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    Forum appraisal, asking for advice

    blandt, It's Ford Trucks Club. It's in Russian, mostly. :) Regards, nohuhu.
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 10, 2010 in forum: Monetization Techniques
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    Forum appraisal, asking for advice

    drifter73, Wow, things are getting better and better. :) I made my initial bargaining offer - it was just a bit more than you've calculated, at...
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 9, 2010 in forum: Monetization Techniques
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    Forum appraisal, asking for advice

    MordyT, Yes, I'm talking about my old ford trucks forum. Thanks for advice, $1k sounds pretty impressive. :) Regards, nohuhu.
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 1, 2010 in forum: Monetization Techniques
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    Forum appraisal, asking for advice

    A guy approached me with an offer to buy my forum and he's asking for a price. I'm at loss, frankly. It's not that I wouldn't want to sell it,...
    Thread by: nohuhu, Oct 31, 2010, 7 replies, in forum: Monetization Techniques
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    Is your off-topic section dead? Too active?

    Mine is thriving with ~2,000 threads containing ~42,000 posts. However, on-topic sections are several times more active so I judge that's OK....
    Post by: nohuhu, Oct 15, 2010 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    XenForo ends the "reactivation fee"

    Personally, I think it would be unwise to underestimate XF guys' cleverness. Being in their place and after what IB has done to vBulletin, I would...
    Post by: nohuhu, Oct 15, 2010 in forum: XenForo Discussions
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    What do you think about the "Discourager" being a built-in feature?

    Well I suppose for you the question is academic; not so for me. I run a forum, not that big but not small either. The question of maintenance is...
    Post by: nohuhu, Oct 14, 2010 in forum: XenForo Discussions
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    What do you think about the "Discourager" being a built-in feature?

    That's exactly the point: why XF developers are going the same way again? vBulletin was, and is, one ugly piece of bloatware. Its core is full of...
    Post by: nohuhu, Oct 14, 2010 in forum: XenForo Discussions
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    Will XenForo scare away unfamiliar new visitors?

    I wouldn't say I have seen any signs of that so far. I would even say that I don't expect any changes in development approach. Like, stop bloating...
    Post by: nohuhu, Oct 11, 2010 in forum: XenForo Discussions
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    What version of vBulletin are you using?

    I run 3.8.4 so heavily modded that upgrading to 4.x would mean about the same effort as switching to something else. No way I'm going to do it any...
    Post by: nohuhu, Oct 10, 2010 in forum: vBulletin Discussions
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    Windows 7 on the way....

    it is not so outdated as one may think. for example, most netbooks are equipped with intel atom processors these days and they're 32-bit and will...
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 14, 2009 in forum: Water Cooler
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    Forum spammers

    BananaQueen, well, i tried to force new users to fill in actual field values and not just the first available ones, but accidentally got spambot...
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 13, 2009 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    Forum spammers

    well, i practically solved the spammer problem by a very simple measure: made some profile fields required, placed '-' as the first available...
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 13, 2009 in forum: Managing Your Online Community
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    placing ads: is it worth to bother?

    Wayne, that's why i asked for advice. thanks, now i know what to strive for. :)
    Post by: nohuhu, Nov 6, 2009 in forum: Monetization Techniques