Well sorry but I can completely understand why BBA's would prefer NOT to disclose any problem they were having on an open forum that any old tom ++++ or harry could view.

NO :alien:

And your big-board is....?

IMHO it's pretty self-evident that this forum is a failure in its current, public form.

I agree with that statement. It isn't really serving a purpose is it?

Just make sure that people like me who paid for vb gets to see everything to do with vb.

True true. Another wrong decision (im my opinion) by the staff to encourage more vBulletin related admin/coding forums to grow and split the community instead of giving vB owners what they want in HERE.

What's up with the admins at big-boards.com? I submitted my site right when we hit 500k and still no add(not with 750k posts). WTF. I have contacted them also a few times to no avail.

Anyone know? (sorry to hijack)

Ya i think the guy that runs it is currently away.

he is taking a leave of absence and also planning to update big-boards.

hopefully soon.

;-)

Well, depends what you want from it.

I personally haven't found anything remotely useful in this forum for my forum, but I shared two things (the template cache and the sphinx implementation). I will try to keep sharing things I write for my board, but it's a bit disappointing to get nothing back in exchange (tho I'm always glad to give support if I can).

I don't think you'll ever find detailed information of how to do "tune" your server in here or a complete guide from "create forum" to "100k visitors/day" in here. You just can't put those things in a "guide". I probably read hundreds of sites about server optimization, subscribe to a few blogs, check a few forums, read about other ppls issues...learning by doing. You can't come here with your newly created forum with basically no clue about anything at all and expect to find a guide how to make your forum work in 2 days.

If you run a forum (semi-)professionally you're basically a sysadmin...and some people do that for a job. You can't learn a job by reading a handful of guides.

And you do this, VERY GOOD, I must say.

I'll protest if you make it private. >:)

To enter this section you should, at least, need an active license.

That I will agree with.

I would like to let this section to be private.

I would like it private but as I stated in my first post in this thread, how do you cut off someone? Do you use big-boards.com standard or define your own? I don't like posting stuff in public that I wouldn't mind if it was a private forum with people who have the same issues/goals/problems/whatever as me.

Sorry to keep this up but there seems to be a lot of support for it.

For Example: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=134951 That thread is from someone who obviously doesn't own a big board. In my opinion the whole point of this forum is for admins who run decent sized forums to share ideas on a same level basis? We don't want to see questions about how to submit a site to a search engine, which is usually something that a big board admin has figured out since... well... they have a big forum. We want to share ideas, have a place to ask about dealing with problems that arise as you get bigger.

Yes, I would be curious about what standards would make this private. My forum probably isn't 'big' in its number of current totaly users (we normally have between 30 and 60 users logged in at once), but we have over 1.3 million posts and a database of about 33k accounts and many users who drop in occasionally, so I have the occasional 'big board' issue when it comes to the database. I wouldn't like to be excluded because the current user base is, while very dedicated, relatively small.

You would for sure be considered a big board and you people like you are what this forum is intended for :)

How many BB forums do we need.. no offence but I have yet to get any amazing info off of any of them.. IMHO you get more out of the regular areas.

excuse me... what is TAZ?

TAZ big board is nothing more than a brag podium.
Is there really anything that big board owners need to discus in private that small forum owners shouldn't see?
What you have to all remember is that all our big boards started out small and we learned from people who had large communities. Just think what it would be like if the pioneers didn't share their knowledge.

I have no problems with that, but I do have problems with guest being able to read our posts in this section. IMHO this section and the rest, should olny be accessible to licensed users.

Cheers Bama.

Personally, I don't mind either way, as long as the people who need to access the discussions can --> so if it did go private, a clear way to get access.

well my forums is just over a year old now, and it now has about 50 000 members (pruned a whole heap recently) and we have over 300 000 posts. we get about 1000-2000 posts a day so in about 100-200 days i should be officially a big board, however im already running into lots of problems because having a database of about 2 gigs, and having over 2000 members visit your site everyday and heaps of guests does make running the site a big job.

I think as long as licensed members can only view this it should be fine. of course being accepted into a private area does make you feel special, it wouldn't be fair to the other members.

Seems a bit silly to make this private. Licensed only by all means, but private? I see no reason.

And for the record:

Threads: 15,866, Posts: 384,823, Members: 14,087

TAZ = www.TheAdminZone.com it is a forum for community administrators to discuss administration and anything else to do with foruming in general. It is by far the biggest and best resource on the net for community administrators.

I'll throw in my two cents, as I frequent this forum. No, it should not be limited to those with "big boards" of 500,000+ posts. My forum has about 100,000 posts and I already use this forum as a resource. I do agree however that it should only be shown to license owners.