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Kyanar

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In Topic: Run multiple sites from the same backend (suggestion)

12 May 2012 - 09:44 PM

View PostJinkler, on 04 May 2012 - 07:30 AM, said:

I asked for this a couple of years ago.

If there was a forum platform that did this out of the box then I'd switch platforms. It'd be such a massive boon. I've also tried looking for programmers to do this, but no joy there.

There is one, but unfortunately that box isn't actually available >_< .  Sounds like you're describing a feature of Stardock's forums - every Stardock forum has the same member base, and certain forums can be displayed on one of more of their installations.  For example, forums.wincustomize.com and forums.stardock.com both display the WindowBlinds forum, and share the same posts and threads, etc.  You still have to manually log into each, but they use the same credentials.

In Topic: Sell tickets to events

14 April 2012 - 04:36 PM

That would probably be too open to fraud, Luis.  You'd likely need some sort of system that dynamically encodes information into the ticket as well.  I get the feeling this is more something that should be done as a third party app with Nexus integration (Nexus is built so other IPB apps can use it to process payments for them rather easily)

In Topic: IP.Board & The Forum Will Be Dead Within 5 Years

07 April 2012 - 06:48 PM

View PostLase, on 07 April 2012 - 06:36 PM, said:

That's really impressive mate. See people like myself starting a board for the first time won't have a clue how to go about doing this ourselves. Installing a shoutbox became a laborious affair and the Board Index share buttons a real pain in the arse. I honestly don't know how, years on from the inception of horrible sites like these, there still isn't a comprehensive widget that IP.Board have as an optional mod as default.
Something like AddThis?

In Topic: wiki-like 'support answer' feature for support topics

07 April 2012 - 06:40 PM

View Postsurferboy, on 07 April 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:

I went to the link you mentioned in your post but I don't see what you're talking about. Do I need to sign in to see it?  Oh wait, I see it ... the Thread Summary.  Well not quite what I had in mind but it is at least a piece of furniture in an otherwise bare living room, so to speak ...

Off topic, to be sure, but that WebHostingTalk is a PERFECT example of what I do not want a forum to look like. It is sooooooooooo confusing and sooooooooooo busy that I don't know what is advertising, and what is content.

Well yes - the very nature of WHT's target audience means they go to very little effort to tidy it up much (running an ancient version of vB likely has just as much to do with it).  But yes I mean the Thread Summary bit.  I've seen some where it grows to the size of an entire post on its own as editors fill it out to basically include the points and counter-points of every post on the thread which is why I assumed it's what you meant.

(Oh, and rule of thumb - everything outside the content square is an ad.  They have lots of ads).

In Topic: IP.Board & The Forum Will Be Dead Within 5 Years

07 April 2012 - 06:35 PM

View PostFrontpage, on 07 April 2012 - 11:54 AM, said:

OP raise a valid point with respect to the role of social media and the decline in forum discussion participation. It is a paradigm shift in social discourse.

Let us compare Invision Power versus Facebook using Compete.

You did not just use an opt-in panel of less than 0.1% of the internet-connected consumer base to illustrate your point did you?

Oh yes, yes you did.

Unless you can get metrics out of IPS and Facebook directly, any comparison of "unique views" is fundamentally flawed.

Even, you're counting views to this site, which is forum owners (who will tend to be technologically savvy and privacy aware enough not to sign up to be part of some company's great tracking experiment), versus views to Facebook, which is end users.  Very disingenuous.

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