chrispederick.com

Fire­fox 0.9 was relea­sed a week ago along with the new Mozi­lla Update site that “hosts exten­sions and the­mes for Mozi­lla soft­ware”.

I am not sure if it was users dis­co­ve­ring my exten­sions after switching to this new ver­sion of Mozi­lla Fire­fox, users fin­ding my exten­sion through the new cen­tra­li­zed exten­sion site or issues with the new exten­sion mana­ger, but I recei­ved a large amount of email in the last week rela­ted to my extensions.

I always try to res­pond to any emails in a timely man­ner, but it was beco­ming a fair amount of work so I star­ted loo­king into pos­si­ble ways to make the com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­cess bet­ter. With this in mind there are now chrispederick.com forums. The forums are desig­ned to com­pli­ment (rather than replace) con­tac­ting me directly, but I am hoping they will prove a valua­ble resource for peo­ple wishing to find ans­wers to their issues or dis­cuss fea­ture requests.

PunBB

I am not expec­ting these forums to be used by large num­bers of peo­ple so in choo­sing the forum soft­ware I wan­ted something sim­ple and light­weight. Having seen Alex King’s recom­men­da­tion I deci­ded to go with PunBB and I am very happy so far. I have made some minor tweaks and set up some new the­mes, but basi­cally it is the stan­dard setup without any modi­fi­ca­tions. If there are any fea­tu­res that you would like to see added just post your thoughts in the Gene­ral forum, but bear in mind that I want to keep the forums light­weight and fast.

A few peo­ple have already regis­te­red and star­ted pos­ting in the forums and so far I am liking the new form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Also bear in mind that these forums are not exc­lu­si­vely rela­ted to ques­tions about my exten­sions, so feel free to post about anything rela­ted to chrispederick.com.