The Coding Bay

[Fozzy]

Everyone Reading This,

I was just wondering if someone could give me feedback on not just the design, but the overall-ness of my new forum: thecodingbay.tk or goto http://exapto.com and click on the Forums link. It will be of great help!

Note: All users from Codecall that signup will receive a special 'CodeCall Member Pin' on The Coding Bay. Please also note this is not an advertisement meant to persuade you to join my website, just a suggestion/etc....

Thanks in advance for those who review it!

[Jordan]

I've moved this to the site reviews section, since that is what you are asking for.

First take: The forum is plain. You have no content to entice anyone to want to join either. Make some posts, tutorials, etc. No body will join/reply if there is nothing to reply to.

[WingedPanther]

Three comments:
1) The Dev-C++ logo may not be free for use. I would certainly check on that.
2) You have a very high noise to signal ratio. Most of the posts seem to be people posting for the sake of posting. That doesn't make me want anything to do with it.
3) You have a very limited number of languages, and they are grouped together oddly.

[Fozzy]

Thanks for the feedback, and about the posts:

If you read the newest announcement, it clearly states that my board had recently encountered a crash, and the majority of the posts were deleted, some, like the announcements and the projects section were saved. The forum used to have 3000+ posts, until the board crash...

Thanks again!

[Jordan]

Not bad. What caused the crash? Why no daily backup?

[Fozzy]

I only started the forum a little while ago, daily backup never crossed my mind. I'm gonna update the design and etc.... Since there isn't any value to any post at this point, im just gonna move them to the "Trash Bin" forum. See you on there =P

[Jordan]

You may want to consider daily/weekly/monthly backups. On occasion, daily backups have been corrupt and the weekly has saved CodeCall. The corruption usually came from Script Kiddies hacking Joomla!. Something to ponder.

[Orjan]

normal backup behaviour is to backup daily every day, then save one of them as a weekly one day a week for example monday, then first monday of month, even save the weekly as a monthly backup.

daily backups can then be erased after 14 days, and weekly after 2 months, and the monthlys for example after a year.

it's simplier as you probably make file backup instead of tapes which absolutely used this manners to provied safety, but the method isn't bad now either.

if you're really afraid of crashes and stuff, then consider save backups on two separate discs, or beside a harddrive, at a network storage at another provider than your web hotel, who also make their own backups daily of your backup files.

[Jordan]

Great suggestions orjan. At CodeCall we have two backup locations in geographically different locations. In case a catastrophe happens to one data center we still have the other. Something you may want to consider.

[Xav]

This site doesn't use Zebulon, does it?