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  1. Tracy

    Are Niche Forums Dead in the Age of Reddit and Facebook Groups?

    I can see removing/demoting staff that does not participate, especially if paid. But for users, a user account does not take up that much space in the database so I personally see no reason to be "pruning" them. But again... each admin does as they deem necessary for their site. I just don't...
  2. Tracy

    Are Niche Forums Dead in the Age of Reddit and Facebook Groups?

    I'm not so sure about that. As I pointed out, a lot of folks hit the resources on my site. And I guess because other sites force you to be a member to access resources on those sites they think theymust do the same on my site. Never mind that the first time you go to the resources link you see...
  3. Tracy

    Are Niche Forums Dead in the Age of Reddit and Facebook Groups?

    They can run one... but unless it has hard to find content, odds are that there are not going to be masses flocking to them that most new admins hope for. But they need to have reasonable expectations as to the limitations of a site based around posts. For those users that just want to find a...
  4. Tracy

    What do you hate the most about forum software?

    Over the last several years the Xenforo developers have pretty much ignored any major advancements/improvements in XFMG, XFRM or XFES. Guess they have a hard enough time with just the core forum offering and their SaaS keeping them busy. But they did, as I mentioned, make some improvements in...
  5. Tracy

    What do you hate the most about forum software?

    This has been a LONG pet peeve of mine - but more based upon content discovery and how some scripts restrict some of its strongest feature(s) from use of it. An example, custom fields in use by Xenforo. It's been asked for for years that they enable the discovery of custom fields... and for...
  6. Tracy

    Are Niche Forums Dead in the Age of Reddit and Facebook Groups?

    And this is a big issue. Sadly, the "forum is the best" defenders go out of their way to try to make out like what is wanted is for the forum format to become social media like FB/X/BlueSky/Truth Social. When in reality, what is usually asked for is for the forum script developers to look at...
  7. Tracy

    Are Niche Forums Dead in the Age of Reddit and Facebook Groups?

    Until forums can advance into the era of 2025 and offer users what they are used to on other platforms.. not gonna happen. The same "hope" was there with BBS sites when the internet started becoming a thing. Even those BBS scripts that looked forward and offered certain internet access...
  8. Tracy

    What is the best thing a teacher told you?

    Those that do not push the limits will never excel. My favorite science teacher in 7th grade.
  9. Tracy

    What do you hate the most about forum software?

    That's why I think, especially in the open source arena, Discourse and NodeBB have a higher chance of maintaining relevance since they are constantly updating it and trying to find different boundaries to work towards. Discourse in several ways offers more than Xenforo, Invision, Woltlab or...
  10. Tracy

    What do you hate the most about forum software?

    There are some in the paid and quite a few in the open source fields that fit that descriptor.
  11. Tracy

    What do you hate the most about forum software?

    Slow process to innovate or adopt new technology or get timely updates released that bring something to the end users that is now the "norm". When a script developer group (paid or open source) stagnates it impacts the end users of their product.
  12. Tracy

    Mobile Solutions for Forum

    The fun is how any app will handle add-ons, especially those that are more extensive than just tweaks to the base offering.. I'm sure it can be done, but it would require a close integration and maybe even 1st party add-on to the scripts to provide the core for it.
  13. Tracy

    Administrata.net

    This IS one of the big issues that I have. And I readily recognize that fact and realize that for others it is a very acceptable solution. Not everyone has the Linux/Server experience I am blessed with and were not exposed to Linux in it's early release form nor are idiots that pursue those...
  14. Tracy

    Administrata.net

    Just want to comment.. I really appreciate how you are emphasizing on your site the powers that the Invision script offers. Granted.. those that choose self-hosting do not have full use of that... but the core site is what all can currently have. My only big issue (and which you and any others...
  15. Tracy

    Forum Bandwidth

    Not to brag.. but take a glance at my astro site.. you can see how there are many 3rd party add-ons that can benefit a niche.. and there is even the ability to do so without using a 3rd party add-on but a page node in XF. Or https://astrowhat.com/pages/weather_map/ or...
  16. Tracy

    Forum Restructuring

    Prefixes are the strong point of Xenforo. They are so much better than "tags". The sad thing is they still remain as not easily discoverable content. And I make extensive use of them on the astro site.
  17. Tracy

    Require Real Names Instead of Usernames

    No, and in fact on the NodeBB sites I help admin and also run there is the option for users to input their real name in addition to a user name. And you can also elect to show the real name as the default. It's disabled on all the NodeBB sites. Me, I use my real name. I don't worry about it.
  18. Tracy

    I've been trying to be a good boy.. but

    Not saying you were.. but there are those out there that fall into the delicate camp and you have committed a grave sin if you speak negative of a certain script and the report button gets used regularly. That other site is rather more open as they don't mind the heat being turned up as long as...
  19. Tracy

    I've been trying to be a good boy.. but

    If you don't want to have it here.. as long as it doesn't get to off the rails, there are other places that are not so worried about upsetting the certain delicate people. And they don't worry about being on the outs and endangering a license since they don't use XF on that site. ;) That's...
  20. Tracy

    Worst VPS/DS Experience?

    Generally a move to a dedicated from a VPS will be an upgrade. There are rare instances where that might not be true... say moving from a VPS that has "real" server level hardware to what amounts to a desktop unit provisioned as a dedicated server (and I see a LOT of those). That is why you...
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