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Welcome to the community, Peter! Congratulations on the success of your forum! It’s awesome to hear that you’ve been running it since 1995. That’s a great achievement. We’re glad to have you on board.😁

It’s awful on mobile too. It’s the only software that isn’t fully optimized for mobile phones and that’s a bad thing. ProBoards should offer an option for forum owners using their free hosting to transfer their forums to another provider if they choose, especially since they built the forums themselves. That's one thing I don't like about ProBoards.

I’m usually more motivated and creative in the afternoon and at night, but I’m not as motivated in the morning.

You’ll need to find sites based in those specific countries with the .uk domain extension and try to build links from them. This will help you attract that specific audience. You don’t need to submit your site to Yandex or Baidu, as they will list you automatically, like Google and Bing do. However, I’d recommend looking for directories in the United Kingdom, Estonia, or Scotland and submitting your site to them as well. If there’s a forum or blog catering to those countries, you could join and try marketing to their user base. Reddit, Quora, and Tumblr would also be good platforms to advertise on, as they have a large international fan base.

I get heart burn too, but I get prescribed nexium. I get it bad when I run out, but that doesn’t happen often lol. What’s your favorite pizza toppings? Have you ever tried a fried egg on your burger?

Hey [uSER=51]@flower[/uSER] welcome to the community!

Welcome to the community! [mention=47]Daedalus[/mention] It’s great to see you here.

Russia is planning to ban access to Discord within the country "in the coming weeks," marking another severed connection between Russia and the Western world. Russia cites multiple rulings against Discord for "failing to restrict access to banned information" as a major factor in banning the platform. The Discord ban is expected to heavily impact several Russian game developers who use the platform as a primary source of communication with the gaming community. The proposed ban comes after Russia's state media regulator issued several rulings earlier this month, alleging that Discord failed to block access to content prohibited in the country. This potential ban is expected to have a significant impact on Russia’s gaming community. According to Vasily Ovchinnikov, head of the Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry in Russia, many of the nation's game developers heavily rely on Discord. The platform serves as a key communication tool with their fans and is also used for customer support. As of now, no domestic alternative to Discord has been introduced. Discord Ban Reflects Russia's Growing Disconnect from Western Platforms A potential ban on Discord in Russia underscores the country's ongoing isolation from Western technologies amid the ongoing conflict. Russia has been pushing to develop its own alternatives to widely-used gaming platforms, including reports of a domestic version of Unreal Engine 5. Since 2022, the nation has already been cut off from several major services and games, such as Sony, Crunchyroll, and Pokémon GO. If the Discord ban goes through, it will be another significant blow to the Russian gaming community. Source; https://gamerant.com/russia-banning-discord-fines-ban/

Cloudflare has introduced a new feature, Speedbrain, which can help you speed up your forum if its enabled. Here’s the news post from Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-speed-brain Today we are very excited to share the latest leap forward in speed: Speed Brain. It relies on the Speculation Rules API to prefetch the content of the user's likely next navigations. The main goal of Speed Brain is to download a web page to the browser cache before a user navigates to it, allowing pages to load almost instantly when the actual navigation takes place. Our initial approach uses a conservative model that prefetches static content for the next page when a user starts a touch or click event. Through the fourth quarter of 2024 and into 2025, we will offer more aggressive speculation models, such as speculatively prerendering (not just fetching the page before the navigation happens but rendering it completely) for an even faster experience. Eventually, Speed Brain will learn how to eliminate latency for your static website, without any configuration, and work with browsers to make sure that it loads as fast as possible. To illustrate, imagine an ecommerce website selling clothing. Using the insights from our global request logs, we can predict with high accuracy that a typical visitor is likely to click on ‘Shirts’ when viewing the parent page ‘Mens > Clothes’. Based on this, we can start delivering static content, like images, before the shopper even clicks the ‘Shirts’ link. As a result, when they inevitably click, the page loads instantly. Recent lab testing of our aggressive loading model implementation has shown up to a 75% reduction in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), the time it takes for the largest visible element (like an image, video, or text block) to load and render in the browser. The best part? We are making Speed Brain available to all plan types immediately and at no cost. Simply toggle on the Speed Brain feature for your website from the dashboard or the API. It’ll feel like magic, but behind the scenes it's a lot of clever engineering. We have already enabled Speed Brain by default on all free domains and are seeing a reduction in LCP of 45% on successful prefetches.Pro, Business, and Enterprise domains need to enable Speed Brain manually. If you have not done so already, we strongly recommend also enabling Real User Measurements (RUM) via your dashboard so you can see your new and improved web page performance. As a bonus, enabling RUM for your domain will help us provide improved and customized prefetching and prerendering rules for your website in the near future! [HEADING=1]Enter Speed Brain: what makes it different?[/HEADING] Speed Brain offers a robust approach for implementing predictive prefetching strategies directly within the browser based on the ruleset returned by our servers. By building on lessons from previous attempts, it shifts the responsibility for resource prediction to the client, enabling more dynamic and personalized optimizations based on user interaction – like hovering over a link, for example – and their device capabilities. Instead of the browser sitting idly waiting for the next web page to be requested by the user, it takes cues from how a user is interacting with a page and begins asking for the next web page before the user finishes clicking on a link. Behind the scenes, all of this magic is made possible by the Speculation Rules API, which is an emerging standard in the web performance space from Google. When Cloudflare’s Speed Brain feature is enabled, an HTTP header called Speculation-Rules is added to web page responses. The value for this header is a URL that hosts an opinionated Rules configuration. This configuration instructs the browser to initiate prefetch requests for future navigations. Speed Brain does not improve page load time for the first page that is visited on a website, but it can improve it for subsequent web pages that are visited on the same site. The idea seems simple enough, but prefetching comes with challenges, as some prefetched content may never end up being used. With the initial release of Speed Brain, we have designed a solution with guardrails that addresses two important but distinct issues that limited previous speculation efforts — stale prefetch configuration and incorrect prefetching. The Speculation Rules API configuration we have chosen for this initial release has been carefully designed to balance safety of prefetching while still maintaining broad applicability of rules for the entire site. [HEADING=3]Stale prefetch configuration[/HEADING] As websites inevitably change over time, static prefetch configurations often become outdated, leading to inefficient or ineffective prefetching. This has been especially true for techniques like the rel=prefetch attribute or static CDN prefetching URL sets, which have required developers to manually maintain relevant prefetchable URL lists for each page of their website. Most static prefetch lists are based on developer intuition rather than real user navigation data, potentially missing important prefetch opportunities or wasting resources on unnecessary prefetches.

Elon Musk's social platform, X, has seen its value drop significantly since its $44 billion acquisition, according to a fresh estimate from Fidelity. The asset manager's Blue Chip Growth Fund now appraises its stake in X, previously Twitter, at around $4.19 million, as per newly disclosed information. This marks a 78.7% reduction in value by the end of August. Initially, Fidelity had invested $19.66 million in X through the same fund, based on regulatory documents. This isn’t the first cut Fidelity has made, as the firm valued its shares at approximately $5.5 million in July. With this latest markdown, X’s total valuation stands at roughly $9.4 billion, assuming the original $44 billion valuation from the acquisition, which was financed by both debt and equity. Fidelity and X have both declined to comment on the matter. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/29/fidelity-has-cut-xs-value-by-79-since-musk-purchase/

Thank you for sharing your forum with us! I like the design, it looks great.

It’s a lovely community!

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We all experience times when we feel stuck, unmotivated, or as if we're not reaching our full potential. But the reality is that self-growth is a continuous journey, not a sprint. If you're feeling a bit lost, here are a few simple steps to help you get back on track: 1. Start Small: Focus on building simple daily habits—whether it's reading for 10 minutes, taking a short walk, or drinking more water. Consistency is the foundation of progress. 2. Set Achievable Goals: You don’t need to overhaul your entire life overnight. Choose one area to improve and create a step-by-step plan to work on it. 3. Avoid Comparisons: Your journey is yours alone. Comparing yourself to others will only hinder your progress. Focus on being better than you were yesterday. 4. Learn from Failures: Mistakes aren't the end of the road—they're part of the journey. Use setbacks as learning opportunities to grow even stronger. 5. Celebrate Your Wins: No matter how small the victory, take time to appreciate it! Every step forward is a step closer to your goal. Personal growth takes time, so be patient with yourself. Trust in the process, stay consistent, and keep pushing forward. You’ve got this!

Meta has been hit with a €91M ($101M) fine after it was revealed that the company had stored up to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text. Some of these passwords had been accessible and unprotected as far back as 2012, and were searchable by over 20,000 Meta employees. The breach was uncovered in 2019, but it had reportedly been ongoing for seven years, according to Engadget. Although Meta did not specify the exact number of accounts impacted, a senior employee disclosed to Krebs on Security that up to 600 million passwords were involved. Many of these had been stored in a plain text format on the company's servers since 2012, making them highly vulnerable. Beyond the initial security lapse, Meta also failed to meet its legal obligation to report the breach in a timely manner to regulators. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found that Meta violated multiple GDPR provisions, including failing to notify the DPC of the breach without undue delay and failing to document the incident properly. The DPC also noted that Meta did not implement adequate technical measures to protect users' passwords from unauthorized access. 9to5Mac's Perspective: A $101M fine seems relatively minor given the scale and duration of the breach. With access to email addresses and passwords, attackers could have potentially taken control of hundreds of millions of Facebook and Instagram accounts. In the case of Facebook, this would have exposed private posts intended only for close friends. Under GDPR, companies can be fined up to 4% of their global revenue for privacy violations, so there was room for a much harsher penalty. Until fines are large enough to significantly impact company leadership, privacy breaches may not be treated with the seriousness they warrant. Source: https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/27/up-to-600-million-facebook-and-instagram-passwords-stored-in-plain-text/

Reddit has officially surpassed Facebook in traffic in the United States last month according to SEMrush, I’m curious what these numbers will look like again relatively soon. Do you think Facebook is losing traction to Reddit? https://www.semrush.com/blog/undefined/ [TABLE width=932px] [TR] [th width=96px]Traffic rank[/th][th width=140px]Domain[/th][th width=76px]Visits[/th][th width=144px]Desktop share[/th][th width=144px]Mobile share[/th][th width=90px]Pages/visit[/th][th width=136px]Avg. visit duration[/th][th width=96px]Bounce rate[/th] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]1[/td][td width=140px]google.com[/td][td width=76px]24.44B[/td][td width=144px]32.88%8.04B[/td][td width=144px]67.12%16.41B[/td][td width=90px]4.3[/td][td width=136px]13:29[/td][td width=96px]41.41%[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]2[/td][td width=140px]youtube.com[/td][td width=76px]11.48B[/td][td width=144px]32.16%3.69B[/td][td width=144px]67.84%7.79B[/td][td width=90px]5.9[/td][td width=136px]23:26[/td][td width=96px]38.57%[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]3[/td][td width=140px]reddit.com[/td][td width=76px]3.18B[/td][td width=144px]31.04%987.39M[/td][td width=144px]68.96%2.19B[/td][td width=90px]2.7[/td][td width=136px]12:59[/td][td width=96px]62.75%[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]4 1[/td][td width=140px]facebook.com[/td][td width=76px]2.55B[/td][td width=144px]53.63%1.37B[/td][td width=144px]46.37%1.18B[/td][td width=90px]4.7[/td][td width=136px]13:50[/td][td width=96px]51.54%[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]5 1[/td][td width=140px]amazon.com[/td][td width=76px]2.53B[/td][td width=144px]49.73%1.26B[/td][td width=144px]50.27%1.27B[/td][td width=90px]6.7[/td][td width=136px]11:02[/td][td width=96px]38.32%[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]6[/td][td width=140px]yahoo.com[/td][td width=76px]1.75B[/td][td width=144px]57.26%1.00B[/td][td width=144px]42.74%749.68M[/td][td width=90px]3.2[/td][td width=136px]12:20[/td][td width=96px]48.96%[/td] [/TR] [TR] [td width=96px]7[/td][td width=140px]duckduckgo.com[/td][td width=76px]1.54B[/td][td width=144px]15.59%240.14M[/td][td width=144px]84.41%1.30B[/td][td width=90px]2.3[/td][td width=136px]10:56[/td][td width=96px]52.64[/td] [/TR] [/TABLE] However, Facebook is still beating Reddit in traffic on the global scale. https://www.semrush.com/website/top/

Reflect on the niche of your forum for a moment. How well do you know the subject? Would you consider yourself more of a learner or a teacher within your forum's niche? Do you believe it's essential for niche forum owners to be subject matter experts? Can a forum thrive if the owner isn’t seen as an authority in the field? Do you think becoming an expert is something that can be achieved while managing the forum, or is it best to have a solid foundation of knowledge before launching it? Let’s discuss your thoughts on the role of expertise in building a successful niche forum. Do you think knowledge alone is the key to success, or are there other factors that play a role?

How active is your forum’s staff? This includes tasks like replying to threads, starting discussions, interacting with members, or handling moderation duties. 1) In your opinion, how important is it for staff to stay active and consistently engage with the community? Can a forum thrive without active staff participation? 2) Do you believe a warm welcome from staff can positively impact new members’ experience and encourage them to stay active? 3) What level of activity do you think is ideal for staff members to maintain on a forum? 4) Is there one staff member who handles most of the activity and moderation? If so, how does this dynamic impact the rest of the team? 5) Do you reward staff based on their activity levels, or do all staff members receive equal recognition regardless of how active they are? 6) On a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rate your staff’s current level of activity? Why? Feel free to share your thoughts and personal experiences!

If you’re actively promoting and working on SEO, you’ll have to track where your traffic is coming from somehow, so I’d recommend implementing those scripts. They’ll help you out a lot!

Hey [mention=3]Shortie[/mention] welcome to the community! It’s great to see you here.

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Keep working on it! You can do it. Are you building links on social sites as well? Such as, reddit and tumblr?

I’ll admit it, I can be a bit picky when it comes to joining certain forums. I’ll join ones that run Jcink or SMF, but I won’t join a forum that uses MyBB, as I’m not much of a fan of that platform. That said, I’m more likely to join a forum running Xenforo or even IPB, since I’m a fan of both platforms. What about you? Does the forum’s software matter to you when you join a new community or not really?

Are you using google search console to track your clicks and search traffic? What are you using to track your daily traffic? Google analytics or another data service?