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After the holidays are behind us I am going to put my attention to getting things done here I've been pushing off. Mainly because I was combining my tech sites. That's done so it's time for Forum Squared to get the things done I should have already done. List of planned items: Upgrade to Invision 5 beta. Currently at beta 9.1 Add the link directory. I removed it after I had a database crash. Revamp the downloads section and add more downloads. Work on the resources section. Get some articles off the drawing board and onto the site. Move my personal blog to here. This is not a priority so it might be a while. That's for starters. …

Forum Squared needs to add another staff member. The role will be to start topics and engage in the threads by our users. You'll also keep things in line and make sure no gets out of hand. This will eventually turn into a paid position once the site grows and starts to make money. It will be paid based on a revenue sharing model. If you are interested send me a PM.

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 2…

I moved this site along with most of the other sites to a new VM. The new VM is running Ubuntu 24.04. I've had Windows Server for over 20 years so this is a big change for me. While I originally had my sites on Redhat many years ago moving back is very different. It is slowly coming back to me. Installing the necessary software at the command line was different for sure. There was some trial and error. I did get everything working fairly fast. Things don't seem much different except for the paths. In any case we are now on Linux. If you experience any bugs please let me know. I am still configuring things and fixing permission issues as they come up.

We’ve added a new administrative feature that allows staff to bulk select and delete multiple user accounts directly from the admin users list. We saw communities undergo large spam waves, so we implemented this feature to make handling those spam waves easier. This feature works in a very similar fashion to bulk actions in topic lists. We’ve published a dedicated document that explains how to use it: Bulk-delete multiple users as a staff user Site Management Discourse offers the ability to delete multiple users directly from the admin users list. This feature is useful in situations where unwanted user accounts are created, such as during a …

I'd like to wish everyone a very healthy and Happy New Year.

We recently launched a new feature for Helper called Smart dates, which helps you turn any text related to time and date into Discourse-friendly timezone-supported dates. Give it a try and let us know what you think! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

I go back and forth on this. On a couple of my sites I have chat enabled. The chat works well on those sites and compliments the forum well. The sites I use chat software on are an off topic forum and a computer help forum. I have used it on other sites and on those the chat took over. Everyone went to posting in the chat instead of the fourm. What's your thoughts?

There are certain things you can do to generate traffic and convert them to users. Content is the driving factor that got the users to your community. Now that they are there you want them to register and stay. Creating engaging forum content is a way your keep users coming back and involves several strategies. Here are some effective ways to generate content for a forum: Discussion Threads: Start or participate in discussions on trending topics relevant to your forum's niche. Ask open-ended questions to encourage responses. Informative Posts: Share tutorials, how-to guides, or informative artic…

Do you keep a close eye on the content being posted on competing forums? If yes, how has it helped you? If no, why not?

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?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. Here's to the new year being filled with new members and lots of posts on your communities.

Hey all Hulk here. This is a very interesting looking forum I love the way the forum list has been done. I look forward to enjoying my time here.

What would I need to do today to get a forum started? I am thinking about getting back in the forum world. What would I need to do to get a forum started and bring in users? Are post exchanges still good way to bring in users? What about board wars? Those worked very well in the past. Help me out. I'm ready to start again.

I want to upgrade my server, the issue is I need a hosting with ddos protection option I run a gaming community and people are dicks Current host just suspends the service when a ddos attack happens. some one recommended me about server about VPB.com, dose anyone hear about it? any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Hi I've got three posts (This is my fourth) but it still won't let me post in favorite forums. I saw a post in there that said two posts were needed but I've got more than two.

We all got them. What are yours?

What do have planned for the holiday season? Visiting family. Staying home. I am staying home with my wife. We plan to go to some of the festivities in the neighborhood. Nothing fancy.

When it comes to operating or launching a forum, what confuses you the most about it? What is stopping you from embracing full-throttle success? Let's help each other work through these things.

I am a surfer. Forums used to be my passion. Both running them and visiting them. I think this is a fine idea for a forum. I'll have some of my favs posted when I get time.