Do you name your test forums?

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  1. Marc

    Marc Checkmate - Game Over

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    I'm just curious but do you name your test forums?
    I know some people name their test forums - area51, etc. Do you guys give your test forum(s) a name?
     
  2. Dan Hutter

    Dan Hutter aka Big Dan

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    I don't have a test board per say if anyone wants to play around with forum features they're free to do so in one of the off topic boards.

    Development boards, normally nothing special just dev.<domain.com>. Registration disabled everything blocked from spiders.
     
  3. karoshio

    karoshio Regular Member

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    All my test boards usually get named for their purpose.
    Example: A board I am working on themes for I will name something like 'Theme Development".
     
  4. Brandon

    Brandon Regular Member

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    I don't have a "test" forum either but I have used staff sections or private forums to test things out and get input.
    It's rarely a public forum though.
     
  5. Creaky

    Creaky Regular Member

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    I don't have a test forum on my host, any testing is done locally.
     
  6. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    I've never used a test board either. I do all my testing on the regular boards. And I have my staff forum where we test new things out before they go live.
     
  7. Marc

    Marc Checkmate - Game Over

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    Err.. It's not recommended to do testing on a live forum, ;)
    One mistake and Boom!

    Jerry noticed the forum is messed up and thinks the forum admin is on crack, :whistle:
     
  8. gallitin

    gallitin Regular Member

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    I normally put mine on a subdomain, dev.domain.com
     
  9. Sejper

    Sejper Regular Member

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    My currently test install of xenforo is simple named XenForo but that's because its on a seperate domain speciell for my development. It is a short and good domain :)
     
  10. etc

    etc I should be busy.

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    I don't test on live forum. I usually install LAMP on local machine to test things. But YES, I name categories and forum of the forum like Test or My forum :D nothing especial actually but I get to know its for testing :D
     
  11. Naiwen

    Naiwen Regular Member

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    Thats a curious question, no I just name it test board. XD
     
  12. Allan

    Allan It's All Good

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    Same here I just name them Test.
     
  13. Marc

    Marc Checkmate - Game Over

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    Yeah, that's what I started doing when my unused domains are near the expiry date and I don't want to waste cash to renew 'em for testing, ;)
    There's always thousands of sub-domains to create, :love:
     
  14. Coastercraze

    Coastercraze Regular Member

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    That's what I do is test stuff in the "staff area". Works just as good and staff usually know if it's a test or not :P
     
  15. tronik

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    I don't have any test forums, if for any reason I need to test something in the forums. I'll do it the staff boards.
     
  16. benjaminp

    benjaminp Regular Member

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    I don't really see the need for a test forum personally. Users can edit posts within the first hour of posting so if they make a mistake they can simply edit the post.
     

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