So, being a gamer that believes mightily in community and one that has little else to do with his free time, I volunteered to host and run a website for the PotBS society I joined, Nine Winds. They’re a great bunch of folks and the website they’d had previously hadn’t seen a lot of use or attention. However, having run my own corporation in EVE-O (fairly successful, compared to MOST corporations) with a forum that got well over 5k posts in a couple of hundred threads, I felt confident that 9W could benefit from a forum as well – people need something to do while they’re at work after all! And since the shared-hosting account my eve-dfias.com and insurmountablelogic.com are hosted on has unlimited sub-domains, it would be simple for me to add ninewinds.eve-dfias.com and get it going.

Since then, the society has grown and changed slightly, and the forum has grown with it. So much so, in fact, that the hybrid forum software I’d been using had outlived its usefulness and needed to be upgraded. Unfortunately, there are no working converter scripts to easily convert the database info from the old format to the new format, so in order to preserve important threads, the would have to be manually copied and converted.

Popularity: 1% [?]