posted 04-23- 01:51 AM               

There are some that want to move to another forum. Problems with new proposals so far are the banner and popup adds that come with free forums.

To have a forum close to this in quality we will have to pay.

I am currently looking at cost options of different forums and am thinking of purchasing one.

posted 04-23- 05:02 AM               

key features we need:

1) No crappy ads. If we have to have ads, can they at least be relevant

2) Multiple topic forum!

3) Good standard of service ( like we had with this board when Inertia actually supported it fully..well MH / Mighty anyway! )

4) Find a way of keeping all the old tech info, links etc.

posted 04-23- 12:29 PM            

I second WTG's list plus one thing

1) No crappy ads. If we have to have ads, can they at least be relevant
2) Multiple topic forum!
3) Good standard of service ( like we had with this board when Inertia actually supported it fully..well MH / Mighty anyway! )
4) Find a way of keeping all the old tech info, links etc.
5) One that doesn't leave you bankrupt!
6) Having a UBB that looks and feels like this one would be fantastic
7) "Moderation" policy no more restrictive than the one we have here

WM

posted 04-23- 12:35 PM               

I've checked in getting another UBB board but it's a one time fee of 256 bucks and with my current unemployment i can't fork out that kind of money right now.

I do plan to get the Hangar a forum and upload the new site soon. Just thought i'd throw that out for you guys.

I would also like to point out that infopop released version 6.0 on march 15 and we are still running 5.45c which seems like a really old version that i'm sure has a lot of bugs.

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Tony "Razer" Martin
FS Hangar

posted 04-23- 02:54 PM            

Gustavo - the creators of SDOE who still visit, Mighty & MH, are no longer with the company that controls this website and forum, Inertia Games. I too would think that since Inertia is still paying for the bandwidth and the server space that they would care enough about their investment to reply to Hawk, but apparently they don't. I hope that answers your question!

Werner

posted 04-23- 05:05 PM               

The two emails I sent to Inertia today were bounced back to me as non-recievalbe. Not a good sign.

posted 04-23- 08:14 PM               

I realise that i'm not exactly very high up in the chain of things, or the most influential member, but i figured i should add my 2cents.

Being fresh from school, this idea came quickly to mind.....

How about a 'fund raiser'?

People with access to CD burners could burn a CD with important files, and then us members, could purches (for a good price) a copy of the CD with funds going to getting the new forum.

This plan may seem a bit sketchy, but if you guys really want a new froum, you might like to keep it in the back of your mind's.

posted 04-23- 09:15 PM               

This is a free forum I setup the other night while talking with Hawk about our woes here at the FSIC. Now, this was setup mostly to make sure

1: We have a fully setup board should we need one
2: Just to see how a new board would work, there's no point in talking about moving before we know the new home works well
3: See what we can expect from a FREE board. As it stands, there are 2 small adverts, one top and bottom, and a popup advert that I honestly never noticed before because it's behind everything, but it doesn't keep jumping to the top atleast.

Now, for my mind, this is the best FREE board we could have (in standard atleast), but I also agree that if we're having a new home, the best place would probably be with W-W-W although thats not to discount Razer either.

Now, keeping all the old threads.. I don't see how we can do that at all unless someone from Inertia will speak to us because we would need access to copy all of the archieves, the problem though even if we got them would be finding a way to be able to use them in a similar way as to now.

This board I setup WAS NOT meant as yet another message board, it was for a possible new home, or at the least to show whats what and see how it would work, so if you like you can check it out, there's a Poll Vote going on in the general forum that I may just go and expand a little now.

btw, I also find this board I set up pretty slow for me

posted 04-23- 11:15 PM               

Normally, I'm very conservative about such things (there's very little I'm conservative about!), but, and please forgive the naval analogy, I feel like the ship was slowly sinking but could be saved. Now I fear a magazine explosion!

posted 04-24- 09:27 AM               

This link is to the test board. It would need a more complete setup if it
was to be permanent, but you can get an idea how it works. This board
also allows adding logo's and graphics.
Http://fscentral1.community.everyone.net

I think we should give it a eek or so, let everyone do test posts, and
take a vote.

Something everyone should know.

The Ultimate Bulliten Board is going to a pay service as Nat said.
However, the price he gave is if you are going to use the software on
your own server. This would mean someone would have to set up a server
too with at least Dsl as the connection.

UBB will host boards as they do now, but there will be a fee for the
service. When I was looking for a free board, everyone using UBB was not
allowing new subscribers as they were trying to find another option.

Come on guys, no one should have to pay out of their own pocket just
because we've beeen spoiled by the current FSIC and are worried about an
ad or two (although I will admit, some boards can get pretty obnoxious
about it).

How many of us have websites with free hosting services that have ads?
I'd say well over 95%, yet no one complains about it. Maintaing and
running servers and software is costly, especially when you consider the
security issues. I say, if they want to put up an ad- go ahead, it's a
small price to pay for the convenience and reliability.

Let's look at finding the service that provides the most convenience and
is the least obnoxious and get on with it.

Now, about the Tech Talk issue. If you guys will do searches on the
topics most dear to your heart, copy and paste the threads and send them
to me, I'll assemble them as downloadable FAQ's and make them available
to everyone to post on their site and I'll even put up an SDOE Tech site
if need be where you can download them. (I need something to do during
lunches with my work laptop- it has NT so I can't fiddle around in OPS)

Da Jug head

posted 04-24- 10:07 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by Hawk:
There are some serious problems with our forum. We have had no luck in getting a reply from Inertia. I have emailed them my last email stating our problems and requested a reply.

There are some that want to move to another forum. Problems with new proposals so far are the banner and popup adds that come with free forums.

To have a forum close to this in quality we will have to pay.

I am currently looking at cost options of different forums and am thinking of purchasing one.

What are your thoughts?

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If you feel these discussions (at least as far as WWI goes) must move due to problems, you can contact Jupes ( jupes@wingsofhonor.com ) and see about migrating to the WoH site.

WoH is dedicated to WWI sims and I'm sure that you will all be welcome. The one caveat is that in order to post there, you need to submit a request to vonSchtupp to get a login and password.

Currently, the site is primarily RBII/RB3D focused, but the infussion of fresh ideas and new people could do wonders for the community...

Just an idea...