I have been using SMF for over 6 years now and just about to upgrade 2RC4 to 2Gold when I came across this fork whilst looking for an updated AEVA
I agree that 2 took to long to come along with a few other mods. You have a great vision here and I hope it works out great because having read over the last 9 months the turmoil's at SMF.
I would to suggest these enhancements and features to be considered for integration as core components.
1) In any text input areas use the standard editor as used in normal posts like what I am using now.
2) In the normal posting editor have 2 URL buttons. One as for using normal URL bbcode but also a URL popup where one can input a url and the title (just like the old SMF V1 URL POPup mod)
2a) if no URL popup (as in #2) then consider the ability like phpbb does of grabbing the url page title to give the url a description.
3) Have AEVA (1.4w or whatever) built in as core media gallery which can be disabled in user wants other add-on
4) Have a simple download system built in as core to manage file downloads or AEVA media downloads
5) Get a portal system either built in as core ( a simple system to allow custom pages to be created and custom blocks - eg Simple Portal )or a portal team onboard for when Wedge goes gold.
I think having a forum with built in core media handling, download handling and also Custom portal pages will certainly set Wedge apart from SMF, as SMF is just a forum system with Mods and having to reply on mods to update for each release can be difficult)
I agree that 2 took to long to come along with a few other mods. You have a great vision here and I hope it works out great because having read over the last 9 months the turmoil's at SMF.
I would to suggest these enhancements and features to be considered for integration as core components.
1) In any text input areas use the standard editor as used in normal posts like what I am using now.
2) In the normal posting editor have 2 URL buttons. One as for using normal URL bbcode but also a URL popup where one can input a url and the title (just like the old SMF V1 URL POPup mod)
2a) if no URL popup (as in #2) then consider the ability like phpbb does of grabbing the url page title to give the url a description.
3) Have AEVA (1.4w or whatever) built in as core media gallery which can be disabled in user wants other add-on
4) Have a simple download system built in as core to manage file downloads or AEVA media downloads
5) Get a portal system either built in as core ( a simple system to allow custom pages to be created and custom blocks - eg Simple Portal )or a portal team onboard for when Wedge goes gold.
I think having a forum with built in core media handling, download handling and also Custom portal pages will certainly set Wedge apart from SMF, as SMF is just a forum system with Mods and having to reply on mods to update for each release can be difficult)