For better of for worse, today I’m officially opening the Cutting Reunion BBS to the public at http://www.cuttingreunion.com/bbs. It seems that this may be the best way for us to have and maintain an open dialogue regarding our family reunion plans.
This bulletin board system (BBS) is hosted by an application called PHP BBS, which should be familiar to a few of you. PHP BBS is a fairly straight-forward and easy to use application, and I hope that you’ll find it useful. Unfortunately, I don’t have time right now to add graphics and links that would tie our BBS into the rest of the Cutting Reunion web site, so I’ll ask that you be patient with the system if you get confused. We’re making this up as we go along.
One problem that I’m aware of that I think is worth mentioning is that you’ll have to create another account in order to participate this BBS, which means that you’ll have another login and password to keep track of in addition to the account you created to comment on our home page. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but there’s nothing I can do about that at the moment. This redundancy is due to the fact that our web site uses two separate web applications—one for blog posts (WordPress) and one for this new bulletin board system (PHP BBS). I lack the programming experience (and time) required to consolidate user accounts. (If anyone out there has programming experience and knows how to do this, send me an email!)
That said, I hope that you’ll take the time to poke around the BBS and that you’ll get involved with the discussion. Regardless of how slick any of this technology looks it’s all for nothing if you don’t participate.
Enjoy!
-i.