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Re: New forum software
Archiving this forum and creating a new Phorum install seems like an excellent idea.
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#78 2009-10-05 05:53:26
- Mary
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Jukka: Exactly. It means modifying the import script to make cross-references of all ids, and creating a special script to look them up when they’re requested.
By the way, the import script works by dumping the database to xml, then re-importing the xml file, as opposed to working directly with a database.
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Mary wrote:
Jukka: Exactly. It means modifying the import script to make cross-references of all ids, and creating a special script to look them up when they’re requested.
That’s the catch. That is why I originally formed a sentense that goes something like: “But then again, who will do this and is it reasonable.” :)
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I’ve replaced the PunBB stock search facility with a Google CSE now. Looks worse, works better.
Disclosure: Apparently, we would earn a tiny share of ad revenue from the search result pages.
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#81 2009-10-07 15:59:28
- els
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Re: New forum software
Thanks :) It should be possible to add textpattern.com/faq/ and textbook…
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with txpish as default theme?
TXPDream – A Textpattern Tag Library for Adobe Dreamweaver. (updated for 4.2.0) | jdw_if_ajax – Only serve certain parts of a page when requested with AJAX
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I desire:
- Search within a thread
- Nested replies
- Textile yes (promotes it’s use – healthy)
jstubbs wrote:
Archiving this forum and creating a new Phorum install seems like an excellent idea.
+1 but with Vanilla
That’s one way to clean out old posts. Since there might be a surge in use of a new forum we might get the knowledge base back up to snuff fairly quickly. Places like txptips prove that a lot of useful how to and answers can be put together quickly.
I like Vanilla but as Mary mentioned it would require a lot of add-ons but since it is so vanilla there might be less taking-away than with another forum.
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txtstrap (Textpattern + Twitter Bootstrap + etc…)
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#85 2010-03-17 19:14:38
- candyman
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Vanilla2 rocks!
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#86 2010-04-11 20:23:45
- Mary
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Vanilla2 isn’t stable yet.
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Vanilla stole my gal.
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#88 2010-05-08 13:34:10
- candyman
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RC1!!!
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Re: New forum software
Being a FluxBB Developer I recommend to update the Textpattern forums to FluxBB 1.4. The Final is being released within the next days.
It has a pretty cool new default theme and a couple of performance optimisations as well as usage optimisations have been done. It natively supports UTF-8 and RTL languages, has an improved read topic tracking mechanism, topic merging and splitting was added and the best: Existing modifications to the Textpattern forum can be applied with minimal extra work.
Because someone mentioned it earlier:
The future of the 1.4 branch won’t end after it’s release! Currently the aim is to have a shorter release life cycle and major enhancements such as a template system are planned to be added to the existing code base.
If you choose to update to FluxBB 1.4, I would be able to help you with migrating and tweaking the Textpattern forums.
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Good to hear that, chriloi! And thanks for offering yourself to help in migrating and tweaking the Textpattern forum.
I hope your post gets on the radar of those who have the powers to allow the migration (not sure who exactly those are).
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