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Eventual forum upgrade plan
OK, I’ve got a fully working snapshot of the current forum database running on my local dev machine – upgraded to the latest fluxBB version (1.5.x) and a fairly good responsive theme in place. Working OK so far but I’m going to spend a few weeks testing and prodding it.
I also need to work on the theming a lot more and make it closer to the branding of future Textpattern sites. Going forward I’ll gradually blend it into the work I’m going to be doing on Textpattern.com, so it looks a bit more seamless instead of being a completely different piece of software that it really is.
When I’ve got it in a more solid release state I may want some volunteers to try it in a test environment.
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This is a fairly good news, thank you for your efforts, Phil! Count me among testers if you need.
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#3 2013-09-28 00:38:58
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Good news, Phil! I’ll be happy to test. Any chance of Tapatalk integration?
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Els wrote:
Good news, Phil! I’ll be happy to test. Any chance of Tapatalk integration?
Tapatalk is not currently supported by fluxBB, so no, sorry.
Over on the fluxBB forums a few people have mentioned it – and someone has supposed started developing a plugin (as of May 2013) – but nothing exists yet. If one does appear I’ve evaluate plugging it in.
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Do development openly using a git repository and I’ll help. I want to review the code you push out too, since its easy to introduce security holes if no one reviews the themes and such.
You can setup the repository similarly to the txpmag-website repository. Don’t put FluxBB sources to the repository. I can write a setup script for it. The theme can be placed to src/style/ directory within the repository, grunt watch task will compile it and move it to ./public similarly to txpmag-website.
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Hi gocom. I was thinking of doing exactly that. Probably on Sunday.
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Thanks Jukka. I’m off out now so I’ll pick up on this again tomorrow.
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#9 2013-09-28 14:51:25
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philwareham wrote:
nothing exists yet. If one does appear I’ve evaluate plugging it in.
That would be nice, thanks. Thinking it over, I doubt if Tapatalk would be useful for forum administration anyway.
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love to take a peek if it’s open beta.
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It’s on GitHub, so it’ll be open to whoever looks at that repo when I’ve actually put files on there.
(well, the custom forum work and the theme will be in the repo anyway, you’d then have to download a copy of fluxBB and set up a test version on your own dev machine)
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Phil, the old forum has some anti-spam modifications that are triggered during registration. I’m not sure if this is taken care of in the new forum software. In any case, I’d be grateful if you take out the part that sends me mails with “a whole lot of crap” in it (probably something I put in for debugging purposes).
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ruud wrote:
I’m not sure if this is taken care of in the new forum software.
FluxBB does not have any anti-spam features.
In any case, I’d be grateful if you take out the part that sends me mails with “a whole lot of crap” in it (probably something I put in for debugging purposes).
We will. The debugging code will not end up on the live server, nor to the source repository even. We’re trying to apply any needed modification using patches, and packaging them as FluxBB’s installable mods maybe even.
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Gocom wrote:
FluxBB does not have any anti-spam features.
I think that Rudd has implemented some features from stopforumspam.com which I would strongly suggest we should maintain. Even with those in action, we still get a lot of spammers here.
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^^ exactly, they were quite effective at blocking spammy user registrations.
I also added some debugging code to check if it would be effective to block a user that turns out to be spammy when posting for the first time. That was never implemented. I guess it would block 1-5 spammers per month.
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