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jimmyt · Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Texas

Hi,

Since it seems like b2dev may be gone (forever?), and since right now there seems to be a serious lack of organization of b2 hacks and mods, I was seriously thinking about quickly putting together a site for downloads of b2 mods, hacks, templates, and discussion, etc. The site could conceivably be online fairly rapidly, maybe within a few days or so (At least in a preliminary form).

I was wondering if anyone thought this would be a worthwhile project or not.......How many people use b2? Do people need a resource like this? It seems like b2 is a great piece of software, but it seems like Michael V is otherwise occupied for the time being, and b2 is getting bodyslammed by other weblog software(eg MT--perl, blech), and I think one crucial difference may be the lack of any centralized place for resources. Any feedback would be appreciated.

GamerZ · Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 537 Location: Singapore

yap, alot of ppl arleady wanetd to did this, but till now nothign came up
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Mister44 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:32 am Post subject:

How many people use b2?

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22powered+by+b2%22
Google finds 138,000 with that. So figure at least 50,000 'real' pages...

jimmyt · Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Texas

damn, that's a lot of people

eadz · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 4:35 pm Post subject:

How about this :
http://www.bblog.com/ - b2 blog
http://www.bblog.com/forum/ - forum
http://www.bblog.com/bugs/ - bug tracker ( bugzilla )
http://www.bblog.com/downloads/ - downloads ( mod_autoindex )

TigerDE2 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Germany, Erfurt

Hi!
First of, I don't think it's a good idea to "separate" the community.
This forum is the best database for hacks and support at the moment, another site would just destroy that.

And there're rumors in the anouncement board michel v would be back in no time.
(Even though there're also rumors he was kidnapped by aliens... *g )

Oh, and

jimmyt · Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Texas

Yeah, I understand what you're talking about when you say a new site can divide the community. I was not planning to do make a fork of b2 or anything, really I was thinking more a place for themes, plugins, etc. that people have made.

The forums are good, but there's no centralized place (that I'm aware of) for downloads of complete, more or less 1.0 version plugins (e.g. the print function, the pda plugin, the link manager, etc). All of these are great hacks, but finding them can be a chore, esp. for a newbie.

Anyway, I hope Michael comes back Smile

eadz · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject:

I think a theme site would be cool.

The site would have themes for download, with screenshots of each one, and a way to upload themes.
also ratings would be cool.

Better than a screenshot would be a live demo i.e. like on the phpbb.com theme page.
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TigerDE2 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: Germany, Erfurt

Well...
If you're going to make that site, could you try to make it "localized"?
FAQs in different Languages, perhaps even different frontends....
Just an idea...
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