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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2007, 10:34:34 PM » |
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Wow! That is much better! I think we shuld definitely upgrade to phpbb3. That will far more easy to customise. I could come up with an awesome template for that!  Yes I think it is better software than the old one. Seems to be that they have more to it than the older version. Been fun trying to set that up. |
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« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2007, 10:42:31 PM » |
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phpbb3 is lovely but its a total bugger to configure all the permissions for the various forums if you want to do anything other than bog standard stuff with them
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« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2007, 11:44:02 AM » |
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I think for the time being we need to make the best of what we have here.
So suggestions for merging / deleteing / amending categories and areas would be good.
Along with suggestions for which areas should be private, ie members must be logged in (therefore no search engine bots either.)
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« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2007, 12:05:22 AM » |
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Ash...... Did you end up exluding the search engines from the "Online social interaction" area and the "Break Room"? They don't show up as users when we're online, but take a quick look at this search result for "Colchester Aerials" my new business site. (It will rank at number 4 below one of my google local listings(C) before too long!) Any way: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=colchester+aerials&meta=It seems to me as if Google are still getting in... Result 7 is from the break room cached 1st August... Site went live last Sunday so it's a very recent crawl... Dan |
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« Reply #19 on: August 06, 2007, 01:03:47 AM » |
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Wow! That is much better! I think we shuld definitely upgrade to phpbb3. That will far more easy to customise. I could come up with an awesome template for that! How much would it be for a template for my forum? |
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« Reply #20 on: August 06, 2007, 08:08:26 AM » |
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Ash...... Did you end up exluding the search engines from the "Online social interaction" area and the "Break Room"? They don't show up as users when we're online, but take a quick look at this search result for "Colchester Aerials" my new business site. (It will rank at number 4 below one of my google local listings(C) before too long!) Any way: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=colchester+aerials&meta=It seems to me as if Google are still getting in... Result 7 is from the break room cached 1st August... Site went live last Sunday so it's a very recent crawl... Dan We did then david (ctabuk) requested we opened it up again.. |
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« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2007, 08:26:13 AM » |
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I don't mind coughing up the $100 - but the Forum is NOT going down the pure SEO and no fun route. That happened in WPW and it became the most boring place to visit.
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« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2007, 08:44:21 AM » |
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Well VBulletin is a possibility then, although i think we can wait to see what the final version of PHPBB3 is like.
Its not a pure SEO root David, but if the break room is not spiderable it would help our more on-topic pages rank better as Google will theme us more as an SEO / Webmaster site.
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« Reply #23 on: August 06, 2007, 09:42:52 AM » |
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I think rather than reinvent the wheel myself, the next forum i install will be based on bbpress as you can install mods just like you can on wordpress. i actually have a base install on www.explore-exmoor.co.uk/forum at the moment that i'm going to start modding soon. i quite like it and i know i can make it look sexy with a nice template. Plus i can add all the features i want like avatars, etc. Darren |
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« Reply #24 on: August 06, 2007, 10:55:47 AM » |
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I'm actually looking at SMF at the moment, i used their last version but the latest release (and the mods available) look good too!
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« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2007, 11:12:14 AM » |
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We are attracting vast numbers of spammers - will any format lower the numbers? No
How are we in size compared to other UK forums of a similar nature?
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« Reply #26 on: August 06, 2007, 12:02:59 PM » |
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Other formats do actually handle spammers better in some cases, worse in others, if we ran a standard PHPBB we'd be inundated.
The spammers that do register do not get ANY benefit from us, unless they post and then they are usually picked off.
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« Reply #27 on: August 06, 2007, 12:11:28 PM » |
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Looking at this forum compared to others I feel it does a good job in stopping most spammers. I notice a fair few new users with suspect usernames everyday but very few posts come up. The spam-trap obviously works to a better degree than your average forum.
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« Reply #28 on: August 06, 2007, 12:21:45 PM » |
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phpBB 3 is wayyy buggy still. I installed it, it ran for 3 days, then wham just blew up. Wouldn't connect to the database, or reinstall. :cry:
Back to phpBB 2
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« Reply #29 on: August 06, 2007, 01:18:31 PM » |
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You missed this question
How are we in size compared to other UK forums of a similar nature?
Thanks, I'm out of touch with UK Forums -No comments :lol: :lol:
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