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Cryotech

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Public & Private Groups?
« on August 18th, 2011, 08:14 PM »
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.

Nao

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #1, on August 18th, 2011, 08:28 PM »
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.

Cryotech

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #2, on August 18th, 2011, 09:34 PM »
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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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #3, on August 18th, 2011, 10:21 PM »
Quote from Cryotech on August 18th, 2011, 09:34 PM
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.
It is not out yet, I would highly recommend reading the FAQ board.
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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #4, on August 20th, 2011, 12:07 PM »
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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Nao

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #5, on August 20th, 2011, 01:08 PM »
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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Cryotech

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #7, on September 7th, 2011, 01:08 AM »
Quote from DirtRider on August 20th, 2011, 03:49 PM
That is actually a far better way of handling it I think.
I would have to agree. It allows for more personalized freedom in terms of "group ownership".

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?

Arantor

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #8, on September 7th, 2011, 01:12 AM »
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Speaking of, will Wedge allow us to port over SMF database information such as member information?
Yes, there is already an importer of such data, I'm fairly sure that was covered in the FAQs somewhere though...
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Nao

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #9, on September 7th, 2011, 09:36 AM »
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.

Cryotech

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #10, on September 7th, 2011, 08:53 PM »
Quote from Arantor
Yes, there is already an importer of such data, I'm fairly sure that was covered in the FAQs somewhere though...
Thanks for the info Arantor. Also, unless I keep reading over it without realizing it, I can't find where it's mentioned in the FAQs.
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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.
Aw, a bit disheartening but at least it's on your to-do list :) and hopefully alpha will be released soon. I'm pretty excited about it and have already begun informing my members that we'll be moving to Wedge once it's finalized as stable.

Arantor

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #11, on September 7th, 2011, 09:00 PM »
It's not been stated in big letters but a search for importer does show it mentioned in the FAQs in several topics ;)

Nao

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Re: Public & Private Groups?
« Reply #12, on September 7th, 2011, 09:43 PM »
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 ;))
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