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## new type of forum

Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:36 pm

I was thinking...
What about a community forum where each member (who wanted it) had their own area? They could decide what forums and subforums to have, they could decide their own rules for their section, they could decide who to help and how, so on and so forth. Of course they would ooperate under general rules for the whole board such as nothing illegal or whatever but besides that each member could have their own playground.
Have maybe a general help area.....where help questions are presented by the person needing help....then each member that wants to help them can post an answer in their own section and let the OP know they have offered some help in their section.....then the OP decides which one(s) to follow up on.....
what ya think???
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## Re: new type of forum

Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:28 pm

Sounds - at minimum - interesting.
Same ole story from an old dog, who owns a one-string-guitar only:
I think something like what you said is why i am interested in the freedombox.
Related would be the subject of distributed networking (the forum[s] is not stored on a central server, but "everywhere").
That would mean that there is not really an admin (as far i can tell/see).
But, the bad news: i don't really understand the distributed networking, and i don't know or understand forums at all. It is nothing i could do in a few years.
Retroshare is said to contain forums, but i did not understand retroshare, so i can't say how that works. i2p contains a way to host sites in the i2p network (which means that the "legal" part is much less important. If folks post bulshit it really is their problem, not the problem of someone who "hosts" the site)
You might also want to look into social-networks, and especially at riseup.net. It is quite close to what you ask for (i think), but not "really" a forum. But one can ask as much questions as one likes, sure. It is based on crabgrass (which i tried to install, but i did not get it working).
The above said: I am glad that this very forum is still here, so any change would be a problem (If one could backup _and_ restore the data/info elsewhere it would not be a problem, but i don't think it is possible).
Ah, and btw: i am just another user. I was kinda "founded" the forum, but as far it me all and everything can be done here (whoever wants admin rights can have them). I guess that is clear, but still i stress it.
The last experiment went so far south that i lost faith in co-operation in general, but i would not say i don't try something new never ever again (only with much less hope).
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## Re: new type of forum

Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:39 am

After having thought about it for a bit longer i really think that riseup.net is:
a) quite close to what i understand you got in mind and
b) a very easy solution.
The "drawback" is that it is a community/social network which is for left (all flavors of left) people only, and i would not know if that is or is not a problem (for lots of people it obviously would be).
kelsoo and i got a group there, called "freetards". I also am a member of the blag group. The rest i do there i follow not very closely, but there are a bit of other things i am subscribed to.
I am always and everywhere (twitter, facebook, diaspora, identica) ready to create refracta group[s].
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## Re: new type of forum

Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:42 am

actually I was just thinking of a forum with each person being an admin over their own section
one community forum made up of different individuals with individual sections
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## Re: new type of forum

Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:46 am

oh...a site you or phred may want to consider for a refracta forum
http://www.000webhost.com/
uptime seems good for a free site
easy installs of a few different forums
full access to site so easy backups and such
no ads
just a thought
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## Re: new type of forum

Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:25 am

> meandean wrote:oh...a site you or phred may want to consider for a refracta forum
> http://www.000webhost.com/
> ...

I had a look and i really like it.
Like usually i got hard times to get my head into new things (especially if they are gui and hence said to be intuitive...but i have experienced much worse).
So: good tip.
I still don't fully understand what you mean with forum (which means that i can't see why riseup would not offer that. Everyone has his pages...sure not as close as a forum, but close enough).

> actually I was just thinking of a forum with each person being an admin over their own section
> one community forum made up of different individuals with individual sections

As far its me: why not? Sounds good (As long i don't need to do anything... )
You mean here, or somewhere else? Somewhere else means there is trouble to move all the info around.
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## Re: new type of forum

Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:14 am

> nadir wrote:I had a look and i really like it.

Seems like a good host, considering it is free. They have a decent control panel that makes it easy to do practically anything hosting related. They also have easy one-click installs for wordpress, joomla, drupal, phpbb forum, smf forum, etc. I setup a email specifically to register with them and I have not got a single spam email. I am not sure the free package would be suitable for a heavy iso download site or anything but a small site/forum would probably be fine, maybe even an occasional download or something.

> I still don't fully understand what you mean with forum (which means that i can't see why riseup would not offer that. Everyone has his pages...sure not as close as a forum, but close enough).

I finally googled riseup and freetards and found the group page.
Nice! I like it a lot.
Can you create any sort of backup or anything? I always worry about things closing or charging and so forth.

> You mean here, or somewhere else? Somewhere else means there is trouble to move all the info around.

Just hypothetical thinking right now.
It would be a new site.
Maybe this will give you a better idea - http://s12.postimage.org/9e1w0qp6z/2011 ... _scrot.png
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## Re: new type of forum

Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:27 am

> They also have easy one-click installs for wordpress,

Very good. I did not find it yet, but i am really dumb... at least with such things.
(I am looking for an easy site for my sister, and i think something wordpress like would suit her needs. Bit of blah and a bit of photos and that is pretty much that).
Will try to get it sorted.
A really good hint, 000webhosting.com
(and woha, woha, woha, they got email too, right?)

> Can you create any sort of backup or anything? I always worry about things closing or charging and so forth.

I don't know. That really would be good (i got high hopes they got something like that, or at least wouldn't say it is a bad idea if one asks).
If you figure that out please post it somewhere.

> Just hypothetical thinking right now.
> It would be a new site.
> Maybe this will give you a better idea - http://linkfam.holeinthewallhosting.net/testcase/

I see (especially after the link to the test page).
In general i really like the idea. My personal "problem" is that: this site here, freeforums.org, runs ok, more or less.
It is a place where i can go, i got some info i need, and so on. I _know_ it is here. A new site means "trouble".
Nothing which is standing in the way, but a little headache.
What really sucks here is the lack to make proper backups, the adds i don't see, but i think such things suck too (now and then i use epiphany or chromium-b or uzbl).
ah, btw, i for one don't need a separate "forum" or an "admin-right"( which means: it is not exactly one of my main interests to administer something like a forum). Laissez-faire is my approach. I also am not sure if i got that much to say. But then: why not?
What i really know for sure is that a new form of forum is needed. The nannys had their time (do this, do that, cotton courtesy and what not). And where on earth is julian?
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## Re: new type of forum

Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:17 pm

> Very good. I did not find it yet,

log in, go to cpanel, click on 'fantastico autoinstaller'

> (and woha, woha, woha, they got email too, right?)

I haven't played with it but I would suspect so. Obviously if you did not have a domain then your email would be at a subdomain like [email protected]
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## Re: new type of forum

Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:50 am

What i fail to understand is how i can "purchase" a domain name.
If i search (seldom, i admit) i alway find "info" how great the service is i am planning to use,
but seldom detailed explanations. All is quite vague.
A real life step by step explanation would be very nice.
Nother note:
I still think that using riseup.net or, even better, and much better, setting up crabgrass oneself, for the only purpose of refracta/debian/computing, would be the best solution (As in: most geekie, most free too, most secure, cause distributed, and so forth).
But that is my private spleen, i am much in the freedombox right now (last couple of months).
In general i am happy here, for refracta, and not happy anywhere else (when it comes to debian or computing).
Lemme fool around with the shiny new smartphone a bit more, then try to look into crabgrass again (and look at 000webhost.com again too).
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