TGO David

I've stopped going to Harbor Freight since we got the Northern Tool in Murfreesboro.

According to the forum's settings, anyone can edit their thread titles. When you are viewing a thread that you created, scroll to the top of the page and find the link above the thread for "Administrative" and see if you can Edit the thread from there. I'll sign in using a dummy account in a few minutes and try it myself as well.

I have always loved the look of the Kimber Raptor. Nice choice! She's going to need a quality leather holster, though. I don't think I could bear the thought of seeing that shoved into some Kydex.

I'll see if I can't adjust the permissions to let folks do this themselves. I'm sure there's some reason I opted not to do that before but I can't remember what it was.

I think one of the Staff may have tried to fix this for you and inadvertently made it worse, as the setting I found toggled was one that would have to be changed manually. I've corrected the problem.

Incorrect. Payment is automatic and activation is automatic as long as the payment came from funds that were already in the sender's PayPal account. If they had to do it as an eCheck it can take 7-10 days for it to clear and then it is still automatic. Let me see what's going on here.

Yes, that is one of the others I was going to recommend you guys try but I was pacing myself with the recommendations. It's excellent. Worth the purchase.

Unfortunately we cannot provide support for the Tapatalk application itself. For that you need to visit Tapatalk Forum App - Empowering Forum Junkies on-the-go and seek support from the developers. We just provide it as a mechanism for you to access the forum provided it works correctly on your phone. Sorry. But like Fallguy said, once we're on iPB you almost have no reason to use it anymore.

This thread is 3 years old.

I'll up the ante a bit... If a person will step up and take over the task of organizing this, I will make sure that they get full "Benefactor" honors for the duration of their involvement. I know it's not much but it's the least I can do.

I've got a few new ones you guys need to try, but the one I want to recommend tonight is Prichard's Double Chocolate Bourbon using Prichard's bourbon and Olive & Sinclair chocolate. Absolutely amazing. My wife spotted it on the shelf at one of our local stores and suggested we pick it up. Good call.

Callous statement, but here goes: This sounds like a self-correcting problem to me. Tragedy of the loss of human life aside, the SEALs are consummate professionals. This guy clearly did not embody their ethos, therefore the problem has resolved itself before he could get someone else on the Teams hurt by being a reckless dumb-ass. That said, I'm sorry for his family's loss.

"Here's your picture back; I don't deserve it. Here's a short poem I wrote about you."

The only correct answer to that one is: YES

I know some of you are even both.

1. That can be adjusted by changing the color scheme a little. 2. Yes, but I don't think they can transfer that data over. It's not a IPB official product but an add-on module, so I'll have to inquire about transferring the data somehow.

I don't think you read my first post. Go back and read it.

Bullet point responses because it's easier.... -- CMS is not really an issue for us, as you've observed. IP.Content is their answer to CMS if we ever need to go down that road. -- Benefactor subscriptions are not a problem. There is a mod for that and it works very well. -- I believe that the groups implementation you're seeing comes via the IP.Nexus product, which we might use at some point, but there's actually a good add-on module for social groups that looks like a better option. I think we can cover that one too, albeit probably not by importing anything.

The favorite of my three is still my M&P 40. I carry it more than the M&P 45 because of round count. I carry it more than the 9mm because if I'm going to carry a 9mm I am going to carry the Glock 19. I blame you for that one.

I don't think IPB has anything like the "groups" but I will check into it. As for the other, no I wasn't able to determine what happened. I think the groups discussions got wiped inadvertently during the last vBulletin upgrade as when I went to check and see, the feature was off and the posts were completely gone.

I'll sit down this weekend and come up with a list of features that I think you all will enjoy. In the meantime, definitely go over there and post some stuff, kick the tires, use it. That's the best way to see what it has to offer. Increased storage for PMs is something I can definitely add. Stability can be a function of good (or bad) code but it is also a function of the server itself. We've had some growing pains in the past with our server being overwhelmed by traffic and hamstrung by vBulletin's clunky code. IPB is already faster and I think it will absolutely scream once TGO's traffic is no longer being funneled through vBulletin whatsoever. As for auto-banning trolls, it actually has a lot of power baked into it for the moderators and there are some features that automatically deal with spammers.

Yes, it is supported by Tapatalk. IPB also has a GREAT built-in HTML mobile skin that makes Tapatalk unnecessary unless you just really, really want to use it.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean but so far it's running much quicker than our current installation and it's sharing all of the same CPU, Memory and Disk resources so it's not like it is off in it's own little bubble unaffected by what's going on here. That says quite a bit to me about the elegance of the underlying code.

History: Last year I made a few posts sharing my discontent with the direction that the vBulletin forum software had taken with the advent of Version 4, and I expressed a desire to move to something else. Something better. One of the candidates that i mentioned to you was Invision Power Board (aka IPB). At that time there were some complications that caused me to postpone any such changes. Since then I have had the opportunity to set up and use IPB on another forum project and I have become completely enamored with it. The software is leaner, more elegant, less cluttered and provides an overall superior "user experience" for both our guests and the moderators. Further, the IPB software developers have continued to make improvements and add features which I felt were critical to the success of any software on TGO. To that end, I have been spending a lot of time over the past month testing out the software in a closed environment, working out the logistics to convert TGO from vBulletin to Invision Power Board. The State of Things: I now have a Research and Development copy of TGO running on IPB and I would like for you all to give it a spin, kick the tires, and let me know what you think. For the past day, the Benefator members here on TGO have had the chance to do just that. Now it's everyone's turn. There are several important things to keep in mind, however: The copy of the database that I used to do the test conversion is current as of January 3rd, 2012. If you were a member of TGO prior to that date, you can access the R&D forum using your normal login information. You will find that all posts and private messages are current as of that date. Anyone who was not a member of TGO prior to January 3rd cannot sign in. New user registrations are not being accepted on the R&D site, so please do not ask. I'm sorry if this excludes you but it is the most efficient way for this test to be conducted. Absolutely nothing you post or send privately on the R&D site will translate or transfer back to the vBulletin site you are using right now. Everything over there is temporary. Once this test is complete, all of that data will be wiped out and we will start over with a copy of the current database from here. Keep that in mind. It is purely a "sandbox" to test and tinker with. Don't post anything important there because it will eventually be deleted. The look and feel of the site are rough. There are problems with the way it renders on the Apple Safari web browser, including that on iOS devices such as the iPhone or iPad. I am aware of that; don't report it. Yes, later there will also be a darker version of the color scheme so that those of you who prefer light text on dark backgrounds are accommodated. So with all of that in mind, point your web browser to www.tngunowners.com/ipb/ and check it out. Explore. Tinker. Post your comments in this thread here and let me know what you think of it. I expect that we will leave the R&D site up and running through the weekend ahead and then plan on converting TGO to the new software by the end of January barring any unforeseen problems. Thanks!

Congrats!