Recent content by zappaDPJ

The emphasis is currently on major platforms which now includes Reddit, a platform that many would consider a forum. My understanding is that while small niche forums appear to meet the same criteria as Reddit (based on the wording of the legislation)... The sole or significant purpose is to...

That would not be acceptable and in any case sites that fall within the regulations are obliged to implement more than one form of identification approval. That said, just like the UK, the Australian regulations do seem to be a bit of a moving target.

One knock effect of the regulations is people are clearly increasing the use of VPNs. While this may not present an issue for the majority of forums, it's a pain in the neck if your forum exists to help diagnose ISP related problems.

I think in retrospect you are right. Wikipedia went down for me and I lost file sync with Microsoft 365 One Drive. At that time there was only one news outlet reporting the issue, claiming 50% of the entire Internet was down which was clearly an exaggeration.

Once again a large number of Cloudflare customers appear to be experiencing a pretty extensive outage.

ChatGPT can only provide those answers because it has already plundered the information posted in response to support requests.

I think your best answer is likely to come from developers who have had experience in that area. Both @MySiteGuy or @ForumDevs should be able to give you an idea of what's possible and the costs involved should you wish to go down the route of hiring someone to assist you with the migration. No...

Or just move the posts to a hidden dump box instead of permanently deleting them.

It was a fair question :)

I don't believe that would satisfy all the legal requirements as it is ultimately the site owner who is responsible for removing material judged to be illegal. Ideally such material (private messages) should be reported by the member leaving the owner or their representatives to gauge legality...

This should really go hand in hand with improvements for editing the alt attribute which is essential for people with disabilities using screen readers. Ideally there needs to be an admin editable list containing image thumbnails, editable fields containing the alt attribute and the same for...

It did a superb job with the wall of text I fed it but it did take a while, just under a minute.

The fact that you are online posting here suggests you are probably using AI multiple times everyday without realizing it. While I'm dead against AI produced content of any type, AI prompts for content improvement is more welcoming and like it or not, an inevitability.

Not wishing to stir the pot in either direction (but probably doing both :rolleyes:) unless there's a service level agreement in place you are almost certainly looking at best endeavour, at best.

I highly doubt either would reference the potential danger of having a searchable, vendor created copyright notice plastered across your footer, vBulletin still being one of the main offenders.