Great that we're moving forward and thank you guys for your work... Trust me I know it's not easy but I'm feeling abit disappointed about the new club site. I'm not trying to burst anyones bubble here but I have already seen many problems with it...
First it's a free PHPBB based site sitting on a free server. PHPBB is an open source script witch highly susceptible to being hacked and also isn't very user friendly IMO...
The site is sitting on a free server (createphpbb.com) That's why when you goto jolietreef.com you get redirected to
http://s8.createphpbb.com/jarc/. Now you have to ask yourself how can it be free, they have to get paid some how.... createphpbb make there money back on advertisers. Notice those banners that show up (goggle ads) that you have no control over.
Also I noticed when you do register and get your confirmation email it comes from
mark@stamaraquaculture.com Why aren't we using our own email app. Also in that email you will see your password.. that means your password was never encrypted.... not good. In fact you should never trust any site that ever emails you your password.
There are other alternatives that would serve us much better.
I was thinking we could use a vBulletin site, not free but not expensive.. (we don't even have to pay for it right away) it comes with support, pretty easy to use and very secure, most large forums use vBulletin (like reefcentral, 3reef and not so big thepiratesreef... lol)
Pay for hosting, again not free but not expensive, but have full control of the site... control of banners (then maybe we could get a sponsor, give them banner space and off set the costs of running the site) and also have a Real JARC email client where admins/mods can have a @jarc email addy. I confident we can make happen. What do you guys think?
