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Features / Re: The calendar
« on October 27th, 2012, 08:20 PM »Actually I disagree with you, it's actually more likely to be the other way around based on the time I spent doing SMF support.
The calendar is a plugin, it currently does not work properly.
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Features / Re: Hello... and my request
« on October 27th, 2012, 07:08 PM »Very true.
Also, I found the mod "Float BBCODE". Thanks for the tip. Works like a charm on SMF. Hope to be able to wrap text in Wedge too.
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Features / Re: The calendar
« on October 27th, 2012, 07:00 PM »Thing is, I'd personally rather have birthdays as a plugin on its own rather than being tied explicitly to the calendar; I don't want it on every forum that I run, but where I do, I want it without the calendar - though that is just me.
For me, the calendar is one of the key components. Run a cycling forum and a large proportion of our threads are for races that go on during the year, so one of our lead portal blocks is a list of upcoming races so users can quickly get to that particular race thread. Think we create several hundred calendar events a year, but by the same token we only use the very basic functionality of it. No private events, or group events etc.
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Features: Theming / Re: Permanent sidebar
« on October 27th, 2012, 06:52 PM »
interesting. its certainly effective, and solves some big critisisms of smf. Like the ease in which it drops to the bottom on more narrow screens, tablets etc. My only decision would were i put those lovely google ads i depend on to cover my server costs. :D
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The Pub / Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« on October 27th, 2012, 06:30 PM »
First of all hello. Long time reader of this forum and have been keeping up to date with the work you are doing, but have not registered until now as I had nothing really to offer the conversation.
I realise as a new member this will count against me :D
While I may not be considered for testing the Alpha version (but would like to be, want to get cracking on it), I would like to put my name in the hat for testing at some point during the softwares development.
To cut a short story long, I run a new forum which was started in the early part of this year. Decent membership, 600 members, 60,000 posts in the first 8 months so we are growing pretty well. Using a very hacked version of SMF, to the point where we have to manually code all modications.
The situation we are at the moment is I have several very good volunteer devs, two of which work in software developement, but both frankly are sick of SMF and the way its badly written, and poorly implemented, and we are faced with two choices.
Plodding on with SMF as it stands in which case its a matter of me making the best of a bad lot, or moving to a new platform that is actually up to date, modern and well implemented. This will happen, its just a matter of when we decide to leave SMF and what options there are, and so testing Wedge would be ideal for us to explore options going forward.
Onto the questions
1 - How long have you been a SMF user? (Approximately...)
Using SMF since January, previously PhpBB and Yabbse. Total fed up with the badly written nature of SMF. Have been well and truly into the guts of smf over the last year.
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
Would run it on a mirror of our existing forum velorooms.com at something like wedge.velorooms , accessed by moderators, devs and selected users with coding backgrounds
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge.
Personally, I work from home doing graphic design and running websites/forum so I can pretty much devote to it as much time is needed
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
The main thing we are looking for is consistency across the package. Consistent calling of Javascript rather than individual elements all doing their own thing, as well as developing layout and theming. Calendar useage, media embedding etc.
5 - If you're a hot young lady, post a picture of you, preferably on a boat (in front of a boat is also acceptable), or in an administration building's waiting line. Extra points if you're wearing a Fez on your left hand. Fezzes are cool.
Sadly I am not a hot young lady, but do I get extra points for photos of my wife?
Cheers
Dim
I realise as a new member this will count against me :D
While I may not be considered for testing the Alpha version (but would like to be, want to get cracking on it), I would like to put my name in the hat for testing at some point during the softwares development.
To cut a short story long, I run a new forum which was started in the early part of this year. Decent membership, 600 members, 60,000 posts in the first 8 months so we are growing pretty well. Using a very hacked version of SMF, to the point where we have to manually code all modications.
The situation we are at the moment is I have several very good volunteer devs, two of which work in software developement, but both frankly are sick of SMF and the way its badly written, and poorly implemented, and we are faced with two choices.
Plodding on with SMF as it stands in which case its a matter of me making the best of a bad lot, or moving to a new platform that is actually up to date, modern and well implemented. This will happen, its just a matter of when we decide to leave SMF and what options there are, and so testing Wedge would be ideal for us to explore options going forward.
Onto the questions
1 - How long have you been a SMF user? (Approximately...)
Using SMF since January, previously PhpBB and Yabbse. Total fed up with the badly written nature of SMF. Have been well and truly into the guts of smf over the last year.
2 - If you're planning to use Wedge on a live forum, post its URL.
Would run it on a mirror of our existing forum velorooms.com at something like wedge.velorooms , accessed by moderators, devs and selected users with coding backgrounds
3 - How much daily time you think you can devote to testing Wedge.
Personally, I work from home doing graphic design and running websites/forum so I can pretty much devote to it as much time is needed
4 - Is there a feature in Wedge that you're most interested in? Something you'll focus your testing on, etc... Or just something you're just excited to use!
The main thing we are looking for is consistency across the package. Consistent calling of Javascript rather than individual elements all doing their own thing, as well as developing layout and theming. Calendar useage, media embedding etc.
5 - If you're a hot young lady, post a picture of you, preferably on a boat (in front of a boat is also acceptable), or in an administration building's waiting line. Extra points if you're wearing a Fez on your left hand. Fezzes are cool.
Sadly I am not a hot young lady, but do I get extra points for photos of my wife?
Cheers
Dim