How Many Times Have You "Revamped" Your Community/Website

I remember when I revamped my community from SMF software to vBulletin 4, also added in the CMS system to make my community have even more unique content. That was one of the first times I actually revamped and moved software.

 

On the DJ board, I've revamped about 5 times:

1. phpBB to myBB
2. myBB to vBulletin
3. Switched between using vB Advanced and not a few times
4. Custom Style (3.6)
5. vBulletin 4 upgrade (new style)

 

How come you guys had so many domain changes?

 

The main page has been through 5 redesigns in 6 years. The forum has had 4 skin changes and moved from SMF to IPB in the 6 years.

 

CODForums went through 2 "revamps" before the current xenforo installation. We're planning another revamp - a custom skin.

MW2F/MW3F have gone through 2 domain name changes - MW2Forums/Boards > MW3Boards. We're going to go through another domain change soon.

And I had a Metal Gear community as a testing ground, until I decided to grab MetalGearFans.com

CarlosX360's Forums has been through many domain changes - .net, .me, a few subdomains as testing grounds, and then .co

 

How did your members relate to the Xenforo change? Did activity go up or anything?

 

Activity went up. A lot of members came back and posted more. I almost had 6 members logged in at once.

Likewise, the traffic exploded.


That spike at the very far end was on it's own. No marketing, no advertising, and I didn't even have an article posted in relation to any news recently.