Posted by Grabeorama on 27 Feb 2010
I am am proud to announce the project I have been working on behind the scenes for a while now. Thanks to [url=http://www.phpbb.com]PHPBB[/url], a free open source bulletin board/forum, I have been able to add a forum for the site. The main difference between this forum and the old one is it's location. The old Invision forum, which is [b]not[/b] open source was located on their servers. The new PHPBB forum is located on grabeorama.com.Also with this open source forum, I can edit each page as I wish. I can now make the website communicate with the forum, which was previously impossible.
I found it really annoying that people needed two accounts for the site, one for grabeorama.com and one for the forum. Now you only need [b]one[/b] account to be able to post on both the forum and the site.
The forum is still under construction, i.e. it only has two forums, but I plan on making it roughly as large and diverse as the last.
The only down-side to the new login system is that current members will have to re-register. Just click the [url=/forum/ucp.php?mode=register]register[/url] button at the top right of the screen and enter your old details.
Also with the new system, now that I can sync data between forum and site, I will try and make a handy stats page for each user showing their recent forum posts and blog comments, along with their reviews (which I will hopefully be adding soon too).
Sorry for the inconvenience caused by the re-register process, but at the end of the day it should hopefully be a one-time change. I hope you like the changes, please post any feedback/suggestions here.
Cheers
~Grabeorama
Oh nice, it looks very cool. Looking forward to using once its up and running fully.