Help needed with programming Amiga development forum

[Cammy]

Hello everyone. Many of the remaining Amiga programmers and other creative people are in need of a new Amiga project development forum so we can work on new software, games and hardware for all Amiga systems and keep the scene alive.

We only need one person who can program PHP to help us set up the forum. We have hosting already, we just need a forum that has no or minimal CSS and is compatible and renders properly with IBrowse and AWeb.

Please help us, you will finally see more Amiga development if we have a new forum for it.

Using an existing forum isn't an option and has been discussed countless times in the past. Please try to understand, this topic isn't a debate, just a call for help.

Thank you.

[Minuous]

But we already have UtilityBase...so why reinvent the wheel, is there something amiss with UtilityBase? Seems like it would just further divide the Amiga community.

[commodorejohn]

Ooh, looking forward to this.

[desiv]

But we already have UtilityBase...so why reinvent the wheel, is there something amiss with UtilityBase? Seems like it would just further divide the Amiga community.

WTH??
I google for Amiga UtilityBase, it comes up with the main site.
I click it, and my Avast Antivirus starts screaming about some javascript malware??
:angry:

desiv

[orb85750]

I assume that there is absolutely no "off-the-shelf" forum software that will work appropriately?  (even some older version?)

[Cammy]

We reinvent the wheel when the old wheel gets too rusty to use anymore.

[Cammy]

Like I already said, this isn't up for debate, we just need help with this. You're welcome to join the forum when it's ready, and see how much more gets done there than what gets done on UtilityBase or any other Amiga forum.

I'm not trying to split the community apart, there's nothing to be afraid of. Can you just trust me that this will be a good thing for anyone still using Amiga systems.

[Argo]

Please stay on topic. Start another it you must about issues with Utilitybase.

[AmigaEd]

@Cammy, PM sent

[mihcael]

We reinvent the wheel when the old wheel gets too rusty to use anymore.

The rusty wheel is clearly ibrowse and aweb!

I have offered several times to help in the past, even started a forum that was 80% amiga browser friendly and was prepared to fix up the rest of the way to bring it to a usable state.
You mostly ignored me or gave vague answers.

Good luck with that!

[desiv]

UtilityBase seems to be a nice cross Amiga platform developer site

I'm glad you're happy with it.  I'm sure many others are as well.
Not saying it's not a great site.  I just mentioned the warning, and said I'd personally prefer a site more optimized for Classic Amiga browsers.

The Internet is all about choice..  :-)

As for the original topic, I look forward to seeing what transpires...

desiv

[orb85750]

Is there a top-level domain yet for the new dev forum?

[Cammy]

The rusty wheel is clearly ibrowse and aweb!

I have offered several times to help in the past, even started a forum that was 80% amiga browser friendly and was prepared to fix up the rest of the way to bring it to a usable state.
You mostly ignored me or gave vague answers.

Good luck with that!

I never ignored you, I was still hoping you wanted to help us out but it's very hard to talk to you. I can never tell if you're angry with me or not, like at the moment it seems like you are.

Does this mean you no longer want to help out? I'm on IRC every day if you ever want to clear something up with me, I don't think there was any need to join in against me here.

[johnklos]

I am amazed that anyone might think that a site which isn't monitored and/or has hosting which has Javascript exploits is in any way something which might be considered acceptable (I'm referring to UtilityBase here).

That said, even though you have hosting arrangements already, I'd be happy to volunteer proper shell accounts on secure and always up to date servers, cvs hosting, and even m68k virtual machine hosting (which I'm already in the process of setting up for m68k GNU/Linux and NetBSD development).

[Cammy]

Wow, thank you, johnklos. I think we might have to take you up on your offer for hosting those services for us, I don't know if our previous offer for hosting the forum exists any more though, so we may need hosting for that too.