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Re: VM Community Forum Move
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Originally Posted by newapollo View Post
I've exchanged emails with Kei (the VM community forum manager)

Merging both communities has proven to be far more complex than envisaged so they have gone back to the idea of having 2 communities. They are still being built and tested before being released. Estimated timescales are now around July for the VM community with the O2 Community shortly after.
OK, so no preparatory work was done to ascertain the degree of complexity and the effort involved beforehand - yes? This would indicate the usual degree of VM incompetence. On the other hand Kei is simply lying to you, or he himself is just as ignorant as to the reality of the situation as everyone else.

Either would be the VM way.

Think about it logically, both VM and O2 want to combined their forums and move away from Khorus. So what would you do? Maybe decide which platform are you moving to, work out the process of doing it, work out how best to merge the VM and O2 communities, there isn’t great deal of overlap, so it shouldn’t be that difficult. Or as an interim measure just copy all of the forums from both together onto a new platform and then gradually merge similar sub forums together.

"so they have gone back to the idea of having 2 communities. They are still being built and tested before being released.”

No, no, I know how this works, what is that smell? Is it sheep, dog, no I know it’s bull, isn’t it?

"They are still being built and tested before being released.”

No sorry, that makes no sense does it, Cable Forum has a fully functional and usable forum with, I suspect a tiny fraction of the resources available to VMO2, it’s being built and tested? Absolute BS! Sorry but it is.

You have been lied to or (possibly) Kei has, who is, let’s be honest, a social media person with probably as much idea of the underlaying technology as my cat does*

I’m just not buying it!

* and I suspect that reference allows you to know exactly who I am - the difference being that VM can’t ban me and delete all of my posts, even the ones that were demonstratively helpful and were ‘upvoted’.
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