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Experienced Advice Needed

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:56PM   
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."

• Re:First Post Re:First Post (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.)

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• Re:First Post (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 :-)

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