The Australian Coin Forum (ACF) looks like it might be closing soon, unless they can find a new owner. I have left a message over there, inviting members to sign up here.
Would hate to lose contact with fellow Aussie collectors.
If there was any way to get an email list of the group, I could send all of them an invite.
Was going to suggest contacting someone on ACF, but I see you've already registered there. There's a converter from mybb18 to SMF 2.0.19, which could then be upgraded to SMF 2.1.7. There was a script for merging two SMF forums, I'll inquire if it's possible to convert the ACF forum and merge it with this one. That, of course, assumes the ACF owner would be willing to donate his database.
Quote from: TKO on August 13, 2026, 04:57:05 PMIf there was any way to get an email list of the group, I could send all of them an invite.
You would have to contact Markn, the owner for that, once your account is activated.
Their site is a Wordpress format is that possible?
The forum may be running under or alongside a WP website, but it's a MyBB forum install and can be converted to SMF.
That's pretty slick. I was just going to try and get the owner to transfer everything to Croc. If it can be integrated just by manipulating the database, that would save me a bunch of money. So, you would convert the database then merge or set up a different subdomain to use their IP independently?
Converting MyBB to SMF looks to be straightforward, there's a converter here (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=564239.0). You'd need the MyBB database and attachments. It's also possible to merge two SMF forums, although I've never done it. One of the devs has posted a merge script here (https://github.com/sbulen/sjrbTools#mergesmf) that should work in 2.0 and 2.1.
I think the first thing to do would be to get the ACF forum running on your CW server in MyBB, then convert it to SMF. If it goes well, we can try merging the two SMF forums so ACF content is integrated with KOTCT. If you can get a complete cpanel backup from ACF owner, we can go with that. Worst case would be you'd have two separate forums linked to each other. In either case ACF can run in your CW account, you have plenty of resources.
I actually would like to see them separate with a link on each of the forums to the other. Set theirs up in a subdomain and link their IP to it then put a button like the Gallery on our to theirs an vice versa. It would allow them their own hosting without actually buying into one.
That would be pretty simple to do if you can get the files and database. It can continue as MyBB so it remains the same for ACF members, or we can convert it to SMF, which would be easier to support. You'd have to get a full backup of just the forum, not the WP install.
I'm still waiting on my approval for membership. I'll solicit them for that info just as soon that happens. I'm not sure they're ready to give up yet.