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So vBulletin is out... what happened to fusetalk?

Fusetalk was never a big player. It was VB/IPB/PHPBB until XF came along.

Along the way there have been others, like FT, SMF, YABB, but really, none of them had the adoption success the the main ones had.
 
Fusetalk slipped into a time warp and now exists in an era before it was released. That's why it doesn't show up on any lists. When it makes its way back to this space-time continuum we will start using it again.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Fusetalk slipped into a time warp and now exists in an era before it was released. That's why it doesn't show up on any lists. When it makes its way back to this space-time continuum we will start using it again.
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I'm already was is using Fusetalk tomorrow today. Now.
 
FuseTalk was great for a while. It could handle the incredible loads this forum used to run (it was a busy place!). If I recall correctly, there was some kind of issue with the dude that ran everything here that knew (and happened to work for the FT people?) FuseTalk and ColdFusion and nothing was getting fixed here. I kind of got the feeling AT was disgruntled with FT for various reasons.

By then VB had its shit together.

Or maybe I made it all up lol. I hardly recall what happened with FT going away. I remember there were big problems, anyway.
 
I think the Fusetalk developers just gave up. The admins here would request simple features or just bug fixes and they would be ignored. I don't know why they switched from vB though.
 
Shawn said:
I think the Fusetalk developers just gave up. The admins here would request simple features or just bug fixes and they would be ignored. I don't know why they switched from vB though.
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As I understand it: the forums were using an old version of vBulletin, which then got breached earlier in the year, with the hacker(s) getting all the users passwords and email addresses.

There are newer versions of vB, but the forums were using older one because vB apparently isn't that great anymore. So AT-Purch administration decided to move XenForo (which happens to be developed by former vB guy), one of the main commercial, newer alternatives to vB that also has better security.
 
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The icon still looks like a penis. 😉

ftlogo.gif
 
Ken g6 said:
I believe that is FT. Just on this page, I see our old crab, Santa, and bulldog.

It also looks like they have a like button. And a dislike button. And a YouTube embed.
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It's definitely fusetalk, but a really old version... like circa 2003. They have however customized the crap out of it so it's basically their own now. It has way more features than fusetalk ever did. Probably makes it more secure too because no one else uses it.
 
Shawn said:
I think the Fusetalk developers just gave up. The admins here would request simple features or just bug fixes and they would be ignored. I don't know why they switched from vB though.
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Not just ignored, but derisively put down for even, small, simple, logical requests, respectfully delivered. It felt like we were encountering some sort of bizarro "how not to provide end user support, the crazy option" demonstration.
 
Perknose said:
Not just ignored, but derisively put down for even, small, simple, logical requests, respectfully delivered. It felt like we were encountering some sort of bizarro "how not to provide end user support, the crazy option" demonstration.
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That's a shame too because I really rather liked Fusetalk much better than the competitors at the time.
 
Perknose said:
Not just ignored, but derisively put down for even, small, simple, logical requests, respectfully delivered. It felt like we were encountering some sort of bizarro "how not to provide end user support, the crazy option" demonstration.
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Well it's not like much was happening with requests on vBulletin either, until Purch came in. I hope they continue to be this responsive.
 
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