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Anthony Nordquist
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New Forum?
« Thread Started on Jul 14, 2012, 7:55am »

The SalineOS website is being entirely redone for 2.x and work has already started on this. I want to know what the local community thinks about moving the forums to our own hosting instead of proboards. This would mean having to sign up all over again and the content would start from well nothing.

An example of what the new forum would look like can be seen on the testing site we have setup: http://kr0k3tt.no-ip.org/forum

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #1 on Jul 14, 2012, 9:51am »

Looks good. The only downside I can see is loss of the current content - there is some valuable information in the forums. Other than that, the new layout looks excellent, and it should hopefully overcome some of the strange behaviour I've hit with the proboard setup.

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« Reply #2 on Jul 14, 2012, 10:03am »

I vote for a change, and think we don't have to loose current content, I'm moving some polish forum from one very old CMS to a new different one, and it's not that hard, if you make a good plan.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #3 on Jul 14, 2012, 10:10am »

Jul 14, 2012, 10:03am, petrek wrote:

I vote for a change, and think we don't have to loose current content, I'm moving some polish forum from one very old CMS to a new different one, and it's not that hard, if you make a good plan.

Except proboards has all the information, I maybe able to get my hands on it, but I don't really have complete control of it right now. So I might try to salvage the posts for the future and yes I do agree this old forum is full of good information. It also serves as a good testament to how far the project has come. This is why I am somewhat reluctant to move on, but it does look much better integrated into the website.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #4 on Jul 14, 2012, 10:36am »

I'm ok with whatever you decide.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #5 on Jul 14, 2012, 11:00am »

If possible keep our user list with personal Info so we can contact them all to give them a chance to sign in to the new Forum. I think we can still live without the old references, but, I agree it would make things easier. See what you can arrange with Proboards and their database.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #6 on Jul 14, 2012, 11:23am »

As far as I know you can modify proboards code, and it is the only needed thing for moving forum. If you have that, even if you don't have direct access to the database, you can use their functions to read data and record it in some text form. In the worst case you'll need to do it few times, if they limit your database usage. From now on everything depends on what database you choosed for new forum.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #7 on Jul 14, 2012, 1:46pm »

+1
It always seems an advantage to control your data.
Better now rather than later.

Keep this old site running so we can mine the information as needed.
Or if someone gets really industrious.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #8 on Jul 14, 2012, 9:41pm »

I can in fact modify the forums code, in fact I have a bit of javascript of my own running on it now. If nothing else I can make a post on all the subforums pointing to the new forum and leave this one running as an archive for some period of time (And, lock the forum up so no new posts are made here). Perhaps adding an archive link to the new forum that links here.

I will look into pulling the info out of the database and rebuilding it into a new one, but I am a bit out of my expertise on this. I am just now starting to learn Drupal and put it into practice with kr0k3tt. Really the last website I put together myself was coded in HTML and made heavy use of frames (I suddenly feel old). I am just now learning how to work with these newfangled CSS systems that seem to be in use everywhere these days.

Considering the number of registered users on the forum, it would be feasible to email everyone a randomly generated password for the user name they currently have on this forum. A simple the forum has moved, and your username has been reserved for you with the password 29umnja or something.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #9 on Jul 14, 2012, 11:48pm »

Sounds good; simple to change the password.
Looking forward to the new 2.
Although the old 1 still functions perfectly.

I still like to see the new updates.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #10 on Jul 15, 2012, 8:40am »

Sounds great.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #11 on Jul 17, 2012, 1:03am »

The forum I'm developing on at the moment is the default one provided with drupal, there is no reason I can't look at alternatives to use if anyone has some suggestions

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #12 on Jul 17, 2012, 2:39pm »

I like the layout and function of the http://forums.debian.net/index.php
Especially that the top of the screen is not filled with the name.
and the ad.

Ads are a necessary evil but hopefully waste a bit less initial real estate in the new forum.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #13 on Jul 17, 2012, 3:37pm »

Drupal is a great CMS, one of the best. You'll have your hands full figuring out all the intricacies of it

I'm fine with whatever decision you guys go with. This board doesn't see lots of posting so that might make it easier to switch forums. I still would like to see some sort of wiki/faq for salineos.

@Richard: that debian forum is running phpbb. (looks like its probably phpbb3). unfortunately phpbb is hugely targeted by spammers. I moderate at a couple forums and unless you lock down phpbb pretty tight it would be a full time job cleaning up spam and deleting the spam accounts.

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Re: New Forum?
« Reply #14 on Jul 17, 2012, 3:54pm »

@KP, that's good to know. Wasn't aware what they were running.
I just like the layout. and the functionality presented.
I know lots of people like and recommend Drupal.
Debian forum does have more than their share of spam.

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