Forum Software LC?

[William Prothero]

Thanks, Richard. 
After I looked into discord privacy policies, I realized that my audience would not even consider it. I decided to make a simple site using bbpress with wordpress and try to use only free or very low cost plug-ins. Most of my programming time in the last year was building a complex wordpress site to support our retirees association. So, I got pretty good with wordpress and figure putting together a basic discussion site will be pretty quick. Of course, privacy is huge issue. I've found that limiting login tries and using captcha seem to work well. Also, I have a plugin that won't accept non US ip addresses to help.

The biggest development problem is choosing the plugins from the massive number that claim to be the best. Then it takes a day to find out they can't do what you want.

Thanks again for the info.
Best,
Bill

William A. Prothero, PhD
Prof Emeritus, Dept of Earth Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

> On Sep 28, 2023, at 8:12 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Keith Martin wrote:
> 
> > To me, Discord looks like a refugee from a moderately poorly
> > designed BBS from 30 years ago. I use it (it's the student
> > comms platform of choice for a course I teach on) and it does
> > work well in the sense of being very functional, but it offends
> > me on multiple levels.
> 
> You're not alone. When I started using it for board game discussions my first response was "Holy hellballz, which overcaffienated stoner fell too deeply in love with IRC?" :)
> 
> The functionality is great, but even just dropping the hashtag to distinguish channel labels would go a long way to making it look less like an IRC holdover.
> 
> That said, my circle of friends include a good many who still use IRC daily...
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> 
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