GEO wrote:But you should seriously dump ZEROFORUMS and upgrade to a better software that is used more often and proven to work with larger communities. Who cares if the top auto sites use ZF, it's an inferior forum software.
Honda-Tech has four times the members as Nico, and they manage fine w/ ZF. It will take a while before Nico catches up w/ honda members. ZF seems to be working great...
on the same note, who cares if more people use a particular software over another? Does that make it any better? More people use windows than linux... More people drive Civics than 240's... More guys on internet forums have sex w/ themselves than w/ a real girl...
Sure, VB and whatnot may have more bells and whistles for the average user... however, also note the average user can barely even use the SEARCH button correctly, which is available on all forums...
Whether or not nico is on VB, ZeroForum, or a freaking maiing list is not what makes it great or not great. It's the people and their willingness to help and improve the community (for the most part).
The photopost thing does suck. I liked it for the most part, and the free part is great too. I'm using zoints & my own web server right now, which is enough to handle the low to moderate amount of bandwidth from images I generate in my posts.
For now, zoints is a great free alternative. iServe is a pretty decent paid alternative - although I prefer paying just $100 a year and getting my own site w/ tons of space & bandwidth for my random experiments, hee hee.
The only foreseeable (but also easily fixed) problem w/ using iServe or non-nico managed sites is for the purposes of archiving/article handling. If someone stops using iServe, I would imagine all the pictures disappear. If anything happens to zoints or whatnot, images disappear or become unavailable for a while (like in photopost's case).
So a simple solution to that, if this hasn't already been discussed by the mods, would be to copy images for any articles directly onto the nico server so that it doesn't get lost.
And since we are on this topic, I would have liked private messaging to be reenabled, hee hee. Sometimes a lil easier than coordinating thru aim, but faster than email for me personally and easier to sort thru & organize.
