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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2015 14:31:18 GMT
Welcome - To The Unofficial Big Finish Forum -
since the closing of the Big Finish forum I thought we could have a place to carry on as before....
hope you like it.
there are no moderators...
so...
PLAY NICE!
and lets continue our chats just like before
cheers
The Mod!
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Post by gorgarrak on Sept 22, 2015 13:18:56 GMT
Many thanks for setting up this little haven, you have my gratitude
Mike
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Tony Jones
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Professor Chronotis
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Post by Tony Jones on Sept 23, 2015 20:14:01 GMT
Hi - can I ask what your long term plans are (if any), some of us over on FaceBook have been debating the benefits of going self-hosted. This is a really good piece of work but (if my experience of wordpress is relevant) I found that longer term it was much cheaper and more flexible to go self-hosted. It does mean taking longer to get something started. It would mean no adverts!
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Post by kimalysong on Sept 23, 2015 20:51:48 GMT
I don't know anything about hosting a website but I do hope more of the Facebook group joins over here so we aren't divided. I think this is fine for the meantime until we think of an even better long term solution.
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 23, 2015 20:58:04 GMT
Blimey the Administers Davros.
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Tony Jones
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Professor Chronotis
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Post by Tony Jones on Sept 24, 2015 7:32:53 GMT
I don't know anything about hosting a website but I do hope more of the Facebook group joins over here so we aren't divided. I think this is fine for the meantime until we think of an even better long term solution. I'm looking into what's possible and useful but I agree this is a very good stopgap solution. Not sure how intrusive adverts are going to be |
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Post by jasonward on Sept 24, 2015 11:37:46 GMT
It seems easy enough to make payments to stop the adverts, but, what Im not clear about is how expensive that would make a forum that is even say 33% as busy as the BF forums were, I suspect really quite very expensive and that hosting will turn out to be the far cheaper solution, but does mean that someone has to take on a financial commitment upfront.
It's a pity BF couldn't have handled this so much better, they could have given us warning and even offered to say pay £500 in hosting costs as a golden goodbye to us... grrr, actually don't let me get started, I am so angry at how BF handled this.
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Sept 24, 2015 12:26:41 GMT
or we could just put up with the adverts when they finally arrive
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Post by kimalysong on Sept 24, 2015 14:07:17 GMT
I am sure people would be willing to donate. I know I would.
But I also don't know the costs.
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Tony Jones
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Professor Chronotis
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Post by Tony Jones on Sept 24, 2015 14:39:03 GMT
Hosting is relatively cheap (I have some that handles several blogs) and software is free. The cost is time - I am playing with some forum packages but won't have anything ready for public consumption until next week.
A DNS name (ie a proper web address) costs £10 - £15 per year, some decent hosting might cost £40 - £100 per year, the odd plug0-in might be £25. These are just estimates.
When I blogged on Wordpress.com I found to get them to add relatively minor things soon added up and I went self-hosted. That's how they make their money.
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Post by kimalysong on Sept 24, 2015 14:52:28 GMT
Id be willing to help delete spam (I don't want to moderate forum debates) as long as there are a good amount of other people helping. I moderated a forum for a brief time with one other girl and the spam was too much for just the two of us.
What you need is a good number of people who can help from different time zones. I think we at least have a good amount of people from the US, UK, Europe, and Australia in this fandom (well from the old boards) so right there you are covering numerous time zones. That way no one has to wake up in the middle of the night to delete spam.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 24, 2015 18:50:25 GMT
It looks like it is possible for "Guests" to post without registering. Is that correct; and is it OK? If the official forum was hit by spam, opening the door to spambots isn't an awfully appealing prospect.
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