Big Daddy Ray
79 posts
Aug 03, 2011
11:00 AM
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Are there any plans to put a messaging system in place here on MBH? There have been several times I have wanted to send something to someone here and there was no way to do so.
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nacoran
4428 posts
Aug 03, 2011
12:23 PM
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It's all about what the forum software can do. The easiest way to do it right now is to see if the other member has put contact info in their profile. Lots of people don't, either because they never thought to or because they don't want to or whatever. You can always just ask someone for their email. (It's usually to best to post your email as something like Jondoe at suchandsuch dot com, instead of Jondoe@suchandsuch.com because it's a little harder for spam bots to harvest your email.)
There was talk about updating some features a while ago, but I don't know what is going on with that.
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Big Daddy Ray
80 posts
Aug 03, 2011
1:13 PM
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There are a few of us probably who would be open to helping with the website. There are also PHP based websites which come with all these features built in and can be designed in a couple days just by pushing buttons.
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rharley5652
546 posts
Aug 03, 2011
1:23 PM
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@Big Daddy Ray,..no need messin with the site,..all ya have to do is put your e-mail address on your profile page ,..ahh,.I see you've not done that >< LOL
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Buzadero
810 posts
Aug 03, 2011
1:34 PM
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Displaying my email address on a publicly-searchable or accessible website is not my idea of discretion. I already get inundated with crap day in and day out.
If this site format doesn't allow private messaging, then perhaps someone could set up a "subscription only" page or location where each username could be crossed against email and/or location.
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ridge
286 posts
Aug 03, 2011
1:51 PM
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Actually, you can private message someone on this forum by doing the following:
Type "Psssst, [username][message]"
The user will then respond with a "What, speak up, I can't hear you!"
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nacoran
4430 posts
Aug 03, 2011
3:29 PM
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Big Daddy Ray, as I understand it, some of the reluctance to switch formats has to do with preserving page rankings and keeping posting access to all the old threads. There are a bunch of old threads on the topic.
Buzadero, yeah, I try to make it at least difficult for autoscrapers to pick the stuff up, but someone determined to spam by hand can still get you.
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Kingley
1561 posts
Aug 03, 2011
3:34 PM
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I really can't see the problem here. If you want to PM someone and they don't have an email address in their profile. Just ask them in a forum thread to email you. Make sure you have your email in your profile. If you don't want it there permanently you can remove it from your profile as soon as they have sent you a PM.
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gene
846 posts
Aug 03, 2011
5:15 PM
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I'm on another forum that got transferred to a whole new forum service, and the old threads and page rankings and everything was kept intact.
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Big Daddy Ray
81 posts
Aug 03, 2011
6:37 PM
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Ridge,,,reminds me of the days on the early AOL service when you had someone you disliked. You would tell them they could cuss out a chat guide, which was basically a chat moderator, as long as you type the word whisper in brackets before you did it. They would do it and be kicked off AOL,lol.
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Big Daddy Ray
82 posts
Aug 03, 2011
6:39 PM
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Gene, it's all in if you transfer the datebase from the current set up to the new one or not. A lot skip that process and lose all the previous stuff because they don't want to wait on the process to complete which can be a long transfer process. Even though it is just done by pushing a couple buttons.
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chromaticblues
952 posts
Aug 04, 2011
3:24 AM
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@ Buzzadero I have my Email on here and have not recieved ONE unwanted Email!
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rharley5652
547 posts
Aug 04, 2011
1:22 PM
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@chromaticblues,. here here !!
I too have my Email address listed ,. and have not recieved ONE unwanted Email!
So To repeat myself:
@Big Daddy Ray,..no need messin with the site,..all ya have to do is put your e-mail address on your profile page ,..ahh,.I see you've not done that >< LOL
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jim
953 posts
Aug 04, 2011
2:46 PM
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you would have to demolish the whole shit and start from scratch.
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Big Daddy Ray
90 posts
Aug 04, 2011
3:04 PM
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Jim, not really.If there is a database created on the server, which is sometimes the case, you just save it and upload it with the new set up.
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jonlaing
305 posts
Aug 04, 2011
3:11 PM
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I'm just looking at the way this forum works, and I suspect it's not database driven. I wouldn't be half surprised to find out it was file driven, which would make transferring the whole thing a big ol' pain in the ass.
I'm not sure if HTML is allowed in the profile pages, but if it's unadulterated HTML then you can encrypt your email address so spammers can't read it (the spam software that is).
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Big Daddy Ray
92 posts
Aug 04, 2011
3:13 PM
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Even transferring it if it is database driven can be a pain if you aren't a patient person while it uploads, lol.
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jonlaing
306 posts
Aug 04, 2011
3:25 PM
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And on top of that, you'd likely have to write a migration script.
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