New Partnership With CKA

So here's how it works.  Vive is remaining its own site, with its own board of directors and content control, but CKA is  hosting it and has created a new Vive site that is run from the CKA system. Trevor at CKA has been developing the system so it can share many of the core CMS files, making maintaining both sites and less work.  This involved a lot of work on Trevor's part as he basically redid our site to work on his system, and he is also generously offering to be our webmaster and help us out with any and all technical issues from now on.

CKA has also helped us optimize Vive in various search engines, which should drive even more traffic to our already-opular site.

The board of Vive and CKA hope that this will mean more long-term stability and better technical help for Vive users (such as ending our recent problems with logins) and help continue the growth of both the Vive and CKA forums by attracting new users to each.

It shouldn't be immediately obvious that the Vive site is now being run from CKA.  You're going to see the main differences to the new site just in how the forums work and in comments on articles.
The old content of Vive is still there, because all the old forum topics from the former Vive forum have been migrated over, as well as all the articles/editorials and their comments.

But all the article comments have been converted to forum posts, and will now operate using the CKA News commenting system.Vive members can't see the rest of the CKA forums at present, but CKA members can see the vive forums and will be welcome to participate if they follow the forums rules.

I hope everyone from both communities will welcome each other, but CKA members will need to keep in mind that if they're posting in the Vive forums things will be a little more controlled since we have a tighter control of flaming, personal attacks and over-the-top partisanship (something we've had to develop over the years due to the help of a few too many trolls!). For all the regular CKA forums nothing changes.

For the Vive Le Canada members, your usual account passwords and usernames should still work because all accounts have been migrated over. Your username/pass should work on www.canadaka.net or www.vivelecanada.ca.

However since this is a big migration, unexpected problems could pop up.  If your account isn’t working, first try the lost password feature, then please contact me at admin@canadaka.net

Also, if you were already a CKA member and had the same username on both sites, your profile on CKA is the one that remains, so use that password. If you had an account on both sites but the username was slightly different, they were not merged, but if you contact me i can manually merge them, so you can get all your posts from both sites attached to your profile. You can contact Trevor at the admin address above or post in the Vive Help and Support forum for assistance regarding this.

The new Vive site is now going live, but it is not totally compete.  Trevor has plans for numerous additional features. If you are a regular news/article contributor to Vive, you will have to use the new system, which should be pretty easy to figure out, since it’s less complicated than the old posting page.

And if you need help, Trevor is there to assist you.

I hope everyone will bear with us as we complete this move, and that you will support the revamped Vive site and our new partner CKA.  We felt this was truly necessary in order to ensure the survival and continued growth of Vive, and we hope that the new site serves your needs even better than the old one, and helps us continue our work effecting grassroots change and fighting for the future of Canada.

- Susan Thompson
on behalf of the Vive board of directors