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  1. Arantor

    Tools Social Media Presence

    RP used to have resource hubs - more places like RPG Directory - but many of these have closed now in favour of Discord which is practically a given requirement now. I will agree navigating Tumblr is a nightmare but it’s only a few Tumblrs you’d want to reply on (often anonymously) A list of...
  2. Arantor

    Is a blog really just a forum with other users unable to post "new threads"?

    You don’t even need to present them as separate sites, nothing stopping you presenting them as blogs from the community. Sort of like Invision does and XF half-heartedly does (think the HYS board), but even that isn’t widely done as far as I can tell.
  3. Arantor

    Is a blog really just a forum with other users unable to post "new threads"?

    Good thing blogging software typically makes this at least as easy as doing this in forums, and often considerably easier because blogging tools tend to focus on such things as part of the content creation stage. It's one of the subtle differences between being given a WYSIWYG-ish type editor...
  4. Arantor

    Is a blog really just a forum with other users unable to post "new threads"?

    Think of a typical blog as closer to a forum board than an entire forum. As for paragraph splits, most forum software does not bother to break this up to paragraphs meaning that when you read nicely split forum posts, chances are you're reading someone's content that has been consciously formatted.
  5. Arantor

    Tools Social Media Presence

    I can relate to that experience. I suspect one route for further advertising would be to look at the RP scene and maybe hit up some of the advertising Tumblrs and/or Discords where such things also get advertised. I sadly don't have any links to hand but that would be one place to investigate.
  6. Arantor

    Foundation Requiring Strong Passwords

    Well, the first version of Ikonboard debuted in 1999 and I think Matt was already in his early 20s by that point (though Ikonboard was written in Perl not PHP, though the security implications are no different in practice), with Invision's first version debuting in 2002.
  7. Arantor

    Tools Social Media Presence

    Going where your customers are is where to advertise. In jCodes' case this is going to be advertising on Jcink's main community, plus where the Jcink folks hang around (so, places like rpg-directory) rather than places like here.
  8. Arantor

    General Wordpress VS WP Engine

    You're forking, that's immediately a given no matter what you fork and no matter how perfect it is (or isn't) before you start.
  9. Arantor

    Foundation Requiring Strong Passwords

    Consider that IPS wasn't even Matt M's first attempt at writing a forum software at that point in time. Ikonboard predated Invision.
  10. Arantor

    Is a blog really just a forum with other users unable to post "new threads"?

    There is a huge difference between the workings of the thing and the optics of the thing. Mechanically, yes, a forum is very much a redress of what mechanics a blog needs, and I have certainly dabbled in various creative abuses of boards in forums as blogs with limited posting rights before now...
  11. Arantor

    Is a blog really just a forum with other users unable to post "new threads"?

    Sort of. The main deal with a blog vs a forum is that you have a few publishing content with everyone else having more or less ability to reply to it, while in a forum typically everyone can post. The result is that in the latter case, no-one is special, while in the former, the author is more...
  12. Arantor

    Is a blog really just a forum with other users unable to post "new threads"?

    Pretty much. The only real difference is presentation of that; blogs are a few-to-many publishing method, forums are a many-to-many publishing method. Blogs came along at a point when forums couldn’t sustain the posting of thought leaders within a community vs the regular populace.
  13. Arantor

    Foundation What Hasn't Been An Forum Subject/project yet?

    Any fetish with any commonality already has places to discuss it, assuming it's legal; if not it will have other places to discuss it where it might not necessarily be a forum for the sake of privacy and internal security. Any fetish not so popular might not have the support to sustain a forum...
  14. Arantor

    Foundation Requiring Strong Passwords

    That's the thing, 2004 was already well into the era of articles and documentation and have-a-go-heroes. In many ways that period is peak bad PHP practices being written out as guides.
  15. Arantor

    General Wordpress VS WP Engine

    ClassicPress did - and that's a clear demonstration of why you shouldn't. Forking was always the last point of refuge as a check and balance against a BDFL gone rogue, or other members of the community taking fundamental umbridge with the direction of the project and its leadership - and it...
  16. Arantor

    What's the most toxic social media platforms you've used?

    And a higher percentage of those are bots than in the past, no doubt.
  17. Arantor

    What DOES NOT belong on a pizza?

    The pizza that eats you back!
  18. Arantor

    Foundation Requiring Strong Passwords

    o.O document.cookie could access the password hash? WHY? WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO THAT HttpOnly was a sensible addition but it also didn't exist back in 2004 so had to be a later addition. And yes, doHTML is entirely a bad idea unless you load it up with something like HtmlPurifier but that will...
  19. Arantor

    Tumblr adds Reddit-like ‘communities

    Everyone adding forums is not surprising, forums absolutely have a place. The real question is how long Tumblr's runway is because Tumblr is owned by Automattic, and there's a very real chance that Automattic is going to get their butt handed to them in the spring.
  20. Arantor

    Foundation What Hasn't Been An Forum Subject/project yet?

    Betting on pre-game results or whatever fantasy events you want wasn't new - vBookie comes to mind - but the live integration? That's a twist I haven't come across before, and I personally would have been very wary of playing that game for being awfully close to actual gambling law (at least in...
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