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#85 2010-03-17 19:14:38
- candyman
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Re: New forum software
Vanilla2 rocks!
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#86 2010-04-11 20:23:45
- Mary
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Re: New forum software
Vanilla2 isn’t stable yet.
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Re: New forum software
Vanilla stole my gal.
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#88 2010-05-08 13:34:10
- candyman
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Re: New forum software
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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#91 2010-06-15 22:04:17
- els
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Re: New forum software
That’s interesting, Christian.
Latest official opinion so far (quoting Robert):
My own (and thus the most “official” available) stance follows:
- Textile will stay. Personally, I’m using Textile in Textpattern, this forum, my Drupal sites, Redmine, Basecamp, and basically everywhere else where it is available without causing havoc. WYSAWYG editors aren’t even offered on the WordPress fora (they have quickbuttons), so there must be huge crowds of noobs who can post without them.Those who cannot manage to learn Textile are not our primary target audience, and I don’t think that requiring Textile for the forum is a bullet point against choosing Textpattern CMS for prospects in the first place, for asking a question and starting a thread does not require any markup.
- PunBB’s flaws as they are valid for this forum have been defined:
- search (global and intra-thread)
- moderation
- markup flexibility, themability
- “Cool URIs don’t change” is a conditio sine qua non. 301 redirects are acceptable.
- Until noone steps up to actually do the work, this discussion has already rendered all necessary results.
You seem to address at least one of his points ;) Can you tell me if setting up a test install – local or on a test domain – and manually entering let’s say some 50-ish posts would provide a good impression of how suitable it would be for a big forum like this? Doubts about this are one reason I haven’t tested any other forum software yet (another reason is lack of time…).
maniqui wrote:
those who have the powers to allow the migration (not sure who exactly those are)
That would still be Robert :)
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Re: New forum software
May I add that the forum/sub-fprum structure should also remain
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#93 2010-06-16 07:23:16
- els
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Re: New forum software
Yiannis, of course. I think a requirement should be that we don’t loose any of the functionality we have now, and the functionality we would gain must be of a nature that justifies the trouble of moving.
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I don’t know which PunBB version you are running here, but FluxBB is “binary compatible” to PunBB, thus we can apply all modifications made to this Forum to a new FluxBB 1.4 forum.
This means you can keep the URLs, sub-forums, Textile and whatever mods you applied to the PunBB code.
In terms of the search functionality we would need to investigate why MySQL Fulltext Search doesn’t deliver usable results.
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#95 2010-06-16 14:23:05
- candyman
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Re: New forum software
Very nice (even if fluxBB isn’t stable yet) but after seeing vanilla2 all forums software seems old fashioned to me…
Last edited by candyman (2010-06-16 14:23:15)
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