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jaybee -> RE: Setting up a Forum (6/3/2005 6:04:28)
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No, not really. It will depend on how many visitors you get, whether you have active mods helping you out if it does get busy, how many idiots you get posting rubbish just for the fun of it and whether you have some sort of secure sign-up to stop the idiot in Russia who uses a robot to sign up to your forum in order to get links for his web sites.
That last issue can be avoided if you use phpBB with its standard sub_silver theme as it has one of those images that pops up with a code that has to be typed in.
DO NOT be tempted to allow people to post without registering. Be careful about choosing the option where you have to approve registrations as you may end up doing a lot of them, also watch out for the pillocks who can't type their email address correctly so their sign up details vanish and you then get mail complaining. It's a pig to keep playing around with email addresses.
There is a hack to the board that I've implemented that makes them confirm their address. It's not too difficult to implement but it does mean you're playing around in php and you have to make a note of what you've changed so that you don't overwrite it all when security fixes come in.
Which host are you using? If you have one that uses Fantastico and supplies phpbb as an option then there's usually an update button you can just hit. This is fine if you haven't customised anything.
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