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    Suggestion

    Make it so when you sign up for the forum you can tick a box to sign up for a users.hexus account too. Do it vice verca also, will save loads of time for people, and users.hexus and forums might come more noticed
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    Not possible I'm afraid as they reside on two different databases and have two completely different table structures. This is because the forums use the vBulletin application whereas the site is custom built. We may look at combining the user accounts at some time in the distant future but it is not an option at the moment

    Thanks for the suggestion though and keep them coming

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    Actually with hindsight it might not be impossible to have users.hexus.net create you an account on the forums at the same time as you register there, but not the other way round

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    I guess if you were going to do it the other way around there would be alot of nulls or the form would need to take more data from user.
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    No, there would no nulls as the required fields on both forms are probably the same. The issue would be with modifying the registration code on vBulletin to create an account on users.hexus.net and hence invalidating any support we would get from vBulletin.

    In addition it might give users the impression that the accounts were automatically kept in sync e.g. password changes and this would not be the case. Implementing something as seemingly simple as this would have far reaching process and code implications

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    Originally posted by Az
    users.hexus.net and hence invalidating any support we would get from vBulletin.

    Humm maybe not worth it after all then.
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