will donate when done and released mate

[pant]

Do you only need the 1 licence then

[betts02]

By the looks of things no

As vb have done away with the licence and you now OWN your forums and only need to pay for upgrades after a year or v5

You should be able to have many forums on 1 domain as you own your forums now

This is how i see it anyway and i cant see how this is wrong but maybe ????

[merk_aus]

No you need a license for each domain. This is not a work around for the vBulletin licensing system as that is theft.

This is a reason they removed their product as people were "rorting" the system - each domain you have acting as an individual forum needs to have a license for it.

[betts02]

There is NO licence now mate

Each member OWNS their forums and should be able to do this using the same database

An admin/mod or someone may prove me wrong but i assume as you now own your forums and its now not on a licence system you should be able to do this ?

[pant]

But if you wanted to set up unrelated forums but have all the members be able to cross post you could buy several licences and do this.

How would this be effected by different plug ins on different sites?

[merk_aus]

Originally Posted by betts02

There is NO licence now mate

Each member OWNS their forums and should be able to do this using the same database

An admin/mod or someone may prove me wrong but i assume as you now own your forums and its now not on a licence system you should be able to do this ?

First of all you are wrong to start with - there are still licenses. Just a license now lasts for versions eg: version 4, version 5 etc rather than yearly.

The thing is the licensing agreement remains that you can only install one instance per domain; so having foruma.com is one license, forumb.com is another license even if they are using just one overall forum.

In regards to plugins etc most of them require template edits etc and so normally are installed with ease - as you only do the template modifications to the styles/sites you want them on.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by merk_aus

IBAnders released a mod for 3.8.x that was moved to modification graveyard that did this - it was moved because people couldn't read simple instructions and complained that it wasn't working - however it was they were just slow and couldn't come to grips with it.

I have yet to see a mod shut down because it didn't work, though in at least one case several of us tried valiantly.
We were told that it was the user's responsibility to read through the entire thread before installing. We would post a notice that it wasn't working, then there would be 20 posts asking how to get it working, pushing our post off the page. This may still be going on over in that mod but I finally just unsubscribed.