Recent content by Chris Lawes

Cloudfare looks very very interesting, allthough I still don't get how it works. They host mirrors of my content somehow like an Amazon CDN? And what do you mean by use optimized hosting? As far as videos and images, well those will mostly be links to videos and images. And obviously those who...

Hi Sadikb. Most of the team-members who are on lowspeed connections are in West Bengal, near Kolkata but in very rural areas like Santipur, Nabadwip, and Virabhadrapur. I just came back from there myself, and I had a Tata Photon+, MTS Mblaze, and a Vodaphone stick. None of them went above 30...

Cool, I didn't realize that you could choose different skins like that. That would definitely be a good option. Not necessary (or a priority) but it would be really cool if you could have the skin change according to the visitor's internet connection hehe. Yes PunBB definitely looks ideal for...

Probably my most important question though is will XenForo even run on internet explorer from 4 years ago??

Media Store looks fairly useful, allthough also a bit overkill/too flashy for what I want ideally want. How would you let people browse the directory? I want it to be publicly viewable outside the forum even. Just looking at the auto-generated apache folders where you can click on the files...

'Fair Nuff.

Yes I can see that, but even in the public forums I can't look at any of the screenshots of plugins/add-ons/skins/themes etc because they are images. Couldn't you make the threads in the public section allow fullsize image popups for registered non-licensed users? Quite frustrating looking at...

XenMedio looks interesting, checking that out. Seriously though, if I am a registered member why don't I have permission to look at images in posts???

Thanks for that Blue, I'm looking around there. Pretty confusing collection of discontinued, overly simple or overly complex, scripts. However I think something there would work, just trying to find one that isn't super overbloated $400+ but is still properly maintained and customizable..

That's what I thought. Well, do you mind if I ask here for a recommendation on a file hosting script/software that can be standalone? Basically all I want is something that allows me to upload 300 audio/video files, label/tag them and have a nice public interface to browse them by category...

Is there a currently stable alternative to IP.Downloads and Downloads II ? Or even something that doesn't integrate with XenForo forum but can atleast display and sort a database of files for users to browse and download (as something to use until a XenDownloads-thing is ready?)

Ahhhh there it is. That's what I was looking for. That helps me in my decision making, it's not a magic bullet for people with sattelite or dial up connections. OK. What about the ability for the user to choose from a drop-down menu of skins, one of which could be "stripped down fast-loading"...

I did and I'm getting good help there. However I have one main question that is relevant to this thread: Are the speed avantages of XenForo something that makes a difference server-CPU wise or something that actually makes a significant impact on those with slow internet connections (like...

Thanks for the advice on PunBB, looks like good software. However I'm not really aiming to be the MOST stripped down fast loading forum ever, the team who is collaborating are all media creators, video editors, photographers, journalists, writers. A lot of them are in India, but I still want to...

Looking into things.