Thank you, sb. It still amazes me how people feel free to render judgements based on very loose suppositions. I guess it’s that “get in a dig” thing. Anyway, these forum architectures are aging, but frankly I find BLF to be very workable, much more so than CPF. The only thing I feel missing is a LIKE button. Sometimes you want to express appreciation without having to post a reply. Also, if someone ends up doing one of those massive quoted posts, having a truncation widget with optional expand would be very nice. Some people on here, usually newbies, end up doing this—quotes a review, VERY long content, with just a “great review thanks!” reply—annoying as all get out.
Have you seen the site software in use by tenforums.com It’s pretty good. I don’t know how to tell what BBS version it’s using, though.
Yeah, I know TenForums got hacked at one point a couple years back. I don’t know if it was the security weakness of vBulletin or their insufficient safeguards. Overall, the site has been pretty reliable all things considered. Btw, while you’re here… What’s the deal with quoting a post and finding it having HTML tags in it (mostly span and paragraph)? It can end up adding significant blank lines interspersed in the content, forcing me to go back and trim it. It seems to be common with certain members, like everytime I quote a post from Raccoon City. Is there a trick to responding so that HTML tags aren’t visually replicated? My editor is almost always in Simple Post editor. Would Advanced help mitigate that?
However, After awhile I got sick of the EGO driven and controlling mods whose owner…Kelly was even worse.I felt like I lived in a country where the Government controlled its people.
I’m a member at CPF, but never felt comfortable enough to post anything. I’ve learned a lot at CPF over the years, but haven’t been over there for quite awhile. I only have so many hours in a week for flashlights and I’ve chosen to spend my time here instead.
Because serious product reviews were a driving force to my CPF membership as a resource, once "Selfbuilt" moved on to other ventures, the standard for high quality, comprehensive reviews went with him. While there certainly is no shortage of review material available, in my opinion, none come close to that which Selfbuilt provided. So it was at that point that CPF became a less appealing resource to visit, and joining BLF made sense for my needs. Plus, SB provides a fantastic platform for the sharing of information especially everything modding related.
Selfbuilt was terrific. His reviews were so thorough and mostly objective. I learned a lot from him. Yeah, recent searches around didn’t turn up anything from him. You say he moved on to other ventures—do you know what they are?
I was very young when I first joined CPF and had great time reading selfbuilt reviews (the gold standard of flashlight reviews), following FIVEMEGA mods for surefire which were my grail lights for many years even though the only surefire I finally decided to get was a hellfire 50 cal HID weapon light, and I remember drooling all over the “post your pelican case setup” thread. There was someone who ran his zebralight in the lowest moon mode for more than a year, I remember following that very closely.
The amount of high end flashlight collectors in CPF was mind blowing, but maybe a bunch of entitled folks didn’t bring the best of harmony to the forum and people like myself didn’t felt at home. I still visit from time to time but the stuff there is just outdated or repeated BLF and reddit content.
Yeah, I understand. Drupal 8 is slow as snot vs 7. No idea how 9 is considering I haven’t worked with Drupal for at least 5 years.
I actually created an account to finally post here to make fun of D8. Maybe I will stop lurking now.
It seems to be fashionable to bash PHP just because its been so successful. The largest websites/apps in the world use PHP in some for or the other. Just look at Node JS and its pile of crap dependencies. You wake up in the middle of the night and something is broken. For the BLF use case, PHP is just perfect! The PHP speed problem was solved with PHP 7 and PHP 8. It just keeps getting faster. Multi-threading is just a buzz word.
You end up spending $$$ on some new library. Just maintaining it is hell. Successful apps are not those which are totally dependent on some library. That’s something a lazy/greedy developer would want. Build something with all those dependencies and the owner would need to throw it away after 2 years. This is typically how freelancers make money. BLF is smart to keep costs under control and stay profitable. You do that by keeping what works.
You can avoid dependency hell by writing your own libraries for most things.
But ask yourself the question- is it worth it?
The web is evolving very fast, and what you code today doesn’t have to work more than 2 years. Just like with modern cars. You buy one, keep it until warranty expires, then throw it away and get a new one
It’s a waste of resources, but keeps the world turning faster and faster
