An unusual situation...

[HTMBforums]

I stumbled across your site researching vB5 issues.

I'm a member of a public forum attached to a large organisation. The forums Admin and Moderators have no contact with the owners, and there is no support from above. Someone with the hosting company decided to "upgrade" the software from a stable vB4 to vB5.1.1... and now the site is unusable.

I'm interested in getting expert help to do some minor tweaks to what is supposed to be an update to 5.2.2. Admin has access to everything within the forums, they just have no contact or support from above. I'd be paying for the work myself, and you look like the person who can do it...? (I hope).

It appears you're about to go offline/be busy... please contact me when you have the time. Thanks.

[glennrocksvb]

Could you please elaborate what you exactly meant by "unusable"? Does it mean the site is not running at all due to critical errors or it is running but there are some issues here and there? If you have third-party plugins in vB4, they will not work in vB5. If the site is not running at all in the current state, upgrading it to a higher version will not fix it. You have to fix the issues first before upgrading.

[HTMBforums]

Could you please elaborate what you exactly meant by "unusable"? Does it mean the site is not running at all due to critical errors or it is running but there are some issues here and there?...

Well, for instance... when someone tries to post they get a popup box, "Error while saving content: server abort". When you refresh the page, your post appears.

Post edits don't take.

New topics aren't sorted to the top of the forum list.

New posts aren't indexed/found in the "last post" section.

It's a bit of a mess right now.

If they do as they said the would and install 5.2.2 -- again, we have no control over that -- might you be interested in assessing fixing some issues? I can better explain/discuss this through PMs.

[glennrocksvb]

Let's discuss in PM.