Comments on: THinc Community Forum?

By: Chuck McKnight

Chuck McKnight — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 18:22:49 +0000

Just found this page, and I love the idea of a forum for this stuff! But it seems like it’s a no go at this point? If I may make a recommendation, you could start a Facebook group for THiNC, and link to it from this site. In my humble opinion, Facebook groups are way better than bulletin-board forums anyway, and they take care of all the problems you were running into here. I run quite a few of them for my various interests, and I’d be happy to help admin one for THiNC if you’re interested.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:52:12 +0000

In reply to L. its deleted.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:52:01 +0000

In reply to Judy.

ok thanks…
got absolutely obliterated by spam in the past week as my real life had my attention averted. Definitely will have to figure out how to combat spam before I move forward. Lots of things will need to change I’m guessing. Login/registration seems chunky. And the integration into the blog is nasty. So, I’m now going to have to figure out a better way to integrate. But thanks for checking it out Judy.

Taylor

By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 01:40:45 +0000

In reply to Taylor Holmes. I checked it out. Registered. Signed in. Even posted. Forum looks good!

By: L

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 01:29:56 +0000

Hey Taylor, how do I delete my name/profile from the new forum. It seems deletions are not allowed? I was the first to join.

Thank you, L

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 23:06:23 +0000

In reply to L.

Hey L, great comments. You do realize all those same concerns are viable arguments against WordPress as well right? And that is what we are chatting through currently.

I have spent my entire career inside of IT, and could give doctoral level talks on security around PCI, PII, COPPA, even HIPPA etc. I keep my stuff up to date and make certain that my hardware and my installs are regularly patched. That is the most important thing for security. But bottom line? If you don’t want anyone to know something, you shouldn’t really do that thing online. The internet is inherently insecure. I should tell more stories about my internet hacking days. But id kinda prefer future employees not find out. Heheh.

I’ll dig in and research some more about phpbb security and see. But I appreciate your concern.

Taylor

By: L

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 18:28:41 +0000

In reply to Taylor Holmes.

Tay, I have hesitation about free phpBB after reading up on it. It’s like a breast implant so many women do these days not realizing a high percentage needs re-surgery corrections. It appears free software like phpBB gets hacked at least once.

So many pitfalls about dicey plug ins, bloatware, and importance of keeping atop things. Can your amazing busy life allow you to maintain safety of this free software? I have “faith” you will try but because it’s a free software it has the potential for hacker shenanigans.

Respectfully concerned, L

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 02:29:05 +0000

I’m confused. You guys were all gung-ho to get a forum, and none of you have even wandered over and looked at it? Gah.

https://taylorholmes.com/forum

CLICK LINK… comment on your impressions. Thanks!

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 04:57:18 +0000

Hey gang –
The forum is now in test mode. There isn’t any content yet, and I haven’t integrated into this site really yet. But if you want to see it, sign up, and kick the tires a little please go here:

https://taylorholmes.com/forum

I think since almost 100% of what we talk about here is movies, I’ll organize it something like this, (but I am definitely open to suggestions)

1. Mind Jobs
2. Drama
3. Sci-Fi
4. Independent
5. Unclassifieds
6. Random chatter

I may even start creating posts and content that I lock behind a password protected area, or added curated director’s cut type stuff that will require donations or moderator work to get into. But I’m still thinking. Definitely want feedback.

Glad the forum is up. But been having a devil of a time gluing it into the actual posts themselves. But I’ll figure it out eventually.

It’s funny how many comments this post has gotten. Shows that we need a place to chatter more. Alright. Let me know what you think of the forum. Nothing really to write in quite yet. But maybe tonight I’ll add a few of those divisions.

Oh IMPORTANT – if you sign up and want to be a moderator that can approve new forums and approve your own comments please let me know. I will take days to moderate all your stuff and it’ll be faster if I have volunteers to help some.

Thanks!
Taylor