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Hello.
DIR By: maintain
Date: August 2, 2018, 10:28 am
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Greetings all,
It was by chance and by shear will that I discover this message
board hosting site, and related forums
I'm no stranger to the phpbb format, as I've had message boards
in the past. e.g. 'Tough Crowd' with Colin Quinn and The Daily
Show (TDS) Experience with Jon Stewart. I had at one time, some
servers set up using Microsoft's Enterprise software, which came
with the phpbb format as an added feature, and so I had set up
many message boards in different ways just to see what is
possible with the phpbb format. Well, it seems endless, because
of its open source format, and continual updates... and if you
know what you are doing, it is quite possible to fully customize
a message board to a large degree. For example this site:
HTML https://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?/forum/41-forums/
I have a question: is this hosting, in it's basic form, free
indefinitely?
About 20 months ago I had a heart attack that led to heart
failure, and so, I can't work enough hours a week to constitute
an income of the sustainable kind. I've applied for SSI
disability, and if I get it, I plan to buy the Ultimate Plan
package from Create A Forum.
Thank you for all your time and effort!
Sincerely,
maintain
#Post#: 20424--------------------------------------------------
Re: Hello.
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: August 2, 2018, 11:00 am
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Yes Create A Forum is free to use forever. After 30 days ads do
appear on the forums.
We offer a large number of options and a lot of custom styling
to make your forum unique.
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Re: Hello.
DIR By: maintain
Date: August 2, 2018, 11:26 am
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Thank you for your reply. Heart failure coupled with the lack of
sleep, makes for fuzzy thoughts regards what is read. Add free
for thirty days... the rest is free for life! Got it.
Again, thanks.
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Re: Hello.
DIR By: maintain
Date: August 2, 2018, 11:42 am
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I have another question: due to the trolling nature of some
people, I wish to make my message board 'private' and where all
members registrations must be approve by me. I found a feature
in the registrations section of the admin panel... but I'm not
sure exactly will happen if I start making changes.
I can't seem to find these features as I remember them, at
present, and so any help regards this subject will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks.
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Re: Hello.
DIR By: maintain
Date: August 2, 2018, 11:53 am
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Just to be clear here: when I had those other message boards, I
had an IT Admin., and I was most fortunate to have a co-Admin.,
sign on--who was/is well versed in phpbb and Linux systems.
It is sort of a bad thing when I'm poking around the Admin
panel... OOPS! was said too many times, ergo the caution regards
making changes to a functioning message board.
Note: the public may read, but posting and etc., will be for
members only.
I may set up a hidden section for admins/mods and family
members... if I can just figure it out.
#Post#: 20428--------------------------------------------------
Re: Hello.
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: August 2, 2018, 3:13 pm
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The setting to turn on admin approval is found under
Administration Center » Registration » Setting
Then if that is enabled under admin -> members you can review
members to approve them.
I like to use custom fields on registration to collect more
details on members that signup as well.
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Re: Hello.
DIR By: maintain
Date: August 2, 2018, 3:22 pm
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Thanks!
These new lay-outs for Admins are fantastic. Back in the day...
some of the Admin. stuff was off limits to me, because you had
to know the code and where to place it.
Some of the terms have changed over the last 14 years, and so I
just need to figure out the semantics of it all and I'll be
doing fine.
I looked and looked for an 'edit' button... then it dawned on me
that 'modify' is the same function as edit.
Thank you for your timely reply!
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Re: Hello.
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: August 2, 2018, 3:54 pm
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Glad you enjoy it. I have run a few phpBB hosts over the years.
Then built Create A Forum with a lot of features that I normally
would use.
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Re: Hello.
DIR By: maintain
Date: August 2, 2018, 3:58 pm
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Rather than waste a lot of time looking for features, that may
not be available for this version of phpbb, it's easier to just
ask the question:
I've included a section, of which in the past I was able to hide
from public view, even the forum itself, and only members
approved for that forum could see it from the main page, and of
course were allowed to enter there.
Is that possible with this version?
#Post#: 20432--------------------------------------------------
Re: Hello.
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: August 2, 2018, 6:50 pm
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Yes you can do board level permissions and choose which group
can see the forums
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