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New Service for SMF Forums Launched by SMF Charter Member

Started by Joseph, April 18, 2005, 09:19:11 AM

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mennou

do u have a sample (demo)?  i am curious to see how it works. How many visitors can i get daily if i sign up for your service?

Richard Rhoden

Hello Mennou,

Sure the demo is completely free, just sign up, find some content feeds of interest and give it a try.  But you wont get "visitors" from the service we are a message exchange service.  You can exchange messages with other forums, other SMFs, usenet newsgroups, as well as, a host of other content portals and have those discussions going on in your SMF forums.  If you meant what type of activity, its all up to how many and how active are the feeds that you decide to become a member of, we have one member that is being feed somewhere around 130 feeds and gets on the average 2-3k of messages everyday from us, creates alot of activity for his members to participate in, and was a big help is getting his forums "off the ground" so he said.  If you have any other questions just ask, and have a great day.
Richard - The "Echo" Team
Share your forum content with thousands of sites and add
discussion content from hundreds of categories to your forums.

EchoForum.com - The Shared Community  Solution.

Xarcell

Ok, I tested it and it's a very superduper awesome concept.

However, I feel it needs some tweaking. With SMF that is...

So far here are a few problems that stop me from keeping it.

1.) It ruins the stats pages. RSS takeover... I can't compete with a "RSS" named guy that posts 20 topics a day.

2.) For some reason, the BBC code doesn't work. It doesn't make the url's linkable, but if I click to modify the post and don't change a thing, then it's linkable after I save it. WTF?

3.) It ruins my members list. Is there not a way to hide the 10 different "RSS" members?

4.) I'd like to see an alternative to the author info of each post. Maybe I can set up a membergroup or changes certain permissions. I don't mind the user having a avatar (i'll create custom), and web url, but I dunno. I'll see what I can do and get back to ya...

EDIT:: I changed the "displayed name" manually of each rss poster.

-Xarcell


Richard Rhoden

Hello Xarcell,

Ok let me address the points one at a time, and answer them.

1.) It ruins the stats pages. RSS takeover... I can't compete with a "RSS" named guy that posts 20 topics a day.

A) This is a function of SMF, what we would be looking for is additional configuration in the Membergroups section of SMF, remember we are just an addon for forum software and although we have access to are currently shying away from making any direct modification to the forum software iteself or requiring a "mod" for additional configuration.  Remember we have to and currently do work with many of hte top forum software packages and are trying to leverage the specific features of each software, SMF's membergroups are mostly visual configuration such as color in list, and what gif for the "stars" and such, where the feature you would be looking for is "do not include this membergroup in stats" or "do not include this member group in memberlists"  We are always reviewing and beta testing new versions as they come out, and when 1.1 hits release we will be looking for these features either in the membergroups or perhaps the members profile itself, so that we can use those features to do what you are looking for.

2.) For some reason, the BBC code doesn't work. It doesn't make the url's linkable, but if I click to modify the post and don't change a thing, then it's linkable after I save it.

A) Ok this one is a bit odd, i've marked it down and will be sending it in to be tested as I know we have testing the links and BBC codes before, might I ask what version of SMF you are running, and we will get back to you on this change.  But this one we will look into as it should auto link them and the links be available when anyone reads the messages.

3.) It ruins my members list. Is there not a way to hide the 10 different "RSS" members?
A) see answer for number one above.

4.) I'd like to see an alternative to the author info of each post. Maybe I can set up a membergroup or changes certain permissions. I don't mind the user having a avatar (i'll create custom), and web url, but I dunno. I'll see what I can do and get back to ya...
A) I'm not really sure what you mean by this one.  You can setup membergroups and change them in your system any way you choose and we will use whats there so any custom setups you want to use is available, but I'm not sure what you mean by "alternative to authors info of each post" Can you elaborate a bit?

We are always open to new features and ideas, and as you come up with things fire them off to us either here or using our own forums or helpdesk.   Most of our new features come from the pool of requests by current members such as our new Ebay portal that will be opening up soon, and are trying to get all the new requests, features and tweaks into the system before a large 2.0 release we have been working on.  Thanks for your comments and kind words and have a great day.




Richard - The "Echo" Team
Share your forum content with thousands of sites and add
discussion content from hundreds of categories to your forums.

EchoForum.com - The Shared Community  Solution.

[Unknown]

Are you calling preparsecode() on the code before inserting it into the database?

-[Unknown]

Richard Rhoden

Hello Unknown,

Yes we have found the problem, I forgot to come back and update the thread, as the messages from Xarcell had gone to private mail, as he wanted us to take a look at his system and see what he was talking about.  So all is fixed now, it was some code we had in place to filter out malicious HTML content, we will have a new version going out through the patch system with the update in the next couple of days. Thanks for the quick reply and the help.  Have a great day.
Richard - The "Echo" Team
Share your forum content with thousands of sites and add
discussion content from hundreds of categories to your forums.

EchoForum.com - The Shared Community  Solution.

thegoodkelly

Has the ball been dropped on this?

I tried to register to ask questions in their forum and didn't get an email. (and yes, I know to look in spam and I'm not on aol, and I have cookies allowed...yes, I used search.)

I want to see all available feed without having to download anything to my hard drive. I'm only interested in very specific content. If you don't have it, why should I waste my time and hard drive space looking at what amounts to only advertising?

Yes, the free trial period is available, but for a newbie like me, too greatly time-consuming to download and install. Particularly if you end up having to pay someone to fix it when you hit a wrong key. And what happens after all that, if it doesn't suit my needs? Lots of time, effort, and possibly money uncompensated.

I want to see an example. If members don't want to volunteer, the owners should set up their own test board where we can view it in action.

Or, at the very least, screen shots.

Does upgrading the trial version to paid involve any additional work or is it automatic? (beyond adding additional feeds, of course)

I will be moving a board very shortly and am greatly interested in this, but the details that are important to me haven't been addressed at all.

cjexotic

I had Echoforums working and posting to my forum.

If you just want to see it ran with smf, check my forum .

I ran it just long enough I was going to convert to the full version,I liked it! BUT it doesn't seem to work right with 1.1 and I didn't get a reply from they're technical people to figure out what went wrong after the upgrade.

The service still works but with 1.1 it doesn't work right  :(

KingPin

anyone know what happened to this service? the site leads to a parked page....

DeadJellyfish

Yeah, I'm quite disappointed that it disappeared.  It was a really cool service.  I hope it either comes back or someone else creates something similar.

KingPin

I have the resources to run something like this but Im not too sure what it even was (i have the very basic idea) or how to create it.....

Xarcell


Ben_S

Liverpool FC Forum with 14 million+ posts.

Xarcell

Exactly what it was offering.

I thought thier prices were a bit steep, and you couldn't set up more than one account.

I was really needing it now though, for a new site I have.

spiros

This is quite strange indeed. Anybody knows why they closed down?

Ben_S

If it was the rss parts you wanted, look in the General Discussion and Feedback board for the RSS Injector.
Liverpool FC Forum with 14 million+ posts.

Xarcell

Quote from: Ben_S on March 08, 2006, 11:14:53 AM
If it was the rss parts you wanted, look in the General Discussion and Feedback board for the RSS Injector.

Found it and it's what I'm looking for. However I could not get it to work.

Tony Reid

Sadly I never got round to trying this out.

I wonder - was the mod for it configurable for other NNTP servers?

If so was it released?

Tony Reid

Sincere

Quote from: Joseph on April 18, 2005, 09:19:11 AM
gain access to a wealth of informational content that can be  directly imported into your SMF forum.

I can IMPORT to my SMF Forum, by inclusion in my DB or only by feeds from your network ???


How well can I then control any spam / hate / illegal content ?

Can the moderators on my site delete, edit, move, merge, split topics ????


I am very much willing to pay for such service.... in many languages......

Do you need a special mod for your smf forums? contact me for a quote.

Trekkie101

Saldy echo forum has died, the owner seems to have moved on.

It was never a simple machines project, but rather something a user of ours decided to try and do, it did work but it seems to have gone.

I suppose things like RSS injectors became available defeating the point in the echoforum service, I don't really see a point in letting this topic go on...so im locking it.

Thanks :)

Edit: seems I cant, an admin will probably have to.

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