Recent content by StarArmy

I've had a problem with activity in this section ever since people started using a Star Army Discord chat to discuss off-topic stuff. I guess the question is, is there enough activity to support it? If so, I think it's a good thing and one of the things that makes a site a community instead of a...

I too, have had an issue lately where the bot never re-applies roles after a user leaves the server and then returns, or leaves and returns with a new account and associates that account.

I've been running my forum for 22 years and I still haven't figured this one out. I do know that when you're feeling like you're spinning your tires and putting in all the work, and others aren't participating much, it sucks. People who love your community as much as you do are rare treasures...

If you're worried about a username, you can always run it through a free translator like deepl or Google translate to check it. I don't worry about that much on my forum. If people want to make a username composed entirely of food emojis that's okay with me as long as they're an active member...

This. I saw the board wasn't viewable and immediately closed the window.

I strongly suggest checking your local laws and host's TOS and Paypal's terms before engaging in any raffle where people pay money to enter as this is considered illegal gambling in some places. It sounds like you'd be essentially be running a lottery...

Use AI rewrites to make posts slowly become increasingly profane as they get older until, after about 5 years, they are transformed into unintelligible angry rants of pure cursing. Users will be encouraged to post new, friendlier threads.

This has happened to be too, with huge bot traffic from Singapore. I've been attempting to mitigate it by setting Cloudflare rules targeting it.

What if you used a push notification to their phones, that includes the group call number, so they could join with a click?

I haven't looked at them in a little while but last I saw Tapatalk was using a customized phpBB3 forum. XF's importers can convert from phpBB3 to XF but the major issue is that Tapatalk has removed the database export option from their version of phpBB3 in order to trap your forum in their...

Push notifications.

The forum (without use of any mods) is set up with the "User Upgrades" feature where users can donate through PayPal or Stripe and have a user group applied to their account as an automated user promotion. You can get this group a special title (on mine it's "Site Supporter") and set special...

The biggest issue I have with user groups in Xenforo is that there's no straightfroward way to let users join and leave them on their own. In phpBB there's a very good way for this (for example, perhaps you run a car forum maybe you have a user group for people who have Hyundai cars or Ford...

I used to used Siropu's chat and I really liked it. The main reason I stopped using it was because we migrated chats to Discord (it was kind of forced, in that it was either I started a server or people would start one for my site without me). There's a server resource (e.g. RAM/processor) cost...

Remember that whoever has admin access has access to all of the other members' personal information like IP addresses, possibly locations, birth dates, gender, email address, etc. I don't think you should give anyone super admin unless the other person is taking over as the forum's new owner...