XenForo wins

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XenForo wins
« on February 28th, 2013, 07:39 PM »
Probably off-topic here, but imho still worth to mention:

http://gracelaw.com/NewsXF.html

In short words, XenForo has apparently won the battle. The case has been dismissed after the parties reached a confidential settlement. The public will most likely never learn about the details of the settlement, but the statement by gracelaw implies that Xf will remain an independent entity and IB has no further way to harm their business.

The case was dismissed with prejudice, basically meaning it's over. Once and forever.

These are bad days for IB/vB. First, they lost the Wikitravel case, then came the disaster with vB going "gold" (imho, it's not even iron in its current state :) ) and now this.
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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #1, on February 28th, 2013, 07:51 PM »
Yup, I've been following the trial in recent times, it's been interesting, especially with the promotion of vB 5 to gold status (though note they haven't actually called it *gold* at any point, just 5.0.0, officially supported)
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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #2, on February 28th, 2013, 08:19 PM »
I am really happy for them. I'm sure Kyle and the rest of the gangs will be back to XF.
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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #3, on February 28th, 2013, 09:44 PM »
Maybe now we can see 1.2 features.
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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #4, on February 28th, 2013, 09:49 PM »
I for one welcome the bar being raised by there being two decent paid forums out there ;)

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #5, on February 28th, 2013, 09:57 PM »
I agree, I think the other you are referring to is IPB.

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #7, on February 28th, 2013, 10:01 PM »
Ok good, glad you weren't thinking about VB. Nothing they have impress me to spend that kind of money.

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #8, on February 28th, 2013, 10:03 PM »
Oh, I have a vB licence. vB 5... consider for a moment that an exploit allowing access to the admin panel was found inside 24 hours after 'gold' release.

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #9, on February 28th, 2013, 10:05 PM »
I have heard that VB has nothing but security issues since 4 came out.

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #10, on February 28th, 2013, 10:07 PM »
I can't comment on that, I don't know the history, nor have I spent time reviewing vB 4 or 5 from a user aspect yet (you can find my thoughts on vB 3.8 around here though)

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #11, on February 28th, 2013, 10:31 PM »
Oh, this reminds me that I have to read the rest of that huge vB topic like you asked me, Pete...

I'm afraid it'll be hard for me in the next few days... Plus I'm totally (totally..) lost with respect to French translations.

Anyway, now maybe xF has a chance to catch up with... Wedge 8-)

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #12, on February 28th, 2013, 10:37 PM »
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Oh, this reminds me that I have to read the rest of that huge vB topic like you asked me, Pete...
Eh, the salient points of that thread are: 1) threaded replies are technically feasible but the UI implementation sucks, 2) the moderation centre as a UI system sucks and we can do a bunch better with a 'board' of some fashion. Exactly what that entails I don't know yet.
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Plus I'm totally (totally..) lost with respect to French translations.
I wish I knew French :( But maybe this is the impetus I need to build a proper translation tool for use here to manage even that.

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #13, on February 28th, 2013, 10:41 PM »
Quote from Arantor on February 28th, 2013, 10:37 PM
Eh, the salient points of that thread are: 1) threaded replies are technically feasible but the UI implementation sucks,
Last post I read was your reply on how you found my "click paragraph to add a floating textarea box" idea was interesting and original. Which I appreciated, because yeah that's precisely what it is, an original idea... ;) I didn't get to work on it, though, but I guess it would be a first step towards both a better mobile integration, and a 'natural feel' per-post quick reply.
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2) the moderation centre as a UI system sucks and we can do a bunch better with a 'board' of some fashion. Exactly what that entails I don't know yet.
What I've always hated in this center/centre, is that you can't access moderator posts from there, so it makes absolutely no sense to me... And I think I read about you complaining that board moderators couldn't access it, either. If that's the case, indeed it's quite silly...
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I wish I knew French :( But maybe this is the impetus I need to build a proper translation tool for use here to manage even that.
It's just that after you posted your EmailTemplates thing, I got overwhelmed. You know, the adding of a 'desc' line for every single entry..? I stopped midway through it. I still have the file opened, waiting for completion, but I just can't find the will to get into it. And because of that, and the fact that you removed a lot of entries and did it for French files too, I'm also lost on whether there are actually entries I should translate, or not, in every commit you made.

Bugger...

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Re: XenForo wins
« Reply #14, on February 28th, 2013, 10:45 PM »
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Last post I read was your reply on how you found my "click paragraph to add a floating textarea box" idea was interesting and original. Which I appreciated, because yeah that's precisely what it is, an original idea... ;)
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What I've always hated in this center/centre, is that you can't access moderator posts from there, so it makes absolutely no sense to me... And I think I read about you complaining that board moderators couldn't access it, either. If that's the case, indeed it's quite silly...
On second thoughts, let's not go to Camelot, it is a silly place. ;)
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I stopped midway through it. I still have the file opened, waiting for completion, but I just can't find the will to get into it. And because of that, and the fact that you removed a lot of entries and did it for French files too, I'm also lost on whether there are actually entries I should translate, or not, in every commit you made.
I saw that, and honestly I wouldn't be that worried. There's two choices - I can either work on a proper language tool for here (though given my lack of enthusiasm for the inline one in Wedge...) or I can just shove stuff through Google Translate as a working one and it get fixed later. Up to you. I don't mind doing stuff like that if it would be useful.