Tactical Command boards - discussion

[MiniatureReview]

What do you mean by private email?  You can hide your email address in SMF "There is a Hide email address from public?" Checkbox.

Hena
Not sure what you mean by Free for PHPbb vs SMF forums.  Both are open source and both are free.

myBB is another one that a lot of people seem to like.

[adam77]

It's not 100% certified tasty open sauce.
see here http://www.simplemachines.org/about/opensource.php

[Mephiston]

In SMF terms I mean messages, and I see that they are available so all is good.

[Hena]

Not sure what you mean by Free for PHPbb vs SMF forums.  Both are open source and both are free.

Not really. Their licence does prevent redistribution which is rather important element. As can be seen in the spectacle that happened there. Eg. there has been problems between persons and some are kicked out. They now dropped off and are starting a new forum software from clean (using BSD licence btw). I can't help but to wonder how much of that clean start is caused by the licence that SMF uses which prevents them from forking it.

Eg. see adams restructuring link few posts above and then this (and that forum in general).
http://www.smf-friends.org/index.php?topic=826.0

I think that SMF friends mess up seems to trigger enough warning sings for me to say that don't use SMF as it's seems to be a train wreck happening in slow motion.

[CyberShadow]

I have been burned in the past with development teams which have fractured and legal issues causing trouble with software.... Ikonboards! While I dont think that SMF is as bad, it is enough to make me a little cautious.

If I have a choice, keeping the two boards using different systems would make me feel better. For example, if both these boards used IkonForums right now, neither would be up and running!

[Vaaish]

I can't say I'm overly impressed with SMF. The updated seems to have removed the "view posts since last visit" link which helps out considerably for finding posts with a forum structure as complex as the Tacticalcommand forum is currently set up.

[horizon]

Vaaish, view most recent posts ( at the bottom, above stats) isn't what you are looking for?

Maybe it differs for me but I hardly look and want to look in all epic forums at TacCom, I just scroll down to the (sparsely visittes) BFG section. Cybershadow, in a new setup I want to talk about restructuring the BFG section, okay?.

[Vaaish]

that's kind of what I'm talking about but usually it just lists the topics that have new post in them rather than the actual post itself.

[MiniatureReview]

SMF has at least 2 ways to view new stuff.

Show unread posts since last visit.
Show new replies to your posts.

 I am not sure if it will show you new topics or not.  it will show you what categories/Forums have new posts though.

[Evil_and_Chaos]

I basically only use the "New Posts" button on Tac Comms to find conversations.

There are just too many sub-forums around to read each one.

[Moscovian]

As a regular member I too use the New Post function the most often and then scanning through the folders after that.

Rookie question here: is there a way to just limiting the number guests from signing on?  I mean, its desirable to hae new people looking in on things and seeing what the boards are discussing, but not at the expense of the community.  If they could be capped at 5 guests or 10 guests, wouldn't that solve the problem?

Of course that might not be even possible. What about eliminating guests from entering the real forums and having another section that is a mirror of the forums that is updated weekly or monthly, like a snapshot.  A small paragraphy explaining why this change was done would be enough for people to understand.  Once again though I dont know if this would work.

[MiniatureReview]

Even on a shared server there should be more than enough band width for lots of guests to view stuff.

Here is a forum that I just looked at that has Currently Active Users: 352 (73 members and 279 guests) when I looked just now.  It is vBulletin board. It has over Members: 17,100 members, which probably is more than Tactical Command had.

http://forums.relicnews.com/index.php?

[frogbear]

As a regular member I too use the New Post function the most often

I have this set as my favourite... no need to go looking for posts

[Lex]

As a regular member I too use the New Post function the most often

I have this set as my favourite... no need to go looking for posts

For those that never DID mark that, and are wondering, this is the link

http://www.sg.tacticalwargames.net/forum/index.php?action=unread

[semajnollissor]

I don't know about how anyone else feels, but I'm getting kind of twitchy not being able to browse through lots of epic-related posts on a daily basis.

I hope Taccomm is back up and running soon (although I realize good work takes time, especially when you don't get paid to do it). All the hard work is very appreciated, CyberShadow.