On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Erik Olson
<erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
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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