I am building up a developer-forum for all camps

Because there is need and no seperated forum just for development (software/hardware) I am setting up a forum for all camps (classic, AOS4, MOS, Aros). Basic idea is neutrality, so no discussions with sentence like "done right", "true" or similar.

http://forum.natami-news.de/index.php

I would like to know what you think about structure and what should I change.

I have a basic question to all. The owner of amiga.org is asking me if I want to move all to amiga.org instead of having a completely separated site.

my site:
http://forum.natami-news.de/index.php

or as sub-forum on amiga.org

i personally prefer being separated but I would like to hear different opinions.

Well, I'd firstly get rid of requiring manual approval of new registrations; there's no need for it.

As far as Amiga.org goes, there is *already* a "development ... forum for all camps":
http://www.amiga.org/forums/group.php?groupid=44

Not that many people use it :(

As far as your forum goes, it could be useful to have forums dedicated to particular languages, e.g. C, E (AmigaE/PortablE/etc), Hollywood, etc.

Also, please consider changing "AOS4" to "AmigaOS4" & "MOS" to "MorphOS". There shouldn't be any need to use informal slang when describing which system a forum is for.

@minuos

That's asking for trouble, in the short term bots wont find the site, but they do you can expecet a diet of spam quite quickly.

And captcha type solutions are getting so complex to solve these days that ven humans can't solve them.....

changed...

@All

And I have new installed it under:
http://www.amigacoding.de/

Additionally:
Huge Database
Newest version of the Forum-Software

The only problem is that I could not take over the data. I have added most of the informations of the old site. Please reregister and add missing informations.

@broadblues

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Then use one that isn't so complex to solve.

F.e. this one is pretty simple:
http://www.codegravity.com/projects/mathguard

Not having a captcha check at all is just asking for your registration form to be spammed to death IMHO.

Sure you can make / use an easire captcha but then you can't rely on as the only confirmation that form has been filled out genuinely.

A combination of manageable capture and human moderation is safest IMHO.