Question What was the M6?

[Stevodoran]

I hear alot of people talking on the forum about ''migrating here from the M6'' and ''looks like your getting familiar with the new format''. I would like to know what it is. Just asking out of curiosity.

Thanks, Stevodoran

 

[Lucy]

Ahh, the M6. T'was just an older forum which eventually crashed, and the community migrated here.

 

[Urwumpe]

Exactly. M6 was for a long time the home of the Orbiter community, until the community grew too large for the server.

 

[Lucy]

Though the page no longer exists, the wayback machine has a cached copy of the front here.

 

[Stevodoran]

Seemed like a simple forum. Not like the one we have now.

 

[Lucy]

The forum we have now is powered by a different engine - vBulletin (Specifically vBulletin 3.8.6 with some custom tweaks and a few modifications), while the old M6 forums were powered by YAF, a free forum engine. While they both do the same job, vBulletin is a premium product with a price tag, whereas YAF is free. The difference in quality is somewhat noticeable as a result.

 

[garyw]

And M6 was almost 6 years ago plus Tex and Tblaxland have done a fair amount of work adding features and customising things. We should also thank the graphics staff for adding additional content.

 

[Stevodoran]

Well that answers my question. Thanks.

 

[Tex]

Indeed the old forum simply outgrew the hosting M6 was offering Martin and the database became so clogged for a free forum software option that the search function rarely if ever worked. It was after the server crashed for more than a week when the majority of the community migrated over here. I talked about that event in my older blog post here.

(Specifically vBulletin 3.8.6 with some custom tweaks and a few modifications)

Heh, I count 36 installed modifications... :download: Some of those were made by the vBulletin mod community and others are custom written scripts by our resident tblaxland and myself (mostly Tim though ).

 

[unussapiens]

I haven't been around much for a year or two now, but are people from M6 still only discovering OF now? I would have thought most of them would have made their way over a while ago.

 

[Artlav]

Heh. That reminds me of one old thing.
There was no preview function on even-older M6, and no comprehensive manual on tags, so:
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2134"]M6ForumEmulator[/ame]

 

[Izack]

Heh. That reminds me of one old thing.
There was no preview function on even-older M6, and no comprehensive manual on tags, so:
M6ForumEmulator

You know...I'm glad I missed out on all that fun. :lol:

Thanks O-F staff for, well, meeting demand. :tiphat:

 

[Tex]

Haha Artlav, that's a classic mod there!! :thumbup:

 

[streb2001]

Though the page no longer exists, the wayback machine has a cached copy of the front here.

Wow, that takes me back a bit.

 

[fort]

Though the page no longer exists, the wayback machine has a cached copy of the front here.

And what can we see on that page ?

A question in the:

Orbiter Web Forum

Retrograde or Progragrade?

I hope that the author of it have find an answer