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ravas

Aug 28, 2015; 6:54pm

the forum

870 posts

I think a superior forum would be an appropriate use of donation money.
Something (a community in this case) grows based on the environment it is in.
While I use an ad blocker, I do see the ads in email notifications and... wow... nasty.

Features we are lacking:
- code tags with syntax highlighting
- polls
- user profiles
- user selectable themes/styles

comparison of open source forums

phpBB seems to have it all

NodeBB (used by Qt) supports markdown, which I like...

I also think it could help the community to make sub-forums for cad, cnc, engineering, architecture, surveying, geometric construction, etc...

By the way... what is the status of the donation link? I don't have any money; but I have a feeling other people would donate.

R. van Twisk

Aug 29, 2015; 6:10pm

Re: the forum

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489 posts

Rallas,

I understand your comments about the forum however with each system we manage on our own, we also need to have a person that managed security upgrades on the forum, check's if the system works smoothly and have the resources to handle the traffic and properly some other housekeeping that needs to be done on a forum.

I realise that the ads are on nabble and we 'bought out' the ads once, and perhaps I should do that again. This is not easy though, I need to transfer from LibreCAD to my private account to my credit card and only then I can pay, unfortunatly Nabble only uses amazon payment's which only supports credit card. But Nablle is sooooooo easy to use and integrate :) yes, you just set it up and nabble takes care of the rest, takes care that mails are send out, takes care of security, takes care of resources and what not. So from LibreCAD using nabble is almost a 'set and forget' sort of system.

I rather put my time on LirbeCAD itself then managing a forum...

In regards of donation, we currently have that turned of because we have at this moment enough to run the required server.

Ries

On Aug 28, 2015, at 8:54 PM, ravas [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think a superior forum would be an appropriate use of donation money.
Something (a community in this case) grows based on the environment it is in.
While I use an ad blocker, I do see the ads in email notifications and... wow... nasty.

Features we are lacking:
- code tags with syntax highlighting
- polls
- user profiles
- user selectable themes/styles

comparison of open source forums

phpBB seems to have it all

NodeBB (used by Qt) supports markdown, which I like...

I also think it could help the community to make sub-forums for cad, cnc, engineering, architecture, surveying, geometric construction, etc...

By the way... what is the status of the donation link? I don't have any money; but I have a feeling other people would donate.

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ravas

Aug 29, 2015; 10:03pm

Re: the forum

870 posts

Part of the idea was to use donation money to take some of the work load off of you / existing team members.
If people want to donate, then let them; we can use it to enhance the forum.
I have not fully researched it yet, but there are alternatives like: http://www.prophpbb.com/
which has a $5 a month premium service (with no ads).

Expanding on my other suggestion:
I think generalized sub-forums can help the community grow.
For example, if someone wants to ask a question about cnc or engineering,
they don't have to leave the forum, they can see what our community knows.
Further, if we have some non-librecad thread that gets hits on search engines,
then we have people coming to the forum that could be unaware of librecad.

ravas

Oct 05, 2015; 7:18pm

Re: the forum

870 posts

What do you think about the structure:
board → category → forum
http://floji.1126132.n5.nabble.com/
I could do the work.

Also, what about a "beta" or "nightly build" section?
I think the term "beta version" is more familiar than "nightly build".