[theforum] Support Forum
John Handelaar
john at userfrenzy.com
Wed Feb 21 14:18:57 CST 2007
Dean Mah wrote:
> I don't know if Drupal has a forum
> module but unless we can get better performance out of the system, I'd
> vote for not hosting it within Drupal.
>
> Thoughts? Anyone care? If no one cares, I'm likely to just do it.
a) Drupal does have a forum module
b) Yes, our performance is currently very poor. If you
have time to look at things, I've documented
quite a lot of stuff wrt my having moved a bunch
of Drupal sites away from Apache/mod_php and into
Nginx+php+fastcgi+APC-cache
http://handelaar.org/blog/2007/01/drupal-without-apache
...I've found the results to be staggering, and it
hasn't fallen over in 8 weeks, and our server does
four times the traffic of evolt's.
c) I think the comments' legibility is in no small way
a design issue
d) I've *very* nearly finished a script which can import
old list archive mbox-es into Drupal forum threads,
for someone else. It ought to be available for us to
try out shortly (I have to wait for the client's job
to finish running) -- if you think that's worth
pursuing, I reckon a set of forums inside Drupal which
also included read-only "forums" containing thelist
would be a very nice thing to have.
There's also a discussion to be had about spam filtering,
Akismet, and auto-expiring comments on articles.
And maybe another one about new articles.
But performance-wise (and security-wise) I've got info to
offer (usual channels) on the Drupal front. I imagine
someone else is going to gasp out loud at the idea of using
any of the previously-mentioned PHP forum apps any minute
now.
So basically, yeah, I agree -- but I think we can fix the
performance stuff.
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