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  1. CinVin Active Member

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    A number of other sites have been brought into the CinVin community. To help keep track of the merged sites, we'll keep an updated list going here. :cool:

    Spiritual Bulletin Board (spiritualbb.com) -- A small religion & paranormal discussion site [Apr. 2011]
    Destroyer Movies (destroyermovies.com) -- A Machinima fan creation site [Apr. 2011]
    Forumese (forumese.com) -- A general chat site [Sept. 8, 2011]
    General Gaming (generalgaming.net) -- A gamers site [Sept. 8, 2011]
    Linecraft (linecraft.org) -- A site dedicated to the game Minecraft [Apr. 2011]
    Hero's Hall (heroshall.com) -- A site dedicated to the game Hero's Hall [Feb. 4, 2011]
    The Techy Forum (thetechyform.com) -- An IT oriented site [Dec. 27, 2010]
    Flozen (flozen.org) -- A general discussion site [Nov. 18, 2010]
    GFX Drop (gfxdrop.com) -- A graphics artists site [Nov. 8, 2010]
    GFX Renders (gfxrenders.com) -- A graphics artists site [Sept. 8, 2011]
    Digital Photograph Help (Digital-Photography-Help.com) -- A digital photography FAQ site [Nov. 15, 2010]
    White Cord Cult (WhiteCordCult.com) -- An iPod fan site [Oct. 27, 2010]
    vBulletin Users (vBulletinUsers.com) -- A vBulletin fan site [Sept. 18, 2009]

    In addition to the user accounts being merged into CinVin, as much as possible of the forum content will also be made available. Due to a number of reasons some content might not be made available after the import.

    Please let us know if you have any question! :)
    CinVin, May 9, 2011
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  2. Kevin Code Monkey

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    We are working on restoring some of the old forum threads from before the great 'vBulletin 4 catastrophe' which prompted us to switch software platforms. Not all of the content will be able to be restored :( but we are working on getting as much as we can back. :)
    Kevin, Aug 31, 2011
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  3. Marc Member

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    I was wondering when you'd make this announcement, :p

    cough * if you got any mobile database that you're not restoring, look here * cough
    Marc, Aug 31, 2011
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  4. Kevin Code Monkey

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    Sorry, no mobile databases. I have a Verizon related domain in the collection that I'm currently using as a XenForo test site but nothing else mobile related.
    Kevin, Aug 31, 2011
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  5. gemma Moderator

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    And the forum fairies have been in jiggerypokerying about with the forum layout just to confuse Gemma :oops:
    gemma, Sep 9, 2011
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  6. Kevin Code Monkey

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    I think that is it for now with moving the forums around. I still need to move some of the restored content from the private staff area back to the public forums but the bulk of it is there.

    When working on the restorations there were actually some databases that were to be imported but I had forgotten about. I didn't realize just how much was out there. o_O
    Kevin, Sep 10, 2011
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  7. Kevin Code Monkey

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    Nearly all of the content from the above sites has been restored after our recent software migration (from vBulletin to XenForo). (y) If you notice anything missing, please let us know.
    Kevin, Sep 22, 2011
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  8. Marc Member

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    Hey Kevin, some threads I started on the old CinVin might need to be locked, if they were resorted, because I re-started new threads ( eg. Game of Thrones thread ) with the same topic for discussions, because I thought we were starting over, lol. cough * too lazy to search for link * cough :D
    Marc, Sep 23, 2011
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  9. Kevin Code Monkey

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    You're good! :) I restored as much as I could but some things were lost.
    Kevin, Sep 23, 2011
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  10. Kevin Code Monkey

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    A quick FYI that I am starting to merge & collapse some of the forums together. In a nutshell... we have way too many forum for the amount of traffic we get. With that in mind, some of the dedicated forums are being merged together while taking advantage of XenForo's thread prefix options. For example, instead of having a dedicated forum for vBulletin and another for XenForo and another for MyBB they are now all together in the "Web & Forum Managment" forum with prefixes in front of the thread titles. The old "Sports" forum has been rolled into the Chat forum along with some others.

    I'm still collapsing some of the forums together so if you see the forums moving around, don't worry, it is only temporary construction.
    Kevin, Mar 14, 2012
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