Hi Philip,
Just a couple of suggestions to cut down traffic on your site:
1) Could you use a forum program that puts the entries into pages of 10 or so entries? That would save having to load the whole forum / thread for long forums / threads (phpbb provides this)
2) A search facility for the forums would save quite a bit of duplicate posting and be a useful resource (phpbb provides this)
3) It's often hard to know whether to post into Installation or General issues so again a fair bit of duplication happens. Perhaps the two should be combined?
Just some thoughts.
Peter
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Hi Peter,
All good suggestions. The problem at the the moment is that I've built with site with Typo3 a GPL CMS. The advantages of typ3 are that things that migth take you a couple of weeks to do can be done in hours, the disadvantages of it are that things that might take a couple of hours (e.g. getting autologin working) can take weeks. It's a complex morass which is extremely difficult to figure out and at the moment I don't have a lot fo spare time.
However, apparently there is a phpBB component for it which I will have a look at. With a bit of luck it won't be like most other components which end up with development stopping when they're 90% complete and the features you want are in the 10% that's left!
Phil,
All good suggestions. The problem at the the moment is that I've built with site with Typo3 a GPL CMS. The advantages of typ3 are that things that migth take you a couple of weeks to do can be done in hours, the disadvantages of it are that things that might take a couple of hours (e.g. getting autologin working) can take weeks. It's a complex morass which is extremely difficult to figure out and at the moment I don't have a lot fo spare time.
However, apparently there is a phpBB component for it which I will have a look at. With a bit of luck it won't be like most other components which end up with development stopping when they're 90% complete and the features you want are in the 10% that's left!
Phil,