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Yeah I think that is about normal tbh. It's just like email, you're always going to get a bit. I'd just rather people didn't see any.

Maybe admin review of any first post that has links in would work?

The main issue is accounts that are actually created by people then passed on to bots to use for posting stuff. There are online things that pay people for each registration :P The capture should defeat totally automatic registrations. One of the problems we had before was that there were loads of a...

Just keep it simple for now. If we manage to get some activity back here we can consider putting in some hours in getting this to actually look good and optimize everything. That's probably a good point, no need to overreach just yet. The most important thing for this forum is really tutorials. The...

That's just the Stylish addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ :P I just like the idea of open source in a fun way. Let people use what they learn by getting their code rejected... maybe not the best idea. Maybe something a bit more private, people could make private pages ava...

Yeah I'm thinking of a bit of an overhaul of everything really. Maybe a slight re-branding is the best way to put it. I'll do some proper research and see if I can come up with something. I was thinking it might be fun to make the website open source so that people can contribute new pages and stuff...

I'll probably end up doing something a bit custom. I've always found WordPress pretty limiting when it comes to some stuff, plus it can be slow as hell

Yeah to be honest I am pretty happy with phpbb. It just feels like its limiting the site a lot. I'd ideally want everything to be more integrated instead of the forum being separate from the website :/ maybe we'll have that problem with everything too. Edit: oh also something mobile friendly! I'm on...

r is server space something that you would rather have local for testing and whatnot? Have a full server rack here that I use for a bunch of things unrelated to this, but more importantly, I have a Xeon E3-1231v3 based server that is sitting here with pretty much 0 load on it and that is unacceptab...

Yeah I'd really like to use XenForo, it's just paying for it :/ Really want to keep my costs down since this makes me no money really.

killfrog47 wrote:yeah I could be down for a minecraft server. I havent played that game in years! Iv been wanting to get into making some plugins lately!

Me too a bit. Bukkit has gone now though so learning a different server platform has put me off a bit :/

Also since the last time this place was active I have gotten a job doing web development (more front-end and much less PHP) but I feel like I can be of more assistance to users asking questions now days =) That's good news :) What sort of place are you working for? I make payroll and HR software no...

Yeah I thought about doing something like that. If we do Minecraft I could do something on forum integration

Yeah it might be fun. The last time I was a server admin it ended up taking up way too much time though so we might have to focus on other stuff first. I'm moving house in a few weeks so I'll look at getting some videos made after that - need to work out what people want.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it here before but I used to run a semi-popular minecraft server http://somethingcraft.co.uk/home.html Before too many people joined it was so fun, there was a great little community and nobody built anything too gigantic - kind of the small town where everyone knows each...

Ahhh I like that idea! Makes it look a bit less abandoned too. I'll make a note

I'll certainly be sticking with the more full featured traditional style forum. Basically exactly like this but with a nicer look

I'll have a play with the new phpBB, not really something I thought about weirdly

Haaay, who moderated me :P Have you completely given up on the custom one you started on? I cant remember how far along you came with it. It's done really I just sort of figure there will be stuff I haven't thought of that needs doing and it will end up taking up a lot of time I could spend on other...

>> ip.board << Soooo good (but paid) I've heard good things about that but I'd really like to avoid paying for anything since I get no income from this really. http://vanillaforums.org/ looks pretty good but I don't think it's super well used. Might just be a case of setting a few up locally and ha...

Hmm. I think we may need new forum software.
I'm really feeling the limitations of the current thing :/

I've added a repeating calendar event to remind me to check every day except Thursday (I go a pub quiz on Thursdays)

I'd also say don't expect it to go crazy overnight, there is a lot to do to get us anywhere near busy again