Is bp.org down?

[Richly]

Guys, let's start a new basicprogramming forum on proboards (the same platform Peter is using for BaCon).

Good idea! Proboards are good, as is this Simple Machines forum...

[Tomaaz]

The main advantage is that no one needs to buy a hosting and pay for it. Several people can have admin accounts and when one gets bored or, for some reason, can't visit a forum regularly, others will be there.

[ScriptBasic]

Why don't you use this forum as a replacement for BP.org ?

All BASIC is also an alternative. All BASIC is targeted towards the advanced BASIC user and may not be for everyone.

[Tomaaz]

Why don't you use this forum as a replacement for BP.org ?

All BASIC is also an alternative. All BASIC is targeted towards the advanced BASIC user and may not be for everyone.

Proboards is a better option, because...

... no one needs to buy a hosting and pay for it. Several people can have admin accounts and when one gets bored or, for some reason, can't visit a forum regularly, others will be there.

[Aurel]

proboards...
like codecraft...   
i have phpbb on my free web hosting account

[Richly]

OK, so how do we get this started?

How about a name - keep it simple and similar to BP.org - how about basicprogrammingforum?

Topics could be similar to BP.org too - how about the following BP.org topics as a starting point?

Community News and Announcements
Site help and feedback
General questions and discussions
Code and examples
Tutorials and articles
About dialect development
Local pub
Other programming languages

[ScriptBasic]

OK, so how do we get this started?

Remember you are talking about a handful of posters on the old BP.org site. There are more limbo BASIC forums already then I want to think about. Most of the PB.org members that post are already here.

[Tomaaz]

   
i have phpbb on my free web hosting account

Seems really outdated (the main site has a 90s look - http://free-forum.net/home.php ) and dead (last posts on the support forum are from 2014, last announcements from 2013 - http://support.free-forum.net/ ). I mentioned Proboards, because it's alive (http://support.proboards.com/board/44/support-board ) and works well (BaCon forum).

OK, so how do we get this started?

How about a name - keep it simple and similar to BP.org - how about basicprogrammingforum?

How about basicprogramming? Richey, do you want to start this forum?

[ScriptBasic]

BP.org is working. (for the moment at least)

[Richly]

Perhaps Thomas read Ed's email and paid the bill!

If so, thanks to Ed and Thomas!

Well, we still have the option of creating a proboard forum in the future if bp.org does eventually go down permanently

 

[Aurel]

proboards is a ordinary crap
and how anyon think to copy content of smf to proboards
 

[Tomaaz]

proboards is a ordinary crap
and how anyon think to copy content of smf to proboards
 

1. BP.org was offline (with no contact to its owner).
2. It was my idea to start Proboards forum and I don't care about old content from BP.org.

Anyway... Ben (he he ), BP.org is back, so no one is either going to move to Proboards or use your forum. At least until BP.org is gone again...

[ScriptBasic]

Tomaaz,

I think you would make a good BASIC forum admin. Just create a ProBoards forum, announce it everywhere you can and see how it goes.

John

[Tomaaz]

Just create a ProBoards forum, announce it everywhere you can and see how it goes.

As long as BP.org is still alive, it doesn't make sense as people won't move to another forum.

[Aurel]

under people he mean 3 member where one is a MOD