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Re: Flarum forum software
candyman wrote:
Anyway the community has decided to stay with FluxBB: maybe a plugin can do this.
FluxBB is mod driven; it doesn’t have plugin system. As we are going avoid hacking FluxBB source, there isn’t going to be anything of that kind.
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Last edited by Gocom (2013-10-18 12:13:52)
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Re: Flarum forum software
philwareham wrote:
included in the version control systems we use for development
Their front-ends and the services we use; issue tracker and GitHub.
For instance if you want a specific feature from our support forum, you try and post a request to our forum’s issue tracker.
Last edited by Gocom (2013-10-18 12:20:54)
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Re: Flarum forum software
That said, the URL shortening is not that useful. Services such as Twitter automatically resolve and shorten any URLs, others detect redirects and warn you about potential URL masking. Those left don’t have any post length limitations. And, I don’t want to sound like killjoy, but we don’t want 3rd-parties be tracking our users if possible.
Anyway, if someone wants super short URLs for this forum in particular, the easiest way is by registering a short domain and mapping URLs from there to here:
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch ^p/[0-9]+$ http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=$1#$1
RedirectMatch ^[0-9]+$ http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=$1
</IfModule>Giving:
http://txp.pw/35386
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Re: Flarum forum software
philwareham wrote:
FluxBB doesn’t have any plugins, only mods that amend the source code, which we won’t be using.
PunBB does and it also has a subforums plugin. Is there a particular reason we don’t want to go back to PunBB?
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Re: Flarum forum software
FluxBB is what we inherited from previous devs, and it works well enough for what we need. I think you’ll be pleased with the overall upgrade once it’s live and in use. Gocom has done some really nice work on the featureset – and FluxBB v1.5 itself is an improvement on v1.2 in many areas.
I certainly have no desire to migrate to another forum platform (PunBB and FluxBB are quite different codebases now despite their shared origins). Also PunBB development is almost non-existent (30 commits in 14 months), whereas FluxBB development seems pretty active to me.
Subforums are of debatable value after doing an audit of the current forum, they have the tendency to bury important content that would be more visible as a standalone forum on the index page.
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#30 2015-08-10 05:41:01
- candyman
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Re: Flarum forum software
FluxBB and esoTalk have merged: the result (really impressive) is Flarum.
The Beta is behind the corner.
BTW, can you help me in this discussion? The guy who is developing an interesting formatting library (Markdown, of course) says that the Textile support isn’t sure ‘cause it’s hard to add the block-level markup.
I need to have my old forum (with many threads) and my blog (with less history) with the same formatting: obviously if I can’t migrate my forum posts in Textile I should have to renounce to Textile in favour of Markdown.
Last edited by candyman (2015-09-05 06:46:55)
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#31 2015-09-05 06:49:06
- candyman
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The beta is out.
No textile parser, so far.
I think I’ll be forced to renounce to textile on my blog to get the same markup of the forum (see my previous comment).
Last edited by candyman (2015-09-05 06:50:58)
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Re: Flarum forum software
lovely forum software. ! like the About statement:
“My name is Toby Zerner. I’m a 22 year old Aussie. Last year I completed my third year of undergrad medical school.” … then in his spare time he developed Flarum?!
…. texted postive
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Re: Flarum forum software
May I propose renaming the subject of this thread to just “Flarum” so that the name is at least mentioned once in the head post.
Bon. On to business…
The install docs under URL rewriting has sections for nginx and lighttpd, and say make sure this stuff is added in your server configuration block.
What config “block” are they talking about, exactly? Where?
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Re: Flarum forum software
I now have Flarum installed locally. I ignored the “server configuration block” stuff (still don’t know what they mean), but it didn’t seem to effect anything in my case.
Next step for exploration is customizing the UI (theme, if you will). They use LESS, which I’ve not bothered playing with before. Anyone else farting around with Flarum yet?
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#35 2016-02-25 09:18:20
- candyman
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Some months ago I’ve asked for a Textile plugin but at the moment wasn’t planned.
I need to join my TXP blog with an old phpBB forum that I want to migrate to Flarum: I think that will be the time to switch from Textile to Markdown :(
I would be interesting also a shared DB (for users and login) but actually is over my “skills” :P
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Re: Flarum forum software
candyman wrote #297993:
I would be interesting also a shared DB (for users and login)
Yes, I can see that being valuable for community sites, like CSF. So that contributing authors could use the same account to access the discussion boards, for example. Especially as there’s talk of an extension to use Flarum threads as article comments. Flarum will have a full API for integrating apps too, apparently.
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