Just a heads up, the number of posts & threads may actually go down a bit in the near future. I've been thinking very hard how to make Cafe Husky better, and for several reasons I've decided to clean up old threads & posts that were never meant to be public, such as the old 'Coffee Talk' where only the person that started a thread and myself could see those threads. At the moment they are hidden and not deleted. Make sense? Basically I need to remove all private discussions that were never meant to be public. Sort of a spring cleaning, so I can bring in some additional help** cause there is no way this place will ever be what I envisioned doing it all myself. **Enthusiastic people that want to organize things better, like MattR has been doing in the 2st forum - but doing things far beyond threads/posts/stickies organization. Things like actual website design like html & CSS. Nothing nefarious at all, everything being done with the most honorable intentions. For instance try to envision this 'Page' containing pertinent 2013 Husqvarna bike information. Then try to envision another Page that contains cross reference listing of what parts could be used on those bikes. Things like that.
Everything is indeed stored on an SQL data base on the server, just like every forum I am acquainted with. Surprised?
If you said COBOL, I'd have been surprised ... Some form of SQL is used for just about everything and everybody to store their data .. Its easy to use ... proven ... several forms of SQL is out there... Just rows and columns ... Next is the relationships between the tables in the DB and the keys ...Nothing too hard but a little tricky and can build into a big mountain ...
I'll help in any way I can. I check in several times per day. I don't know much of what you are talking about with the forum configurations but I learn fast and know how to read lol. Tell me when and I'll find a good book on it to learn
For anyone that has any computer programming skills and maybe some C or C# (EXP C#) under your belt, M$ has wrappers built into C# for SQL making it very easy to program with and can be picked up easily ... Just rows and columns... rows and columns ... This book might be dated but SQL is still SQL ... C# is still C# with probably a new IDE (visual studio or what ever M$ is calling it today) for programming it ...
I was just trying to give people a heads up that the post/thread count might go down a bit, and that good honorable intentions were behind that. The other changes will be taken care of just fine. The software we are using has all the tidbits we need to make things easy.
Some are, and if the count goes down, general people thoughts are 'oh my, what bad thing is happening?' The site software. There is a link at the bottom of each page, it is called XenForo. We used to use something called vBulletin but switched early 2011 - remember the switch?
