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Post #93416

Author
Jay
Parent topic
What would you like to see in a scifi/fantasy web site? The time has come for a change...
Link to post in topic
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93416/action/topic#93416
Date created
15-Feb-2005, 5:19 AM
Each confirmed signature on the petition has the following info stored in the database:

ID Number
First Name
Last Name
City
State
Date Submitted
Date Confirmed
E-mail Address
IP Address

All the unconfirmed signatures have the same info except for Date Confirmed.

Nearly 68,000 signatures take up much more than just a few megs.

Add the forums (which take up a fair bit of space and will take up even more as membership grows) and server logs, and it gets crowded pretty fast in there.

I will work diligently on the new site over the coming weeks and hope to have it done in less than a month.

I'm seriously considering developing my own forum software as well. Even the latest version of FuseTalk doesn't have the functionality and layout I'd like, and reverse engineering the software and making modifications would be tedious. The other benefit to developing my own software would be easy integration with the site as a whole; I could make the layout and content customizable for each user and have a single username/password for everything (user comments on news/articles, art gallery, forums, etc.). My own forum software would also be something I could sell on the side to provide another revenue stream.

The downside would be moving the data from this forum to the new one. Not terribly difficult, but definitely an annoyance.