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I haven't installed the board yet. The whole chat / tagboard /
shoutbox / forum thing is a bit up in the air right now. I had been
going to get a tagboard thing, but the payment issues with Paypal
got in the way, and I already wasn't 100% comfortable that people
couldn't cause trouble of various kinds with it. So I ended up
paying my money to Angelfire instead, to upgrade my account.
I'd already fancied doing this to get rid of the annoying banners
(plus the popups that I never got to see on my browsers except when
I switched on Javascript...), and I realised that with paid accounts,
we can also use CGI. With our own scripts! I hadn't quite
realised that...
So for now, a very simple chat thingy is going to be put up in the
next few days. Later, I plan on creating something much more
sophisticated, with several chat boards to support topics for different
groups, forums for long-term discussions, unregistered guest users,
plus registered users who get extra priviledges (eg: they can start
their own topic threads in the forums, they can pick topics for the
chat boards, guest users can't assume their names, etc). This will
take time and muchos thinkies, so don't expect it any time soon.
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