Comic Club?

[Rooster]

We could probably even hook you up so the top-level domain you bought (woodsforthetrees.com) actually works. Part of the problem was that Comicgenesis refused to let you use a hostmask, right?

Naw, it was that the people I bought the domain from fecked me around with adverts. I paid 20 quid for it, and they then asked for another 30 to get rid of the adverts.

So cheers, but I prefer the .comicgenesis adress anyways.

[Priest_Revan]

All for the better, 'cause I'm having suspicions that SmackJeeves has a comic limit (There's a bar where it says 'number of comics' in the comic profile) and DrunkDuck bothers me with its sheer unfriendliness for customizing the website, layout, and all that.
...Haven't tried Comic Genesis, though.

DrunkDuck is awesome.

[Muninn]

When this started I thought people just meant a new section on these forums for users to talk about and criticise their comics. If anything bigger is going to be done make sure you have the organisation and the planning to back it up, or it might become like the Ozy and Millie game project.

[The Donmeister]

Naw, it was that the people I bought the domain from fecked me around with adverts. I paid 20 quid for it, and they then asked for another 30 to get rid of the adverts.

I wouldn't worry about it. Most people these days have adblockers, so they never see the ads anyway.

[Rooster]

When this started I thought people just meant a new section on these forums for users to talk about and criticise their comics. If anything bigger is going to be done make sure you have the organisation and the planning to back it up, or it might become like the Ozy and Millie game project.

But making a forum is a helluva lot easier than making a game

[jent]

When this started I thought people just meant a new section on these forums for users to talk about and criticise their comics. If anything bigger is going to be done make sure you have the organisation and the planning to back it up, or it might become like the Ozy and Millie game project.

But making a forum is a helluva lot easier than making a game

I think jack is right....don't under estimate how large of a project your talking about. Particularly if you want some of the features like described above (like being able to host user strips). Building a good forum is not just taking some already built PHP code and throwing it to a database. You need to find good forum software you like, modify it to fit your image and needs, provide additional features and reasons to come to your site, deal with search engines and page ranking, then setup a forum and user structure.

Granted you have a lot of the hurdles out of the way since I can host you guys on ether a sub-domain or fully-qulified domain. But you still need to develope a strong user command structure. If you want me to host then someone needs to come to me as the admin of this project so we can talk over ideas and I can set you up with what you need.

Personally from the view point of being a member and leader of several projects like this I would recomend for the time being requesting and using an additional forum board on DC. Then you can spend the time to develope a user structure to find out who will be leading this group. Also that will give you time to start working on the site. It will take some time to develope and build the site anyways so this will provide a medium of chat durring the time of design and build before the site is ready to let the flood of people on.

[CameronCN]

I agree with Jent. We are getting carried away here just a bit. Let's stick with the new forum section. That's all we need. It would be almost as good as the more grandiose ideas, but is simple enough to actually happen in real life.

[Rooster]

But ideas above my station are how I roll babby

[Comrade K]

Yeah, Jent's got the right idea. Things must be done in steps. We can't try and build the tower of Babel here, or people will slowly drift off. Even if we don't set up a new section on DC or anything, at least keep the discussions going, and eventually, when we have a good idea of what we want, we move to the next phase: creating a new seperate forum. Bear in mind, we don't need to rely solely on comic artists from DC. DCers would be the initial base, but more artists and members should be welcome.

Secondly, I volunteer to help with planning and organizing this thing, but I'd need someone with technical skills to help myself (and whoever else wants to plan), to actually implement our ideas.

[jent]

i must note that it is not all my idea....likeafox and I discussed what we thought of it too, so I brought what we talked about as well.

[Steve the Pocket]

As far as the forum engine goes, I'd personally prefer one that comes the closest to having the same features as IPB as possible. Custom user titles, subtitles on threads, login box on the home page, and no IFRAMEs like Simple Machines relies on (they always end up littering the page with unnecessary scroll bars when I use it from Linux). I would recommend MyBB with a few mods, or possibly Ikonboard.

[Richard K Niner]

As far as the forum engine goes, I'd personally prefer one that comes the closest to having the same features as IPB as possible. Custom user titles, subtitles on threads, login box on the home page, and no IFRAMEs like Simple Machines relies on (they always end up littering the page with unnecessary scroll bars when I use it from Linux). I would recommend MyBB with a few mods, or possibly Ikonboard.

Those are overflow:auto CSS rules, not iframes; it's actually a bug in Firefox's handling of outlines (or using layout-stretching content, in which case it's a good thing).

[Softpaw]

EDIT: Actually, it's possible that Felix could host the site. Though, he did mention planning to move the hosting of his own site to a computer of his own. I'd personally like to see how reliable that proves to be before I agree to it.

All-new hardware on a trusted co-location service will be just as reliable as any other real server out there. I won't be running this out of my house like so many people try to do.

The new server, slated to go live in late August of this year, will also be a DNS/name server and mail server, so I can host a domain and email accounts for it, and anyone else who wants hosting.

[Muninn]

Felix!

Are you posting again?

[Softpaw]

Not really, I read every once in awhile, and this thread looked like it needed my input, since it seemed like Octan was mistaken about the nature of the server upgrade I'm working on (and he wasn't online at the time). The new Lupinia server will have enough stability and redundancy that if it has any reliability issues at all, it means I'm doing something critically, horribly wrong. Co-location is about the best you can do hosting-wise, short of building/buying your own backbone datacenter.