That’s a good idea to go in a more web-publishing CMS type direction like Drupal. That’s a better fit and can produce a better looking website than a wiki. I think I was wrong about wiki. Only a few specific people will do any website design work and those people can go ahead and have a separate login. In that case, login integration with the forum doesn’t matter much. For security, I’d almost rather have a different login than be constantly checking the forum with the same login that could pwn the website.
Drupal’s forum is less bad than the wikis, but still a long way from something I would want to use.
zetaboards pros and cons:
pros:
- we don’t have to worry about bandwidth
- they handle the backend management and security patches
con:
- lack of SSL
- lack of privacy, everything is logged
- lack of control over the php code for customization
- no CAPTCHA, and if they add one later it might be unacceptable flash
- ads (could pay to get rid of them later if we care enough)
- there’s always the risk they abruptly cancel the site for some petty reason
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
What do you see as the benefits of switching the wiki? Some I can think of: SSL get away from sourceforge’s unreliable hosting everything not logged by sourceforge
I think the biggest advantage is having a single site so you don’t need a separate account for the wiki and the forum, and the functionalities are also nicely integrated with the main site itself. Also being ad-free is a plus.
The forum feature is about as weak as bitweaver. We need a full blown forum software for that.
How about Drupal’s forum functionality? Address: https://174.143.149.98/drupal/. The CMS in general looks better and simpler than TikiWiki. If the forum’s not good enough, then we can of course use a specialized forum software like phpBB.
My priority right now is to get a forum going, either phpBB or similar. What do you think of the zetaboards option? Should we go ahead with that?
Otherwise fine, but the ads and the lack of SSL are a minus.
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.