{"id":381,"date":"2008-12-25T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2008-12-25T02:33:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:33:15","slug":"merry-xmas-and-we-have-a-new-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/merry-xmas-and-we-have-a-new-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Xmas and we have a new Forum!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just wanted to first wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy holidays.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been posting new blog entries … but I have an excuse! I’ve been busy working on putting up a brand new forum. <\/p>\n

The old Java based forum was becoming a little too dated in terms of it’s features and the way it worked overall. It was showing its’ age. <\/p>\n

Why not just update the forum software?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Believe me, I tried several times but for reasons I was not easily able to figure out, the new version of the forum just did not want to run on the live server. I could get it to work on my local development\/testing machine … but not live. <\/p>\n

So I then contacted the people who built the old forum and asked for assistance. To my surprise, they wanted 10-15 hrs of billable time to install their own<\/strong> forum software!<\/p>\n

… I was willing to pay to have them do it, but 10-15 hrs to install a forum!! That’s nuts! Another classic example of Java’s tendency to over-engineer everything.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it just makes sense to move on …<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I decided to start researching for a new forum given all the problems I was having, given that the forum had serious flaws to begin with and finally, when the people who built the thing want 10hrs+ to install it … it’s time to get the hell out!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I researched and researched and finally found something that I liked. It is fast, modern, built with PHP and only takes 3 minutes to install … even if you never used it before!<\/p>\n

I invite you to check it out: the new web designers forum<\/a> at killersites.com.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n

www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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