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    Forum Software Drama Killing Forums

    How can a support forum be completely replaced if there was never any material to train the AI on to begin with? I suppose software developers could devote their time to writing manuals, and hope that AI could take the technical writing that may be written in, as it could be written by the...
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    Domains Domain doesn't match forum

    Could just be using a "brandable" domain. Example: Two forums for widgets — one established on WidgetsForum — exist. Instead of competing with the older forum with similar keywords, they choose a brandable name, Pepsi, let's say. Over time, a brandable is able to gain notoriety, and is easier...
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    Upgrading PHP

    2.2.8 PL1 won't run on anything newer than 8.3 (haven't tested prior 2nd level 8 releases), even though 7.0 is the minimum, but it states 8.0 is recommended. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/a-ton-of-these-errors.228090/
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    Upgrading PHP

    Plesk allows for multiple PHP-FPM installations (7.3, 8, 8.3) to run multiple instances of PHP on a single server, with each site using a different version of PHP as needed. So, I upgrade as needed for some sites, and even downgrade to 7.3 for other sites. XF 2.3 will run well on PHP 8+, but...
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    Time to write...

    When I was into travel blogging, it was impossible to get an article out in a day or a week, in the traditional sense of writing. I mean, I could pump things out and they could sound good, but would they keep people on the page the entire duration? Probably not, and probably not even close. I...
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    Is AdSense Dying?

    Advertising really died when they changed from CPM to CPC. The days of $3 (my low-tier account) to $13 CPM ($3-13 per 1000 impressions) were the best, especially with a text-based game where a player would load hundreds of pages per day. Of course, there were clicks, but the money was in just...
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    Are Self-Hosted Forums and Blogs Becoming Obsolete with Cloud Platforms and SaaS Communities?

    It really depends on the size of the forum and the experience of the new admins. I've worked for two Big Boards, and they would never go SaaS as they had a tech team of their own to do server maintenance to, in one instance, practically rewriting XF 1.5 to perform the best that it could...
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    Are Expensive Managed Hosting Plans Just a Scam for Non-Techies?

    I would go with a managed hosting plan over a shared hosting plan, depending on the company offering the services and what their experience is, i.e., do they offer managed hosting specifically for WordPress, or do they offer managed hosting that is right for each individual customer? A managed...
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    Is Shared Hosting Still a Smart Choice for Serious Forums and Blogs in 2025?

    Shared hosting is never good for anything "serious". You can start off with shared hosting, but as soon as things get serious, you should be on a VPS or Cloud infrastructure. I would say that as soon as you break even, is about the time you should be moving away from shared hosting and scaling.
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    Is XenForo Really Worth the Price

    Because it has a pretty solid framework to do just about anything. I'll be getting around to developing my older (and first) MMORPG text-based game on the XenForo framework. I know that you can disable the forum, but I wish they made it the "Xen" framework — decoupling it from the forum — and...
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    I've been trying to be a good boy.. but

    I would suspect that the account has received multiple direct messages outlining the violations in the lead-up to a ban for calling someone an idiot, if they had overlooked notifying and sending the warning message for calling someone an idiot, which I doubt they did. There were plenty of...
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    Using Two Domains

    Running FD, I've noticed one or two forums (the other being BMW-related) using the same software/installation but different domains. This one seems to run multiple forums sharing the same post id, but different statistics and different content in a shared user's profile posts/What's new (while...
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    Domain Hunting

    I know of investors who started with as little as $10 ($8.50ish, long ago, just rounding for simple math) registration fee for domains and snowballed into six/seven-figure portfolio territory over the years. Very few (maybe 1 or 2) that started with .xyz $0.99 cent registrations and accomplished...
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    Using Two Domains

    You're confusing 301/302 redirect rewrites and domain masking.
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    Using Two Domains

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