[server-admins] Forum

[Manfred Bergmann]

The major disadvantages in mvnForum are:
- no attachments in posts. If users want to add a screenshot to illustrate a problem they can't or have to have their own web space or use dropbox. That's annoying.
- too weak captcha image. there were and are many bots registering.
- no voting
- it's not actually maintained any more.
- many more

I would suggest to keep mvnForum running for reference and lookup but install a new forum software.



Manfred



Am 11.01.2013 um 09:58 schrieb Manfred Bergmann <manfred.bergmann at me.com>:

> That's right.
> Bad member will probably sign up in another software as well.
> But I have little desire to spend more time with mvnForum.
> If we want to keep a forum (which I would prefer), we need some other software.
> I would even put some money in the hand to buy something, or pay some fee if it is hosted in the cloud.
> For example Burning Board from Woltlab is an excellent forum.
> 
> How do we proceed?
> 
> 
> 
> Manfred
> 
> 
> Am 10.01.2013 um 14:09 schrieb DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org>:
> 
>> Manfred, I think. Btw the software needs to change. Too much bad members signing up. 
>> 
>> Cent from my fone so theer mite be tipos. ;)
>> 
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:59 AM, "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey guys.  Who owns the forums these days?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:	Fwd: OSIS / Sword isses
>>> Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:40:29 +0000
>>> From:	David F. Haslam <df.haslam at btinternet.com>
>>> Reply-To:	df.haslam at btinternet.com
>>> To:	Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
>>> CC:	DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org>
>>> 
>>> Troy,
>>> 
>>> Is there a permissions issue with the Forum ?
>>> 
>>> David
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:	OSIS / Sword isses
>>> Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:47:58 -0000
>>> From:	ARA Jamieson <jamie at critos.co.uk>
>>> To:	'David F. Haslam' <df.haslam at btinternet.com>
>>> 
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> I've finally got back to attempting to generate OSIS and Sword for some of
>>> the scripture translations we need to handle, and have run into some
>>> problems.  It's difficult to say where they may arise, because there are so
>>> many steps in the process - there's the way the translators have interpreted
>>> USFM, the way I do so, the way I convert USFM to USX, the way I convert USX
>>> to OSIS, the osis2mod.pl script, and Xiphos (which is the Sword reader I'm
>>> using currently).
>>> 
>>> I was going to follow up your earlier suggestion and perhaps try some to
>>> register to ask questions on some of the OSIS / Sword forums, but I'm having
>>> trouble.  At a guess, it looked to me as though
>>> 
>>> http://crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/index
>>> might be a good starting point,
>>> and I was trying to register for that one.  However, when I do, I get a
>>> message ...
>>> 
>>>   The referer of request is not in trusted domains. Please configure
>>> mvncore.xml.    
>>> 
>>> There is a link which in theory lets you email the site administrator, which
>>> I did a few days ago, but have not received any reply, so I'm wondering
>>> whether emails may be vanishing into the void, or whether it's simply that
>>> the administrator only looks at emails occasionally.
>>> 
>>> Don't know if you have any idea a) whether the forum I'm looking at would be
>>> a good place to start; and b) if so, how I can get to register and
>>> participate?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jamie
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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