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Originally Posted by C.Birch

Does this have to be installed on the same domain as your forum? I'm looking at having it on a 2nd domain.

eg forums is www.myforum.com and this is www.yourforum.com can this be done or can it only be installed on sub domains?

Thank you

Hi C.Birch,

I've been waiting back to hear on a response for whether or not this can be done, but I am relatively sure that Zoints needs to be installed on the same domain as it calls for various vB settings and such to configure and sync the two up. If I hear otherwise, I will let you know as soon as possible.

Zoints is set up to be installed in your forum root at the /z/ directory.

Originally Posted by AndyPandy

looks like a good mod but does it have to link to zoints? I mean when you have your own forum etc you want to keep users on it and not wondering off in all directions (as little foreign site interference as possible).

Hey AndyPandy,

It does have to link to Zoints, regardless of what the below user mentions. Zoints is not a hack for everyone, especially those with concerns like those. I would suggest analyzing some Zoints forums, especially if you see any direct competitors on Zoints, and possibly even asking a few users with Zoints how it has effected their traffic. From my experience, and what I have seen from other forums with Zoints, it's not an add-on that will give you significant gains or losses with member activity. If you're concerned about this and would like to reduce the chance for it, you could set up an initial usergroup that members go into that would not give them the ability to access profiles until they hit the promotion you defined in Admin CP. Most establish forum goers aren't going to leave that easily for greener pastures unless they want to, and if they wanted to that badly there is always search engines and directories. (The last few sentiments aren't really of Zoints, but my personal opinion and experience so take them for what they're worth.) I can understand your concerns though.

Again, Zoints isn't for everyone. If the autonomous licenses open up again, I ensure you that the news is posted here as that would accomplish what you seek to do Andy.

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

If you know your way around PHP you can "hack" out links leading out of your site in the Zoints section. I've also disabled any blocks that link out and changed the search button to go to memberlist.php?do=search instead of the Zoints search. (After the last upgrade I need to re-hack this stuff, so it's not fixed up on my site right now...)

So yeah, it can be done -- to an extent.

Hi ChurchMedia,

Links that go out to Zoints.com are mandatory to stay unless you are using an autonomous license (which currently aren't for sale, and take care of issues such as the search if you have one.) We've released a hack to the community that while not yet perfect, we feel is unique, a positive add on to many sites, and all we ask is that the forum community respects a few things such as not removing links going out to Zoints, which is not permitted. We've tried to leave Zoints to be a tool that forum owners can modify and tweak, giving their own spin to it via their design and coding talents; all within a few restrictions. To quote a post made by one of our coders at network.zoints.com:

You're perfectly free to edit Zoints Local as long as you don't remove the links to Zoints.com, or turn it into an Autonomous system. Other than that, hack away at it, and feel free to share what you've done at dev.zoints.com

Also, keep in mind that updates may overwrite any custom modifications.

Obviously you might of not had been aware of this, so please don't interpret my post as harsh. Hopefully this is informative to you.

- Reid