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[Dierk Bauer]

Good evening from Hamburg

I`m Administrator of the mCoastal Shipping Forum Coasters-remembered, which until recently used the 3.8 version of vbulletin.
As this now obsolete for Webhosting, had to upgrade to 6.1.4

We hope, that we can get some, or all features of the old version back, hopefully.

As I got the info from the vBulletin Upgrade and Installation team, that e.g. our Chatbox, now called Shoutbox, can be obtained
here, as well as other well liked feature, am glad if we can get assistence in due time. As for now, we have to find our way with the new version, but will be back surely, when we`ve got "settled in".

Best wishes

Dierk Bauer, Administrator Forum Coasters-remembered

[glennrocksvb]

Hi there Dierk Bauer, welcome to vBMods.rocks!



Hope you'll find some useful mods here to spruce up your newly upgraded vBulletin 6

[Dierk Bauer]

Thank you very much Glenn, guess will take some time getting used to the new version, but am sure that next step will be the Shoutbox. Meanwhile still trying to get our Database files back from Turbify, without them thousands of photos gone, text only remains from all the postings. Not sure what did happen when they upgraded their system and our 3.8 version did show Database error afterwards. Been told that we have to upgrade, which we did, but still no files provided, despite their assurance that customers data will be saved and stored for 90 days, which means that still 20 days approx left till final deletion.
Best wishes from Hamburg/Germany
Dierk

[Dierk Bauer]

Good morning from Hamburg/Germany

Bought the "Shoutbox" just now, what are the next steps?? Got no info yet from your system, but PayPal confirmation of the payment. As I`m not able to do the "IT-Stuff" myself got help from a friend. Can you advise him how to proceed? Am interested too in getting the Smileys back into our
Forum and other features as well, but still have to find my way around...and trying to get our lost images inserted back again, will take time and efforts, but am afraid that a lot can no longer be retrieved as members are no longer with us. Can give the advise to all customers of Turbify... safe your Database always, they lost our Database files needed for attachments (Tablets?) in early August and it took me 2 months getting the info that they can not be found, despite the policy of keeping Customers Data stored for 90 days, no explaination, no excuse... and helpdesk in India only... telling you...nothing there, but at the end saying "Thank you for being customer and using our service..." In german we got the word for this...called "verarschung" translated by Google Translator...deception Best wishes from Hamburg, stay safe and take care
Dierk

[glennrocksvb]

Hi there Dierk Bauer, welcome to vBMods.rocks!

Thank you for your purchase. You should receive an email confirmation from your PayPal email containing the download link.

[glennrocksvb]

I'm sorry to hear that you lost your attachments. Try to find your site from Wayback Machine and see if they have scanned your website before.

[Dierk Bauer]

Hi Glenn, thank you very much for your efforts 🙏🙏🙏 Adnan was able to place the new Shoutbox above the Forums...but noticed that uploading photos is possible only via URL, missing too some of our old Smileys, due to missing database files maybe...did buy the 10 GB download from Webarchive, hope it will bring back some more of our Photos..is really weird that we can fly in space, but not able to retrieve Photos, still stored in our content, due to lost database files...well guess will be finished getting all of our accessable images inserted when turning 80 🤫
Best wishes from Hamburg
Dierk
PS
Would be glad if you can advise what else of your features could be useful to our Shipping Forum 😏

[glennrocksvb]

I'll consider adding file upload feature.

As for other mods, you can check out these links:

Free mods:

https://vbmods.rocks/search?searchJSON=%7B%22prefix%22%3A%5B%22Free%22%5D%2C%22custom%22%3A%7B%22title%22%3A%22Free%20Mods%22%7D%7D

Paid mods:

https://vbmods.rocks/search?searchJSON=%7B%22prefix%22%3A%5B%22Paid%22%5D%2C%22custom%22%3A%7B%22title%22%3A%22Premium%20Mods%22%7D%7D

[Dierk Bauer]

Hi Glenn, am sorry to bother you again... noticed that I can no longer change ownership when posting on behalf of another member. Used to do it often for members who couldn`t get it done by themselves. Best wishes Dierk

[glennrocksvb]

Yeah, that feature is not in vB5 and vB6. Was that a built-in feature in the old vB versions or a third-party mod? If you want that feature, you'll have to file a feature request in the vBulletin tracker system.

Or if you want, you could use this mod that allows admins to log in as user without knowing their password. Once you're viewing as user, you could create a post on their behalf. That's just one of the uses of this mod.

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/vbulletin-5-modifications/vbulletin-5-products-and-extensions/27332-admin-view-as-user

[Dierk Bauer]

Good morning Glenn, thank you very much for your advise, am sorry for the delay, but got much on my plate at the moment.
I encountered some problems while sending text messages with the Shoutbox. First long message (reset max amount of letters to 1500) without problem, but second and third one vanished without any error message into the "Data Nirvanna"
Discovered how the image upload via URL is working, did write it in our "Guidelines" section, but doubt that our, mostly elder members will look for a Image Uploader...

Thanks a lot too for your advise re Webarchive and their Wayback Machine. This machine is "turning" for a week now, discovered a lot, created 1700 files approx and is now at 59%. Their team told me, that`s due to our very large site. Am wondering if there is a way to get all, or our lost images only, inserted in our Forum, maybe via Worldpress format, as the Webarchive is offering a transformation into this format for 100 US$. Did ask the team of vBulletin installation service, but they can`t help, meant that this could be done by yourself only, if possible.
Thanks again for all your efforts, wishing you all the best and a stressless week hopefully...

Best wishes
Dierk

[glennrocksvb]

For missing messages, did you mean Shoutbox shows the avatar, username and timestamp but displays a blank message? If yes, try running this SQL to query the database if the message is stored there.

SELECT * shoutboxthatrocks WHERE message_id=XXXX;

where XXXX is the id of the message. To find the id, right click and inspect the row where the missing message is, then find the id of the <li> tag. The id format is message-<num>. Copy the <num> and replace XXXX in the SQL query.

If you're using table alias, you also need to prepend it to the table name.

[Dierk Bauer]

Good morningGlen , wishing you and your team a Healthy and Happy New Year 2026. Am sorry for the delay, but am really busy onboard our CAP SAN DIEGO, as well with finding our lost photos for our Forum,,,, really weird, so much possible with IT these days, but no one can get our photos shown, just due to the corrupted database attachment tablets But have to report, that my messages are still vanishing, when not short ones, result as per screenshot. Problem is not getting them shown to me, but getting them in the box for members to read What can be done?? We like to show members image, or topic of the day, but selected at random by the system, as I couldn`t handle it too at the moment... Best wishes from Hamburg/Germany Dierk

[Dierk Bauer]

Ooops, "goofed" again... sending screenshot again

Best wishes

Dierk