All,
It would be good to have an online users forum for Minsky. There is software available, some of it free, but free is not essential. Does anybody have experience with how difficult these are to maintain, which ones are the best, whether it is a good idea in the first place, and how it might feed in to the QA for the developer?
Alan
PS: It is do-able as the first e-mail goes out, so folks can find it up and running when they visit the site.
All input appreciated.
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Ted sez:
ReplyDeleteHi Alan
Are going to stick to Squarespace for hosting? If so your choice of forums is limited because I am pretty sure you are going to need to use a system where the data is stored somewhere else and only the forum interface is embedded in your squarespace page via some code supplied by the forum host.
I asked squarespace about this and they replied....
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You can check out these third party services:
http://www.ubbforum.com/
http://forumbee.com/
These would provide an embed code, that you would then put into a code block.
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these systems both charge but they will be simplicity itself to manage and maintain.
If you want to use the free systems you will have to move your web page to a host which lets you install your own server software. That is how Steve K runs his - though that is not a good example, most sights like Steve's run just fine.
Ted sez:
DeleteHi Alan
Are going to stick to Squarespace for hosting? If so your choice of forums is limited because I am pretty sure you are going to need to use a system where the data is stored somewhere else and only the forum interface is embedded in your squarespace page via some code supplied by the forum host.
I asked squarespace about this and they replied....
"...
You can check out these third party services:
http://www.ubbforum.com/
http://forumbee.com/
These would provide an embed code, that you would then put into a code block.
..."
these systems both charge but they will be simplicity itself to manage and maintain.
If you want to use the free systems you will have to move your web page to a host which lets you install your own server software. That is how Steve K runs his - though that is not a good example, most sights like Steve's run just fine.
Ted,
DeleteThank you for that. I am now thinking it is nothing to do hastily. We need to make sure the program is very stable for users, so they don't just rant about how they have to re-do it. Still ... testing. I'll follow up with Steve as time permits.
Thanks for that. Didn't even think to look at Squarespace. Glad we have them.
Steve R sez
DeleteI'd wait until there was some demand for it. Hardly any Minsky users currently. A ghost-town forum doesn't reflect well.
Ted sez:
DeleteI agree that's a good point