Recent content by JohnWD

I would personally update the terms of the website and then send out an email through the built-in mass email system informing users that the forum will fully close down from its archive state and merge into an active forum website. I would then give users the right to anonymise their personal...

This would actually be a far better idea for the OP but he'd still need to align for the backlog of refusal to accept these terms and closure/anonymisation of accounts. Either way I think this is a better way to go, aligning both TOS together.

Sounds to me like you want to create an anti-leech system. You can see content but cannot access it until you contribute content in that same category. What's to stop the user from making a spam thread to read all the others? I think you'd be better using an approval system. New threads in that...

My recommendation would be to setup a notice on the old forum (the one to be merged) and pop out an email to all users advising them the board is closing and will be merged. Put a date on it, say 30 days from when the emails are going out. Advise them if they don't want their data to be merged...

Do you mean that the user can see thread titles in the forum/node but cannot read it until they have posted a thread in that same node? If so, I don't actually think that's something that's possible right out of the box with xF.

I’ve always had a General Discussion area of the website, these usually allow people to discuss off topic things and not be stuck only discussing topics the forums based around. The only issue I see to this is that more people use this area and it can become a dominating section. I feel with...

It really all depends as a lot of people who are used to the natural .com .net or geographic ones such as .co.uk .eu etc. I personally would always opt for a .com or .net domain just because that's what the vast majority of people are used to.