Posted by
R. van Twisk on
Jul 15, 2012; 9:18pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Why-do-we-now-allow-advertising-in-this-forum-tp5706874p5706877.html
Hey,
I am going to look into it and see if we can get rid of the advertisements,
our forum isn't not largely visited so cost will not be an issue and will get payed from the donations.
TO answer your other questions:
1) I believe every file format should be possible to get uploaded, I didn't came across any settings on that and any limitations, it wouldn't surprise me if some dangerous extensions (like exe) might be forbidden. But I never tried it myself.
About the documentation,
I know that some open source projects use a WIKI with great success, and I believe this is still the correct way forward.
However, I discovered that using mediawiki was a big pain in the rear. Although mediawiki is very widly used, it's a not
easy to administer without downloading additional PHP code and editing separate PHP files by hand. Even something as simple
as setting permissions you need to edit some PHP config file!! SPam was also a mayor issue and we couldn't get rid of it
without closing the wiki for open registration, something that even goes against the nature of a wiki.
The problem with a forum and adding images is that if we want to make a good document, somebody needs to go and look
over all forum posts and 'grab' together images, and text and I am afraid we don't get a coherent documentation like that.
I don't have a good solution myself though and open for anything still.
Ries
On Jul 15, 2012, at 4:01 PM, ct [via LibreCAD] wrote:
Hi Ries
They are irritating for me and I don`t think its a good thing for the forum in general!
I personally think that it may discouraging and might be misleading people to think that LibreCAD is making money from advertising (although I`m sure the LibreCAD project could do with some donations!)
* Ries some more questions for you if I may:
1. What are the file formats that can be uploaded to this forum?
2.What is the upload limit?
I have been thinking some more about the wiki/manual lately and I think it might be worth using this forum a lot more for users to submit content here instead of wiki, so a usable manual can be built!
Its a lot of work to use the wiki just to submit a few things as compared to using just word/open office and a screen capture tool and then converting to a pdf to upload to this forum. We could have a section on this forum to submit to.