Recent content by ZippySLC

I trust that a research institution will know what to do with the data. For sure I don't think that a USB stick from 2022 would work 200 years from now. But a directory full of plain text ASCII files? I'm confident that's basic enough to still be usable in the future.

My site deals with the history of the southern part of New Jersey so ideally I'd ship a copy of the text files to the NJ State Library, Rutgers, or Princeton. I'm trying to plan out something to be still be useful to people 100-200+ years in the future when there might not even be a world wide...

Thanks for the link. It's much appreciated. I think I may end up writing some Python to export threads and messages from the database into plain text, which would be easy for some future search engine to index.

I've thought about that too, but there's no guarantee that whoever inherits the site will pass it on. For sure I want to find a way to keep it running after I go but I also want to figure out a way to donate an archive to my state library or one of the local universities.

Hi - I've been running my forums for nearly 20 years (phpBB to vB to Xenforo) and over that time there have been a lot of stuff posted that would be a treasure trove to future historians. (My site deals with the history and ecology of a fairly famous area of my state, and there has been a lot...

Just had a user use the contact us form and I got 10 emails. There has to be a better way.

Funny that, after a year of everyone complaining about a lack of communication about the status of XF, all of a sudden people are fawning over XF again. Honestly, I'd be worried about buying a license again, something else coming up, and having to wonder if there'd be radio silence again. I...

Same boat here. I'd be more than happy to renew if I knew that there was going to be continuing development on the software. I really don't want to have to migrate away from XF to something else.

Well, I feel more confident with the way your plugin works than having Xenutils check the spam databases. I'll roll with it like this for a while and see how it goes. Thanks!

Like pretty much everyone else my forum is under attack from spammers. One of the first things I did was enable the spam forum database checks and that has kept things in check. Recently though I've seen new registrations drop off. The other day I got an email from someone who said that they...

Glad to see it's not just me. Xenutils + the blacklists seems to have helped significantly.

Has anybody tried this on 1.1? I haven't upgraded my site yet, but I'm looking to sometime this week. If the theme doesn't work then it's a showstopper for me.

One of the nice things about VB was that you could see a diff between what you have and what would be applied. I'd like to see that feature in Xenforo. I just did an upgrade to 1.0.4 and have a rather daunting task of trying to figure out where I need to fix things.

That did it. Thanks!!

That didn't do it. Nothing shows up with a custom style. Why would the software give abbr.DateTime tags to some things and use a plain undecorated span for others?