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Mar 9, 2024 - 4:27 AM
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The Thing
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Most of the other forums I read use off-the-shelf forum software, or specific sites that host individual forums. This may be something worth looking into, rather than paying to upgrade this "custom" forum. Unless, of course, there ongoing monthly costs for migrating over to third-party hosting, which would eventually supersede the one-off cost of this site's upgrade.
Paying to keep your own forum current is a bit like reinventing the wheel, as those other types of forums already do what has been suggested here. Yes, they may look generic, but it's the posting content that matters. And I think they do offer a degree of customisation to help maintain familiarity (colour themes, logos, etc.).
All those other forums do everything better, and those that I read that don't (i.e. the "custom" ones), I tend to read less often purely because of their various inflexabilities and shortcomings (mainly viewing on an iPad and not offering appropriate page-width adjustments, and thereby ending up with text being too small to read). And one only offers a "dark" theme (light text on dark background), which I can't view for more than a few seconds without having to stop due to eye strain, so I've practically stopped reading it altogether.
EDIT: Invision, vBulletin and xenforo are examples of forum providers that I read. Anything catering for mobile devices (phones, tablets) should be an essential consideration.
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Would be nice if the board could offer vital commercial services, such as call girls, international passports and revenge spells.
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Allow the entire thread to be ignored if they were started by somebody on your Ignore list.
You are already allowed to ignore any thread you wish.
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I don't think a process that would allow direct uploading of images to the FSM board would be a realistic proposition, as that would drastically increase the required server space and would increase traffic volume enormously.
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Any irony in the fact you posted Spam?
Damn those bots, they're back and I've been hacked! 
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A genuine ignore feature would be nice. Ignoring a poster but then seeing their comment quoted defeats the purpose.
I hear ya. In fact I'd like to see a feature where ignored poster actually gets a zap of electricity off their keyboard, you know, like the Bond game in Never say never. Lol. 
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I would think deleting your own duplicate posts would be unnecessary; isn't it possible for the system to simply remove duplicate posts itself? A detection system like that would also catch and halt mass spamming in progress.
But I would rather keep the forum the way it is than dump it and start over, freeze it and start a new forum, lose all this data and information.
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