Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 31, 2024, 09:24 PMVisit the link and read what I wrote today.

It's a never-ending battle.  I opened the Diner originally due to censorship on Yahoo Groups.  They started deleting no-no words mainly, not really going after content and ideas at the time.  I also wanted more control over graphical features and the "look" of the website.  I did have to give up a few features I really liked.  There was an interactive database users could add links to that you could search and a calendar for users to put important dates into such as conferences and protest actions.  Peter, my original tech guy said he could create those for me, but he never got round to it.  The solution we found of using both the Wordpress and Simple Machine Forum packages with some tweaks got most of what I wanted.

Later on, the Diner started running into problems of disappearing posts from the SMF, which I solved by paying for an auto-backup service.  There were still issues with fake members and so forth, but overall it ran OK until I took it offline.  The action has been similar here since we combined the Diner with Squirrel, perhaps a little more since it's both of us with our own detail of MIB that have followed us around over the years joining forces.  lol.

Overall here as well, K-Dog has done a good job of keeping up with the various annoyances that crop up, which you really can never completely stop and still have a generally accessible website.  Nature of the Beast in our current world.

RE