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  1. Tracy

    Have you ever started over because you lost a backup to your forum?

    No. Since I was in IT for years I was very aware of the importance of backups.
  2. Tracy

    Index Now

    Yes and no. Some search engines still may allow you to submit them. But AFAIK, all the major ones have gotten away from automatic submission of sitemaps. They expect to see it in the robots.txt.
  3. Tracy

    Members Warn You About Your Staff

    Seventeen is usually considered a consenting adult. In fact, in Texas for criminal aspects, they are considered an adult. Now, what if he had been 18 and her 16, or 15?
  4. Tracy

    Index Now

    That was the official XF recommendation. First Bing refused submissions and there were lots of posts on XF about it and the answer always was disable it and then Google got in on it.
  5. Tracy

    Is free forum software dying?

    Contabo VPS-1 4vCPU/8GB RAM running 2 WP blogs (not busy) and 1 XF site (not busy) 15:33:27 up 14 days, 11:33, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.13, 0.08 Contabo VPS_1 4vCPU/8GB running 2 nodes of NodeBB with low traffic on both 22:35:27 up 1 day, 17:59, 1 user, load average: 4.17, 4.90, 5.27...
  6. Tracy

    Have you ever used more than one hosting service at a time?

    Contabo has them for around $6 USD a month. Granted, not the greatest performers but The Pipe Stand, XFH and Ideology Central are all running on one. The latter two are one the same one and TPS is one one that has 3 WP blogs running on it. It's their VPS-1 line (4 vCPU Cores/6 GB RAM/400GB...
  7. Tracy

    Members Warn You About Your Staff

    The problem I have, is that there are exceptions to every rule. It's perfectly fine for a 22 year old to marry/have sex with a 50 year old. Now, if there is 6-10 years age difference, yes it is an issue. If it is 2-3 and the girl is 15'ish, then I have issues with that, and that comes from...
  8. Tracy

    Index Now

    Yeah, I think the primary pusher of it right now is Bing. I haven't really delved into Google or the others. I know that most of the major search engines did away with automated submission of sitemaps to them.
  9. Tracy

    Members Warn You About Your Staff

    The only problem I have with that is... we have some friends whose son was a senior in high school and he was dating a freshman. Her parents found out they were sexually active and pressed charges. He ended up with a conviction for having sex with his underage girlfriend and had to register...
  10. Tracy

    Useless Forum Features

    Yeah, stuff like this is basically useless for an ignore feature unless you have extreme self control. It's probably a glitch in the style that was present where this was as XF generally does not show that much. But even seeing the [icoe]You are ignoring{/icode] stuff in a quoted thread and...
  11. Tracy

    Have you ever used more than one hosting service at a time?

    I don't use "hosting services", but VPS/dedi providers. And yes, even right now I have two Contabo VPS instances (one for the NodeBB sites and then the other for a friends site and my blog) then my OVH server for my primary site. I'm not big on shared hosting and haven't been for over a decade...
  12. Tracy

    Index Now

    Bing prefers it now. So it's not really a bad idea. If you remember, in the older versions of XF you were able to submit updated sitemaps to Google and Bing automatically. They did away with allowing that though.
  13. Tracy

    Is free forum software dying?

    MyBB has development progression (1.8.38 was released 04/24). Now, as to improvements, I honestly have not investigated them as I understand that they still do not support mobile natively. And in todays age of the internet that is a killer. We have complained about the 2+ years that it took...
  14. Tracy

    Useless Forum Features

    It isn't a really an ignore feature. More like an "minimize your view of this user" one.
  15. Tracy

    Ideology Central

    Yeah, don't see a lot of sites set up for them. I've always been interested in the "why" behind peoples belief systems.
  16. Tracy

    Ideology Central

    This thread is for the general discussion of the link Ideology Central. Please add to the discussion here.
  17. Ideology Central

    Other Ideology Central

    Ideology [ ahy-dee-ol-uh-jee, id-ee- ] noun the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices...
  18. Tracy

    Is there an overabundance of general chat sites?

    Well... I am working on a new site that, I would say it's a niche, but it is a fairly wide ranging one. https://ideologycentral.com It's one of those places where politics and religion is welcome to be discussed in a manner that is not degrading to others. Currently working on getting it set up...
  19. Tracy

    Is there an overabundance of general chat sites?

    And to me, that's the biggest issue with a general discussion site. How do you differentiate yourself from others. Some people think that rebranding the site is a magic bullet to gain users/activity. I have rarely seen that happen and from talking to some large site owners they wouldn't never...
  20. Tracy

    Is there an overabundance of general chat sites?

    And this is what lead to the topic. With a niche specific interest, you are more likely to have distinct content on it than somewhere that is just general chatter. I think that's one of the things that Google found and why for so long they were penalizing forums in their search discovery...
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