Hi all, What about hosting it here ?
This board runs already several forums of major mac open source application like (Adium, Growl, Perian, Cyberduck, ...) http://forums.cocoaforge.com/ tungchao On Jun 9, 6:15 pm, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alcor, > If you're looking for a helping hand, I'd be happy to help (as I'm > sure lots of other people will). Anything I can do to help QS! > If by 'maintaining' you mean hosting / server / backup / forum > software etc. then I'd be happy to help out in that department. > > Of course, I'll let you make the decisions, but unless you plan on > making Google Groups the permanent solution the longer things are > left, the harder it will be to revert. > You've mentioned backups of the old forums from ~ 1 year ago. Is there > nothing in there of use? Could we not create a new forum and restore > what we do have? > > On Jun 9, 4:15 pm, AIcor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The main reason we're using groups is that I don't have time to > > maintain the old forums. I figure it is better to have something that > > is reasonably stable. > > On Jun 8, 6:05 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think you're overstating things a bit; I've used far worse > > > groupware. I'm seeing the "discussions are down" message but a few > > > minutes later they came back. Amazon was down for 2 hours on Friday, > > > so Google Groups being down a little isn't so bad. > > > > I'm not sure why the first three (sticky) threads are closed. > > > > You should now be able to upload a file (not there is a limit of 100MB > > > total for all files). I uploaded the quick reference. I also opened up > > > page editing (sadly doesn't work in safari) and added an FAQ. > > > > Howard > > > > On Jun 8, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Patrick wrote: > > > > > Yeah, don't get me wrong! I'm grateful to all the support I can get, > > > > and I'm not trying to undermine Alcor (or Google :P ) in any way. I > > > > just think that there may be a better solution. > > > > If there's enough response to this topic (and if Alcor is happy), I'm > > > > sure we can come up with something. > > > > > On Jun 8, 8:14 am, Ty Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I have to say that I think Google Groups is probably the worst > > > >> communal communications tool I've ever used. However, I'm not the guy > > > >> in charge and I'm just happy to have any quicksilver community at > > > >> all. > > > > >> Ty > > > > >> On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Patrick wrote: > > > > >>> Well, this has just made me hate Google Groups even more :P > > > >>> It just claimed this post 'didn't exist', and I've just been told ' > > > >>> Discussions aren't available right now. We're sorry. Try again > > > >>> shortly. ' > > > >>> Not true! :S > > > > >>> On Jun 8, 8:08 am, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>> Well, > > > >>>> After posting around here for a while, I've recently seen how > > > >>>> limiting > > > >>>> Google's Groups can be. > > > >>>> I wasn't able to upload a file, and I also wasn't able to write > > > >>>> this > > > >>>> post in the ' The forum is dead. Long live the forum... er... > > > >>>> group. > > > >>>> ' topic (anybody know why?) > > > > >>>> I was just wondering if everybody else is happy with Google Groups, > > > >>>> or > > > >>>> whether anybody has any alternatives? > > > >>>> I have a feeling the Group may be harming Quicksilver's image. I've > > > >>>> replied to countless posts over at macrumors.com about quicksilver, > > > >>>> trying to help and directing them to post here, only to get the > > > >>>> answer > > > >>>> that 'the Group is dead' or something similar. > > > > >>>> If we're all happy with the Group, then that's fine. If not then I > > > >>>> (and I'm sure other people would be to) am happy to set up a > > > >>>> support > > > >>>> forum running a more user-friendly software (phpbb?) which might > > > >>>> make > > > >>>> life a bit easier. > > > > >>>> What's everybody's thoughts?
