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Agreed. A posting on the PC-BSD forum would be appropriate, as would an announcement on various BSD mailing lists. OSNews, Slashdot and some of the related sites should notified. You might also seek a mention on the FreeBSD home page, in the Media news section perhaps.
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"bsdforums.net" all ready refers to BSDForums.org. Therefore, having "bsdforum.net" refer to DaemonForums would probably be too confusing.
When we were trying to come up with a name for these new boards we purposely strayed from anything that was too similar to BSDForums.org. |
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I could look into acquiring deamonforums.net vase via hostmonstaer and donating it to the effort.
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daemonforums.com and daemonforums.net are already registered and point towards daemonforums.org
Registering bsdforum.net would not be very fruitful IMO...
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Hopefully you are doing a 301 redirect? If not, having the other two point at this forum only divides up the tallying.
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I e-mailed the guy who runs distrowatch.com and asked him to add links to DaemonForums on the BSD pages (I'm sure other people asked, too) - he's now done it and we're linked to from:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=netbsd http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openbsd I've checked the other *BSD pages but there's no links on those as of yet. Should help with the search engine rankings. |
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But a search for "bsd forums" still lands daemonforums many pages into the matches. Just a thought: Code:
<meta name="description" content="BSD discussion forums" /> Code:
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I think the one angle that's not been considered (or perhaps I've missed it) is Google searches based on actual content (forum posts that address specific issues of interest to someone searching), instead of Google searches based on terms like "bsd" and "forums".
Example- so if someone googles for OpenBSD and VPN's, perhaps this site would pop up in the results referencing a guide someone recently published here about such an animal... and hopefully that result would be higher in the results than some other sites with the same relative amount of relative content, thus giving this site more exposure and hopefully as a result, driving more traffic here. The way to enhance this is to generate and submit a sitemap to Google. It's part of their webmaster tools, which include other neato things to help bring up the popularity of this site without having to spend $$$ or have crazy Google Ad Sense ads. As they even instruct, when done automagically as part of a cron job, even the newest content on the site can be readily indexed in Google's monster brain, waiting for prospective new users of this site to pluck it. If this has already been done, please forgive me for mentioning it. But if it hasn't, I can attest to the fact that it's pretty darn useful, and can drive more traffic here.
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Perhaps the best thing to do would be a quick PM to Charles (assuming he's still active in the forums and not too busy with the PCBSD work) or another moderator--I say Charles, because, at least when I frequented those forums he was one of the nicest people there.
If he says yes, do it, if he says no, then don't. As for DesktopBSD forums, we are lucky enough to have one of their main people here, so I'm sure he can decide if it's appropriate or not. |
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Ironically, a search for "BSD discussion forums" shows the "other" forum at the ~40th rank . Looks like we now beat them fair and square
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I don't know why but I haven't seen Charles in a long long long time there, shame to because he was a nice guy. Having recently been assigned the duty... I think I'm the only moderator who still checks the forums regulary, Antik used to be on a lot but have not seen him in ages either. Might be busy with BSD Certification or some thing. When I have any thing serious about the forums I usually E-Mail Kris Moore or Tim McCormick (the two lead developers). If you guys asked them you could probably get a formal link to daemonforums somewhere on the website. OT: Antik (moderator), DrJ, Dracheflieger, and DragnLord are people I've always respected and looked up to as my superiors on the PC-BSD forums when it comes to knowledge. The kind of people you learn from when they post or reply to something rather technical. Sadly DragnLord is the only one I still see around the forums regularly :-(
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*blush* I've not posted there for years because I found some of the more-opinionated but ill-informed regulars (not you) to be rude. These all are only operating systems, and not something to fight over.
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