Digital Doctor
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Any of them still active ?
Good Admin forum focused on Xenforo ?
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TCG2007
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Mr Lucky
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Isn't that what this is?
Digital Doctor
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kinda no.
I'd settle for a good admin forum, with not much xenforo information.
hosting information / how to administer a VPS / running a 3CX phone in the cloud / MySQL queries / etc etc.
I guess most of my questions are NOT xenforo related.
Are admin forums dead ? Do I have to signup for facebook and tiktok ?
All of that and more has been asked and answered here for over 10 years.
AjayJunkies
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I wanted to share some observations because I think this topic speaks to a greater paradigm shift in forum ownership and management:
Hosting Administration - This topic, as a whole, is tapering off. There's not much future in trying to engage in conversations around hosting administration. Why? The world has moved on. There are social platforms where starting a new online group is as easy and seamless as one click; there are cloud services - including XenForo - where launching a new forum is as easy as one click. Hosting Xenforo is relatively the same ten years ago as it is today. Independent hosting used to be a necessity, but the reality is that most modern users don't really want or care about the back-end when there are better, more frictionless experiences of everything from Facebook groups, Amino Apps, MeWe, Discord, and more.
Community Management - This is still ripe for conversations, and I think we're still not even scratching the depth of human behavior. This draws upon disciplines such as organizational management, human psychology, group behaviors and more. How do we engage, motivate, excite, and influence both individuals or groups? This is something that is uniquely human.
Hosting Administration - This topic, as a whole, is tapering off. There's not much future in trying to engage in conversations around hosting administration. Why? The world has moved on. There are social platforms where starting a new online group is as easy and seamless as one click; there are cloud services - including XenForo - where launching a new forum is as easy as one click. Hosting Xenforo is relatively the same ten years ago as it is today. Independent hosting used to be a necessity, but the reality is that most modern users don't really want or care about the back-end when there are better, more frictionless experiences of everything from Facebook groups, Amino Apps, MeWe, Discord, and more.
Community Management - This is still ripe for conversations, and I think we're still not even scratching the depth of human behavior. This draws upon disciplines such as organizational management, human psychology, group behaviors and more. How do we engage, motivate, excite, and influence both individuals or groups? This is something that is uniquely human.
MySiteGuy
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I have to disagree on a few points. We were at a billion roughly a billion sites 10 years ago and its about 1.4 billion now. Hosting companies and data centers continue to grow. Every 3 seconds, a new site goes online. The tools for creating independent websites are better than ever. Many of the web control panels are one click to install WordPress, for example. Web hosting and administration is still very much a thing - the need for tech skills to do it, however, is less.
Mendalla
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Agree, I think. I am the admin of the site because I am an admin and IT dept manager in my day job so stepped up when we had to spin up a replacement for the old site we hung out on (shut down by its owner). But, yeah, there's not much outside of the initial setup and some of the security stuff that really requires my skillset anymore. So much of the work, even upgrades and add-on installs, happens in the ACP and that's something a non-IT person could learn. Comfort with using computers and the ability to learn on the go probably matters more than actual IT skills nowadays, esp. if you go to XF Cloud where things like the initial install and upgrades are handled by XF.
Suzanne O
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Yep.
Shawn Gossman
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I run an admin forum although it welcomes all software focuses.
I had thought about starting a forum called XenAdmins at one time but had the opportunity to relaunch AAF which at one time was my baby before I needed to take a hiatus from the internet.
There are a few other admin forums out there such as Admin Junkies and Administrata.
TAZ is pretty much abandoned from the looks of it. It's sad. I've been a member there since the very early 2000s. All of the original AAF topics went there and I hate to see that they're not really put to good use anymore.
Forums are definitely not the forums they used to be back in the early 2000s and 2000-teens.
I had thought about starting a forum called XenAdmins at one time but had the opportunity to relaunch AAF which at one time was my baby before I needed to take a hiatus from the internet.
There are a few other admin forums out there such as Admin Junkies and Administrata.
TAZ is pretty much abandoned from the looks of it. It's sad. I've been a member there since the very early 2000s. All of the original AAF topics went there and I hate to see that they're not really put to good use anymore.
Forums are definitely not the forums they used to be back in the early 2000s and 2000-teens.
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