Changes and updates

Some of you have noticed some changes being made in Author Buzz UK. Under the hood, this is not a big change, but I hope it will go some way to making the site nicer to use.

Groups

Up until now, there have been blogs, groups, profiles, forums… Now there are only groups. Well, kind of.

All of the forums, including General Chat, have been moved to groups. Groups have been given categories so you can find what you want. Some of the group types are forum groups (where the forum is the group home page), groups for headlines by feed (aka “outside blogs”), group blogs (for groups with an attached blog), and some assorted others. Fan groups for fans of particular authors, poets, publishers, etc., publisher groups, help and advice groups, support groups, and writing groups.

All groups allow subscription by email.

The only downside of the change is that if you want to comment in General Chat, you will need to join the group. Anyone can add themselves to most groups whenever they wish.

New Decoration

I wrote recently about giving the site a fresh lick of paint. I’m still planning to do that. I want to create a custom theme that is light, fast, and suitable for all parts of the site.

With this change, I hope that the site becomes simpler to use. Join, add yourself to the groups you want, enjoy. As always, you can see the content only from your own groups on authorbuzz.co.uk/activity. Now, however, you can see all your forums there too.

Side effects

Given the order I went through the groups with, the last are now first, and the first are now last (ish). Regular activity should re-sort the groups over the next few days.

All the old links should still work. Like, for example, the old link to General Chat.

I look forward to reading any feedback you might have.

This was kind of my experience. But it was when BBS then web forums went to Six Degrees then Friendster. MySpace was mainly great for music discovery. Then Facebook walled garden destroyed it all.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@mossman/116221454236305407

#qa_computer #Computer #WorldWideWeb #BBS #Forums

Given the current fallout with Discord, I've begun searching for actual forums to suit my interests in community.

I miss the days of slower discussions, I just can't keep up with the rapid-fire chats that have become so common..

Took a peek down the rabbit hole to find there's a slow movement towards revival of the Internet forums/personal websites.

Anyone got recommendations for forums? Especially communities that focus on cozy gaming, reading, slower life, etc.

#forums #discord

NodeBB v4.9.0 — A Whole New /world!

Hello all!

(Sorry, I could not resist with the title )

Today we are releasing NodeBB v4.9.0, on a Friday, toward the end of the day, because we like having our weekends ruined.

As usual, we recommend you update to this stable version of NodeBB, not least because it fixes a federation issue accidentally introduced last month.

There are a bunch of new features and usability improvements here, for both end users and admins. Federation improvements abound, as well as a few moderation upgrades. As usual, we fixed a ton of bugs, and even a couple open issues from the 2010s 

Here is a list of the changes and new features you should expect to see! [...]

https://community.nodebb.org/post/106679

Sriracha imageboard and forum server recently received the following new features:
- Email notifications
- Banner images
- Custom HTML pages
- Configurable role privileges

https://codeberg.org/tslocum/sriracha#readme

Browse the read-only demo:
- Imageboard: https://sriracha.rocket9labs.com/img/
- Forum: https://sriracha.rocket9labs.com/forum/

Official Docker images are available.

#foss #freesoftware #opensource #imageboard #forum #forums #bbs #gpl #agpl #software #tech #golang #technology #free #linux #freebsd #release #announcement #docker