{"id":60,"date":"2012-05-10T00:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T04:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intothenetworks.femmetech.org\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-05-10T02:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T06:28:22","slug":"forums-to-build-or-not-to-build-or-how-the-hell-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intothenetworks.femmetech.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Forums: to build or not to build and then how the hell to build"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past three conferences, participants had been asking for forums to try to scheme rides and housing shares, and the past web designer was unwilling to build them. Now I know why — they are unwieldy and the out-of-the-box solutions are not exactly beautiful and they don’t always work how you want them to.<\/p>\n

For a first attempt, I thought fuck forums they are so 2002. I’ll just install BUDDYPRESS AND WE’LL CREATE AN ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN THIS WEBSITE. After realising how non-agile and unachievable that was, I installed bbPress, the forum software that runs with BuddyPress. And this is how it looked, and all it did, note that 50 days had gone by without a use or a peep<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This bbPress forum did not work, so I went back to WordPress.org and began searching for an alternative, thinking perhaps that there were none at all. But, I found this, Mingle Forum, and downloaded and installed in in the \/plugins folder on our WordPress site.<\/p>\n

Upon first install, it was the default blue color that “all links are, so I went into the Forum’s Forums [meta!] and found out that the design treatment on a forum is called a skin, and downloaded the first red one I found. It kind of matches our site, enough that I am willing to go with it:<\/p>\n

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Lastly, these forums do not exist in a vaccuum, they are for people to use.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Here’s what I told the folks I was building them for:<\/p>\n

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And this is one of the replies I got, a typical example, reinforcing the process involved in creating interactive online spots:<\/p>\n

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