Please?Next week, I'll let you all knowifwhen there is a potential "restart" of RPGWatch.
And to do a little more conspirancy theory... perhaps the new solution has something to do with Larian?
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Please?Next week, I'll let you all knowifwhen there is a potential "restart" of RPGWatch.
As Larian does, this was the announcement of the announcement. In that announcement there might even be an announcement…. or not
Was that a teaser?
If you could see my eyes glaring at you right now.
As I hate when we get an announcement of an announcement.
À very early version of phpbb allowed users to take over as admin simply by changing your cookies.Wait until you see the Early Access of the new site!
OK, I'll show myself out
I've had a very brief look at Drupal and its forum modules, but they don't seem very good or even to match what we're looking for. There's a new one that looks better, Harmony, but it's in an early stage. So if we had to make a new site ourselves, I think we would have to create a custom interface to another forum, and probably maintain it (I don't think there's an actual API on either side but I haven't looked, it depends on the forum engine too).
Another option, at first I dismissed it but WordPress and wpForo seem good (at least the functionality). I'll probably do a test with that instead, at worst it'll be an experience.
Yet something else: phpBB was very easy to install, to use and to interface, last time I messed with it, and it had tons of add-ons (IIRC it had CMS-like modules), but it also had security issues and it was necessary to watch the security alerts very closely. It was long ago, so it may have changed entirely.
À very early version of phpbb allowed users to take over as admin simply by changing your cookies.
Wait until you see the Early Access of the new site!
OK, I'll show myself out
I've had a very brief look at Drupal and its forum modules, but they don't seem very good or even to match what we're looking for. There's a new one that looks better, Harmony, but it's in an early stage. So if we had to make a new site ourselves, I think we would have to create a custom interface to another forum, and probably maintain it (I don't think there's an actual API on either side but I haven't looked, it depends on the forum engine too).
Another option, at first I dismissed it but WordPress and wpForo seem good (at least the functionality). I'll probably do a test with that instead, at worst it'll be an experience.
Yet something else: phpBB was very easy to install, to use and to interface, last time I messed with it, and it had tons of add-ons (IIRC it had CMS-like modules), but it also had security issues and it was necessary to watch the security alerts very closely. It was long ago, so it may have changed entirely.
Yeah, I wouldn't use Drupal, myself, and the forum modules for CMS software I think are not as good as the pure forums. I lean towards having a very simple news site that mirrors the Watch front page layout, and then embedding a separate, dedicated forum to show posts, similar to what we have now. Then, pretty much everything happens on the forum side.
However most of the work would have been in being able to use the current database of RPGWatch and getting that imported in one way or the other in the CMS.
It would be quite a loss to start anew and loose all the historic data of the last 16 years of the news site.
My thinking is focused on keeping the essentials as efficiently as possible, as stage 1. The easiest and most robust solution that could provide folks with most of the experience they're used to, in a way I know I could manage without too much effort.
For the record, my mentioning of Drupal or any other CMS, was based on ideas I had, where Drupal, or another CMS would be strictly for the news site and Xenforo would be the forum part. The two would be linked by using an existing add-on for the CMS, creating it or modifying an existing one, if needed.
Wouldn't it be better to do it the other way round? Finding a system that allows us to restore all the features, and only falling back on an easy solution or a more custom one if it fails? Custom integration is what we're trying not to repeat.