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Experienced Advice Needed

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the slashcode-will-solve-all-your-problems dept.

technopoptart writes:

"I need advice from people more experienced that I am with open source forum software. I am going to be setting up a forum system for computer science students from the various colleges in the area.

I have been running a closed SMF forum for my wife for a year. I wanted to solicit advice about SMF or any other systems that I may consider. I have played with phpBB but I found it labor intensive, as newly created sections are made invisible even to the admin by default, I don't want a laborious permissions system. I appreciate any advice you can give."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tynin on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:33PM

    by tynin (2013) on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:33PM (#4943)

    Not that I've looked at the code, but from what I've read from others, was that slashcode might just take a bit of skill with a few people pitching in, in order to get it setup and running. That fails on his not labor intensive request.

    Still, having no idea what the licence is on slashcode, it sure would be awesome if whoever is looking at the code these days would modernize up the install process/backend if only so the awesomeness of this moderation system could be used in the educational world. As I agree, it is worlds better than any forum I've been forced into using.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:40PM

    by janrinok (52) on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:40PM (#4946) Journal

    That is planned, but it is not top of the todo list by any means, and it will be some time before an updated and working version can be released.

    --
    It's always my fault...

    • (Score: 1) by tynin on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:56PM

      by tynin (2013) on Saturday February 22 2014, @04:56PM (#4950)

      That is really fantastic news. Keep up the great work :)

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Foobar Bazbot on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:29PM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:29PM (#4958)

    One relatively short-term goal is to create a VM image that lets anyone spin up soylent-in-a-box -- this will give contributors who don't have access to the staging servers a way to try out modifications and submit working patches. That's not precisely what you asked for (which also being looked at longer-term), but it sure doesn't hurt.

    (I'm not involved, I just hang out on IRC too much.)

    • (Score: 0) by crutchy on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:37PM

      by crutchy (179) on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:37PM (#4987) Homepage Journal

      that's an awesome idea.

      that would make new dev involvement much easier if all I have to do to get a working slashcode working is download a vbox drive image and boot it up.

      although having to work it out first might be a useful initiation :-)