[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM forum

James 'Ender' Brown ender at scummvm.org
Tue Sep 20 23:23:04 CEST 2005


Heres my proposed forum, FYI.

http://forums.scummvm.org/index.php

Users reading this mailing list - Please do not use this forum for
actual discussion, since no decision to switch from SourceForge forums
has actually been made yet. 

This is purely an example so far.

 - Ender



On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:16 +0800, James 'Ender' Brown wrote:
> When I've brought it up in the past, the general feeling I got was that
> the lack of import (and the need to register twice, on sourceforge for
> trackers and a seperate forum) made it an unattractive option. I've
> always been for it, for all the features you list :)
> 
> That said, if going with a seperate forum is decided upon, I could
> always host a PHPBB2 on the wiki box as http://forum.scummvm.org/ or
> something. Its had pretty decent uptime as far as I'm concerned, apart
> from one or two cases of a non-rotated logfile filling up the disk, and
> it already runs a few phpbb2 forums that I admin with no trouble.
> 
> Theres a half-install sitting on www.scummvm.org that I never finished
> configuring, but I've heard that SFs project mysql is a bit overloaded
> and hosting it on SourceForge may not work ideally.
> 
> And I can always add a DNS entry for anywhere else it may be hosted.
> Just to prove I'm not COMPLETELY a power-hungry mad psycho. Honest. :)
> 
>  - Ender 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:55 +0300, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
> > Hi team,
> > 
> > it was mentioned several times that we really need better forum. Most
> > desired functions are sticky topics, closed topics, proper
> > moderatorial, i.e. ability to remove single messages and finally, user
> > banning.
> > 
> > James Woodcock aka James|GlideManiac offered us to host our forums free
> > of charge. Only current caveat is URL name. Currently it could look
> > something like www.yamahapkowner.com/scummforum. He wouldn't be able to
> > host our whole site but anyway currently we host our forums "offsite"[1]
> > as well.
> > 
> > I think it wouldn't be great technical problem to import current forums
> > content to new site.
> > 
> > So what do you think?
> > 
> > 
> > Eugene
> > 
> > [1] Technically both our site and forums are hosted by sf.net, but
> > users see a big difference here.
> > 
> > 
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James 'Ender' Brown <ender at scummvm.org>





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