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mikeymx5

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Looking for Portal Suggestions
« on February 18th, 2011, 07:50 PM »
Guys I figured this would be a great place to ask as you may have a suggestion that will work with wedge in the future.

I am very fond of PortaMX but lately I have been having some serious compatibility problems between it and Aeva. To make matters worse with every update you have to uninstall and install a new version of Portamx that has been hell as it deletes its upload folder and screws up its database settings.

I am now at the point that I would rather have a portal that just works even if i loose some of the wonderful functions of PortaMX. If you have to make a choice what Portal would you select for SMF2.0rc4+SP? What portal might provide the closest compatibility to what wedge may offer in the future?

Arantor

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Re: Looking for Portal Suggestions
« Reply #1, on February 18th, 2011, 07:54 PM »
I don't use any of the current portals but from everything I've heard, SimplePortal is the most stable and reliable. (That's based on what I've heard, TinyPortal is pretty good too but more complex to use, the others I don't have a lot of knowledge about)

As for exactly what features we plan to have... it's still in flux really.
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Re: Looking for Portal Suggestions
« Reply #7, on February 19th, 2011, 05:43 PM »
The one thing that hits me about each of the portals is how much *stuff* there is. I did look at all the portals a bit back, and it struck me how thorough some of the admin panels are for them, but too much *stuff* in one place and a sort of reliance on users figuring it out themselves.

PMX exemplifies that in my mind, both SP and TP have the same issue but at least they're easy enough to follow once you've been around a bit (as it were)

Neither PMX nor ezP focus on design too much, they come across as blocky and built by programmers almost for their own use rather than for others. (Perhaps I'm giving our friend too much credit here, don't know. At least, I *hope* that's the reason for ezP's design mentality.)

ADK Portal seems a bit much of a mish-mash, as though it doesn't really know what it's trying to do.

DP, I did some debugging in the run up to 1.0, and its drag and drop ideas were pretty nice, but it did feel a bit like it was trying to chase SP at times, and not for the right reasons.

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Re: Looking for Portal Suggestions
« Reply #9, on April 3rd, 2011, 05:22 PM »
You can't have it both ways, it's either customisable or it's fast. We're choosing customisable.

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Re: Looking for Portal Suggestions
« Reply #13, on April 3rd, 2011, 06:14 PM »
I like coding more. And from experience, fragmenting it like that is not a smart move.

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