Recent content by FTL

@Wildcat Media Wow, that's quite a history of running forums you've got there. While I've been on various forums since 2001, my admin history of running my own forum starts in March 2021 when I bought XF. Those bullet points sound about right and resonate with what I looked for in software...

Just a bump for this thread as I think @GrnEyedDvl you've made some nice points in your opening post. Very few things in life are truly a 5 star product, so my personal rating is around 4-4.5 - and that's including all the valid criticisms about the product like comms, development cycles etc...

Ok, that's a fair point.

You do realise that the people running such an extremely illegal site would ensure that XF or the authorities would be unable to touch them, don't you? They would therefore just laugh in XF's face, so XF sending them a stern letter would be pointless and ridiculous.

If it helps any, whenever I've done a point upgrade, I didn't disable any add-ons and everything worked just fine afterwards. The only slight glitch has been the upgrade to 2.3 which didn't play 100% well with my custom theme. And yeah, what's with the btchfest in a thread about an update? I...

Yeah, you'll need an add-on for that. @AndyB do you have anything like this?

You can just use permissions, no add-on required and it's simple to do too. I did that to hide one of my sections upon request. Simply create a user group and deny it access to a particular forum. It then becomes a checkbox in the ACP to add that usergroup to the user's account to deny that user...

You know, from everything I've seen of the XF staff here and company business practices, I don't think that's the case. The company's behaviour has never been one to exploit their staff for money and that's a really great aspect of being their customer. If you want to see that kind of behaviour...

Note that you also have the option of subscribing to XenForo Cloud which does all the server stuff for you, so you get an instant forum that you can start setting up and customising straight away. If you do go for it, get the cheapest Starter option as you won't be getting much traffic...

Meant to add that you've not been banned on felineforums.com so you can continue to post there if you want. Since you love cats, as do I, think it's the perfect forum for you.

You know very well why I banned you and we discussed it further here in a pm almost two years ago, but you then stopped replying. If you really want to come back, message me in that pm/dm, address my points, letting me see that you've changed your attitude and have some contrition and I'll see...

Saying no one is staying there due to the style is a bit strong, innacurate and tbh, kinda offensive. I've got some regulars on there and a rather non-trivial number of threads and posts built up over time, so while not where I want it to be, it's hardly dead either and a whole lot more active...

Oh definitely a balancing act and I've had a few registrations this year of actual members with very few spammers getting through and sitting in the approval queue, like perhaps just one or two. I don't want to go into the specifics of the anti-spam settings I use in case it tips them off, but...

Maybe, but I'm not too convinced by it as it's not hard for a legitimate person to register there. I'll register a test account to see what the experience is like as I haven't done it in years now. Thing is, I don't wanna let a bunch of spammers in too easily, or I'm forever checking and...

You get a sad face Like as I fear that you're unfortunately right and the highlighted bit is the core of it. Look, my forum never took off all that well and now it's dropping further, with the handful of regulars, such as they were, posting much less than before. Very frustrating, I tell you...