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Recent content by Num7
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Advice Is it best to have a website along side your forum?
This is 100% true, you can't go wrong with this one. Portal or no portal? Site or no site? Good question. Here's my personal experience. My forum is 100% a forum. No website, blog or portal attached to it. Why not? Because it never worked. I tried many times to "add a site" to my forum and it...- Num7
- Post #8
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Paid or Free Theme
I paid for 2 themes over the past 15 years. Both were worth it, served us well and were much better than a lot of the free themes available at the time. Most free themes look good, but lack features here and there, as others have suggested. Nowadays, I tend to stick to the default XenForo...- Num7
- Post #9
- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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Strategy This ain't an airport, no need to announce your departure
It happens. Some people leave and want to say goodbye. That's fine. Some others are hoping to cause a bit of a stir when they leave. I usually reply with something short and honest like "Sorry to see you go, take care" and keep it simple. It's their choice, after all. As Cory said, if it turns...- Num7
- Post #5
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Foundation The use of AI bots on forums
A support forum is a good example of a proper AI bot. Or a bot labeled as such, that's there to imitate someone. Cheap example here, but think of an Elvis bot on your Elvis forum that you can interact with for fun. That would work and it wouldn't bother me at all. But other than that, I'm...- Num7
- Post #10
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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What are you nostalgic about?
MSN Messenger, for sure. What a time it was. All those weird usernames and status messages. It was pretty unique, right? Haven't seen it anywhere else since then. I miss the rush of discovering cool shit on the Internet back in 1999 and the early 2000's. At that time, the internet was pretty...- Num7
- Post #8
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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General Ever ran your own wiki?
Back in 2008 or 2009, I installed a MediaWiki instance on our Linux server at work. We then proceeded to move all our IT documentation to it, taking full profit of all the linking features, tags, and knowledge management tools. It was a great intranet Wiki back then. It was awesome and we were...- Num7
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Why did you start using forums?
I didn't know at the time, but the first forum I joined would eventually, one day, belong to me. It was a previous iteration of Paranormalis. Back then, it was called TPN: The Paranormal Network. I joined because I wanted to join various discussions about time travel theories and whatnot...- Num7
- Post #6
- Forum: Website Administration & Management
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What’s annoying you today?
Here's something that annoys me. Some folks have mastered the art of transforming a productive meeting into a time-warped, meandering labyrinth of stalled ideas. 💤- Num7
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- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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What was the last tv show that you watched?
I'm watching Dark Matter right now. It's a show about timeline-hopping and parallel universes. I won't go into detail, because spoilers, but their universe-hopping mechanic is well thought out and pretty clever, which makes the whole thing that much more believable and engaging. I love it!- Num7
- Post #10
- Forum: Off-Topic Hangout
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Nice Digs You Got Here
Hey man, welcome to the site! :) Have fun!- Num7
- Post #5
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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General FlatPress: A Database-less Alternative to WordPress
Sorry for the delay, I had to test something before I could provide a proper answer. Here's an example that will help. The test blog post is located at /flatpress/?x=entry:entry240318-143718 The flat file that it is stored in is located at...- Num7
- Post #8
- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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General FlatPress: A Database-less Alternative to WordPress
All the content (posts and pages) are stored as text files on the server. It's in the "fp-content" directory, grouped by year, month, day, etc, IIRC. That way, all you need is PHP. No database required. It has its advantages, as even with a minimum hosting service, you're able to serve pages...- Num7
- Post #6
- Forum: Platform Empowerment & Customization
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Closed Giveaway 50 Forum Posts Up for Grabs!
I'm in! 🤘- Num7
- Post #11
- Forum: Community Events & Challenges
