-= Gametoast.com =-

I'm just wondering why GameToast doesn't allow users to paste an image from their clipboard into their posts?
I think being able to paste images from our clipboards would be an improvement.
It sure beats having to load everything up to some image hoster first.

But I think it would also take up a lot more memory and processor power from the server. Because we get to use this forum for free, I think that not uploading image directly through the forum is a fair drawback.

phpBB is free, and the only good free one. You cant post images from the clipboard because this isn't made with ASP. PHP and JS (to my knowledge) cant do that. If you want to paste them, they have to be in a link.

Ah, I see.

I guess free and convenient can never be together.

it can, just takes time.

501st_commander wrote:it can, just takes time.

that hurts my brain..





but i'd say phpBB is all three, its good, fast and free.

501st_commander wrote:but i'd say phpBB is all three, its good, fast and free.

That's a developer's credo - "fast" references time taken to develop, not any other kind of speed.

501st_commander wrote:...I'd say phpBB is all three, its good, fast and free.

That's all a matter of perspective. Open-source development means open-to-cracks-and-hacks. That's why PHP boards constantly have to be updated to keep out spambots. Enterprise stuff like ASP.Net doesn't have half of the hacking issues PHP stuff does, but it's not free either. Thus Mav's triangle demonstrates things perfectly.

For this site , being non income, barely production level, unix and php is fine. I agree anything offered for free is going to be a hacker magnet, many of my clients use wordpress, phpbb3 and joomla and all are free and equally hacky and spammy, targets of random spam and config file attempts. All the clients who use other apps even for $5 seem to weed out the spam and crap , as they dont have a single issue, open source = open hacks. This is fine for our tiny gt forums and the limited features we need for 50 or so peeps making posts about a 6 year old star wars game...but yea any site making income would be smart to avoid open source software. my perspective based on since the internet came out...I still love using unix servers and php since they cost 1/25th of a windows/Ms based server and sadly although winblows is popular and boasted as secure for production I've personally watched a $40 pc from 5 years ago with free unix install bring a $5000+ a month website (and more) on ms based server to its knees, thats just in my experience though. So i avoid winblows at all costs. If someone wants to buy a hacker free spam free forum software and call it gametoast 2.0 , we can doooo eeet! For now based on usage of the site in the past 8 months updates or changes arent required. phpbb3 will be ok.