Plans for the present and the future
Posted: 15 Dec 2020, 20:17
So first of all. No DT Awards this year, you probably have noticed by now. It's a pity because this is an important DT anniversary, but it is what it is. Fuck 2020.
What next?
I'll finally be removing phpbb (current forum software) and move to nodebb (unless something better comes out in the coming few days). I already installed it and: 1) it's very easy to update, 2) it has 4 integrated layers of protection against spammers (phpbb only has 1). The above two points are crucial to me.
Of course all the other shit like mentions and tags and flags are all integrated. We won't use the "karma" feature, but it will be possible to like a post.
PMs are managed like a chat between two people and they are finally searchable.
Now the bad news.
The two software aren't really speaking to each other, so importing of old material will be limited. My plan is to import minimal information from the active threads that received an update in the last --say-- month and move the current forum as it is into archive.deskthority.net in read-only mode. That will also preserve google indexing (with a smart redirect).
All users will also have to create a new password, but login via google/twitter/github will be available too.
What about the wiki?
The wiki will be finally moved to wiki.deskthority.net. Hopefully forum/wiki integration will be kept. Mediawiki is becoming more and more a software tailored to wikipedia and not a general purpose wiki... but it is what it is. I'll see if I can keep it updated but with the visual editor they are making it a pain in the arse.
Any technical help (PHP, mysql, mongodb, nodejs, html, css, nginx, ...) is appreciated.
That's it. Happy holidays. Have a good ending and a great beginning.
What next?
I'll finally be removing phpbb (current forum software) and move to nodebb (unless something better comes out in the coming few days). I already installed it and: 1) it's very easy to update, 2) it has 4 integrated layers of protection against spammers (phpbb only has 1). The above two points are crucial to me.
Of course all the other shit like mentions and tags and flags are all integrated. We won't use the "karma" feature, but it will be possible to like a post.
PMs are managed like a chat between two people and they are finally searchable.
Now the bad news.
The two software aren't really speaking to each other, so importing of old material will be limited. My plan is to import minimal information from the active threads that received an update in the last --say-- month and move the current forum as it is into archive.deskthority.net in read-only mode. That will also preserve google indexing (with a smart redirect).
All users will also have to create a new password, but login via google/twitter/github will be available too.
What about the wiki?
The wiki will be finally moved to wiki.deskthority.net. Hopefully forum/wiki integration will be kept. Mediawiki is becoming more and more a software tailored to wikipedia and not a general purpose wiki... but it is what it is. I'll see if I can keep it updated but with the visual editor they are making it a pain in the arse.
Any technical help (PHP, mysql, mongodb, nodejs, html, css, nginx, ...) is appreciated.
That's it. Happy holidays. Have a good ending and a great beginning.
I don't think spam is much of an issue there these days, neither are users either though. At least we aren't migrating to a Facebook group like on of the other forums I follow did. Glad you're still going to allow for local accounts as I'm not fond of needing to tie everything to a Gmail/MS/FB/Github account.