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Rebranding and Merging: The Hot Trend in Communities?
I'm sorry I happen to give a crap about people in different situations to me. But that seems like a solveable problem.- Arantor
- Post #28
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Rebranding and Merging: The Hot Trend in Communities?
You should probably have read my very first post on the matter first where I laid out the exact same thesis - don’t dump on what you don’t know. Yes, there are emotional ones in my case, but there are people who merge for financial reasons (namely they can’t afford to run the site any more)...- Arantor
- Post #26
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Google Search will reportedly have a dedicated ‘AI Mode’ soon
That is literally every occasion. AI doesn't know anything, it just assembles things that look statistically appropriate, and it so happens that there's enough statistically significant material to chain together things to make something look right. e.g. PHP syntax - there's no shortage of...- Arantor
- Post #3
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Rebranding and Merging: The Hot Trend in Communities?
Not at all. I'm specifically against the attitude of standing back and being all smug about choices other people made, without any understanding of why that choice was made. My point appears to have eluded you as well, I see: it doesn't matter why it happens. It matters that you don't take a...- Arantor
- Post #24
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Have you ever lost a backup for your forum and started over?
This hasn't happened to me, but not because I had backups, per se. I don't just take automated backups, I also test my backups. I don't care if you take manual backups once a day or whatever makes sense for the speed of your site (once a week may well be fine) - but you need to verify you can...- Arantor
- Post #3
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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If you weren't into forums...
I’d be doing more writing. I would possibly even have skipped the career change and be on a different path - my job today is a result of running forums, and if I hadn’t run forums, it’s very possible I wouldn’t be in this job.- Arantor
- Post #6
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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Foundation So, how do you choose a community platform?
Whether it has everything built in that I need, how much dev effort it needs to get from where it is to where I want to be, and can I get someone to make it pretty. I haven’t deployed just a pure forum in a very long time, they almost always had other stuff attached, whether that was a help...- Arantor
- Post #3
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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What browser do you like to use?
Opera back in the day, when it was still legitimately its own engine, it was amazing. Worth even paying for. These days, though, there's Google Chrome, Microsoft Chrome, NFT Chrome, Apple Chrome, Opera Chrome, ex-Opera Chrome and then there's Firefox - I remain #teamfirefox.- Arantor
- Post #16
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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ForumSpark - Host your forum for free.
I am glad to see it come back too. Looks like progress on the changelog, too!- Arantor
- Post #5
- Forum: Community Showcase
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General How many platforms have you used? Why did you leave them?
Which forum platform or software was that?- Arantor
- Post #5
- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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General How many platforms have you used? Why did you leave them?
I tried many forum platforms, mostly to see what they all offered. I mostly stayed with SMF and later StoryBB because familiar with the codebase and they did what I needed (and in StoryBB’s case nothing else does what that does) Tried: phpBB (didn’t like the ACP), MyBB (no responsive by...- Arantor
- Post #2
- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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Admin Junkies
Have you dealt with the conversation between Tracy and Carlos throwing around the R word in big bold letters yet? Those two just utterly butt heads, more so than Tracy and I do!- Arantor
- Post #14
- Forum: Community Showcase
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Nicknames now allowed on Facebook
The whole identity thing… I have seen plenty of very vile comments on FB completely owned by the individuals posting them. They see no issue whatsoever in being blatantly offensive - but nothing illegal. (Just about.) As for parasocial relationships with a pseudonym… more people know me as...- Arantor
- Post #4
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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Rebranding and Merging: The Hot Trend in Communities?
I didn’t say I was merging. I’ve just been around long enough to have lost friends who merged as one of their final acts to ensure their work didn’t get lost. I do not find it funny, at all.- Arantor
- Post #19
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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Nicknames now allowed on Facebook
Three thoughts: 1. Putting a real name on it doesn’t detract from how awful people can be in the way previously assumed about pseudonyms. 2. That the real name was a tag of an identity that could be used for marketing/targeted advertising but perhaps that’s less relevant now. 3. Perfect cover...- Arantor
- Post #2
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
