[_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?

[fel64]

You administrate/use keys on the technorati forums? Anything particular you had to do? The auth and cookie code you could just plug, obviously, but did you do any other major work?

[_ck_]

Congrats you made the top 100

Is anyone seeing the snap icons in the top100 list? Are they just blocked for me or for everyone? I think snap decided they didn’t like me Worked for a few hours and then disappeared.

[fel64]

If you’re going to list Loinhead, you might as well put in some numbers.

http://forums.loinhead.net/statistics.php

[_ck_]

*blush* definitely not the best. Most active at the moment, but in a year with 10,000 bbPress users and 100+ developers, no one will even remember my nickname. Heck I can’t even get “admin can post anything” to work right, it’s driving me crazy.

Actually I was going to put a call out for free hosting as my dreamhost account expires sometime near the end of this month.

But I need an account with shell and a decent server so it’s tricky to find cheap & stable. I hate moving my site ever other month but I always learn something from the move when it breaks code.

[_ck_]

I am pleased to have something to finally show for all my searching efforts.

This list is obviously unofficial and just in beta test, I am still adding features and making corrections:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000

There are roughly 1,000 sites listed, with the top 100 to showcase either sheer number of members/posts or user votes for style, etc.

Right now they are listed in order of total members (but you can sort). I will have it eventually list by a weight between members, posts and votes for style.

Also there will be user voting and preview thumbnails of the sites. (I was trying to use snap previews but it suddenly stopped working for me, so they might not have liked hundreds of links on a page, LOL – they are slow anyway and I want to learn to do snapshots via crawling code anyway)

Some interesting observations/conclusions from all my work on this (whew):

1. There are roughly 1000 public bbpress sites in existance

2. A great deal (>~80%) of these sites have less than double-digit members, hence I consider them “micro forums”

3. bbPress is being adopted worldwide in an impressive variety of countries and languages

4. SEO’er/search engine spammers/made-for-adsense makers seem to have found and love bbPress (unfortunately)

5. There are some really amazing designs out there

6. Apparently the people that participate on bbpress.org are a very small fraction of the people using bbPress!

7. At least several dozen sites had installed bbPress and uninstalled it a few weeks later

[Sam Bauers]

Using this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/50

You can customise what appears under the user’s name.

Don’t worry about the first section of the plugin, just skip to the last field. Entering a single <br /> tag in that field will stop anything displaying.

Unfortunately the plugin can’t change “keymaster” to something else, for that you will need to hack or use a new language file as Detective suggests.

[chrishajer]

The previous post took 9 seconds to appear. ( I got throttled so I had to wait to post this. )

[chrishajer]

There was a point in the past where the posts were taking so long to appear after hitting “Send Post” that they would time out but actually made it through, and then you would double post. That was resolved by moving bbpress.org to some new hardware, I think, or maybe the servers were just getting hammered.

408 Error on this forum when removing a favorite

Anyway, a new post (reply or new topic) used to take 1 or 2 seconds here and the feedback under the post would say “Posted 2 seconds ago #”. Now, a few have been really slow, and the last one I did says “Posted 17 seconds ago #”.

Maybe the server is overloaded or something else is wrong. Doesn’t really matter much to me but I think it is a symptom of a problem that should not be ignored or at least explained.

[chrishajer]

In your admin panel, under the Content tab, is there something for Bozos (I can’t remember since I turned off the bozo thing on my forum, it was a big PITA)? Mine admin panel under content shows topics, posts and forums, but I thought there used to be one for bozo.

If so, look there. If not, in the first page of the admin panel, is there a “recently moderated” section on the right sidebar? Are the posts there?

I know the users are NOT bozos, but I still suspect they are marked as bozos, so the post shows when they look at it when they’re logged in, but no other users will be able to see their post. To them, it looks normal, to everyone else, they’re invisible.

Here is something I posted earlier this year about bozos:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-or-remove-bozo-function-before-it-kills-bbpress?replies=5

Related:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problems-with-posting?replies=3#post-5151

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

[fel64]

vlp: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-page-links-for-bbpress probably?

[benbeltran]

ahh, I see It’s nice. Well, if you ever need hosting, do contact me. That’s the least I could do for the best bbpress plugin coder .

[benbeltran]

@airdrawndagger: Thanks I’m glad it made you switch to this great software.

@vlp: Sorry, I didn’t quite understand. The page number, like for every page on the forum that’s displayed on the front page? If it’s that, there’s a plugin for that :o… but I get the feeling that’s not what you meant.

@baptiste: I like the blue theme from baptiste.us … Though maybe the blue text should be a bit clearer when its on blue backgrounds.

[baptiste]

Not much traffic – but I’ve got Refresh going for my plugin blog and forums. Matches quite nicely – I mucked with the themes a bit but the ports were done by others thankfully. Getting the integration and WP sidebar on the forums took some fun mucking in the code…

http://plugins.baptiste.us/

http://plugins.baptiste.us/forums/

One of these days I’ll diff the changes I made to the Refresh port to get it to match the WP theme and have everything line up properly…

This site is still under development:

http://onthepitch.org/talk/

Still need to tweak the theme some, but I’ve made a variety of navigational changes. Click any topic and look at the meta section. Click on a forum and note the navigation links. Click on a subforum and note the breadcrumb trail. On the front page – I like having the latest posts first, but added a ‘Forums’ column to indicate where they were and make it easier for folks to jump into a forum (no scrolling down for active forums)

Still a bit to do, but it’s working better each day. The theme will eventually be green – thus the green ads. I keep trying to convince myself NOT to shoehorn in AJAX posting – but I really miss it – something that made bbPress ‘cool’