[Trent Adams]

It has to be in the root directory of / not /bb-admin/

Trent

[llabrealityblog]

I’ve included everything I need in my config.php file, but I keep getting this error message:

There doesn’t seem to be a config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Open up config-sample.php, fill in your details, and save it as config.php.

I have the config.php file right there in the /bb-admin directory.

Somebody help!

[benbeltran]

Practice makes perfect and you have a great headstart. I’ll talk with my associate about shell access and everything and see if we can reach a nice agreement

[benbeltran]

Wow. It’s surprising how many sites are using bbpress, I thought there were much less. I hope some of these micro-forums (including mine) benefit from this. More awareness of the software is good for everyone who uses it.

[_ck_]

I don’t want any kind of “phone home” plugin as that can be accidentally considered spyware as that’s not my style at all. I’d rather do it passively. I’ll eventually make a way for people to submit new sites or manually update stats if they need to.

I’ve taken the fake numbers game into account.

Anyone with a sharp increase in members or posts after each month will be examined carefully I’ll remove anyone permanently that I catch “faking”. It’s kinda silly anyway, it’s not like you get anything for being higher.

[henrybb]

_ck_: have you considered hacking up a plugin that gathers information about the forum upon activation and once per month after that and submits it to you in some way? Would automate the process way more for you and admins instead of having to post the link to you, and then you having to review all the sites.

I’m thinking it would fill out an HTML form and submit it to a site you had. Then people could log in and see updated information about the most active bbPress boards and what their functionality was. And you could compile a static list regularly.

If it was well written, I’d be interested in seeing it in bbPress by default so new admins who wouldn’t find the plugin here could activate it and submit statistics.

Ofcourse, there’d be some bozos trying to inflate their numbers sometime down the line..

[fel64]

posts and users over time is the only thing you don’t have – and all I meant was since launch, anyway. Everything else you do have.

[henrybb]

Hi guys.

I haven’t been running bbPress long, but I’ve had this one problem with Akismet so far, that freaked me out. In that I have no idea why it happens.

I had a user last night sign up, go straight to a thread where users post their myspace pages, and post his. And bam, Akismet said spam, and bbpress said “bozo”.

Every subsequent post by this guy was held back as spam. I finally had the presence of mind to edit his profile and saw he was marked as a bozo. I changed the 1 to 0, thinking naturally that it was a logical flag, which indeed it is, but still every new post by this guy was getting marked as spam. I went into mysql and queried bb_usermeta with his user_id, and saw there was an is_bozo = 0 in there. I deleted that row, but still, all new posts by him were getting marked as spam. And the bozo thing wasn’t returning.

Eventually I disabled Akismet. Now, naturally, there are no posts getting marked as spam. But I had to re-enable Akismet because there were still a couple of posts I hadn’t marked as “not spam”, and when Akismet isn’t installed, you can’t mark things as spam/not spam.

I’m running my forum with a few people (around 10) in it at the moment, just to test it out before I start advertising it more. So it’s not a huge problem, but the point is it really freaked me out that this could happen on a daily basis to alot of users if I had Akismet turned on and a bunch of new registrations.

Anyone have any ideas?

[_ck_]

Oh! Sorry, no I don’t have that kind of data.

I only started collecting the sites at the start of August

and I don’t plan to check the sites more than once a month.

Right now there really are only 50 or so highly active bbPress sites so that kind of data simply is meaningless at this point. It’s not like vbulletin where you have a massive installed userbase.

Big Boards doesn’t bother to track bbPress sites (yet) so I thought my list would be a good idea to help promote adoption of bbPress.

[fel64]

Uh, I was interested at looking at average contribution, ie. posts per user, posts and users over time if you have any time data, distribution of forums by posts, users and contribution, that sort of thing. All things that are easily doable over the web (but also a big load on the server), but trivial in Excel.

[_ck_]

What pretty colours? Anything useful I can mimic via the web? Screenshot example?

[fel64]

Actually I’d be quite happy with the unfixed-up data, I just want to chuck it into Excel and look at the pretty colours. You don’t need to do anything to it first for me to be happy with that.

[henrybb]

Also. If you disable akismet, you can’t remove “spam” attributes off messages. Which is also annoying. In fact, the spam protection is getting almost as annoying as actual spam.

In fact I think it’s akismet’s fault. If it detects what it thinks is a spam from a user once, it doesn’t forgive him. The administration process in bbpress is not interactive enough, with regard to akismet, to stop it.

We can’t tell akismet “hey, this guy’s not a spammer, ease off a bit”.

[_ck_]

@Trent Oh that’s weird, how did I miss that one! Thanks!

@chrishajer right now it’s ranked based on activity, not prettiness but user voting for 1. style 2. content will come eventually

@fel64, I might release it under creative commons after I fix it up some more. There are some problems – excluded sites, repeated sites, etc. Plus I want to add more stats to them like tie them to alexa data, etc. I’m just low on time and have too many projects going on

I need to figure out an anonymous donate system too, all this is starting to chew into my regular work!

[chrishajer]

And now the previous one took only 0 seconds. Weird.

[chrishajer]

EXCEPT for that post where I said “yep” – THAT one took 44 seconds. Oh well, someone knows about it…

[chrishajer]

Yep: 1 second. Much better.

[qforquack]

Thought I would show off my new bbPress powered forums.

They’re here: http://www.qforquack.com/forum/

I was trying to keep it with my design at my main page.

[chrishajer]

Test – lets see…

[Trent Adams]

That is impressive Micheal! Thanks for sharing!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I think that wordpress.com should also be in there as it is a large site!

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Try one of the plugins!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/tags/avatar

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Should be better now……I think they were messing with the server yesterday.

Trent

[chrishajer]

Hey, I made the top 100 and I am so embarrassed: my design is basically stock. http://riversideinfo.org/forum/

[fel64]

Have you got the raw data, would you share it? Or fancy putting up some visualisations and analysis up publically anyway?