Re: [AGA-mcm] Forum future

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Hi Ben,

I started building the OS image on a new machine today -- the 2.0.22 forum 
transferred over without a hitch (which pleasantly surprised me), and I 
was able to mostly convert it to 3.0.6 on the new machine (as a test).

This new version of phpbb seems to have a lot of good stuff built-in: 
attachments, Atom Feeds, and better e-mail subscription.  The thing that's 
really annoying, though, is that it won't bloody e-mail the actual text of 
the posts (compared to a feed reader, which will actually show you what's 
said)... which is why I did the geezer gateway to begin with.

If the Atom Feed thing works correctly, I won't be using the e-mail 
subscription at all.  I tend to have all my usual websites aggregated 
under a feed reader these days, and that *does* show all the text of the 
posts.


Lots of stuff didn't transfer over automatically, including the avatars & 
color scheme, so I will have some more work to do... but I think this has 
given me hope we can do the switch-out within the next couple weeks.  It 
is also my hope that we can then get all the so-called moderators on the 
forum to subscribe in one of these two ways, so that folks other than 
Scott and Cheryl answer questions there.

  - Erik

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Ben B. wrote:

> The forums I'm on have newer versions than ours and you are able to subscribe to the 
> sections. 
> When you do, you get an email when there is a new post on those sections or you 
> can elect to get
> a summary mailed to you daily of new and updated topics.  I rarely go directly 
> and log into any
> forum where I'm a member.  I just check the emails I get and follow the link 
> back to the
> conversation or look at the summaries and pick and choose what I am interested 
> in.  Every night
> I get 3 emails from Aquatic Plant Central if there is a new post or an update 
> in the Crypts,
> DFWAPC, or  NASH sections.  Otherwise, I almost never go to APC.
>
> I was just looking at our forum.  It will let you subscribe to a single post, 
> but not an entire
> section of the forum.  Can we upgrade our forum to a version that does this and 
> encourage
> members to subscribe to the various topics?

--
Erik Olson                                                        Sent from my 
crusty old Linux box
erik at thekrib dot com

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