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    Chat Rooms?

    Agreed. Back when I first started running boards (~2006) it seemed like a chat room or at the very least a shoutbox was damn near required to keep...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Jun 21, 2014 in forum: Water Cooler
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    This is an appeal !!

    I had been working with Joomla quite a bit recently. My client had me replace his WP install with it and swore up and down it was better. I told...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Jun 21, 2014 in forum: Web Development and Programming
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    vBulletin Loses Another Massive Site To xenForo

    I'm one of the XF converts. I still find it interesting that feature for feature vB 4 has more than XF. However, vB 4 is dead and XF keeps...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Apr 29, 2014 in forum: Community Forum Software
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    How far ahead do you plan on your community?

    Except for major things like platform switches I'm usually a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants type of guy. Last year, I fleshed out adding a WP power...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Apr 29, 2014 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    How did you fund your community?

    At first it was all out of pocket mostly on credit cards. A few people sent donations early on which made me feel awesome about all the work I was...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Apr 29, 2014 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Getting advertisers to purchase space

    I found that yearly billing was a helluva a lot easier than trying to go month to month. A first we started off with a 6 months term. One guy...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Mar 25, 2014 in forum: SEO, Traffic and Revenue
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    Not Watching The News On TV

    I'm not big on TV news either. A lot of it is fluff peices that they advertise to get to watch the news. Last night I was clearing recordings...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Mar 22, 2014 in forum: Water Cooler
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    How much coffee do you drink on a daily basis?

    Never trust a man who doesn't drink coffee or like dogs! :D I drink 2-3 large cups in the morning. Usually I'll have a big iced coffee or two at...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Mar 22, 2014 in forum: Water Cooler
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    Am I the only one very skeptical of this 'Software as a service' thing?

    I too like owning things. For me the biggest issue with SaaS is can I get my data out any old time I want without asking or jumping through...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Feb 28, 2014 in forum: Community Forum Software
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    Facebook buys WhatsApp for a measily $16B!

    Congrats to the developers but I don't understand the economics of it. The valuation is way off base IMHO
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Feb 20, 2014 in forum: Water Cooler
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    Demonstrating the massive lack of interest in the vBulletin 5.10 release....

    I don't know about that. Look at how far behind their installs are. I'm guessing IB has their in house devs patch up the old versions to maintain...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Feb 17, 2014 in forum: vBulletin Discussions
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    The Most Important Thing About Forums and Community Management...

    +1 a million times over. The people first concept took me the longest to grasp when I started running boards. If there is a sense of community...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Feb 17, 2014 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Are Things Really This Bad

    Most of IB's money making boards are still on 3.x. It's far fetched but what if the plan was to tank their competition by putting out crappy...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Feb 16, 2014 in forum: vBulletin Discussions
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    Demonstrating the massive lack of interest in the vBulletin 5.10 release....

    I think IB has learned not to talk up new releases because nothing works right out of the box. They get a whole bunch of angry customers anytime...
    Post by: Dan Hutter, Feb 16, 2014 in forum: vBulletin Discussions