Just a thought that may never happen.

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.

It would be nice to have something more modern that might attract more users over time.

Pinguinite is capable of producing just about any style of pages you want using CSS styling and the built-in page templates.

Sometimes it isn't just modern features. Look at AceOfSpades, running Movable Type 2.4 which is like 15 years old. Has a rather terrible commenting system but they have plenty of posts on every thread but their site hosts post a half-dozen articles a day, no articles are posted by users. Unfortunately, you can't really follow discussions over there the way you can here at LF. It's not a forum, just comments on a thread. And they beg for money there (and get it).

Have you seen a site that you like the looks and features of? Maybe you want comments here to look like they do on some other forum site. Maybe you want a pop-over sidebar that only appears when you hover your mouse over it. Or a pop-up main menu that shrinks itself when you scroll down the page so it stays out of the way mostly. Try to get an idea for what you want your site to look like, to feel like, what features you think are essential, what features you most want to upgrade or give a facelift to.

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.

I wish we could do some advertising to get more right wingers on board.

I second this suggestion.

Maybe you won’t end up with a site that posts only anti cop, pro drug articles.

Just a consideration. No concrete plans. It would be nice to have something more modern that might attract more users over time.

I offered to try and get you more posters by posting the site’s address on conservative Facebook pages... people would have flocked over.

You declined the offer...if you remember.

GrandIsland: offered to try and get you more posters by posting the site’s address on conservative Facebook pages... people would have flocked over.

You declined the offer...if you remember.

Stone - As an objective question, how are you planning to kiss GI's ass for compliance about FACEBOOK?

As far as my suggestion to Stone, that offer is expired... but if he wants other political opinions besides the kook 6%... he might wanna consider it, because new software ain’t gonna do shit for new posters.

All Stone needs to do is make his own LF page... they will not only join his page but join this.

But expanding the user database for LF commentary? It isn't going to happen. We are stuck with a lackluster chit-chat channel.

We are stuck with a lackluster chit-chat channel.

I have noticed that as well. I don't post here often but what I have seen is that there isn't a lot of room for alternative viewpoints, and as a result the site suffers from being too "one-dimensional".

I've posted articles on Orwellian topics, i.e mass surveillance, as well as articles that most of the members here consider to be "kook" topics such as the 9/11 False Flag, chemtrails and anything that questions the official narrative of events.

It seems that such topics are automatically met with derision by many of those who post here.

In my opinion, the software is not the problem, rather it is the lack of diversity of topics and also the vehement hatred and lack of respect shown by some of the more close-minded posters.

In my opinion, the software is not the problem, rather it is the lack of diversity of topics and also the vehement hatred and lack of respect shown by some of the more close-minded posters.

But vehement hatred and lack of respect are our best qualities!

… updating the [forum] software [to] attract more users over time.

I then recalled a quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. which I shall paraphrase:

“You have a dream that one day your forum will be judged by upgraded software and that it will attract more users. When in reality your forum is not judged by that at all – Your forum will always be judged by its content and character."

You reap what you sow is a proverb that says future consequences are inevitably shaped by present actions.

“You Reap What You Sow” – “Content and Character.”

Think about it …

I offered to try and get you more posters by posting the site’s address on conservative Facebook pages... people would have flocked over.

You declined the offer...if you remember.

I don't recall declining that offer. I don't like Facebook, never had an account there.

I don't believe I would have rejected that offer. I believe you are mistaken. Maybe you just knew i didn't like facebook.

Yes Gatlin garbage stinks.

Our olfactory system – our sense of smell – can alert us to potential dangers such as spoiled food, rot, decay and harmful molds.

Your “forum olfactory sense” is obviously in great working order since you have been alerted to the “garbage” posted on your forum.

IF you don’t want to get rid of the garbage – there are still ways to neutralize the bad smell.

I will leave you with that …

I dunno, you may wanna check the place out and get some ideas, and see what I’m talking about?

sportshoop.la/forums/spor...m-general-discussion.276/

They also have a very active political forum, it’s locked to lurking.

You have nothing to lose, getting the unknown to join from FB...you can always ban them if they turn out to be disruptive assholes.

The conservative poster, NEEDS places to post, without liberal discrimination. That includes kook Paultard harassment.

You have nothing to lose

Sometimes, you are brain-dead in your comments. Stone doesn't want to spend his time on this planet banning posters because, "nothing to lose"

Where do you get this made-up malarkey?