IMG Board Scripts (502)

103 Name: Anonymous : 2008-08-13 13:41 ID:Heaven [Del]

Yes, arranging the css files and stuff like that with the config file is a big step towards making it all so much easier.

Might as well take advantage of what's there to take advantage of, I mean, they didn't come up with the idea of putting all those variables into a file included in each script for nothing, you know...

Anything that saves excessive work in updating a site is w00ty, regardless of how few or how many boards you have.

An aside on that subject: I do agree with !WAHa.06x36 about too many sites having too many unnecessary/redundant/already-done-to-death boards... I had a guy on my board asking for advice about his site, and he didn't seem to understand through multiple posts that all I was telling him to do was to have one news board instead of seven of them... I mean, come on, boards have threads for a reason, there's no need to make a board for each category of something that could be just fine occupying one board.

I think that the first thing that happens to anyone who gets ahold of a script for making multiple boards is that they immediately try to make 60 boards so they'll look all big and wonderful, and then they wind up with 59 boards to watch over for spam and cp, and nobody posts anything worthwhile because it's just a big empty site and no one will get anything out of their post. So, all these huge new sites get is people seeing a big empty wall to vandalize, as it were.

My friend's site has an image board for its main topic, a random board just for stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else, a text board for discussion, and an oekaki board for drawing. Four boards is enough for all of their needs.

My site is a single text board, it's all I need.

I really think that when people build hueg sites in their attempts to replace 4chan, all they're doing is making more clutter on the net, and I don't think they realize that 4chan became so big BECAUSE there weren't so many sites like it. You can't build an empty mega-mall and expect people to shop there, let alone come back.

99 Name: Makoto!!QPpGvuVX : 2008-08-05 20:27 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>98

I understand what you're getting at. People shouldn't be making more than one or two boards because then they end up duplicating boards that already exist (everybody has a /b/ nowadays) and just end up creating a clone of 2chan or of 4chan.

What I was trying to get at with that statement was that Trevor had a good idea but terribly implemented it. Most people who set out to clone these boards won't stop until they realize it's a bad idea to create 60 boards with one script, but with Trevosuaba they'll hardly ever notice.

Hence why with my script it pretty much just creates a directory and moves the needed board script/directories into it, so eventually they'll realize they have 30 directories of boards, cycling away at their host's CPU with no one posting in hardly any of them. In other words, the board creation function was made for the people who like the wakaba style of installation, but need more than one board and hate duplicating directories via FTP and/or control panel.

>>97

No, I mean, I know what the script you're refering to is (it's in fact named fuukaba), but I think you have me mixed up with someone else (Gnac/Ikitsumatatsu) ^^.

98 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2008-08-05 05:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

> If there's one thing Trevor did right with his scripts it was the ability to create multiple boards with one installation, making it easy to create multiple boards.

Actually, no. People create too many boards. They want to run their own 4chan, not their own board, and that's a bad idea. It dilutes participation, and is redudant, and it makes your board die.

The successful boards are pretty much single boards.

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