User:Basic Bronze Sonic/history of SRB2 Message Board forum hoster changes

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History of Forum hoster changes

Over the years the SRB2 message board has had a change of what it's hosted on around three times so far over the course of around 20 years.

  • phpBB2 – the early days of the SRB2 message board back when attachment files wasn't a thing for the SRB2 message board and quick replies didn't exist, the SRB2 message board was oddly blue but that made it different from other forums around the time of its existence and people had to use file hosters to post releases which would lead to many mods for SRB2 version 1.04 to version 1.09.4 no longer being obtainable through normal means.

Around this time extremely well made mods selected by the Admins (and maybe even Moderators) of the SRB2 message board would be posted on the main SRB2 website giving the mods extra attention, in July 28th of 2009 the SRB2 message board had began a change of forum hosters but because this was a time before advance forums existed this lead to plenty of threads getting deleted and while yes there was an explanation for why they changed forum hosters in a announcement thread the thread has been lost to time (it wasn't archived on the wayback machine so there's basically no chance at finding the thread).

Note
The old redirect button on SRB2.org back in these days named the SRB2 message board the Sonic Team junior Forum even though when you would go on the Forum it was clearly called the SRB2 message board.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/650740975316107305/873714259715035196/Untitled408_20210807134107.png (the phpBB2 wasn't archived good enough for an entirely accurate screenshot)

  • Vbullitin – Going from August 15th 2009 to February 15th of 2021 the SRB2 message board was hosted on Vbulletin where it would have many big events happen like the April Fool's Day changes and such, this Forum hoster would stay around for longer than 10 years leading to many people being used to Vbullitin being the SRB2 message board Forum hoster.

Many people joined during the this time but often Vbullitin would experience problems leading to the SRB2 message board going down quite often and the SRB2 staff decided to change to a new forum hoster in February 15th of 2021. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650740975316107305/834665042812993546/unknown.png (credit to SeventhSentinel for the screenshot)

  • Xenforo – The current forum hoster for the SRB2 message board ever since March 4th of 2021 this change of a forum hoster allowed for the SRB2 message board to have more support for mobile users while also introducing a new submissions system did unfortunately lead to many people leaving the SRB2 message board and moving over to the SRB2 Discord server but many others did also enjoy this change too.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650740975316107305/834665216197132288/unknown.png (credit to SeventhSentinel for the screenshot)

Extra

See also: SRB2 Message board and SRB2 Discord

Please also go to the Message board.

Link to phpBB website > https://www.phpbb.com/

Link to Vbullitin website > https://www.vbulletin.com/

Link to XenForo website > https://xenforo.com/

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