I had forums on this site a very long time ago but nothing ever really happened with them. After the prodding of Andrew McCuller (a Mac Genius at an Apple Store, among other things), I’ve decided to give forums another whirl. I went with bbPress for its tight integration with WordPress and lightweight footprint. I still have a lot of editing to do but it’s up and running.
As for my intentions with the forums, I don’t want them to interfere with the insightful comments and discussions that happen within my blog posts, but rather have it be its own community for discussing anything and everything tech, and then some. You’ll be able to find out about posts in-the-works, such as an upcoming audiophile-worthy speaker upgrade, as well as give and receive tech support (and hopefully take it out of my inbox). If you’re interested, you can quickly register here. Registering also means that you will be able to use that same account to comment here, so you don’t have to keep typing in your name, email and url when you comment.
Sidenote: I didn’t plan on posting about the Apple news today, but iTunes 8 and the Genius playlist maker is pretty spiffy. :-)
Update: Yeah that didn’t last long. I took them down for a number of reasons, ranging from low activity to being a spammer’s haven.
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the forums look great, I almost mistook it for Vanilla.
The forums look good. I will swing by and see if I can’t help strike up some tech conversations from time to time.
As for iTunes Genius, I am not very please with it, it doesn’t work! See my post: http://atlchris.com/270/thoughts-on-itunes-genius/
Long time reader.
Glad to see the addition of a forum.
Hah, I snagged my own first name as my handle.
Any chance of allowing openID logins to the forums? (or at least associating one’s account with an OpenID?)
I would if i could.. bbPress needs to support it. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wanted-openid-for-bbpress
Hrm, suppose I should register and add some substance to said forum.
So I guess all the pestering I did paid off? ;) I think they will go very well.
I am liking the forums man. Cheers!
Hey paul, nice idea… but why you don’t remain an authentic blogger? There’re too many forums in the web ;/
I just got here and now you’re starting a forum. Looks good — but I have to stay away from those things. I’m a recovering addict. (Okay, I shouldn’t even be posting here — but this is beer and that’s Everclear.)
What version of bbpress are u running? 1.0 alpha or 0.9? I’m having problems integrating 1.0 with WP 2.6
Tito, I think there can’t be enough forum an blogs in the web. I really love to learn from the experiences of otheres discuss with a broader community. The only problem is the validation of information.