For the past year or so the forum over at IrishWebmasterForum.com has been offline. There's a multitude of reasons why it ended being taken offline, but basically I didn't have enough time or energy to move it to a better platform and actively maintain it. I probably still don't have a lot of free time for these little "side projects", but it's one of those sites that people … [Read more...] about Relaunching and Revamping IWF
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Fixing the OpenGraph Image Displayed in XenForo
I've been moving some of my vBulletin installs over to XenForo. There's a multitude of reasons why I've decided to make the switch, but suffice to say that XenForo offers a lot of very nice features "out of the box", while vBulletin simply doesn't. One of the things that was annoying me a little was the way that it seemed to be pulling in a rather ugly default image for any … [Read more...] about Fixing the OpenGraph Image Displayed in XenForo
Blocking and Culling Spammers On Vbulletin
Pretty much any site that has "user generated content" will be abused by spammers. It's an unfortunate fact of life. in many respects it's like a war. The software vendors tweak and improve their software to stop spammers, but the spammers find new ways of getting around them. Vbulletin has several options in a base install that can help, but unfortunately they're not … [Read more...] about Blocking and Culling Spammers On Vbulletin
Vbulletin Change Licensing And Enrage Customers
I've owned Vbulletin licenses for years. It's a great product.BUTI am seriously considering switching to something else.Why?Because they obviously don't care about their existing customers.Vbulletin emailed license holders earlier this evening to announce a "wonderful" presale event (I'm not even sure if the word "presale" even exists!)If you have active licenses ie. that … [Read more...] about Vbulletin Change Licensing And Enrage Customers
Rebuilding A Damaged Community Progress Report
A few days ago I mentioned the issues I was facing with the mess that was the UK Webmaster forum I'd taken over.Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes, so I wasn't expecting immediate results. However a pleasant surprise is always a good thing, so I was delighted to see how quickly some of the issues were getting resolved.The most obvious area that needed attention was … [Read more...] about Rebuilding A Damaged Community Progress Report