Since Fanfiction Net and all its forums are still down, and I am suffering of serious withdrawal, I thought I made a post to tell I am alive, and to hopefully hear from other deprived addicts. This is the third day in a row I was not able to post on the forums. I managed to log in, briefly, today, and tried to post a post, but as soon as I pressed send, it was eaten again. This glitch seems to stay awfully long.
Does anybody knows a site where we could make an easy-to-run, easy to manage forum? I am seriously starting to open one up elsewhere. :(
(On the other hand, it is good to be back on lj, for a bit, again.) :)
Does anybody knows a site where we could make an easy-to-run, easy to manage forum? I am seriously starting to open one up elsewhere. :(
(On the other hand, it is good to be back on lj, for a bit, again.) :)
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I've got a half-dead forum on InvisionFree, but it's PG-13-restricted, so I don't know if you'd want to use it, although, IIRC, you are registered there. If you think it could be of any use, I can try to engage registrations again - hopefully, the idiots who were posting disgusting pr0n and other spam have gone away while it was unavailable for them.
*Hangs head* Yes, I fear I have spend far too much time over there, and far too little here, this whole last year. *blushes* Still, how pitifully addicted I am I learned only now when FFN was out of order for three days. I fell into withdrawal immediately. Addiction is a sad thing, isn't it?
I've got a half-dead forum on InvisionFree, but it's PG-13-restricted, so I don't know if you'd want to use it, although, IIRC, you are registered there.
Thank you for the invitation, and yes, I should check back there. However, what I am looking for is something where taking care of spam and spammers is easy to do - we have had some very unhappy experiences on FFN with those. Still, I shall check Invision free out, too. Technically, the FFN forums are rated PG 13, too, after all.
*HUGS* back to you! :)
They're also very easy to run and customize, even for me. It's just an idea, although there are others, I know. But if you don't want to build your own site, they're the easiest option.
I've run and co-run Adult ones, and other people have, if you put a disclaimer at the beginning, although in theory you can be reported. But anything suitable for FF.net forums is probably deemed safe.
Moonfruit is an easy-ish way to build a site, or Geocities.
Edited at 2009-02-24 08:36 pm (UTC)
I thought about starting a board at proboards, but Randy says they have an access problem. And they do not seem to send out e-mail alerts. What I am looking for is something with single threads for discussion topics, but the possibility to find all threads easily, and to pin some threads and keep them on top of a site so they can easily be found again. FFN forums have been pretty easy to manage, in this. Posts on lj, for example, may get a big number of posts, but will then drop into tzhe depths of memory in a few days.
Moonfruit is an easy-ish way to build a site, or Geocities.
Where's Moonfruit?
Here is Moonfruit
Thank you - looks more likre a site-building software than a hosting site, though? Still, I shall check it out, too. :)
I'm not too knowledgable about forums (haven't used them in years), but the question is probably: what do you want in regards to features and what are you willing to suffer through (adspace-wise *g*). You could go for a hosted board or host your own. Webspace isn't all that expensive anymore - and it's a lot more fun to just do your thing that to work around what your board provider isn't providing:)
Hi, Michelle! An extended visit to Mirrormere will feed my need for slash, but not my addiction to chat with my friends - I need lj and FFN, for that. But I aprecuiate the advice - Iit has been too long sindce I spent an evening or two, there. :)
You could go for a hosted board or host your own. Webspace isn't all that expensive anymore - and it's a lot more fun to just do your thing that to work around what your board provider isn't providing:)
Nope. Unfortunately, me = most stupid user. I could go for a hosted board, though, and will start looking into some; but me hosting a webserver would be a pitiful thing, as soon as the first glitch or bug was showing.
In any case. Just after I had posted my comment yesterday, the thought hit me that you could easily hijack Skyehawke's forum. (It has a huge spam problem at the moment, so I hope the admin will close it down for members some time soon to clean up - normally it doesn't look that messy.) There is actually a LOTR subforum there, which doesn't see any use: http://forums.skyehawke.com/viewforum.php?f=67
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Offline life has been eating my online existence. *wails*
No idea about forum software, sorry. :-(
(THIS would be the time when the OTW forums to be would come in real handy, huh?)
OTW-forums? There are some? FFN has decided to work again for the moment, but I am open for suggestions should they cease to do so, again. It would need to be a place that could be easily managed, had good ways to block spammers and delete spam, and had an option to send e-mail alerts. All that is what makes FFN forums so easy to use, among other things.
Offline life has been eating my online existence. *wails*
Yes, I've read your latest blog entry. I have to say, I admire your willingness to organize that international museums day for free (or did I get that right) on top of everything else. I fear I would be less enthusiastic.
Hope your muses will decide to play again, soon! (Mine seem to be pretty unwilling these days, too, though.)
Re: the Museum's Day -
that's simply part of my mini-job turned micro-job as museum manager...
I'm not doing it for free, just nearly so. *sigh*
By the way, crowdaughter, I found the story "Bound" on Aduldfanfiction.net. Thank you so much for sending me there. I also see that she has a sequal to that story there but it needs updated. Thanks for your help.
Everyone had problems and could not log in, except a few cvery determined people who kept trying. But at least, it brought me back to check on my lj, again. :)
By the way, crowdaughter, I found the story "Bound" on Aduldfanfiction.net. Thank you so much for sending me there.
My pleasure! I like the original story, a lot, and I wished Bluegold would update her sequel, someday. :)
a very belated thank you from me! I had a wonderful birthday, and I hope you had a wonderful trip! :)
Have truly enjoyed this all along the way, but it would be great to have another chapter 'pop up' unexpectedly.
Agape
*Snort! A blood transfusion? I am most touched and delighted to hear to which lengths you would go to get another chapter of my fic, but I fear a transfusion of a mixture of a long, prolongated holiday and a good amount of confidence would help much better. But I hear your pain, and I shall firmly tell myself to get something down on paper regardless those inner voices which doubt that anything I write is working well enough, and just batter through. I fear I have been victim of this new bout of writer's block for long enough, now. :(
Sorry! And I shall do my very best to produce that missing chapter - promise!