The future of the Business Traveller forum
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at 09:15 by Tom Otley.
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BusinessTravellerKeymasterOver the last six months or so the Business Traveller forum has grown enormously, and we thank you for your continued interest, posts and opinions.
It has become clear that recent use of the forum has outgrown both our current software, and just as importantly our resources in terms of managing and moderating it.
We are therefore looking at options, including migrating to a dedicated forum system, which would allow us to introduce moderators and far greater flexibility with thread management, direct messaging, etc, all of which have been discussed in various threads on this site recently.
The forum would still sit within the Business Traveller site, but it would probably require a separate log in to that which many of you use for your newsletter or print subscriptions.
We’d like to hear your thoughts on this, and welcome suggestions on any forum software which you have used which you think works particularly well, and any functionality which you think is essential to the working of a good forum.
We’ll keep you updated on progress, but in the meantime please bear with us – there are lot more of you than us, and we cannot always respond as quickly as we would like to threads, queries and emails.
21 Feb 2012
at 14:45
DisgustedofSwieqiParticipantFirstly, thanks for providing a great forum.
Secondly, whilst no expert, I do seem to encounter vBulletin quite a lot, on different fora in different areas.
https://www.vbulletin.com/order/
This seems to have most of the essential features built in, such as private mail, ignore lists etc, but you’d probably wish to speak to someone with years of experience in running it – do you know any of the guys at PPrune or Flyertalk? Internet Brands, who own Jelsoft (who produce vBulletin), also own these two fora, amongst others.
21 Feb 2012
at 14:53
VintageKrugParticipantI would also recommend vBulletin; the only problem is Internet Brands itself, which probably wouldn’t be the best commercial match for BT.
An “ignore user” function is of particular value.
Older threads are often of historical value, and can help with researching trips.I do hope existing threads will be able to be archived onto the new server, or accessible in archive form.
21 Feb 2012
at 15:02
BusinessTravellerKeymasterBeckyBoop and VintageKrug – we would probably archive the existing forum content on our site, at least for a while (so that it is viewable but not editable), and start again from scratch on the new software.
21 Feb 2012
at 15:09
BusinessTravellerKeymasterBeckyBoop – we have noted your request for an app and will see what we can do.
We have yet to make decision on exactly how moderation will work, but will involve existing posters closer to the time.
21 Feb 2012
at 15:26
BusinessTravellerKeymasterBeckyBoop – it’s undecided how we’ll manage the flight reviews that are pulled through from seatplans.com.
21 Feb 2012
at 15:59
BeckyBoopParticipantTim dont you do internet and phone stuff, perhaps you can build the new site? xx
This co looks good they seem to know what they are talking about and make some good stuff xxx
21 Feb 2012
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