Dec 17 2007

Linux Outlaws /forums

Posted by Fab

We have decided to scrap the Pligg site in favour of some forums. There was not much going on over there lately and I also recently discovered some slightly disturbing security problems with the system that I didn’t really wanted to live with in the long run. Since a few people requested forums anyway and they can basically fulfill the same purpose as the other site but are much more versatile, we decided to switch. I sincerely hope this doesn’t cause too much of an inconvenience to people.

Registration is optional of course, but we hope that many of you will join us at the forums and provide us with feedback and valuable ideas for future episodes. If you prefer to just hang out and talk about other stuff, that is fine as well. I am looking forward to many fruitful and entertaining discussions over there!

Please note that the theme for the forums isn’t finalised yet — in the moment we’re running the default prosilver template. I am looking at customising the looks of the place soon, but I’ll probably won’t get to it until the new year. In the meantime, the functionality is all there, however, so head over and enjoy yourselves!


Oct 14 2007

Ante Up!

Posted by Fab

pligg-logoI have just set up a Pligg powered voting site for the podcast that I called Ante Up! The system works exactly like you are probably used to from digg.com: Once you have signed up, you can submit links to stories and vote on other people’s submissions. Dan and I will also submit our stories for the podcast and each week we’ll try and pick a few stories from the highest ranked ones to include into the show.

Even if you do not submit anything, I would appreciate it very much if you’d sign up to vote on the stories other people submit. If we can get enough active users together, we can hopefully put some more variety into the shows and it will be a bit easier for Dan and me to come up with interesting stuff every week. I hope this will make it easier for you, the listener, to tell us what you want us to talk about. Please have a go and tell us via the feedback form if you like this system or if you have an idea how we could improve it. I am really looking forward to seeing a lot of interesting story submissions from you!