| Subject: Re: What do you guys think of this new sample forum? |
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chris uk
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Date Posted: 08:31:59 07/31/04 Sat
In reply to:
Tim
's message, "Re: What do you guys think of this new sample forum?" on 02:20:33 07/26/04 Mon
The point you raised with the new forum having to be regulated is a good one, I think Lynn as owner of the site will need to delegate a group of people who she can trust to be worthy moderators and administrators, to help the forum run smoothly. I would volunteer my services if needed ;o) The ability to register your own unique username is a big plus, it would give you individuality and make you feel you belonged to the board more. On this current set-up someone could steal your identity.
>I think I should just bring up a couple points.
>
>If you are going to host your own forum I sugjest you
>wait until you can. Unless the akbbs forum will work
>with whatever forum software you intend to host you
>might be asking for everyone to create an account,
>only to create another one once you start your own
>forum. The only way around this is if you can transfer
>the records.
>
>The other thing... alot of features are nice. But they
>need to be regulated. If you allow html in the sigs
>individuals can change the layout of the forum with
>some simple code run from the signature so I sugjest a
>caracter limit and/or just stick with vB code. Avatars
>and signatures CAN contain pictures. The more pictures
>the longer the load times are. I'm lucky enough to be
>on a 3mb line so I won't care, but 56k'ers beware.
>
>That being said I think it's TONS better then the
>current one. Big thumbs up.
>
>>Jim,
>>
>>Yeah, I'm definitely going to look into hosting my own
>>forum. I'm going away again at the end of this week
>>(family trip to Costa Rica) and don't have time right
>>now to do the research, but I plan to. Anyway, for a
>>free remotely hosted forum, the one I'm testing isn't
>>bad. It has a lot of features I haven't even used,
>>like avatars and other customization. Looks
>>interesting. I agree that the top image is too big. I
>>was just playing around...
>>
>>
>>>I think it is an improvement over this board.
>>>
>>>My machine doesn't like the top image too much--it's
>>>too big, so if you can make that small, even just as
>>>small as the very top logo in that machine, that'd be
>>>awesome.
>>>
>>>Might I suggest not having TOO many categories? I
>>>think perhaps the extractions & jaw surgery thread
>and
>>>orthodontic appliance categories may be able to be
>>>reduced to one category. I think the Eating with
>>>Braces could probably be removed and would fall under
>>>living with braces.
>>>
>>>The newly braced forum is a good idea, since we get a
>>>lot of people posting here that they were just
>braced.
>>>I hope Dr. Rick will still frequent the other forums,
>>>too. :P
>>>
>>>I still believe that your own forum install would be
>>>best, but I also think this solution is better than
>>>your current set-up.
>>>
>>>Good work, Lynn.
>>>
>>>Also, you might be able to just make a "sticky"
>thread
>>>or an announcement, either in all of the forums or
>the
>>>most frequented forums, about it not being a fetish
>>>board and such, and remove it from the image.
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