Message Forum re-opens! What we learned about vBulletin...

Category: News
Posted: Feb 2, 2010
Synopsis: WebsiteCM's message forum has been re-opened as X-Cart SEO Message Forum at x-cart-seo.com.

When we first created our message forum using vBulletin we did so with the intent to fully integrate the account login information with WebsiteCM to prevent duplicate accounts. We performed extensive customizations to create a two-way registration integration with vBulletin and X-Cart. We were very proud of the end result, but in time this resulted in two issues:

Spam Accounts
Our message forum integration limited our ability to prevent spam account registrations with settings such as valid email verification and captcha.
Upgrading Difficulty
The customization made it difficult to simply reupload vBulletin's php files as part of the upgrade process. vBulletin recently went through a string of upgrades and we didn't have the time available to continuously perform the customized upgrades.

To address the above two issues, we've moved the Message Forum to our partner domain at X-Cart-SEO.com. The user databases of WebsiteCM and X-Cart-SEO are now separated, however if you previously registered on the forums your username/password are still valid on both WebsiteCM and the X-Cart SEO Forums.

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