Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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By pete -
When the new FileTransferPlanet.com launched, we had a big dilemma – that being, to port in all of the old forum material that we had or not to. Literally years and years of information – most of which, unfortunately, was too dated to keep without major revising. We made a decision to start fresh – a very daunting task in this new age of social media. An empty forum is never a good sign to a new visitor. Fortunately, some early adopters have jumped in immediately – which is great! Many thanks to PaulBeugeling, Mike, “chester”, and the others who are making it such a helpful place to chat.
The forums have some new features that we are really pleased with. They are built on BBPress, on a really nice open source platform – and happens to work quite nicely with WordPress, which powers this blog. There are of course some anti-spam measures in the background, but on the front end we’ve chosen for a “human test” to help make sure its not a dirty robot dropping junk into a post. Â We did not want to lock it down too much, however, so creating an account is not necessary – guest posts are more than welcome! Other cool features – if you drop a URL to a Youtube video into a post, the site is smart enough to embed the video (here’s an.. umm, example.. from one of our members) .
A “support forum” is also in placed – if you have a question you really want answered, drop it in there, and you have control over it being marked as “resolved” or not – to keep our experts on the case as long as you need.
Other stuff we have.. RSS is all over the place – subscribe to as much, or as little, as you want.. or even go old school with Email subscriptions to particular threads.
That’s just the start – so head on over! Oh and – once you create an account, it works for both forums and blog comments! Yeah, its that easy. Got ideas? Concerns? Please let us know – either comment here – or heck, even better, start a thread in the forums 
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