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    How did you fund your community?

    I filled the need myself. I was heavy into StarCraft money maps at the time, and there was a dominant community in the game itself, but there was...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 18, 2014 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Are admin forums deader than disco?

    If the vocal converts didn't complain about it so much, you might be stuck with it right now. :) At the end of the day, a lot of these guys are...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 18, 2014 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Another Large Forum Goes to vB 5 and Regrets It

    For any other site, I'd agree. If that large thread was tied to other data in the system (the thread id), it sort of breaks some of the other...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 16, 2014 in forum: vBulletin Discussions
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    Most users online at a given time?

    The old saying goes if it ain't broke, don't fix it... but yeah it's broke. There's always something that breaks or needs changing at 3am. We're...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 15, 2014 in forum: Member and Staff Management
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    Most users online at a given time?

    My primary site I've been helping out at the past few years averages around 10k online. Peak is 13k. Oddly enough, no crazy bot peaks like most...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 15, 2014 in forum: Member and Staff Management
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    Another Large Forum Goes to vB 5 and Regrets It

    That's really what you need to run any version of vBulletin. Developers that can fix the software when it inevitably breaks on you. :(...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 15, 2014 in forum: vBulletin Discussions
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    You know, for how revolutionary these new forum scripts supposedly are...

    Parapharsing... but I see it a lot on various forums, Twitter, etc. He's openly arrogant about it all over the place. Agreed. I think Atwood...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 9, 2014 in forum: Community Forum Software
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    Xenforo Coding Help - Grabbing custom user field from DB

    I'd try running that code directly (ie, not from a template) to see the actual error message. It could be your last print line. You should escape...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 8, 2014 in forum: Web Development and Programming
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    how to install discourse on a shared hosting

    It can't run on shared hosting, it needs more infrastructure to run. That said, hosting companies are getting better. Digital Ocean offers a $10...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 8, 2014 in forum: Community Forum Software
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    You know, for how revolutionary these new forum scripts supposedly are...

    I think the misconception is the rapid growth you seek. vBulletin took 15 years to gain market share. XenForo has taken a few years, and I think...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 8, 2014 in forum: Community Forum Software
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    Does any software have a good search feature?

    Search, as a feature, is very large and open-ended. For small projects, leaning on MySQL's fulltext (or similar) is easy enough. Need to really...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 4, 2014 in forum: Water Cooler
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    Xenforo Coding Help - Grabbing custom user field from DB

    Something like this looks more like what you want... http://pastebin.com/4XKMxu0W You can remove the nested query by using a proper join.
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 3, 2014 in forum: Web Development and Programming
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    How Often Do You Visit!!

    I'm not sure if it's muscle memory opening up my daily sites, or OCD, but I check .com and .org every day. Usually end up closing it quickly as...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Apr 2, 2014 in forum: vBulletin Discussions
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    What happened to people designing their own websites now?

    Forums aside, there has been a similar shift in the greater web design world. Unless you have a budget for an artist or a real designer, you are...
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Mar 31, 2014 in forum: Skinning, Design and Graphics
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    Anyone else not trust application specific hosting services?

    I think it comes down to how knowledgeable you are, and which layer you are comfortable with: Excuse the crappy naming, but generally it's......
    Post by: Adrian Schneider, Mar 26, 2014 in forum: Domains, Hosting and Servers