I think I want a forum, but I do have some questions! Although, one of them seems answered already.

1.) Do you guys have a WYSIWYG/Rich Text Editor yet?
2.) Can I still have a custom Skin added to the dropdown in my settings/forum settings?
3.) What kind of activity does this site have nowadays?

I thought about getting back involved in Delphi, but there's really nothing there anymore. I kind of miss having a Non-Roleplay community to interact with, and thought I might try my luck with HanginOutForums... but then remembered <etc, etc, etc>, so I found this place and decided to give it a shot.

Hello there. How have you been? :)

Yes. There is a WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing posts, signatures, forum start page right content, and forum messages, such as for a private forum to show a message page to nonmembers attempting access, and if you want to type in your own html for any of these items, just click the little blue html button.


Yes. You can have a style placed in the system's styles folder for your forum. However, at this time, Beehive doesn't have forum style exclusivity. This means any forum on this system will be able to use it. You can however create a custom style sheet for your forum's start page right and upload it. This start page css sheet will be used only by your forum.

What kind of traffic your forum gets is not controlled by the site or me. I provide the hosting for the system as a whole, try to keep things running as smoothly as possible, and pay the bills. The system provides forums, auto generated chat rooms for public forums, and a private chat room for each member. Bringing in members for your forum is up to you.

If you'd like a private forum with an auto generated chat room, like a public forum, I suggest making your forum public but making all folders private, then using groups to control who sees what in you forum. This method works well. I use it myself. Anyone not in a group with access will see the forum start page right, and on the left a message telling them there are no folders, because the folders are hidden from them.

However, the chat room created for this type of forum is public access. So, if someone enters you don't want in there, short of a system admin, you'll have to toss and/or ban them. There is a list of chat commands on this board.

Does this help any Hon? :)

It does, thank you!

Any chance the webtag ZAIGE is available? :p



Thanks!

 

Yep.

I need a webtag, which I'm assuming you want ZAIGE.

I also need a forum name, and access level.

I'd say the owner is a given. lol

You might have to give me a few days. My work schedule is a bit brutal lately. Even on days I'm not actually scheduled I'm still on call. I've already been woken up more than once to go fill in for someone who called off or had to go home. I like the extra pay, but some times, the hours can be murder.

Understandable. These days, money doesn't go as far as it used to.

Now if only people hadn't been saying this for centuries, I might think things would change, but for now... we do the best we can with what we have.

Take as long as you need. :)

I still need a forum name and access level Hon. There are three types.

This thread explains the three types of forum access levels.

 

Forum Name: Dominus Veritatus
Webtag: Zaige
Access-Type: Public (Guest Access Disabled, unless I have to set that myself)



Thanks!
 

Your forum is up.

http://www.beehiveforum.us/forums/index.php?webtag=ZAIGE

Disabling guest access is controlled in Admin > Forum Settings - at the bottom, but I already set it for you. You can also control whether to not to allow spiders and search engine bots, and whether or not to list them in your Active Visitor Log at the bottom of your message board, if you decide to show the public forum stats section at all.

There is a wiki for Beehive on GitHub. Here is the link.
https://github.com/BeehiveForum/BeehiveForum/wiki

I haven't had time to set up forum owner tutorials here yet, but the wiki basically holds the same information and a lot of tools in the Admin areas already have descriptions of what they do and some instruction.

 

Thank you so very much!

As for guides... I'm pretty good (and reliant) upon intuitively working out how things operate, and I think I'm also in good hands (Beehive + You), so I'll be fine without the instructional guide(s).

While we're at it, is there any chance I could set up a space called TRANSCENDED with the webtag TRANSCENDED? A Public Forum.

It might be nice to set up an outpost here, and a basis for inviting some of my trusty, dependable DU buddies. :)

It's ready.

http://www.beehiveforum.us/forums/index.php?webtag=TRANSCENDED

Sorry for the delay, but I've been working like a fiend.

I'm designated as part time, but I'm also the 'on call person, and sometimes being the 'on call person' can be a pain for getting things done. Someone calls off or just wants a day off, and I'm working days I'm not scheduled to work.

I've actually had to turn the house over to the old man. Except for laundry. There is no way in Hell he's touching my machines or doing our clothes. He's great at a lot of things, but laundry isn't one of them. lol

No biggie on the delay! Real life always finds a way to grip our vitals with its hooks and prevent us from going where we'd like until we tackle this issue, or that problem, or address some other concern, etc.

My wife is the same way with her laundry. I do the laundry just fine, and nothing has ever come out with bleeding colors, or shrunken/torn/etc on my watch, but she prefers things 'just-so', and I just let her do it, lest I (a) put something in the dryer she wanted to hang dry, (b) hang-dry something she wanted put in the dryer, etc. It's a shame, too, because I often forget to do laundry, but because I don't do HER laundry, I have just about ZERO bargaining room to ask her to do mine, so when I forget....

Well, let's just say, I have to make a point not to forget!


Thanks for the forum setup! I am still having some trouble navigating the forums, but mostly only with the following details:

• Setting my Skin Preferences so that I view whatever skin the FORUM is using, not just whichever one *I* am using.
   
• Setting up Chat (although I haven't given it much time nor attention, and can probably figure it out once I sit down to give it a proper looking at)
   
• Verifying how good the MS Word to Forum Post transfers over.

It really is a shame that Delphi felt a need to stoop to scooping more and more BASIC features and making them PAID-ONLY features, but as the RPG and Underground scenes are dead there, I probably NEED more incentive to look elsewhere.

I miss the RP side of the Delphi Underground, and would love to try and revive it, with clearer boundaries and rules (just pertaining to the blurring of IC and OOC). Beyond making it clear IRL info has no place across message boards, I have no problem just leaving people to figure out for themselves what the 'rules' of such a community were meant to be.


You were a member of the Drakulya faction, so I think you know how fun it could be when people were respecting themselves and others. The politicking, the deep and thought-provoking and meaningful conversations, the storylines, the art, and so much more...

What would you think about recreating those elements of the DU here?

I doubt I'd be much good at recreating anything along those lines with the way things are going RL.

My part time job is proving to be more full time, with the on call aspect of it, and I'm house hunting for a place with a country setting. I want at least an acre of ground for gardening and raising some small livestock. The old man would be handling most of it, but it would make me happier to have control over what we're eating, as far as knowing how it was grown or raised and what is or isn't on it or in it. You know?

When I do get some free time for online, I try to check in here to make sure things are doing okay for those who choose to use the site, and after that I sometimes go play a little WOW before going to bed to get some sleep, just in case I'm needed at work.

Right now my supposed two day work week, which are the days I was actually scheduled to work, has turned into a nine day stretch. If they were all the same shift, it wouldn't be so bad, but as luck would have it, they're all over the  place.

I may try to write something somewhere tonight, but I'm not sure. We'll see how I feel.

I'm actually hoping I don't get called in tomorrow, but I'm not banking on a day off either. lol