Do forums or don't do forums.

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If someone asks a question, and I reply to it in some detail, what exactly is the problem?

Ego's are not an issue. Some of us have more experience in some fields than others, and we all share knowledge quite happily here.

Once you work that out, you'll fit in a lot better.
 
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OK chaps,I am off to bed. Try not to make too much noise,I have an early start tomorrow morning. g'night.
 
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The money is made by online advertising here

[/ QUOTE ] Wonder how much it makes, and if advertising spend is going to drop now the credit is all crunchy.

I have always thought this forum must be a bit of a 2-edged sword for IPC . . . no need to buy the mags when you can get all the advice and info you need here. Indeed, these fora are frequenty used to bleat about the mags and announce subscription cancellations.

Main prob as far as I can see is that IPC have gone a long way down the road with UBB, now heavily modded to do things and handle loads it was never really designed for. They either continue to tweak it or have a huge hassle trying to move to another system. If the fora were worth as much to IPC as people seem to think they would have bitten the bullet, but I find their reluctance to invest huge sums of time and money quite understandable.

- W
 
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I don't really associate YBW forums with the magazines. I don't care if the forums run slow, I just go and do something else. It's just a web forum so it's nothing to get worked up over.
 
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When you get pm's, emails, phone calls, in such numbers that they become intrusive, as well as the requests on the site, you'll know you've you've become known for a niche helpline.

Until you obtain that status, and have given practical help to dozens of people, then hundreds, then please keep your comments to yourself.

Some of us put in many, many hours a week, outside what you see on the forums, sorting stuff out.
 
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Good grief. This will be my last post on this subject. (But I guess you will stick your oar in...........see what I did there!).
Don't you see what I'm doing here? People form opinions. I think I'll become a fan of your "advice" and follow your posts with interest.

Now then, was that a half of bitter or mild?? Byee. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Kim was quite open about developing new system in house, see website feedback forums.

Now Kim has gone, I've no idea what plans are
 
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I really cant believe how easily some of you get suckerd in,to arrogant comments on hear. why bother he should design his own forum. if he can , have a nice day.....
 
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Depends what you mean by hidden costs?

There will be server racks, which will service the entire ipc stable of websites and forums. A large team of IT personell behind the scenes, maintaining, applying security updates, coding, making changes, testing, putting into development and live. The internet access costs for the access to the server farm. The personel required to moderate here. The sales and marketing team, admin, finance and accounting. Don't forget legal, everytime some manufacturer asks for a thread to be taken down. Hardware updates will be required once in a while. As will overheads of buildings and associated costs, the costs of running employees etc.

The overheads will be huge, but they will be pretty much standard for any large website provider with a multitude of websites and forums.

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I hope not. I would have thought that an outfit like Time Inc would have got a grip on the big company IT empire that used to be common and reduced it to just a bod or two to control subbies. Moderating will be a part time (and not a big part judging from their presence here) job for for a couple of people at most and the hardware should also have been subbed. The days of Fleet street and Spanish practises in publishing should have long gone.

Mind you, judging by the responses to our moans about speed, you may be right and there may be the old fashioned obstructive IT dept lurking in the wings. Like when my wife worked for Natwest and the IT dept removed all documenmtation and any help files they could from any purchased PC to ensure users had to come to them.
 
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Or they could talk nicely to me, get me to host it, £25 plus vat a year, that takes care of the hosting costs and the "racks" of servers, then they could get a decent administrator and web designer, not a full time job once its set up, not to expensive me thinks!!
Stu
 
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You could host all the IPC websites and forums for £25 per year, with constant changes and updates, news feeds, etc etc? I'd bet you'd run out of bandwith allowance in the first few hours!
 
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Point is B, you are being your usual arrogant self, talking technical bullshit hoping it will baffle everyone, any number of providers will host a site for you for the price mentioned, any number of developers provide free software to do forums, you did the arrogant bit a while back when that silly sausage of a woman started [--word removed--] about with the forum and you inveigled yourself into meeting with Kim if I remember right and started bragging about the meetings on the forum. I mean do what ever floats your boat but please please dont go on about server farms to run a simple little forum like this!
Also for what it is worth, DCC run their own website, (when I was a councillor, I was lead member for IT) it is a lot more complicated than this, they use one webmaster and most of the content is put in by various officers in the relevant depts, using Lotus Notes. One server runs it all, not a server farm!!
Stu
 
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What meeting with Kim? Only time I've ever seen Kim, is at one of the Mercury meets, and things were so hectic, I didn't even get chance to talk to him!!!

So please don't start making up rumours



I was in the industry for long enough to know what is required to run an operation of this size. It's not one forum. There are hundreds of IPC websites and forums, and it makes no sense to run them individually
 
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What is the problem here? This is one of the best boating stuff sites in the world. It is free. What is your problem?
 
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What is the problem here? This is one of the best boating stuff sites in the world. It is free. What is your problem?

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Totally agree so stop s$!t stirring y'all
 
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