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[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 14:26, Ian Monroe<ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Lydia Pintscher<lydia at kde.org> wrote:
>> Heya folks,
>>
>> Leo and I have been talking about our forum and how it is by far not
>> as nice as it could be as the software is really meh. Using it is a
>> pita.
>
> How so? Spam?

Well, every now and then a spamer shows up, it's really easy to delete
the message, but it's also extremely easy to spam our forum.
>
> phpbb is scary due to their chequered security history, but maybe now
> its not so bad.
>
> Bringing over the last year of threads would be a nice way to keep continuity.

I very much hope so, too. But I think this should be doable, or is it
too complicated?
>
> I guess I'm not so worried about losing all the users, since I always
> got the impression that most people registered just to participate in
> a thread or two so 99% of the accounts are probably dormant.

ditto, it's mostly always the same people posting in the forum so far.
But I think as a KDE app, we should be present in the fko family, so
the users can see our forum more prominently, so far I always have the
impression that a lot of the users don't even know about.


Regards, Myriam.
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