Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > Harold Fuchs wrote: >> Following a spate of e-mails to this list from users having problems >> registering with the OO web-forums, I just sent the following message >> to the >> Site Feedback section of the web-forum at www.oooforum.org >> <snip...> > I believe the following to be true: > > * The forum is owned by a single individual. > * The owner is the only administrator > * The owner is somehow in the hosting business > * The owner covers all costs associated with the forum > * The owner is typically very busy and therefore response times are slow. > * Extra administrators were discussed and agreed upon and then it just > never happened. > > <snip> > > The OOo community has two options. > > 1. Accept it and move on. > 2. Formulate a plan to move the forum to new systems. > > 1 is easy, 2 is obviously more difficult. I could outline some of what > would need to be done to make this happen, but in either case, > coordination with the current owner should be done. If I started it, I > would have a strong emotional attachment to the ownership. > > Then again, I might be completely wrong on all accounts. For the most > part, I have simply accepted this situation and tell the users "sorry, > but nothing can be done of which I am aware" and then I post a message > to the moderator mailing list and then life moves on. > > I also know that a change was put in place, which seems to indicate that > there are other administrators, to reduce SPAM on the forum. So, > obviously I am not as well informed as I might like. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > >
It's worth noting, in this context, that the difficulties experienced by registrants are not the only administrative shortcomings. Last night I found that two posters to Macros & API had made the same post twice. Each second post was lodged within a minute of the first. From my own experience I believe that occurred because of the fact that pressing the "post" button (or equivalent) results in the system hanging. Sometimes it is also difficult to load forum pages. The forum has these performance issues. There is a related problem. A substantial percentage of subscribers are not genuine. They are identities which have been registered for the sole purpose of obtaining a page listing which is counted by search engines such as Google. I understand that the burdens imposed by these registrations could be eliminated by a purge and prevented by additional registration safeguards. There is no apparent backup of the forum database. This has led to one user preparing a backup himself. It is unsatisfactory to have such a valuable resource, in effect unadministered. I am for biting the bullet and putting these difficulties behind us. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OpenOffice-Web-Forum---Registration-Problems-tf3368416.html#a9405383 Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
