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Patrick
2012 Aug 16, 9:12am
Patrick, what forum engine do you use? Doesn't look like any of the popular picks (vbulletin, phpBB, etc)
It started out as Wordpress, but not much of the original code is left now. It's mostly my own creation at this point.
Hey patrick, is it just me or is there something (buggy?) Going on where sometimes when I click on a new thread, I cannot make a comment? As in there's not the usual typepad to type in. Just the OP link and their comment but no means to leaving a comment. Only happens some of the time,,,,off the top of my head, the thread on Obama commenting on Akin, and last week a thread titled "they tried to kill me with my kids"
Can you post comment in that thread?
I searched for the one title "they tried to kill me with my children" and couldn't find it. Probably for the better, nobody should have to be subject to read news like that,,,,its better left unspoken about
Patrick
2012 Aug 21, 4:51am
Ah, that user paid to be a Premium Member:
http://patrick.net/subscribe.php
So he bought the right to restrict the discussion to other Premium Members, and that's what he did with that thread. Dunno why. It was really intended so that any people listing property on the forum could control the comments in that case.
I think he's a she ;)
That other one I cannot find now was a tovarichpeter posting, and id find it odd with all he contributes that he would have done that with that link, intentionally. Is it something that could be happening by mistake?
WillyWanker
2012 Aug 26, 3:20am
I rarely visit this site anymore. Once, it was the 'go to' place for news and information on real~estate in the US. Now, not so much. It's more closely aligned with The Sandbox at the IMDb forums. Filled with political prattle and flaming over silly things. It appears that the donations have petered out, and how could they not, as Patrick took public political stances which pushed half his audience away.
It was fun while it lasted and it also served as an important resource for real~estate news.
Tant pis.
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Are you trying to drive people AWAY from your site? The new layout/format sucks. Big time. A "forum" should feel like a forum, right now, your site feels like a cesspool of links.
Any chance you can revert back/fix it? Personally, I used to visit your site atleast a few times a day. Since this new layout, it's become a few times a week or less.