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Steaming, you have my sympathy, not that it'll help you sleep better. My board was involuntarily migrated three weeks ago with no warning. I had to buy a new computer to be able to admin adequately, as yuku doesn't accommodate old browsers. It was delivered today. I've figured out how to use one percent of it.

Although yuku administrators (as distinct from board administrators like you and me) say yuku isn't a social networking site, migrants from ezboard notice the networking features first. Wikipedia's article on yuku classifies it in the category "Social networking sites." Make of that what you will.

Reactions by new forced migrants remind me so much of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's stages of adaptation to terminal illness: anger, bargaining ("Take us back to ezboard, we paid enough"), and so forth. Of course, there's an important difference. Death is inevitable, whereas one can choose not to remain with yuku, so a successful passage through the stages needn't end in acceptance.

A few tips: Check your forum security settings on arrival. Some of ours slipped out in the move, and we don't know why (it's being investigated). Invisible forums became visible, and members posted in them who wouldn't have been able to at ezboard. Privacy settings in profiles can also change.

Yuku doesn't recognize ezOps, only board owners; the former ezOp has only admin privileges and no longer gets a free Supporter account. The board owner won't see ads, but he or she doesn't get a free Supporter account, either. These differences will affect the cost of running a board that's big enough to be charged by page views. Yuku's pricing structure differs from ezboard's.

The Quick Reply feature is actually a convenience, in my opinion. It saves loading a page just to reply. Some of the new admin controls do neat tricks like telling you what other screen names a poster has used - easier than comparing IPs by hand and guessing. Other information we had in My Community, however, is missing, such as the list of five newest members and certain board statistics.

Yuku is located in the Pacific time zone, which is eight hours behind the British Isles. When it's 8:00 p.m. in Ireland, it's noon in California. Yuku admins aren't all located in the United States. They seem to work different shifts, and I've had responses on technical problems in the evening (I'm also in the Pacific zone).

Reph, as far as ezboard is concerned the ezop IS the owner of the board. The ezop is the person who creates the board, and agrees to the terms of use. That is the person responsible for the board. Any other administrator is just an administrator. Only one perosn is identified in the memberlist as the ezop.

If you have an admin who needs to promote admins, then the owner (ezop) can simply give him that power on his edit page.

The admins at our board really don't understand this arrangement. For one thing, the move from ezboard took us all by surprise. Later it turned out that board owners were notified of such moves in advance and ezOps were not. Our owner has been absent for a few years, but we've always had an active ezOp, so we concluded that being out of touch with the owner was the reason we hadn't been informed. For instance, the owner may have changed his address. Did we go wrong in thinking it was the reason? If the ezOp is the person responsible for the board, shouldn't yuku have notified him, rather than the owner, of the impending move?

(In our case, neither the ezOp nor the board owner created the board originally, but who created it isn't relevant to our questions about what the titles mean. The important thing is, the Admin section identifies one person as owner and another as ezOp, and we need to know who can do what.)

Then the current ezOp tried to remove some retired admins and promote another member to admin. He couldn't do it. At that point, an admin asked you for help, and you gave her the extra powers so we could get our new admin in place. (Note to other users: if you need to change admins and you can't, ask a yuku admin for a sprinkling of power dust.)

We're currently trying to get ownership transferred from the owner to the ezOp. What you wrote implies that this is unnecessary and might even limit the person's powers. Please advise.