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| | | Author: | jamesuniverse  | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 20:36 | | Subject: | New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 141 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Not that it matters much, but a "Ranting" thread would be very well used.
That's all I got to say.
~JU
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| | | | | Author: | bb441201 | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 20:55 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yes because now we have the Lego fight club and no girls are allowed!!!!!!
we need a place to meet and discuss are expansion of this!!! Lol
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| | | | | Author: | bb32457 | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 21:52 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jamesuniverse writes:
| | Not that it matters much, but a "Ranting" thread would be very well used.
That's all I got to say.
~JU
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I think ranting goes against the intent of BL forum's, why do you think Chat
disappeared.
Website support functions are limited and the forum is still a good venue for
that. All other conversation and off-topic is to appease the masses.
Politic's, how your day went, your favorite hair style, what Justin beiber
did, etc. are really topics for Facebook...
This forum should have all things LEGOcentric, to include the above within reason.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Rolf | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 21:58 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Bighurt writes:
| | In Suggestions, jamesuniverse writes:
| | Not that it matters much, but a "Ranting" thread would be very well used.
That's all I got to say.
~JU
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I think ranting goes against the intent of BL forum's, why do you think Chat
disappeared.
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LOL no. chat was removed because it was FULL of exploits hacker used to hack
site couple times. Not because of "rant" and such. It pre-dates that new rule
by pretty long shot.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | bb32457 | | Posted: | Aug 7, 2014 00:17 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | LOL no. chat was removed because it was FULL of exploits hacker used to hack
site couple times. Not because of "rant" and such. It pre-dates that new rule
by pretty long shot.
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Well I wasn't here when it disappeared...so I was guessing.
I never found it the helpful. I don't really find the forum's very helpful
either, nor do I feel I provide much help.
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| | | | | | | Author: | mhn1957 | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 21:59 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Bighurt writes:
| | I think ranting goes against the intent of BL forum's, why do you think Chat
disappeared.
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Chat disappeared because it was full of security issues.
Mark
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Cyberclark | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 22:05 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Chat is such a highly requested function that would help answer new peoples questions
to further facilitate buying more product and hence more fee revenue for Bricklink.
I don't understand why they don't just setup another chat server totally
separate from the webserver, throw a link to it on the main page and let people
have at it. I wouldn't even care if it required a separate login and password,
kind of like the help desk does.
In Suggestions, mhn1957 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Bighurt writes:
| | I think ranting goes against the intent of BL forum's, why do you think Chat
disappeared.
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Chat disappeared because it was full of security issues.
Mark
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Rolf | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 22:27 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cyberclark writes:
| | Chat is such a highly requested function that would help answer new peoples questions
to further facilitate buying more product and hence more fee revenue for Bricklink.
I don't understand why they don't just setup another chat server totally
separate from the webserver, throw a link to it on the main page and let people
have at it. I wouldn't even care if it required a separate login and password,
kind of like the help desk does.
In Suggestions, mhn1957 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Bighurt writes:
| | I think ranting goes against the intent of BL forum's, why do you think Chat
disappeared.
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Chat disappeared because it was full of security issues.
Mark
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I really do prefer old chat because it has auto-boot function so it's not
full of "idle zombies". But yeah evenually we need chat. I had quite a few deals
there.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | BLUSER_424058 | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 22:56 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | (Cancelled) |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Cyberclark | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 23:07 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Inventrious writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cyberclark writes:
| | Chat is such a highly requested function that would help answer new peoples questions
to further facilitate buying more product and hence more fee revenue for Bricklink.
I don't understand why they don't just setup another chat server totally
separate from the webserver, throw a link to it on the main page and let people
have at it. I wouldn't even care if it required a separate login and password,
kind of like the help desk does.
In Suggestions, mhn1957 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Bighurt writes:
| | I think ranting goes against the intent of BL forum's, why do you think Chat
disappeared.
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Chat disappeared because it was full of security issues.
Mark
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There are tons of good chatrooms that BL can buy from a different site, and put
a link to it here.
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They wouldn't even have to buy one really. IRC Deamons (Server software)
are normally freeware and run on Linux boxes. They could take an old server
they have sitting in a closet somewhere collecting dust and set it up in a day
or so and have their own private IRC server dedicated just to Bricklink users
if they really wanted to, and the cost would be very, very minimal.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | BLUSER_424058 | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 23:09 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Cyberclark | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2014 23:45 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Inventrious writes:
| | I dont think its that easy....
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Maybe not that easy if they wanted to integrate into the existing database so
that it seamlessly uses the login and passwords data from the website, but being
that it was taken down due to security concerns I think it would almost be better
to have it separate from the catalog database. (They could probably at least
pull all the usernames from the database and put them into the IRC database,
with generic passwords and send out emails to every user with the new generic
password and have them change it on first login. But that is a story for another
day)
Anyways here is the install instructions on how to install the original IRC server
ircd-irc2 in Ubuntu Linux: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/irc-server.html
Here is slightly more complicated instructions on how to install the "Ultimate
IRC server"
http://www.codeography.com/2012/09/23/howto-irc-server.html
Once the server is setup, they would have to install the actual hardware into
the server cabinet that hosts bricklink.com. (Or they could put it in a closet
in their corporate office and use that connection, it isn't going to be heavy
traffic, I would say if you had 2000 users a month the bandwidth would be 500GB
at most, but I really doubt you are going to have 2000 people chatting away on
this server) Then they would have to open ports on the firewall to allow the
traffic to the new server. Update their domain record so that, chat.bricklink.com
or whatever subdomain they wish to put it on, points to those ports they just
opened. And voila IRC would be functioning.
It isn't a resource intensive service either. The backbone serving the site
could handle the bandwidth just fine. And hardware wise they can run on a P133
with like 128MB of ram and that is overkill  ) And not sure if they use virtualization
on the current servers, but they could really just setup a small virtual slice
on an exisitng web server and not even have to bother with new hardware of any
kind.
So now IRC in it's basic form would be working, meaning users would have
to have a client such as mIRC to access it. Which would be an added bonus if
you ask me. But in todays web based day and age you have to make things easy.
So the last step is they would have to add a web front end. I would use Kiwi
IRC for that. It is an Open Source web based front end for IRC. And the install
instructions for that are right here: https://kiwiirc.com/docs/installing
Very last step. Put a link on the main page pointing to a new page that details
the instructions on how to login to the IRC server such as server name and port
numbers as well as a link to the Kiwi install and bam....
Yes it is that easy. With the resources they have I could have it running in
less than a day.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 7, 2014 05:44 | | Subject: | Re: New forum topic suggestion. | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jamesuniverse writes:
| | Not that it matters much, but a "Ranting" thread would be very well used.
That's all I got to say.
~JU
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Get a cat.
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