restructering CDZ

[ProPain]

CDZ has been around for over 2 and a half years now and I think our little site is a much appreciated 'internet home base' for quite a few of us. We've been slowly growing and have seen quite some new initiates and improvements as well.

However our current structure is posing some practical problems. The fact that anarres and me are the only ones able to start new fora and upload avatars is just one example. Also lately anarres has been very busy and the same goes for me. This is causing unacceptable waiting times for regular ‘maintenance’

To be flexible anarres and me would like to implement the following changes
- have 'real' mods next to 'pbem/personal forum mods'
these mods can open fora, mod posts, upload
- have players upload their own avvies
- have the upload problems with large files fixed

To address these problems we basically have 2 choices:
- heavy modding of Snitz
- switching to VB

Apart from CDZ I have several VB fora running and I’m quite happy with them. Easier maintenance and more flexibility. (And I know some of you would be very happy with VB as well! )

However there’s one drawback to switching: data loss.

I;m not capable of transporting data from the Snitz format to the VB format. Anarres was going to look into this but it seems he doesn’t have the time to do this.

So the big questions to all of you :

- Do you feel that real mods and better upload abilities would fix our problems or do you have more wishes?
- Is there anyone out here that can transport the data?
- If we can’t move our data would you mind ‘archiving’ the old Snitz forum in a separate directory and ‘starting over’ again in VB?
- Or is anyone able to fix stuff in Snitz/windows 2k3 SE?

Of course all other feedback on CDZ is appreciated as well.

PP