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  1. Arantor

    Communication Members That Always Complain

    What were they complaining about?
  2. Arantor

    Paid or Free Theme

    The last WP theme I did cost 10x that, just saying…
  3. Arantor

    Case Study Can AI help forums get real members?

    The question isn’t whether it’ll help gain members. It’s whether it will bring valid to the members you have. There are plenty of tasks that AI can assist with, meaningfully - categorising if an image might be NSFW, assessing posts that might fall foul of obscenities, toxicity, racism etc rules...
  4. Arantor

    What are you listening to?

    Currently Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene (first album)
  5. Arantor

    General Which niche do you feel is overdone in the forum world?

    I’m in much the same boat, still on that refresh before getting truly back into the swing of things. Onwards, upwards, we’re all good here :)
  6. Arantor

    General Which niche do you feel is overdone in the forum world?

    I’ve never seen anyone sustain the required level of passion for a decade or more without there being some form of recharging going on, even if it’s the community doing a trickle charge. People cannot forever pour their heart and soul in without a top-up, no matter how strong the desire is. If...
  7. Arantor

    Your Most Recent Purchase

    Starbucks, eggnog latte for my wife while they still have them, hot chocolate for me.
  8. Arantor

    General Which niche do you feel is overdone in the forum world?

    Worth noting that even genuine love and passion are not eternal wellsprings. It is entirely possible to love something with all your heart but then need to recharge. My experience has been the strongest forums - and the strongest owners - are the ones who let the community refuel the passion.
  9. Arantor

    Paid or Free Theme

    I usually get someone to do a design then I’ll implement myself, or at the very least get a paid theme. For me it’s never about the functionality but simply whether it looks nice, because I can do all the dev work myself on it.
  10. Arantor

    Preferred Host?

    For many users I used to recommend Linode but they got bought out. Then I started using Cloudways, then they got bought out. These days I mostly use Kinsta at work and Crocweb/Cloudways/DigitalOcean for home stuff.
  11. Arantor

    What control panels have you used on a server?

    cPanel, DirectAdmin, the Cloudways one, the Kinsta one, the SiteGround one, and whatever we rigged up ourselves between Jenkins, GoCD, AWS and ELK at my previous workplace. Also bare metal sysadmin if it comes down to it.
  12. Arantor

    Shared, VPS or Dedicated?

    I’ve done them all, shared, VPS, dedicated, run my own physical server in the office, plus cloud and serverless. Each has a space, each has a valid reason and application, and I’d pair what I’m doing with what makes sense.
  13. Arantor

    Could collaboration be the key to making forums busy and thriving again?

    But seriously. What you’re talking about is an idea that’s been floated a few times and makes a heckuva lot of sense for certain niches where the fragmentation hurts rather than helps. And then we can start talking about sensibly getting our own take on federation sorted out and making the...
  14. Arantor

    Do you offer a dark and light mode?

    Imagine a group of people who are Very Against AI. Now tell them that the thing they all point to can and presumably will scrape their content to feed AI. (I suspect it’s Not That AI it’s feeding, but the group of people I have in mind don’t exactly generally understand nuance) NB I have a...
  15. Arantor

    Do you offer a dark and light mode?

    Userway is the most popular, but if the people who used it ever read the TOS they’d get very angry.
  16. Arantor

    Could collaboration be the key to making forums busy and thriving again?

    Cedric just levelled up.
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    General Plagiarism AI Generated Content?

    This happens regularly enough with or without AI. AI just makes it much faster to do, though often quicker to spot. But the notion that nothing is original unless you’re doing something entirely new is… complicated, because there’s 8 billion people all having thoughts and ideas, and it’s...
  18. Arantor

    Does your host admit it when your site gets DDoSd?

    Having had a few over the years for various reasons (both me personally and my professional clients), the sooner that I and the hosting company have a conversation, the better. Fortunately, CloudFlare soaks most of the damage up these days.
  19. Arantor

    Facebook plans to roll out AI generated users

    To boost engagement by having things to engage with.
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    Facebook plans to roll out AI generated users

    Are the bots paying for the ads, though?

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