ubXchange idea becomes a project

This message is for all ubb-runners:
I have developed the Idea of ubXchange!!
The idea behind ubXchange is to build a community of bulleting boards.
The project started up by creating a service for banner-exchanging. This
service is especially formed according to the needs of bulleting board
runners.

Only People who run boards for discussion of whatever kind are allowed to
register.
In the course of their registration our members can decide on which boards
their banner should be inserted.
As you can control that your banner for a computer game board is only
published on boards with the same or a similar topic.
On the other hand you can control what kinds of banners are to be
published /are not to be published on your site.
The advantages of this service towards usual banner exchange services are
obvious.
With this service you exactly address the target group which is important
for your board, as they are users which are already active on other boards.
The probability that a reader of one discussion board is clicking on a banner
of another discussion board is very high.

Well there will be a lot of features coming up in the next weaks and days.
This special bannerexchange is just the beginning.

The first 100 members get 2000 free adviews

For VBB- user there would be a hack which makes it easier to set up and
integrate our exchange service in existing boards in a few days.

See http://www.ubxchange.com
now for more details and registering.

The next upcoming features in the next few weaks / days...
-Userxchange (allows you to exchange registered users with other boards) so the users are able to post on other boards without registering again. The users so can choose on which categories of boards they wanna be able to post. And the webmasters can still ban users for their board. This would be combinated with a catalog of boards sorted by themes.
Please post me feedbacks here.
Thanks

Originally posted by SonnetCelestial
Ummm...I'm confused. Maybe I have to reread this again?

okay i will try a short summary:
I am going to make an xchange for bulleting boards only.
First step of this is building up the banner exchange.
Second step is buliding up a hack for ubb and THIS boradsystem which allows the exchange of members and threads.
Hard to explain how that will work.
- Users who registered at one board wich have the xchange hack can post also on other boards who have the hack installed.
- Threads and Topics can be exchanged. So you have for example a forum called (random threads from other bulleting boards) where you will see diskussions from other boards and can reply.

Funny thing is, you're running the freeware version of UBB on your site. I don't think you're in any position to set up an "exchange."

This is spam.

Before you do anything else, please explain how you're going to manage an exchange of users/threads.

There is NO practical way to do this on a large scale, and I'm guessing you have 0% of the work done on it.

Care to elaborate?

Originally posted by leah r
Funny thing is, you're running the freeware version of UBB on your site. I don't think you're in any position to set up an "exchange."

This is spam.

Well i run the freeware Version of UBB on this site cause to hurry setting up a forum.
Look at http://www.talkvision.de (for my registered ubb version)
and look on
http://www.mobilfunk-hilfe.de (for my registered vbulleting board)
And then repeat your last sentence

Originally posted by Stallion
Before you do anything else, please explain how you're going to manage an exchange of users/threads.

I wouldnt explain the technical method here exactly (for now) but there will be a mainserver somewhere in the web who collects threads members etc and a mod who plays the interface.

There is NO practical way to do this on a large scale, and I'm guessing you have 0% of the work done on it.
Care to elaborate?

I have the part of exchaning the users done only a few problems are left (for example if 2 guys have the same name on different boards) and i posted here to get help with such problems (or even ideas) not to be called a spammer. If all in here thing so better one of the moderators delete this topic.

[Edited by ubxchange.com on 07-01-2000 at 05:43 PM]

Are we going to have to give out our FTP usernames and passwords?

Either way, you will need to have access to all our Members' info including passwords, which is not something I'm going to risk on some remote server managed by some Joe. (no offense, its just that you haven't earned anyone's trust...and this wasn't the *best* way to go about doing it

No the exchange mod works as an cgi script..that means you install this script and run it and the script sends the informations information of your url your categories and forums to the server via email then a script at this server works with that emails and builds a database of it (sorry for my bad english but that isnt my home language )
On the other hand the clientscript will get information from the server containing the exchange features.. maybee a random forum what is hosted by all exchange members (including threads & topics) and so on.. I know the problem of trusting so i thought about one addon that allow users to check the option (or not) that they will join the exchange.

The problem with the passwords still exists. I know that noone would give all member informations away to "someone".
Maybee a option where the user can choose if he is willing to exchange his infos would help!?
I have no good idea for that point at the moment

I think if people here wanted to be part of a BB exchange they would have set up a board at EZBoard or Delphi.

We run our boards to increase traffic at our sites and being part of an exchange like this puts people at risk of losing their members to another site, therefore it's not a good idea for most people. Just my 2 cents...

Originally posted by Martin
I think if people here wanted to be part of a BB exchange they would have set up a board at EZBoard or Delphi.

We run our boards to increase traffic at our sites and being part of an exchange like this puts people at risk of losing their members to another site, therefore it's not a good idea for most people. Just my 2 cents...

Hmm even if you can choose only to exchange one forum of your board with other users? For example one topic where all other guys can post even if they dont leave your homepage!? Like brodcasting something!?

to do that I would have to either give you my memberlist, including e-mail addys, so you could include them in your database so the posts could show on your exchange with proper authorization or you would have to run a spider against my database to keep your "exchange" constantly updated, which I don't want you doing since it would require you to have my database security info.

No thanx.