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I like the idea of hosting contests and I’ve hosted a few on the previous versions of my forum. Especially posting contests, they work well.

I want to apologize for the downtime. I was in Tennessee looking at property. The power was not fully restored when I left. I though the back up power would hold things together in between. It didn't. Site went offline on Tuesday as I was doing an upgrade. I wasn't able to access the server until this morning when I got home. Power was still off. It came back at about 1630ET. It still up and down. Backup generator is keeping up this time. Thanks for understanding

Yay it's back!

I love the colour picker! It's so neat.

I have created 2 new user groups. They are: VIP Visiting Admin The visiting admin group is for admins from other sites that are active participants here. The VIP group is for members that actively participate in the discussions, create new topics and contribute articles. Members promoted to this group will get extra privileges and get a shiny badge to denote that they are indeed VIP's. If you have any questions I'll answer them.

I also use them. They’re good for navigational purposes and can help users find topics a lot easier too.

I remember that. Sure has improved since then. Download, upload, install, done. :P

Not now. I prefer to let someone else do the hard work while I get the benefits. LOL. I am thinking about starting a forum. Not sure what topic. If I ever do pick a topic I'll start one.

I got the email that the site was open again. Good to know. I guess I never introduced myself. I'm Pacman. Good to meet you.

Geek checking in! Not as active as I once was. RL takes its toll.

Howdy folks, Shawn here. Shawn Gossman. Joined in 2010... WOW! 2010? I was 26! :o I'm 40 now. Crazy. Anyways, I'm back! AWS linked here on my forum (it's just another admin forum lol) and I love admin forums, so here I am :) 40, married male, live in Southern Illinois Thanks for having me...again!

I like it. It just takes a little getting used to 😄

I have several xenforo licenses for sale. Most have 6+ months of support and upgrades left. Most have 1 or more of the official addons included. Here is what I have and prices. Expires September 29Th 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $265. Price $185. Expires September 8TH 2025. Forum only. Purchased new $195. Price $125. Expires August 24TH 2025. Gallery, Resource Manager and Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $395. Price $285. Expires August 23RD 2025. Resource Manager included. Purchased new $265. Price $180. Expires August 16TH 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $255. Price $175. Expires July 6TH 2025. Resource Manager and Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $325. Price $225. Expires July 5TH 2025. Resource Manager and Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $325. Price $225. Expires May 22ND 2025. Resource Manager and Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $325. Price $200. Expires July 24TH 2025. Media Gallery included. Purchased new $265. Price $180. All payments will be made with Paypal. No wire transfers or bank drafts. Prices are negotiable. Be realistic in your bid.

I don’t either. I’m not a fan of shoutboxes. I think they take away all the general banter talk away from certain forums, which isn’t a good thing.

If you need a server with ddos protection, knownhost offers servers with ddos protection. You can also use cloudflare’s waf’s feature to block malicious traffic.

A community means a group of people who share their ideas because they care about these ideas. A community does not become a community when there are no organic activities. Interaction in communities needs to be voluntarily, when you have to pay someone to post or buy posting package, or even engage in post exchange, your community is not a community/

I also use Google alerts to come up with new content ideas. Quora and Reddit is a gold mine as there’s a lot of ways that you can spin their content & come up with your own content.

I try to post new content every day. However, if I miss a day or two, I’ll go on a posting spree to make up for the missed time.

Welcome to FF 😄 Glad to have you!

I build backlinks to my forum via my forum signatures on other communities, reddit and Tumblr. I also add my forum to directories. I try to diversify my backlink profile, so there are various sources of backlinks.

I do not like shoutbox in forums. I believe all the discussions in the forum should happen in the main forums. I have never used shoutbox in my forums.

I do have to get used to it, though. I'm used to that forum structure with categories and boards haha

Great article! I’d like to add that a good way to build backlinks is by promoting on Reddit on subreddits that allow you to do so. such as: r/SaaSSales r/SaaSMarketing r/zerotosaas r/TestMyApp r/startups\_promotion r/startup\_resources r/Startup\_Ideas r/SideProject r/SaaSroasting r/newproducts r/microsaas r/micro\_saas r/indiehackers r/indiebiz r/IMadeThis r/SaaS r/webdev r/hwstartups r/smallbusiness r/promotereddit r/freepromote r/Business\_Ideas r/Entrepreneur r/startups r/roastmystartup https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/s/BkeyCk5Emi r/StartupLaunches/ You can also build backlinks by adding your forum to directories that offer them as well.

Yes he did. I knew if I converted I'd use one of his skins.

Invision all the way. In fact depending on what v5 looks and feels like I might migrate some of the sites. I am a legacy customer so renewal prices are pretty good. Even if they're only good for 6 months. I activated 1 license already to see how it would do while importing a large amount of data. Came through without a hitch.

Hey @PacMan welcome to the community!

Definitely. But make sure it's valuable content.

I’ve actually blocked the entire country of Russia through Cloudflare on my Waf settings. Especially because of the spammers and malicious traffic that I was getting from them.

This thread is for the general discussion of the item Another Admin Forum. Please add to the discussion here.

So for fun (and to exercise my brain) I decided to code up a forum. Here are some pictures. (You can probably infer where I got the visual ideas from)

Great site. Cool people running it and as members.

One thing I like to do is create a strategy for my forum. I'll create it on Word and follow it like the gossple Usually, I'm the only one that ever sees it but it keeps me motivated and in line with my goals.

I want to apologize for the downtime. The servers are located in Tampa. Hurricane Milton hit the area hard. Power was off then on then off again. Last time for almost 24 hours. The site is up at this time. I'm hoping the worst is over. Thanks for hanging in there.

Admins use this forum to talk amongst yourselves.

Shawn here. Enjoying getting back into the admin life.

I posted this on my blog so I thought I'd also post it here:

Thank you for stalking AAF :D and welcome to this great place!

Out of all your tactics, I think forums might be the best method. I mean you're catering to people who already likes forums :D

That makes sense!

I was a newbie at one time as we all were. Now I am a mentor when time allows. Don't relly have much time for forums.

If a feature is disabled there is no strain extra strain on the server. Files are there, but, you could remove them. In IPB there is an option when you disable the module to remove it. I think vbulletin is the same. They don't load. I was always in favor of everything included with no addons. It works seemlessy and built by the main devs.

Me and you are a lot alike! When I left forums for a while it was because I was in pain, a drunk, and extremely depressed. It took a long, hard, and dark road to get me out of all that. The outdoors is what saved me. But I find it funny that people kept joining while the forum just waited around for you to come back -- if only it was a bunch of active members who policed themselves and you came back to a self-created big board. All of a sudden, they're like, who's this AWS guy LOL.

I have updated the software to the latest version of xenForo version 2.3.3. If you find any bugs let me know.

A few years ago there was a proposal to Icann to create .forum top level domains. It took forever and now they are available. I have a 3 of them: https://computerhelp.forum https://freepchelp.forum https://offtopic.forum I was sceptical at first and bought those 3 because I lost the domains the sites were on when I was ill. They were cheap, $4.95 each so I thought why not. Those domains have been online now for almost 6 months. I will say this Google loves the .forum domains. Those sites get almost double the traffic that old sites on .com domains got. If those visitors would only convert to active users. I can dream. What you think about the .forum doamins and all the other lesser known top level domains? Oh, I also have a .online and .tech site, but, that's for another thread.

Forum software remained stagnate for a long time. The linear interface is a dinosaur. These packages are starting to change that. Here are some of the newer software packages: Discourse: A modern, open-source discussion platform that offers features like real-time notifications and mobile responsiveness. Flarum: A lightweight, open-source forum software that emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. Vanilla: Another lightweight package that has the more modern look. If you know of any other new style forum packages let us know.

I feel like I remember my first forum being a perl script. Shortly after that, someone told me about PhpBB.

Yes they did. I had my visual basic forum on it before I converted it to vbulletin. The users actauuly liked it better than vbulletin.

Yes it is. Contact me with an offer.

Hey Shawn, good to see you here.:)

Alright Ladies And Gentlemen, Here is a tip on Managing your Staff. 1.Give them Tasks so they can complete during the week. 2.Make sure they are taking care of the members and Monitoring there post quality and how well they treat there members. 3.Make sure they complete those task,Hey its just like a real job if you don't do it you will get a warning you know. 4.make sure they are not to hard on the members everyone slips up here and now. 5.make sure you have group/staff meeting monthly/weekly so you can discuss whats going on around the forum. 6 OH yeah make sure your staff is happy to a happy group of staff members will always have your back no matter what