You might also try setting up MediaWiki and/or Trac under the project
features and see if those perform any better.  These were recently made
available as "hosted applications" so they should be easy to setup and
get started with.

Neil

Bram Neijt wrote:
> I've just enabled the wiki at http://metalinks.wiki.sourceforge.net/
> But it seems to be so slow that it's not going to be usefull... porbably
> why we disabled it earlier. I'm leaving it on, so people can judge it.
> 
> Maybe we should change metamirrors.nl into a Wiki or blog specifically
> for the project? It currently seems to try to fix to many problems: be a
> metalink distribution and project hosting site... trying to please both
> users and developers. I don't think that is any good, so maybe we should
> make it a developer/development only site and move all user
> questions/answers to metalinker.org?
> 
> Bram
> 
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 15:10 -0700, Ant Bryan wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 5:13 pm, Bram Neijt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I've been busy with my master thesis and still am, so I won't do much
>>> for the upcoming time. However, I do feel somewhat responsible for the
>>> website and other development aids/tools. I've removed spam and
>>> currently, due to the overload of spammers, I've disabled user account
>>> creation on metamirrors.nl. This made me thinking: what are we using the
>>> website for and what should we be using it for... and is everybody happy
>>> with it?
>> thanks! I had been noticing spam in the rss feed for awhile & was
>> starting to worry about it.
>>
>>> I would like to hear from all the developers (and anybody else willing
>>> to participate) on the following:
>>>
>>> - Are there website things we should consider? Anything missing?
>>>
>>> - Should we consider moving to Trac and it's wiki support?
>>>
>>> - I think the main website of the metalinks project should become a
>>> developer haven, and then all the user support and questions can be put
>>> on metalinker.org. Anybody (dis)agree?
>> a wiki could be nice, the one for this discussion group is passable
>> but I had to disable editing by people other than admins because of
>> all the spam too!
>>
>> anyone else have any opinions?
>>
>> --
>> (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
>>   )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 

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