[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM forum

[Pawel Kolodziejski]

> Heres my proposed forum, FYI.

i would be yes to create such forum.

> 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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