Wedge
Public area => The Pub => Features => Topic started by: Cryotech on August 18th, 2011, 08:14 PM
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Hello all,
Great site and I love what you're doing. I've been a staunch supporter of SMF for quite a few years for a variety of reasons but I agree, things need to change and change for the better. It seems SMF is being left in the dust when it comes to competition features and capabilities and the "support" one receives is at best, ridiculous with large doses of ridicule for bothering them with questions about their own software.
I was wondering if you plan on adding a community group feature much like what VBulletin offers? The community group feature allows users to create their own "group" and make that group either open to the public or private with access based on invitation only, join only or both. These groups are able to upload their own pictures, create their own threads and a variety of other things that are separate from the main boards themselves.
This is an awesome feature and one that no forum software should be without IMHO. And of course the forum admins have total control over what permissions the group members and group owner can do or not do.
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Users will be able to create boards, blogs and set privacy levels fit them. A bit like at noisen.com.
As for support it depends on volunteer availability. It's the same for all free software I guess.
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Nice! I absolutely love hearing that :cool:
And maybe I'm being blind, but where do I download the wedge forum software? I can't seem to find it on this site and I'd like to run a test installation.
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Nice! I absolutely love hearing that :cool:
And maybe I'm being blind, but where do I download the wedge forum software? I can't seem to find it on this site and I'd like to run a test installation.
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I am now using vBulletin and the Groups are cool but I must say they are not a huge member puller as such. On most of the vBulletine forums I find then popping up but they never seem to get very active. The key is to have the ability to have new post and threads show up of those you have subscribed to when doing an Unread search.
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I suppose that problem won't come up in Wedge, given that user boards are actual boards :P
(Oh, I should really get started and convert that code from noisen.com...)
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That is actually a far better way of handling it I think.
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That is actually a far better way of handling it I think.
I can't wait until a public version is released. I'm currently building a new website and I'd love to be able to test drive Wedge on it rather than SMF.
Speaking of, will Wedge allow us to port over SMF database information such as member information?
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Speaking of, will Wedge allow us to port over SMF database information such as member information?
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Btw. User owned boards aren't implemented in Wedge yet. Only in wedge.org and noisen.com (not the same codebase at all).
It's in my to-do for 1.0 though. But it probably won't be in the alpha except for the id_owner field being created.
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Yes, there is already an importer of such data, I'm fairly sure that was covered in the FAQs somewhere though...
Btw. User owned boards aren't implemented in Wedge yet. Only in wedge.org and noisen.com (not the same codebase at all).
It's in my to-do for 1.0 though. But it probably won't be in the alpha except for the id_owner field being created.
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It's not been stated in big letters but a search for importer does show it mentioned in the FAQs in several topics ;)
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We should add a FAQ entry.
As for board owners, it's not too complex to port from the noisen codebase (topic privacy in comparison will be a chore to do ;))