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This ties in with modern forum software, which is much easier to code for. Vbulletin is a messy pile of junk when it comes to coding and making themes. Say that we'd migrate the forum to Xenforo, there are many many pre-made themes for sale that can be altered to fit our needs, I'd be able to help out there if you want. Building a completely custom theme from scratch is a little harder and honestly something I'd advice against unless someone is willing to put in the cash to have a professional theme designer do it. It's easier and cheaper to buy a professional theme and alter it.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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Isn't Wil their current PR officer? If anything that should make it insanely easy to have relations with OWI, assuming they don't have their own forum plans, which I doubt. Having the forum conform to some rules set out by OWI isn't a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination. An official OWI endorsed Oddworld forum would be great for the fan community without any additional required man- or financial power from OWI themselves, as it would be essentially fan managed. We used to be in that position years ago when we were at the very top of OWI's fan site list. These days they understandably want very little to do with us, but it's not too late to turn that around.
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I don't really know what's going on with Wil these days - I haven't spoken to him in ages. Also, bear in mind that pretty much all I said in my previous post about OWI and OWF came directly from him. He was quite enthusiastic about the idea of OWI developing its own community seperate from OWF. I'm not entirely sure that he'll be able to help us out there.
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If you think you lack the know-how to manage this forum on your own (as in technical know-how, migrating to new software, altering themes, server management), I'd be happy to help you out in managing it.
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The issue was never the 'How', it was always the 'What'.