Title: Thinking of shutting this site down and updating the software Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Aug 7, 2019 Author:A K A Stone Post Date:2019-08-07 09:14:24 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:3349 Comments:23
I am considering shutting this place down and updating the place to some modern software.
I was recently looking around at forum software. There aren't that many around these days.
You could look at using Wordpress and a forum plug-in for it. bbPress is a well-known plug-in. Yet you see people complain on their forum about various malfunctions. OTOH, it has had 300K+ installations so sooner or later somebody is going to find some problems with it.
I really hate those spying bastards at Disqus. So I don't even consider them.
Most forums lack a feature here at LF: the Latest Comments page with ability to search out replies to your threads or posts. Most forums just don't seem to offer something like that that is direct. Other forums don't allow you to address other users as directly as LF does. Features like these foster discussion.
You probably want to look around at various forum solutions and see if they can be readily adapted to work the way LF does. Very few seem to work the way LF and FR do.
Other forums don't allow you to address other users as directly as LF does. Features like these foster discussion.
Yeah... For instance, right now I can't remember why I put Mudboy Slim on my bozo filter.... so if I was interested in figuring that out, that search function might come in handy...
But I DO recall Mud's parody songs being absolutely godawful, so there's no sense in wondering what was the straw that broke the camel's back...
Given a choice between Mudboy & byeltsin, I'll gladly hold my nose and stick with boris anyday of the week... even though I still have no idea what the old banjo boy is saying.
