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I moved on October 22nd from Proboards to PHPbb3, so about 3 weeks ago. Proboards unfortunately deleted my forum (don't know how they found out). I've been able to e-mail my members to let them know that they can either try to reset their password on the new board or e-mail me with their username so I or one of my 3 moderators can forward them their password (it's possible since we are still a small community of just over 700 members). I love PHPbb3 and my new host is StableHost and it cost less to have a host then to have Proboards. I was paying them $7.99 to $15.98 a month for adfree and $14.99 a year to have my domain name pointed to their nameservers. My host is running a 50% coupon if you pay the entire year and my package cost a whopping $33 dollars for the entire year and no ads and faster load! :cheer: Fortunately, I started my forum on January 6th of this year and had my grand opening a week later so I was with Proboards a little more than 9 months and my forum just had it's 10th months anniversary.
I knew I made a mistake within the 1st month of having Proboards since their advert gave 2 of my members computer viruses so I've been paying them for adfree since the beginning of February (bought it a week before January ended but waited to apply them to February and so on). In fact they deleted my forum with 28 credits still to apply ($32 - the cost of my entire shared hosting package for the year) and I don't know should I pursue a refund! :roll:
I started with Mighty Gordon's Black Pearl Style (modify to suit my forum of course - change the graphics and all the colors) but some of my members complained about the dark style so a week later we unveiled a 2nd style, a light one call Red Steel (modified again to suit our forum). Red Steel is trumping Black Pearl as the default style on a poll that we are running on the site so me and the moderators decided to make Red Steel the default style while we wait for the conclusion of the poll that set to run for 20 days. You can see the 2 styles by going to the portal and on the right hand top, you'll see Board Style and members and guests can flip between both styles.
http://sonyreaderboards.com
I knew I made a mistake within the 1st month of having Proboards since their advert gave 2 of my members computer viruses so I've been paying them for adfree since the beginning of February (bought it a week before January ended but waited to apply them to February and so on). In fact they deleted my forum with 28 credits still to apply ($32 - the cost of my entire shared hosting package for the year) and I don't know should I pursue a refund! :roll:
I started with Mighty Gordon's Black Pearl Style (modify to suit my forum of course - change the graphics and all the colors) but some of my members complained about the dark style so a week later we unveiled a 2nd style, a light one call Red Steel (modified again to suit our forum). Red Steel is trumping Black Pearl as the default style on a poll that we are running on the site so me and the moderators decided to make Red Steel the default style while we wait for the conclusion of the poll that set to run for 20 days. You can see the 2 styles by going to the portal and on the right hand top, you'll see Board Style and members and guests can flip between both styles.
http://sonyreaderboards.com