Russell wrote:
I still think the new forum is kind of a shoddy solution. A wordpress plugin? Really? Seems very limited. They should move to a platform like this or vBulletin. I hope they can bolt on enough plugins and add-ons to give real search functionality, view latest/unread posts, etc...
I think you are right, Russell. Wordpress is a brilliant platform; but is not a natural one for a forum. I doubt the wordpress forum plugin will cope, and all the other plugins that will be needed to make it function anything like this one will make it cumbersome and likely to crash! IMHO
Tom Otvos wrote:
Interesting that there was no effort made to migrate the existing forum data. Clean slate.
I looked for the KFD forum on Monday and there was just the sign "
Site Blocked! The Wetpaint site you've requested has been blocked by Wetpaint." so I tried the kennethfolkdharma.com URL and this linked to the same "Site Blocked!" message. The forum at the Worpress site had just one post: a "test" written a year ago.
Since then, the kennethfolkdharma.com URL has been re-directed and the forum on the Wordpress site started to get used. To me, this says the 'new and improved' forum was in fact a
reaction to the blocked site, hence no recent backup of the old forum, etc.
A clean slate, yes, but a forced one by my reconning. It will be interesting to see what emerges when the dust settles.
Colin