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This was delayed. I will be starting the import in the morning. Shouldn't be any downtime. Once the merge is complete I will upgrade to v5.

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This sounds pretty cool. I might spin up a Ubuntu VM to test Discourse again.

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I am in the final stages to import Forum² into here. I will get the data imported starting tomorrow and should be done by tomorrow night. Site might be a little glitchy during the time. I have removed the link directory in preparation for the Invision 5 upgrade. Once I get the site upgraded I will install a directory. Also the downloads are being removed. I am building a new downloads system with pages and will use that. Thanks for bearing with me. Things should be better than ever when everything is done.

I am in the process of importing Forum² data. In the process I have stripped the site down and removed all customizations. This was done so that after the import I will upgrade to Invision 5. Pardon the dust. I hope to have everything done soon.

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I would suggest xenforo. While I prefer Invision Community it is pricey for a new license. If you can get a second hand license from someone then go with Invision. You get so much more. Even if you don't plan to use the blog or gallery it's still there for your users who might like it.

You'll be surprised with the results. Just make sure you post a few times so everyone gets to "know you". Then drop a link in a topic that is relevant.

Importers from most forum software packages can merge any number of forums from many different platforms into the same database. When vbulletin went downhill I switched to IPB. I would have never switch to anything else at that point. IPB was fine. I had a minor issue and in the support ticket I was told that they couldn't support me because I use Windows servers. I looked to convert back to vbulletin. It was more a mess than when I left. Slow dev times, no focus from staff. I decided, while I didn't like the main person behind xenforo, that I would switch to it. It worked well for what I wanted at the time. A forum. Now my vision is much larger and xenforo will never do what I need it to do. IPB on the other hand will. As you can see on https://forumseohelp.com/directory I was able to create the directory with Pages the CMS included with IPB. The resources section was create with the same tools. Try to do that with xenforo. In any case I have 4 sites switched, started another and am in process of merging some.

I will be importing Forum² into here in the near future. I have consolidated my tech sites and now it time to bring together my admin sites. This will also bring over the skins and other resources I have at Forum². Once the import is done and the dust has settled I will upgrade the site to IPB 5. Stay tuned for more info to come.

That happens at a lot of communities. You could advertise your site on places like Reddit, Experts Exchange or other sites. Posting the appropriate area will usually get you some traffic and users do convert. I've had good luck with Reddit before.

Python is older. Ruby is relatively new as programming languages go.

Background In the past, Discourse has shipped with e-mail normalization off. As a result of this, users can create multiple accounts using the same canonical e-mail, through the use of plus addressing. For example, a user with an account tied to bob@discourse.org is able to create another account tied to bob+again@discourse.org. Discourse comes with the normalize_emails site setting which can be flipped to either allow or disallow this. When turned on, it considers both e-mails above to be the same for purposes of unique account validation, and Bob won’t be able to create the second account. Why are we changing it? We have seen a big increase in spam sign-ups lately, with some sites receiving hundreds or even thousands of sign-ups from a single e-mail through the use of plus addressing. Needless to say, this is a rather nasty surprise when it does happen. On the flip side, the reasons for allowing plus address sign-ups are mostly for facilitating staff testing, i.e. setting up test users without having to register new e-mails. After considering this, we think it’s a much healthier default to have e-mail normalization enabled, and let admins disable it if and when it’s needed. What about SSO? Since users have less control over the exact e-mail being used when using single sign-on (using either discourse-connect or OAuth), this setting is ignored when using those authentication methods. But I liked/wanted this turned off If you actively changed this setting in the past, we won’t do anything to it. It will remain set to whatever you configured. Even if you didn’t, don’t fret. The setting is still there. Just head over to /admin/site_settings and turn it right back off. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

The way topics are displayed when you enable fluid view. You get the basic forum listing with newest topics in the same grid. There are other things I like about it too. The admin side is very well organized. Intimidating when you first see it, but, makes sense once you start to work with it. IPB permission system has always been better to work with too. I never liked inheritance like xenforo has.

There is a whole lot I like about it. The new fluid format keeps the standard forum list and adds the last topics to each forum. To see what I mean check out https://freepchelp.forum. I just upgraded it to beta 6.

I tend to do the same thing. I had n=been posting more until I started to migrate my sites to Invision Community.

When is a forum community not a community? Let us know what you think would cause a forum to turn into something else besides a community. Is it bad if it transforms to something different?

That's me. I'm in a lull now because I'm launching a new site. I'll get back to old in a couple more days.

Getting everything installed and set up. I'm in the process of opening another forum. Setting it now. Got some old data I'll import then it's time to open.

It was for a while. Then someone found out ruby was more efficient.

I did. Would I do it again. No way. Too many headaches fixing and tweaking things.

In the old days a person could create a forum and drop a few links and almost instantly get users sign up. There were several niches that if you started a community in the niche the site would explode if you put a little work into it. I seen it happen time after time. That was in the peak of forum popularity. It's much harder to get a community off the ground today. It can be done. You have to work hard at it. Gone are the days of old and that's a good thing. Forums that have staff that actively contribute topics are more attractive to people that find the site. If you care about your forum community it will show. User will sign up and soon the community you nurtured along is popular.

Today is a new day. It's time to dedicate some time to your website. What did you do today to promote your site? Did you add content to keep your members interested? Owning a forum community or any website means you have to dedicate time to creating content and promoting the site.