The future of the Business Traveller forum

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  • Anonymous
    Guest

    Over 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.


    DisgustedofSwieqi
    Participant

    Firstly, 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.


    BeckyBoop
    Participant

    Sounds great i have also noticed that the whole site has also slowed down as well so you may need to even upgrade your servers hardware.

    Who would be a moderator?

    Do you think we might be able to have a phone app to?

    xx


    VintageKrug
    Participant

    I 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.


    BeckyBoop
    Participant

    Also another idea would be to clear up some of the old threads and delete anything over 1 year old that should clear up lots of space as well 😉 xx

    BeckyBoop 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.


    BeckyBoop
    Participant

    But deffo have an app for the phones would be really handy. But who would be a moderator? i am worried some peoples posts may be auto deleted because of favortism or personal feeliings which would be unfair xx

    BeckyBoop – 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.


    BeckyBoop
    Participant

    This software looks better xx

    http://vanillaforums.org/


    Danwolf
    Participant

    Glad to hear that BT are looking to update the forums. On my Wishlist would be a more user-friendly way to browse through the forum posts, especially with the ones with 200+ posts.


    BeckyBoop
    Participant

    Dan i agree those long posts should all go if you ask me they all go round in circles xx

    BT will Seatplans run independantly of the forum? xx


    Tim2soza
    Participant

    Something that is RSS’able at topic level. (lots of mobile Apps can then read and store BT threads offline.)

    BeckyBoop – it’s undecided how we’ll manage the flight reviews that are pulled through from seatplans.com.


    BeckyBoop
    Participant

    Tim 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

    http://www.othermedia.com

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