04-17-2022, 03:35 PM
To be honest, for most of these questions, all I can answer is, "I dunno." It's embarrassing to admit, but I'm relatively new at forum hosting. I have an old forum up over at proboards, but it's one of those small, free to use, things that you just set up and then forget about it, with something inane like a 20GB total limit for board uploads/images and all.
Since nobody was really expecting the forums and all to implode as quickly as they did, there was no infrastructure in place to pick up the load and keep things moving on. What we have here is, more or less, the basic forum package, straight from the box. There's been very little customization done to things, and there's almost zero extensions, themes, or templates altered or added to the site. (Yet, that is! I do hope to customize us to make things a little more pretty and coding friendly, as soon as I can sort out how and what to add to do so!)
So, for now, I'm just learning as I go along. I'm not familiar with this software. Never maintained or set up a large forum before. The one I have worked with is phpbb, while this one is MYBB -- a completely different set up and system.
So, I just don't know. LOL!
All I can honestly say, right now, is we'll all just have to learn how things work (and don't work), as we go along, and from trial and error, along with massive amounts of goggling from the web!
Since nobody was really expecting the forums and all to implode as quickly as they did, there was no infrastructure in place to pick up the load and keep things moving on. What we have here is, more or less, the basic forum package, straight from the box. There's been very little customization done to things, and there's almost zero extensions, themes, or templates altered or added to the site. (Yet, that is! I do hope to customize us to make things a little more pretty and coding friendly, as soon as I can sort out how and what to add to do so!)
So, for now, I'm just learning as I go along. I'm not familiar with this software. Never maintained or set up a large forum before. The one I have worked with is phpbb, while this one is MYBB -- a completely different set up and system.
So, I just don't know. LOL!
All I can honestly say, right now, is we'll all just have to learn how things work (and don't work), as we go along, and from trial and error, along with massive amounts of goggling from the web!