PR looks like it has finally kicked the bucket

[Chrysoprase]

Last I heard it was Xenforo which is more aimed at monetising traffic and content.

Ehhh that's a stretch. I'm on a couple of Xenforo forums and they're significantly better than phpBB without any monetisation features being used. Xenforo's a good bit of software and will improve the board (which isn't hard, it's a dinosaur)

Xenforo comes with a number of monetisation features available, they include:

• the ability to hide a "premium" section of the forum behind a paywall - with the paywall being configurable so your users can pay for access for a specific period of time

• pre-built plugins to various payment engines like PayPal, Apple & Google pay

• granular configuration of the paywall so that different features can be accessed by different user groups (maybe you have to pay extra to "like" posts for e.g.)

These might not be turned on for the Xenforo forums you've experience of but do you want to bet against PR introducing them?

[JM2K6]

Last I heard it was Xenforo which is more aimed at monetising traffic and content.

Ehhh that's a stretch. I'm on a couple of Xenforo forums and they're significantly better than phpBB without any monetisation features being used. Xenforo's a good bit of software and will improve the board (which isn't hard, it's a dinosaur)

Xenforo comes with a number of monetisation features available, they include:

• the ability to hide a "premium" section of the forum behind a paywall - with the paywall being configurable so your users can pay for access for a specific period of time

• pre-built plugins to various payment engines like PayPal, Apple & Google pay

• granular configuration of the paywall so that different features can be accessed by different user groups (maybe you have to pay extra to "like" posts for e.g.)

These might not be turned on for the Xenforo forums you've experience of but do you want to bet against PR introducing them?

I think I'd take that bet.

phpBB can be monetised the same way, btw - one of my favourite gaming forums was phpBB with a paywall. It's a pretty common thing for pretty much any major software to provide now.

[ASMO]

As I said, they can co exist, one thing that won't happen here are headers and sidebars full of adverts, people can make their own choice.

[sockwithaticket]

ASMO if you ever need or want us to chip in please say so

The Irish rugby thread being wiped would a sad sight after those years of posting at a rate everyone else combined can't even begin to match

It struck me earlier that the English thread is more than twice the size of the Irish one. I know there's not been any live domestic rugby for a bit, but when's that ever stopped them? Sort it out gents, it's not right.

[Flockwitt]

Locked for their next attempt for an upgrade

[Chrysoprase]

I think I'd take that bet.

phpBB can be monetised the same way, btw - one of my favourite gaming forums was phpBB with a paywall. It's a pretty common thing for pretty much any major software to provide now.

Fair enough, we've heard so much bullshit from Jake over the years about what "they" want to do with PR I'm genuinely interested in seeing how it turns out.

[Carter's Choice]

So the forum is locked again, for 24-48 hours. It was nice to have this explained to us though by Jake.

[Rinkals]

It's going for more comebacks than Status Quo

Reports of its demise would seem to be premature.

I count 5 members on here plus 16 guests and 2 bots.

Your timing is hilarious. You wait a week and a half to come in here crowing about PR not dying and choose the day when it shuts down again. 24 hours according to Forum Fucker Jake.

I wasn't timing anything.

Have been in the Kruger Park for a week (as Saucy can probably confirm), so have been out of comms.

[Wignu]

Xenforo is great forum software, it can be monetised if you wish but it doesn't have to be, I run 2 that aren't. It also has a feature where you can load multiple styles and users can pick which one they want.

Will be interesting to see how the PR upgrade goes, I believe they'll have to upgrade to a later version of phpBB (which they appeared to do the other week) and then convert it to Xenforo. Would also be the reason for the 24 - 48 hr timeframe given.

[fishfoodie]

Xenforo is great forum software, it can be monetised if you wish but it doesn't have to be, I run 2 that aren't. It also has a feature where you can load multiple styles and users can pick which one they want.

Will be interesting to see how the PR upgrade goes, I believe they'll have to upgrade to a later version of phpBB (which they appeared to do the other week) and then convert it to Xenforo. Would also be the reason for the 24 - 48 hr timeframe given.

It doesn't look like it's going swimmingly; the timestamps on threads are updating, despite the forum being locked. Me thinks I spy a botched db migration

[Wignu]

Xenforo is great forum software, it can be monetised if you wish but it doesn't have to be, I run 2 that aren't. It also has a feature where you can load multiple styles and users can pick which one they want.

Will be interesting to see how the PR upgrade goes, I believe they'll have to upgrade to a later version of phpBB (which they appeared to do the other week) and then convert it to Xenforo. Would also be the reason for the 24 - 48 hr timeframe given.

It doesn't look like it's going swimmingly; the timestamps on threads are updating, despite the forum being locked. Me thinks I spy a botched db migration

Well look who's involved with it ...

[fishfoodie]

Xenforo is great forum software, it can be monetised if you wish but it doesn't have to be, I run 2 that aren't. It also has a feature where you can load multiple styles and users can pick which one they want.

Will be interesting to see how the PR upgrade goes, I believe they'll have to upgrade to a later version of phpBB (which they appeared to do the other week) and then convert it to Xenforo. Would also be the reason for the 24 - 48 hr timeframe given.

It doesn't look like it's going swimmingly; the timestamps on threads are updating, despite the forum being locked. Me thinks I spy a botched db migration

Well look who's involved with it ...

Pay peanuts; get monkeys

[Wignu]

It doesn't look like it's going swimmingly; the timestamps on threads are updating, despite the forum being locked. Me thinks I spy a botched db migration

Well look who's involved with it ...

Pay peanuts; get monkeys

Or sausages in either case.

[ASMO]

Xenforo is great forum software, it can be monetised if you wish but it doesn't have to be, I run 2 that aren't. It also has a feature where you can load multiple styles and users can pick which one they want.

Will be interesting to see how the PR upgrade goes, I believe they'll have to upgrade to a later version of phpBB (which they appeared to do the other week) and then convert it to Xenforo. Would also be the reason for the 24 - 48 hr timeframe given.

There is a migration mod from phpBB to Xenforo which in theory should be click and watch, but it only works on 3.2 and above i believe.

[mat the expat]

Didn't Jake harp on about FB account integration?

It would fit with their "We're a Riting company" schtick.

[stemoc]

Xenforo is great forum software, it can be monetised if you wish but it doesn't have to be, I run 2 that aren't. It also has a feature where you can load multiple styles and users can pick which one they want.

Will be interesting to see how the PR upgrade goes, I believe they'll have to upgrade to a later version of phpBB (which they appeared to do the other week) and then convert it to Xenforo. Would also be the reason for the 24 - 48 hr timeframe given.

There is a migration mod from phpBB to Xenforo which in theory should be click and watch, but it only works on 3.2 and above i believe.

so they need to upgrade the forum first before they can migrate it? we have been trying to get them to do that for a DECADE now...now when making "more money" is involved, the greedy fuckers decide its time to "upgrade" ....PR is like the republican party, outdated, full of old racist white arseholes that only moves forward when money is to be made..ironically, their ben carson is kovana ..lol

[Enzedder]

How do you know any of that Comets? You know that Jake is a staffer and beyond that, you're making shit up to suit your warped theories

[stemoc]

How do you know any of that Comets? You know that Jake is a staffer and beyond that, you're making shit up to suit your warped theories

Jake has been asked many times by bored members including I to upgrade the forum or to atleast add features which would make the forum useable, he always claimed he didn't have the power to do that and when he did, he made up other excuses including the last one i remember where he said that his "bosses" would rather shut down the forum than upgrade it...so why cares now? just recently they made the forum more unusable by making half the side spammy, if this is not the work of some greedy cunt then i'm not sure what is..glad i'm no longer on it honestly...i have already contributed half my life to big websites which only care about making money and not the site itself so i know what i'm talking about.

[ScarfaceClaw]

How do you know any of that Comets? You know that Jake is a staffer and beyond that, you're making shit up to suit your warped theories

Jake has been asked many times by bored members including I to upgrade the forum or to atleast add features which would make the forum useable, he always claimed he didn't have the power to do that and when he did, he made up other excuses including the last one i remember where he said that his "bosses" would rather shut down the forum than upgrade it...so why cares now? just recently they made the forum more unusable by making half the side spammy, if this is not the work of some greedy cunt then i'm not sure what is..glad i'm no longer on it honestly...i have already contributed half my life to big websites which only care about making money and not the site itself so i know what i'm talking about.

And the “racist old white guys” diatribe?

[Enzedder]

Comets is the biggest racist on the bored, to be fair.

[‘tsek]

Fair call if he lists actual examples of said racism. I'm thinking not.

[stemoc]

no use , they protect their kind...pretty sure every mod on that site is white bar Ben Carsovana who is very much a 'token' mod

[Duff Paddy]

no use , they protect their kind...pretty sure every mod on that site is white bar Ben Carsovana who is very much a 'token' mod

And all white peoples are racists as you know

[ScarfaceClaw]

no use , they protect their kind...pretty sure every mod on that site is white bar Ben Carsovana who is very much a 'token' mod

And all white peoples are racists as you know

Somebody should do something about that.

[Enzedder]

no use , they protect their kind...pretty sure every mod on that site is white bar Ben Carsovana who is very much a 'token' mod

$1000 bet? US Dollars

[blackblackblack]

no use , they protect their kind...pretty sure every mod on that site is white bar Ben Carsovana who is very much a 'token' mod

$1000 bet? US Dollars

If we're talking PR $1000usd and flounce bet, so in on this one.

[stemoc]

oh yeah old man Enzy is like 1/16th Maori i think .. Thomas is 1/4 Ogre (descendant of Shrek apparently) inherited everything but the ears

[TB63]

Take the bet smeghead..

[Nols]

ASMO if you ever need or want us to chip in please say so

The Irish rugby thread being wiped would a sad sight after those years of posting at a rate everyone else combined can't even begin to match

It struck me earlier that the English thread is more than twice the size of the Irish one. I know there's not been any live domestic rugby for a bit, but when's that ever stopped them? Sort it out gents, it's not right.

On here?
The Swarm have mostly stuck with the established mega threads on PR while the two forums have been running.

[sockwithaticket]

ASMO if you ever need or want us to chip in please say so

The Irish rugby thread being wiped would a sad sight after those years of posting at a rate everyone else combined can't even begin to match

It struck me earlier that the English thread is more than twice the size of the Irish one. I know there's not been any live domestic rugby for a bit, but when's that ever stopped them? Sort it out gents, it's not right.

On here?
The Swarm have mostly stuck with the established mega threads on PR while the two forums have been running.

Yep, on here we're up to 13 pages, you lot are on 6. it makes me feel uneasy. I thought enough of you had migrated to keep things cosy and familiar.

[Insane_Homer]

it's been over 24 hours and no change on the PR front, suggesting they've learned their lesson from the last botched attempt and are doing the work on a test server and will then rip and replace when done. Last time around you could see the changes being made on the production server and for a while it looked promising. Then it seems they screwed up the authentication and weren't able to continue...

[ScarfaceClaw]

it's been over 24 hours and no change on the PR front, suggesting they've learned their lesson from the last botched attempt and are doing the work on a test server and will then rip and replace when done. Last time around you could see the changes being made on the production server and for a while it looked promising. Then it seems they screwed up the authentication and weren't able to continue...

Are you new to PR?

[Enzedder]

no use , they protect their kind...pretty sure every mod on that site is white bar Ben Carsovana who is very much a 'token' mod

$1000 bet? US Dollars

C'mon Comets - act like a man and not a wibbling little girl. Man up or don't you Fijians do that?

Lets make it easier - flounce bet?

[Muttonbird]

If you look at the history of PR Comets isn't far wrong.

If you look at the heart of PR, the Home Unions are dominant in terms of posters and moderators. In Britain the game is (or was) for the elite and they are mostly white and conservative.

I've been amazed at the contrast between PR and F365. At F365 they are fully aware of the rugby demographic in Britain. A bunch of privileged Eton boys chasing eggs and playing soggy biscuit 24/7 is their view of rugby.

There are a few PR posters who have been very active at F365 and haven't done much to change this view. Toga and JPB at the front.

There has been a welcome shift at PR over the last two or three years though with decent people holding RWNJs to account and it is their behaviour which is now on the outer. This is also seen in the wider culture wars, which are slowly being won by the socially conscious left.

Long may that continue.

[Carter's Choice]

If you look at the history of PR Comets isn't far wrong.

Isn't far wrong about what?

[ASMO]

I wouldn't use F365 members views of rugby as being a benchmark of anything to be honest.

[Muttonbird]

If you look at the history of PR Comets isn't far wrong.

Isn't far wrong about what?

About the history of moderation. I have said it has improved in the last two years since Blindcider and Openside were sacked. Let's hope that trend continues.

[Muttonbird]

I wouldn't use F365 members views of rugby as being a benchmark of anything to be honest.

Well, Toga and JPB have affirmed their view over the last few weeks. Even Keith, bless him, registered there as "White Ranker".

[Guy Smiley]

Blindcider wasn’t sacked.

I’m glad you find F365 so welcoming and enjoyable. I wish you happiness with a long posting future there and bid you farewell.

Mong.

[Carter's Choice]

If you look at the history of PR Comets isn't far wrong.

Isn't far wrong about what?

About the history of moderation. I have said it has improved in the last two years since Blindcider and Openside were sacked. Let's hope that trend continues.

I've found the moderating over there quite good for the past 15 years. As long as you don't mention 'Topsy Ojo' and 'poach' in the same sentence. Openside was a shocker but tbf he didn't moderate for very long.