Limb Lengthening Forum

Community Hangout => Suggestions & Feedback => Topic started by: OverrideYourGenetics on March 07, 2018, 03:59:01 AM

Title: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: OverrideYourGenetics on March 07, 2018, 03:59:01 AM
This forum has an amazing community and a wealth of information in it, but it's pretty hard to find the good stuff and separate it from the noise.


That's no wonder - this forum runs on an engine called SimpleMachines, which was built in 2001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Machines_Forum#History) (!). Almost 20 years ago. And it hasn't evolved much.

The good news is there's a much better forum engine out there called Discourse

https://www.discourse.org/

It's open source and built by the people behind the Internet's #1 Q&A site for programmers (StackOverflow) and it has all the features we need (https://www.discourse.org/features) - basically it solves every single bullet item I listed above.


Another piece of good news is that I've been maintaining a large forum (a bit similar to this actually) since 2011 and I migrated it to Discourse a couple years back, so I can do this migration for us. There's a migration script (https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/smf2.rb) already and a helpful community around it (https://meta.discourse.org/t/importer-for-simple-machines-2-forums/17656).

Mods, please PM me. I know you've been absent (http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=5033.0), but let's get us a nice-looking modern forum - it will help shed the stigma around CLL and it will make everyone's life easier.
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: Honore on March 07, 2018, 07:02:19 AM
I've been maintaining a large forum (a bit similar to this actually

Which forum is that?
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: OverrideYourGenetics on March 08, 2018, 01:41:05 AM
I've been maintaining a large forum (a bit similar to this actually

Which forum is that?

While I'm not ready to make my identity public yet (http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=5215), I'll be happy to disclose which forum that is to an admin. My profile there as the admin uses my public identity.

Also, ironically, I couldn't help noticing how you had trouble quoting a part of my message :) With Discourse, that's as simple as selecting the text you want to quote and hitting "Reply". The text is quoted automatically.
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: wants2growtaller on October 21, 2018, 07:09:24 PM
These are my suggestions:

1. Have a live chat.
2. Have an ignore/block/mute feature.
3. Hide history of posts.
3. Dislike a post.
4. Have a friend list
5. Have favourte posts list.
6. Have an only photo option ...before and after.
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: totallyred on October 21, 2018, 07:25:11 PM
Here are my two cents:-
Create a spreadsheet which was discussed earlier in another thread to give a glampse of overall stats and give a summarised data to new as well as current users for the ease of understanding.

The exact details are here:-

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=8983
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: TinyTL on October 21, 2018, 07:29:30 PM
These are my suggestions:

1. Have a live chat.
2. Have an ignore/block/mute feature.
3. Hide history of posts.
3. Dislike a post.
4. Have a friend list
5. Have favourte posts list.
6. Have an only photo option ...before and after.

www.facebook.com and join the old people, the right wing lunatic, russian bots and rest of the dregs of the society
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: YourSpaceBoyfriend on October 21, 2018, 07:51:32 PM
www.facebook.com and join the old people, the right wing lunatic, russian bots and rest of the dregs of the society

Why right wing people are dregs.

Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: wants2growtaller on October 24, 2018, 09:46:52 PM
Here are the people I think should be banned from this forum

5'7 guys and above who think they need CLL.
People who have serious height dysphoria.
People who put short people down.
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: totallyred on October 24, 2018, 10:15:25 PM
Do it mods, please... do upgrade the forum please...
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: shortguy4cll on December 14, 2018, 10:00:17 AM
How about a video tutorial on how to do mock ups.
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: YourSpaceBoyfriend on December 14, 2018, 04:24:18 PM
Here are the people I think should be banned from this forum

5'7 guys and above who think they need CLL.
People who have serious height dysphoria.
People who put short people down.

Angry feminist dindu nuffins who blame everyone but not themselves
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: shortguy4cll on December 14, 2018, 05:40:17 PM

Angry feminist dindu nuffins who blame everyone but not themselves
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They should also ban ignorant people that waste their time on saying racial stereotypes.
Title: Re: Who wants this forum upgraded?
Post by: Mw1245 on December 14, 2018, 10:25:42 PM
Come on guys dont make from this limb
Lengthening thing like its important to have likeable comments or whatever  
Your important questions will be found easily here and all that important stuff u have to know u will know from your doctor