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What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:21 pm
by gounion
I think we could do with fewer than we had in the last board. For instance, the sports and entertainment with drop downs for each. I'd rather not have drop downs. Maybe a sports forum and an entertainment forum separately and no drop downs at all.

What do folks want to see?

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:26 pm
by Drak
Aside from what you mentioned. I’d agree that too many sub forums is unnecessary.

Politics and current events is a must IMO, since it’s familiar and was the main forum.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:35 pm
by Libertas
gounion wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:21 pm I think we could do with fewer than we had in the last board. For instance, the sports and entertainment with drop downs for each. I'd rather not have drop downs. Maybe a sports forum and an entertainment forum separately and no drop downs at all.

What do folks want to see?
Yeah I never understood that, no need for all that.

Breaking news
Politics and Current Events
Sports and Entertainment
Introduce Yourself

If we had a bigger group we could have DIY forum but that wont get any attention here unless I need to stop the ping ping ping of my drain pipe and Sam tells me how to fix it. :lol:

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:59 pm
by rainwater
Drak wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:26 pm Aside from what you mentioned. I’d agree that too many sub forums is unnecessary.

Politics and current events is a must IMO, since it’s familiar and was the main forum.
yah.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:02 pm
by gounion
Libertas wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:35 pm Yeah I never understood that, no need for all that.

Breaking news
Politics and Current Events
Sports and Entertainment
Introduce Yourself

If we had a bigger group we could have DIY forum but that wont get any attention here unless I need to stop the ping ping ping of my drain pipe and Sam tells me how to fix it. :lol:
I think that Breaking News and Politics and Current Events is redundant. So far, I've got "All about You" and split Sports and Entertainment into two forums.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:05 pm
by sam lefthand
I don't use the forums to index anyway, I use active topics as my index and read all the new posts.

With so few of us posting I don't see a reason to have more than just this one Politics and Current Events forum.

We need YouTube enabled.

More smilies.

The ability to up load avatar photos if it's not already enabled.

One thing you might consider is telling the search engine bots to go away. Make our board private. It's been a long time since Google would bring a link to our board to the top such that we're visible there anyway.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:12 pm
by rainwater
i remember when we lost essmb...was it 50,000 lehman posts gone. sumthin like that. :(

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:19 pm
by gounion
sam lefthand wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:05 pm I don't use the forums to index anyway, I use active topics as my index and read all the new posts.

With so few of us posting I don't see a reason to have more than just this one Politics and Current Events forum.

We need YouTube enabled.

More smilies.

The ability to up load avatar photos if it's not already enabled.

One thing you might consider is telling the search engine bots to go away. Make our board private. It's been a long time since Google would bring a link to our board to the top such that we're visible there anyway.
Thanks for the suggestions. Pretty much agree.

YouTube - that requires an extension, I had earlier messaged Plunderer to give me the ability to upload extensions (requires FTP into his files) or have me send them to him to upload. I'll keep everyone posted.

I'll work on Smilies. Have any you prefer?

Avatars are enabled. Go to your user control panel.

Bots - nice idea. I'll look and see if there's something on the board for that, or if I'll have to deal with Plunderer on it.

But we do have one new member who says he found us on Google.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:21 pm
by gounion
rainwater wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:12 pm i remember when we lost essmb...was it 50,000 lehman posts gone. sumthin like that. :(
Yeah, but that was because they didn't want it anymore. I think what happened was the hosting company decided to raise the price to a crazy amount, and they said no, soooooo... Poof!

Luckily, Plun and I were playing with this one, so we got it rolling quick.

Sad, I really liked having all the old posts to go back through. Good way to hold people to their own words.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:26 pm
by gounion
We may have some problems with spam accounts. I'll delete as needed.

As of now we don't have it set up to clear them first. I'll look into that - some you can tell right away.

I won't be around much tomorrow. I'll be going to breakfast than to the big city for some business and watching Dune. I'll be back late afternoon. May sneak in here and there on my phone. But I don't know if I can admin on the phone. Don't bother to report spammers, I'll take care of them as I see them.

*Edit* Okay, found the Admin activation setting. Not going to set it for a few days, so that our regulars can register and immediately post.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:48 pm
by Bludogdem
gounion wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:26 pm We may have some problems with spam accounts. I'll delete as needed.

As of now we don't have it set up to clear them first. I'll look into that - some you can tell right away.

I won't be around much tomorrow. I'll be going to breakfast than to the big city for some business and watching Dune. I'll be back late afternoon. May sneak in here and there on my phone. But I don't know if I can admin on the phone. Don't bother to report spammers, I'll take care of them as I see them.

*Edit* Okay, found the Admin activation setting. Not going to set it for a few days, so that our regulars can register and immediately post.
Just enjoy the day and don’t worry about this. Build it out slowly through the week. Remember, you’re retired.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:05 pm
by gounion
Bludogdem wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:48 pm Just enjoy the day and don’t worry about this. Build it out slowly through the week. Remember, you’re retired.
We can change things as needed.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:26 pm
by Tao Jones Sr.
“Whack-A-Troll?”

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:09 pm
by gounion
Tao Jones Sr. wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:26 pm “Whack-A-Troll?”
I want to leave it open for now, so that everyone can come on and not have to wait. I may re-institute the Admin approval Tuesday. Don't bother reporting, gang. As soon as I log in each time, I'll take care of them.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:52 am
by plunderer
I forced email activation. This should help mitigate spammers. If not, I have a few other tricks up my sleeve. I was hoping the new software was better out of the box.

-P

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:54 am
by plunderer
gounion wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:19 pm Thanks for the suggestions. Pretty much agree.

YouTube - that requires an extension, I had earlier messaged Plunderer to give me the ability to upload extensions (requires FTP into his files) or have me send them to him to upload. I'll keep everyone posted.
Add ons usually require some coding. Are you okay with that?

-P

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:03 am
by gounion
plunderer wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:54 am Add ons usually require some coding. Are you okay with that?

-P
I should be able to deal with it. Won't get in over my head. Promise not to break anything. I do want to figure out how to do regular backups. I don't see that on the board software anywhere.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:57 am
by ap215
The all bad things not nice to say forum from the old board i wanted to post there but it was locked.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:09 pm
by Libertas
I relied on

NEW POSTS

option, I could click on it and see all the new posts since last I visited or posted...please add if possible gounion and thank you for all your work... 8-)

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:07 pm
by gounion
plunderer wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:52 am I forced email activation. This should help mitigate spammers. If not, I have a few other tricks up my sleeve. I was hoping the new software was better out of the box.

-P
We're still getting them. I changed it to Admin activation. I'll handle it. I got a lot to delete now.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:45 pm
by Drak
Is there a way (tags) to post direct video links from Twitter?

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:14 pm
by gounion
Drak wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:45 pm Is there a way (tags) to post direct video links from Twitter?
Not right now. I'm looking at some add-ons that'll allow it.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:32 pm
by Libertas
gounion wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:14 pm Not right now. I'm looking at some add-ons that'll allow it.
I see new posts, thanks :D

WAIT, I see that my LINK from the prior board brings up new posts, but I dont see a way to bring it up if I am on the main page...

And, when you click on a link it takes you to that link on the page of the board, can you make it so it opens a new *tab? These are just suggestions, appreciate everything, not expecting anything, everything is appreciated.

How do we direct link youtube?
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*not a browser setting, I have my browser settings for that, it is a board setting pretty sure....and again, only a suggestion as you are being asked to do too much as it is so THANKS!

This is the link that gets me NEW POSTS


search.php?search_id=newposts&sid=57f89 ... 7c1b21746f

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:34 pm
by marindem01
Favorite Books. Hobbies. Science.

Re: What forums do we want?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:47 pm
by bradman
How bout a good dose of Roberts Rules?

8-)