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Please give your 2 cents on which social networking site to go to just in case Tribe collapses completely. Also, if you want, please let me know if you'd like my email address to announce where Geek Dating actually winds up and the web addy and stuff. Not to say that we are pre-emptively leaving or anything, but I was thinking a life raft might be good.
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Re: As a contingency
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 6:54 AMPaula,
Do you have any clue as to what has been happening lately? There are few good alternatives that i know of. Or we can build our own! LOL -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 7:48 AMFantastic idea, although I pointlessly have no good suggestions other than to say it doesn't necessarily have to be a social networking site but could just be a message board of some decription that anyone can start up. I know someone who makes a lot of them and they are very user friendly so if you do decide to go that way just let me know! -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 9:04 AMHey Caz, I gave this very long reply to your post, then Explorer just blipped out of existence, so I can't even blame tribe for losing it. :(
So I will abbreviate.
I actually did reserve a huge space on a server and uploaded PHPBB, but nobody was interested. :( Still have it though.
I think many people might prefer that place where they can satisfy several interestes at one site like Tribe.
What's the skinny on Tribal Theory? Is anyone using that feedback on anything? -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 9:17 AMPaula,
I also have a server I can use for setting up something like phpbb and possibly integrate w/joomla interface for a more rounded look. I agree about the all in one solution, which is why i was looking at the others, seems there is already a tribe refugee site on ning.com and onesite has some reasonable fees, but as it grew would need to be user fee based to keep bandwidth. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 9:35 AMDang. Is ning pay based? That sucks :(.
I just looked at it and saw what looked to be a fairly well rounded site.
I got hosting at DreamHost last year and have more than a TB of bandwidth going to waste per month, and that's their cheapest level. I do use the service, but not at the extent that I can. I wish I had the time to learn the programming end, because I'd love to take advantage of what I pay for. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 10:11 AMNing isnt (that I cvould see) onesite.com is. Both Phpbb and joomla are fair easy to configure, just takes time and patience (and hefeweizen in copious amounts for some of it) -
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Both Phpbb and joomla are fair easy to configure, just takes time and patience (and hefeweizen in copious amounts for some of it)
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 10:38 AMIndeed. There was another Tribe member in some other geek tribe [so long ago I can't remember] who went on this long rant about Joomla being very unstable, I don't know if Tribe is still running on it, but he had said that Tribe was Joomla based [way back then]. Now, I'm a biogeek, not a programming geek, so asking me to troubleshoot a programming glitch would be like asking a chimp to do eye surgery with a sharp rock, and I have found that the biggest complaint that programming geeks have about us muggles is that we are always asking for free advice.
I did put up PHPBB and ran it for a while, but somehow my site got on a Mega-spammer list and I was gettig about 8-10 new users a day who were just filling out profiles that were leading to pron sites. I couldn't find a way to mass delete, so I was tediously deleting each individual SpamAlt after hitting several buttons to get to the details of their individual profiles. There was no list where I could check a box next to several names like 'Che@pV1@g@r@'. In the end, I took down the site because I only had 3 real members and would be flooded with alts if I didn't edit the site constantly. -
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Re: Both Phpbb and joomla are fair easy to configure, just takes time and patience (and hefeweizen in copious amounts for some of it)
Fri, October 19, 2007 - 10:50 AMJoomla isn't really unstable as it can be glitchy.It is such compacted code if you drop a comma, you can cause a site crash. Once you have the basics is not hard to configure and develop. Also can integrate phpbb2 and gallery into it. Has nice newsfeed features. I have been playing w/it as a possible redeign of the alehouse website -
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Re: Both Phpbb and joomla are fair easy to configure, just takes time and patience (and hefeweizen in copious amounts for some of it)
Sat, October 20, 2007 - 2:33 AMI have a site (I run several) built integrating Joomla, Gallery and the Simple Machines Forum bulletin board. I highly recommend SMF over phpbb (ran that too, before). I have not had any significant problems with Joomla, although I wouldn't say I've stressed it a lot. -
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Re: Both Phpbb and joomla are fair easy to configure, just takes time and patience (and hefeweizen in copious amounts for some of it)
Wed, October 31, 2007 - 7:38 AMI will take a look at smf, do you have a url for it? -
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Re: Both Phpbb and joomla are fair easy to configure, just takes time and patience (and hefeweizen in copious amounts for some of it)
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 12:45 AMwww.simplemachines.org/
Someone else mentioned vBulletin, too. I have not run it, but it does look quite good. SMF is free, though.
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 8:25 AMThe sad thing is Chris, that the newer Tribe staff is either too overwhelmed or underexperienced to let everyone know what's up. [I respect then and their efforts, but I think the man with the money hasn't sunk enough into this endeavor. If you comb the moderator oriented tribes, sometimes you can get some vague hint. Last time one Tribe employee openly thanked another for his hard work on fixing the crash, but never really said why other than 'we don't have to worry about that blogging bug now' or some such. It would be nice if they sent out a mass PM saying, 'Hey, thanks for your patience...' or some such, especially considering how the social networking sites are popping up everywhere and they have a rediculous amount of competition now.
Would you mind listing those alternatives? Is there anything that is simple enough, yet offers all the widgets that Tribe offers?
For my part, I'll list why I am not a fan of Friendster & Myspace. They seem to be more about the 'me' and less about the 'us'. I am okay with PHPBB, but it is the other extreme and has no widgets.
I'd like to find the best alternative that everyone here would be happy with. -
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Fri, October 19, 2007 - 8:53 AMThere are none completely w/all the widgets that tribe has. Remember tribe was orignallt built just for burners as more an experiment than anything else. I bloomed in ways many did not expect, hence some of the problems today. The only one that comes close is ning.com (looking at it now in another page SERIOUSLY bored at work today). There is also a company that does myspace type layouts using your own space That is onesite.com/
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Wed, October 31, 2007 - 5:53 AMI have a profile on Myspace and Orkut... Orkut is to keep in touch with my friends in India that were my counterparts when I worked for a Technology Company. Offshore buddies :-) even though they are obsoleting my old job they were cool people.
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Wed, October 31, 2007 - 8:11 AMI think gathering e-mail addresses is the best way to keep in touch, if tribe does vanish.
Way back when, I built a site that centered around the vBulletin forum (which I still think is one of the best forums out there), with additions (photo gallery, flash chat, calendar/events, links, journal/blog) integrated to make it into a social networking site. But it didn't take off, so no one posts or uses it beyond the Burncast podcast.
It is completely free (paid for out of my pocket), and other than mentioning a (non-paid) BM related event now and then, no advertising.
In any case, other than needing to move it to another server with more bandwidth, it is up and ready to use if anyone is interested.
It is at NoSpectators.com/
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Stop-gap
Fri, November 2, 2007 - 7:53 AMSo for now, if we all haven't solidly found a place to relocate, I'll set up a list of emails. Please send an email to paula@pd46.org and I will put you on the Geek Dating email list.
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Thu, November 15, 2007 - 7:30 PMHello Everyone,
I've been stopping by from time to time but never talked.
I'm up for anything so long as I can have a reasonable chance at meeting Geekets.
At the moment I'm in Burbank attending the Stargate SG1 / Stargate Atlantis convention (a first for me).
Two weeks ago (also a semi-first) I was at the Farscape convention in Burbank.
Talk to you more later.
Bye. -
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Thu, November 15, 2007 - 7:34 PM<greeeeeeeen with envy>!!!!
But, welcome, Aeon : ). -
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Mon, November 19, 2007 - 6:42 PM<triberefugees.ning.com>
just joined a few days ago. hope to see some of you there. -
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Re: As a contingency
Mon, November 19, 2007 - 6:44 PMCurrently, there are other tribes that have reported that Ning.com is difficult to navigate. Also, there is another group there called 'extribers'.
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