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Subject: 
Re: Forum shift
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:58:42 GMT
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Benjamin Ellermann wrote:

The PHPbb forum format seems to be the most widely used type across
the spectrum of fan sites.

But that doesn't have an NNTP port, does it? Or email digests? I find
reading lugnet through a news reader (Outlook Express, XanaNews, whatever)
is a much better experience than trying to read EuroBricks, for example.
There's a much better overview, I can see for each subforum where there are
new posts, if I use XanaNews I can wath threads, color threads I'm
participating in in a separate color, yet another color when someones has
replied to one of my posts, etc. Try getting all that i a web forum, and
*fast* at the same time...

--
Anders Isaksson



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  Re: Forum shift
 
(...) My main sticking point with NNTP is the authentication emails. They are annoying, very annoying but unavoidable due to the inherent spoofing problems with NNTP. -Orion (14 years ago, 29-Oct-10, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Forum shift
 
(...) It would be great if fans decided to overhaul all of the lugnet forums to a new format. (The current forum should be saved somewhere as an archive of past fan activity.) The PHPbb forum format seems to be the most widely used type across the (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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