phpBB Weekly

Hello everyone,

Recently, this show has gone through a number of upheavals, whether it be hosts who couldn’t be present or having problems with our live-show service, TalkShoe. David and I have been getting frustrated with some of the issues we’ve been having, and so are going to be making some changes, which I’d like to begin to outline to you below.

Goodbye TalkShoe?
When I started this show in January, my primary basis for it was to have a show not just talking about creating communities with phpBB, but to actually have a community that could participate and be a part of the show. For these past few months, TalkShoe has been the tool that has allowed us to pull this off. However, during the last month or two, we have been dealing with a significant increase in difficulties with TalkShoe, to the point where if you were on yesterday’s episode of phpBB Weekly, you heard how I had to cut the show short (it was a 25 minute show!) due to TalkShoe completely giving up on me.

Even though yesterday’s episode #037 wasn’t that great, David and I have decided that we will release it anyway, however we’re going to start testing some alternatives to TalkShoe, and we have already began researching some of these. If we find one that we like this week, it is very likely that on episode #038 this Saturday, we will be “beta testing” a different service. Of course, we will be announcing details later on this week here on this blog.

If we determine that we like that service, then a number of significant changes will happen here on phpBB Weekly. For one thing, our feed URLs will change as we will be moving off of TalkShoe feeds and managing the podcast feed in-house. This will probably also give us an opportunity to launch an updated website, something I’ve been wanting to do for a little while now. Anyway, stay tuned, as we’ll be sure to keep you up-to-date on this blog about any changes that are going to happen.

Daylight Savings Time
A number of countries have seen time changes ending recently, and in the case of the United States, we just had DST end last night. Therefore, the time of our show will be changing. We will still be recording the show on Saturdays starting at 12 PM Eastern Time, however this means that the show will be starting at 1700 UTC, not 1600 UTC. You may want to check your local time so you know when phpBB Weekly will be starting now in your area.

DavidMJ
David and I have gotten so many e-mails in the last month asking if we’re going to get DavidMJ back on the show, after he had to unexpectedly miss episode #034. I am very glad to announce that DavidMJ has agreed to guest host this Saturday, November 10th, on phpBB Weekly #038, to talk about phpBB3 (what else?). If you have any questions for him, there’s a topic in the phpBB Weekly forum, or you can come on the show on Saturday or ask him yourself!

Thanks for continuing to listen to phpBB Weekly, and for bearing with us as we go through these growing pains. When I started this show in January, I had no idea that it would grow into what it is today, and by going through these changes, we’re working to make the show even better for you, the listeners.