Samuel,
As a former Snitz user with perhaps the most active Snitz forum of any site (over 250-400 concurrent users for most of the day, over 3 million page views per month in the forums alone, haven' t seen a busier one yet), I have to say after a mere 24 hours of use that your application is
AWESOME. It is every bit as fast as you said it would be. Pages which took forever to load before now load in less than a second. BTW, we were running Snitz on a dedicated SQL Server AND a dedicated webserver and it still was a performance *dog*.
If anyone is moving from Snitz and is concerned about performance, your look for a better solution is over. Buy this forum. It' s worth every penny. If you are a coder, then you' ll really appreciate ASP-Playground " under the hood" . The spaghetti-fied Snitz crap is nowhere to be found. Whereas you may think Snitz is a better choice because of all the people who are coding mods for it, that' s part of the
problem with it. I' ve never seen so much convuluted code in my life (and I used to make spaghetti with the best of them
). The time to develop a mod for Snitz is at least twice that what it takes to implement one in ASP-PGD.
Conversions are always bumpy, but if your users aren' t used to HTML then this one will be easy (use the code posted here to do it, but you' ll need to modify it for the latest version).
Our users live for HTML in their posts, so we had to modify ASP-PGD to allow this. It' s not as simple as modifying an ASP file or two, since ASP-PGD offloads PGDCode / UBBCode parsing to the client (awesome idea, btw). Because of this, you have to know a bit of JavaScript and how to work with regular expressions. If you know anything about Javascript and how it treats double-quotes, you' ll see why it' s a bit more tedious. BUT WORTH IT!
(You know all that looping " Instr" crap that Snitz does? Not here, baby!)
Our users are still getting used to it, but they have TIME to do that now, instead of spending their time waiting for the pages to load. We' re also still cleaning up a few HTML-induced bugs, but that' s to be expected.
Total conversion effort: one programmer, less than a week, including adding new features like countdown timers in profiles/signatures/messages and implementing HTML in posts.
Excellent work, Samuel!
Gene Grant
Ovusoft, LLC
http://www.tcoyf.com/forum