Hi, I've read almonst everything of this topic (a good one ), so let me explain my point of view.
Xoops, as is, is not good enough.
A fresh new user that comes to Xoops.org now only see an old-style-CMS-phpnuke-clone, right?
So, my little personal list of improvements needed before you can start to seriously talking about Xoops' marketing (yes, i'm going to be cruel now )

in scattered order

- Give a nice and cool theme to the official website. Xoops.org has, probably, the worse and the monst anonymous theme confronted to the others Xoops' support - and related to XOOPS - sites.
Just some examples that are better:
http://www.frxoops.org/
http://www.myxoops.org/
http://tw.xoops.org/
http://www.xoopsit.net/modules/news/
An XOOPS theme contest - with or without a reward (a great one can be the theme developer's name listed on the all about XOOPS section ) - will probably help in this.

- A demo site is needed. Give to it as many robusted and various modules as you can, do a good optimization (cached items, visible blocks, etc), do a backup and make a task for restore that backup every X hours.. and then left this demo site tho his way.

- A themes.xoops.org is needed too. Here you can put just the theme-block and a direct link to 'download this theme now' - maybe you can transfer the theme library section in here.

- Personally, I think that the Foundation has to manage the various XOOPS support communities better. They are using and advertising you and your brand. So you can't left them to their way - a monthly newsletter, just as a starting point, will be a good thing.

- MORE support on sourceforge. This mean that a you have to show that you're keeping an eye on our troubles - bugs, patches, RFE need at least a reply from a Core Team Member.
I know this is an hard work, but trust in me.. it will help on the long way

- An Official chat for instant support and for help grow up (more and more) the community. Do I've to tell you that an 'official guy' have to live this as a second life?

- Trick and track with Search Engine Optimization. The work here is not that hard 'cause XOOPS is on the right way. Some little tweaks here and there will help you in your free advertising, right?
Of course .. we want these as a default feat

- More to come, later

banned

Hi,
the problem is - probably - in one of the modules you have installed.
You can disable these one by one and locate where is the problem, then give a look on the search's files in the module folder

Regards,

Heh, methink you need more external links for a complete indexing of your site in google.
I've a site with xDirectory too, and I'ven't problem with indexing, right?
- about 200 listed resources indexed by G -

P.S. more links will help your position in every SE, right?

Hell, newbb - as a module that uses smarty - is one of the most easy constumizable forum in the net.
In about 20 minutes you can remade the main aspect of your forum - tweaking the 'post' template, right?

>Strip features out of NewBB 1
Confused too..

At this time you have to tweak with the user.php file
In next versions - when system module will be modularized too - this option will become avaible - methink.

banned

If you need help feel free to ask ;)
- you can find me on xoopsit.net, right? -

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Yep, this will be a great feature.
You know, in TyniMCE doing this is really simple (you just have to put in the html more parameters if you want more options). Will we be able to create different instance of the editor for the various modules?

Hey ralf, for what i know about TinyMCE is a plugins based editor.
So, will be your module able do create different text editor for different modules?
This will be the ultimate feat, right?

I'm thinking about make an xCode plugin, you think is needed?

@astaldaran
Give the ability to export-import the rpg related data with one click and your project will be the best php-rpg ever

- so we can SHARE our own project, right? -

You can give a try to this site, right?
http://www.archive.org/