Please read! FRC.Stackexchange Proposal

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Ether

Just wondering: What does the newer version offer that justifies the time, effort, and risk of updating?

New/updated plugins that can fill the roles that people want to see implemented within CD. I haven't kept up with vBulletin in quite a few years, though, so I honestly couldn't give you a concrete list.

As long as the site is secure and meets the needs of the audience, then it's fine sitting at 3.4.6. I'm certainly not suggesting upgrading solely for the sake of being on the latest version number. Just offering my services if that'll help get things moving.

Originally Posted by Ether

Is there a significant majority of CD users clamoring for the update?

I couldn't tell you without a poll or a working mind reader.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

New/updated plugins that can fill the roles that people want to see implemented within CD. I haven't kept up with vBulletin in quite a few years, though, so I honestly couldn't give you a concrete list.

As long as the site is secure and meets the needs of the audience, then it's fine sitting at 3.4.6. I'm certainly not suggesting upgrading solely for the sake of being on the latest version number. Just offering my services if that'll help get things moving.



I couldn't tell you without a poll or a working mind reader.

I think, and this is going from memory rather than citations so it's a bit outside my usual approach, that there's a fair number of custom things implemented which make upgrading a bit of a pain. If I recall, Brandon was kid when this whole CD thing got started. Plus add on the sheer size and desire to not lose information and upgrading becomes quite a task.

I remember some posts along this line but I'm not sure.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I think, and this is going from memory rather than citations so it's a bit outside my usual approach, that there's a fair number of custom things implemented which make upgrading a bit of a pain. If I recall, Brandon was kid when this whole CD thing got started. Plus add on the sheer size and desire to not lose information and upgrading becomes quite a task.

I remember some posts along this line but I'm not sure.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118256

That being said, some of the work that's been done so far on here has been... er, let's just say that I hope it can be undone after the upgrade?

I do recall that CD-Media is mostly custom. (And that Brandon has a day job.)

[lynca]

Stack exchange is a fantastic resource for technical questions.

CD could definitely learn from the Stack Exchange answer process on how to filter the best responses on technical questions. Over the years the ChiefDelphi signal to noise ratio has been reduced to too much noise. Filtering responses base on upvotes is a great way to direct people to the best answer.

Forming a FIRST related SE (stackexchange) site is a bit of a stretch because the robotics SE site has not progressed passed the beta stage.
I encourage you to post your FIRST questions to the robotics SE site and help build a single robotics SE site pass the beta stage.

Here is the link to the Robotics SE Beta site.
A dedicated crew of volunteers could possibly transfer over the best Chief Delphi questions onto the Robotics SE site to help share the knowledge.