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No... Those ads were set to auto renew if not sold. As such the system keeps resetting them at the end of the run.

Sorry for the confusion on that.

Above being addressed...

Nuts? Some people think I am. But only I know for sure.

What will you do? Not sure. Huddle in a corner until you can get your AVS fix.

Where? Not sure. Oh wait... Just Google Avsforum and read the cached copies of threads.

Awful? Well. Sure to some. But to others it can be a vacation or a needed break to actually get some work done at work or around the house. (See you know when your addicted to Avsforum when thread)

Hi Joe...

This will be a site decision that is made and currently we are on the side of thread integrity vs a rash move by a upset member. (Been their done that, not fun.) The only reason it is not like that way now is because of the special threads with the post indexes and posts keep updated. But the option is built into this software to set a timer...we just have it off base on the reason mentioned.

You example poll is two polls. You have asked TWO separate questions with separate possible answers. A survey IMHO. (Thou granted a survey usually has more questions.) We really are not a polling or survey site mind you. Nice we have what we do. Maybe someday we will write a full survey system if we think it would fit the site and the community well. I see you have started a number of polls, based on the results, or lack their of, it is not a really a big thing here unless like AVS asks the question and promotes the poll.

I can not help but notice you show your location is from the UK. You are using a US site. As such, I am not sure of what law you may be referring to as it may be something overseas. So please forgive me.

I am on a lot of community sites...I can not think of one that I use that allows editing without restriction.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Hi...

As one member put it so well..."AVSForum uses a customized vBulletin system, and it is running an older version which makes it more vulnerable to hackers. I have heard that AVS uses a custom search system, and other custom mods to make it work."

We have been on version 3.7 of Vb from that time that version came out man years ago. We have greatly modified the code and even a completely differnt search engine to keep a site this size running on Vb. The next version that could support a site this size was 3.8 but we had to many add ins to make the move vs what we would gain.

After that, IMHO and the opinion of many large forum communities (do a search), it went down hill from their. One person went to ver 4.1 and had to make over 300 changes to get his large forum to run without issues. Thus when the next version or the next comes out, you may need to redo the changes made to keep the site running. As such, we have never moved.

Because of this, we find ourselves in a position of hack attempts and have defending these as we could. We needed a solution and started to look as we dreaded, as you would, waking up one morning and finding the site gone. One thing we knew was that a widely used forum software platform attracted more spammers and hack attempts than a custom or unique one. So, well, here we are and here we go.

For me...AVSF has been a dream come try and my life blood so to speak, as such the choice was not made lightly. I would not want to see anything happen to AVS so I have to feel the right choice was made at the right time. As mentioned, it took over a year to make the choice and then we started working on conversion testing and site testing back in December 2011. At this point, we are close and doing another import test and then tests with more users of the site.

Thanks all for helping again to make this site what it is. I only hope you will continue to see AVS help drive the future of home entertainment as it always has.

Not just for AVS. But a smaller group of sites. So yes and no. But some of the code was written, or will be written, for the AVS site that will also be used on other sites in the development of the platform down the road.

Agree...Thanks for the heads up on this.

All I can say is soon...but a lot hinges on the next round of tests to start today or tomorrow. Could be as early as next week or the week after.

Just a quick note on this...Even with all the testing we have done, their are sure to be some issues that come up when we have thousands hitting the site doing things. We will have a place to report issues and will act on them as quickly as we can. And I mean issues vs "I do not like this color".

Thanks All.