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FASherman FASherman is offline 08-06-2005, 10:00 PM
Why does anyone feel they need a hack to host blogs on their site? Its not necessary.

1. Create a forum called Blogs
2. Select 'NO' for "Act as Forum" - Now you have your Blogs category.
3. When a user requests a blog, create a forum under Blogs. They should provide a title, a description, and whether or not they want to accept comments. You can also add options like password protect to make it private. Much more powerful control than any journal hack. Blog entries & comments count against post counts. Reputation system extends to the blogs, etc.
4. Edit the permissions for the forum. Generally, people should be able to post, but not create threads.
5. Make the requesting user the moderator of their forum. Give them full reign over the forum BUT DO NOT ALLOW THEM EXPANDED user moderation roles.

Minimal effort user blogs fully integrated into all VB functions. No hacks necessary. Future releases of VB will not break it. Blogs easily tied into subscriptions. RSS publishing as easily as any other forum. Blogs can have polls. Persistant read marks for blogs. New entries displayed via new posts. Multiple authors (moderators) for shared blogs. Ajax editing of entries. The list of things that make this better than any journal hack are nearly endless.

And just because it doesn't NEED any hacks, doesn't mean other hacks won't enhance the functionality. Use the "Split Forumhome into several pages" hack to give your blogs their own home page. Thread Description v1.2 hack to give entries a description. vbSpell to spell check entries. Post Award Hack to recognize particular entries, etc.
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Old 08-08-2005, 07:38 PM
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Let's see if you're right ... 670 and counting up
Haven't tried on vb 3.5 but 3.07 it goes to around 1200 (on my site) depending on certain variables it can be more or less. I heard some people got to 1500.
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The max number of forums you can have is 65535. Thats because the forumid field type is smallint(5).
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There is no absolut limit. If you have short forum descriptions, you can have more.
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What do forum descriptions have to do with it?
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forumcache gets insanely large and exceeds mySQL max_packet_size.
But other then that it should work
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What do forum descriptions have to do with it?
Because the descriptions are in the datastore row for the forumcache. The total number of bytes is limited. So a lot of forums with long titles will quicker be full then with short titles.
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Worst Idea EVER!

That's not a blog, it's a hack of a forum.

Blogs can be skinned and customised. Livejournal and MySpace are great examples. Next time go check it out before you...

...Nope I'm not gonna say it. :surprised:
Were you aware that you can apply unique styles to individual forums? If a user has a style that they want for their blog, they can have it, giving them their own distinct look.
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Ok well, it is not the best idea, I would rather have a blogging system to do what I want. But, he is trying to help the people that need a bloggish type system for 3.5, and cannot find one. (Luckily, amykhar helped me out with this one!).

It is very rude to flame his suggestions when he is just trying to help, good or bad suggestion, you really should say thanks to Fasherman.
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In reply to FASherman's first post:
Its just not the same feeling. Plain and simple. :ermm:
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I'm just playing devil's advocate to the 4th power.
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