[Scummvm-devel] AGI forums

Tue Nov 9 15:05:59 CET 2010

I have done administrative work in the past, i.e. upgrading CMS software and
forums. I have also worked extensively on VBulletin and IPB in the past.
Perhaps I could have a look at this? I can't make any promises, as I don't
know how extensive are the changes needed for the theme, but I can certainly
aid with this and do all the required changes and updates, if you want.
We could perform an upgrade in a test copy of the database and track
potential issues. I haven't dealt with the inner workings of phpBB, but I do
have a good knowledge of PHP, so that shouldn't be a problem...

Regards
Filippos

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Arnaud Boutonné
<arnaud.boutonne at gmail.com>wrote:

> Eugene, do you have an idea of the number of registered users on
> Mega-Tokyo? If the number is low, then the increase will not be so
> problematic, I guess...
>
> Max, if it may help, I volonteer to help you and Eugene for the manual
> administration work you're doing.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnaud
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 09.11.2010 um 11:51 schrieb Eugene Sandulenko:
>>
>> > Hi team,
>> >
>> > I would like to host AGI forums on our forums. I.e. now ScummVM became
>> > /the/ AGI interpreter, and AGI community naturally gathers around it.
>> > Another reason is that current AGI forums went down over again, and I
>> > was contacted by their guys with inquiry about such hosting.
>> >
>> > Any objections?
>>
>> No fundamental ones, though there is one thing I want to say about our
>> forums in general: We are still stuck with phpBB 2, mostly due to the theme.
>> This version has not received any security fixes for quite some time now and
>> is not being developed anymore.
>>
>> Besides the obvious security problem, spam control is pretty limited in
>> phpBB 3. We currently have a bit over 10,000 registered users; I estimate
>> that a big percentage of these are spammers (often used for only 1-2 spam
>> messages, than not abandonded), or inactive accounts that never posted.
>>
>> It's far too easy for spammers to register on the board, and difficult to
>> consistently flag & ban spammers (it can be done, but e.g. Eugene and me
>> apparently did it differently for some time).
>>
>> Our moderator team is doing an outstanding and amazing job on keeping the
>> forum spam free, I must. Really impressive, thanks folks!
>> But I wonder if we could make their life a bit easier with more advanced
>> spam fighting tools? Of course, no tool (at this time) can really help with
>> *human* spammers. But, say, something which replaces the "Deleted topics"
>> subforum hack would be cool. Currently, when a mod has detected a spam
>> message, they need to split the thread it is in, moving the spam messages to
>> the "deleted topics" forum; later admins have to wade through there and ban
>> spammers; which is done usually only on repeated offenders, simply because
>> it is quite some work).
>> I'd like to see a simple "mark this message as junk" button which mods can
>> use on a message, presto. And which would properly keep the context of the
>> alleged spam message, just in case we need to review the "is spam" decision.
>> And then a feature which allows listing all spam messages, and their
>> authors, quickly finding other messages by the same author (so one can check
>> whether they are spam, too). And then a button for mods or admins to mark a
>> users as "spammer", which would automatically take care of banning the user
>> and would also automatically flag them as "banned due to spamming" (right
>> now we manually move these users into a spammer user group we created just
>> for this).
>>
>>
>> OK, long rant short message: I really would like to move to a better forum
>> software. Maybe phpBB 3 plus addons can do that (this would make for the
>> easiest upgrade path, too). If our forums grow even more, this will become
>> ever more important. The only blocker is the theme. Let's search for
>> volunteers -- or, heck, let's put out a bounty and pay somebody to do it!
>>
>>
>>
>> Bye,
>> Max
>>
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