Recent content by Aivaras

It is a communication platform for us with a built-in granular control of communication nodes. A forum is by definition a public space for exchange. XenForo has moved beyond that with its node, permission, and content type systems. Given XenForo’s current development stage, to describe a...

This is a minor thing, not worth a quibble. With a modest market share of 0.4 %, the format is still new. It is getting favorable attention; CDNs like Cloudflare are adopting it. I’ve converted a few WordPress sites to AVIF, and they run smoothly on both Windows desktops and iOS devices. We...

It supports it, doesn’t it? Any specific issues you have discovered with Edge’s AVIF implementation?

You are considering the server side of things, wisely so. However, having the feature in XF 3.0 for those who want to implement and enjoy it, would still be a good move, methinks.

The major browsers have been supporting the format for a while now, so in that particular respect it is not too new. As for gains, “big” is relative. After conducting some experiments, we discovered that within the quality range of 60–70 %, AVIF achieves a similar quality to WEBP at 90 %, but...

I wouldn’t be surprised if support for AVIF gets added in XF 3.0. The major browsers have already adopted the format.

Yes, an option to turn Markdown off, whether globally or per forum node, would be a safer way to proceed; it would also allow troubleshooting formatting problems by temporarily disabling it in forums that otherwise would prefer to have it on.

We already use the <p> tags in our posts via a custom BB code. Will we have to remove it from the posts to avoid double tags?

We have pretty high requirements for relatively complex typography on our website. When you first introduced Markdown, it messed up our custom BB code data tables upon editing and re-saving posts. All I can ask at this point is please be very cautious with it as it does introduce a risk to parse...

No, it does not. I was emphasizing the importance of this bit:

This is indeed a big advantage. It was the primary driving force behind our decision to develop our own custom style (that significantly differs from the default one), using only the tools available in the ACP. It worked out very well, and I’m confident we’ll be able to replicate the same...

Sentiments aside, what would be the technical (performance) advantages of removing BBCode from XF? What would be the equivalent of custom BB codes in the hypothetical version of XF without BBCode?

Moved to what? For those who want to tap into the full potential of HTML and web typography while using XF, Facebook is rudimentary at best. What does Microsoft Word have to do with HTML? One of my forums has several dozens of custom BB codes defined because that’s what it takes to format a...

We have BB code button manager in ACP to accommodate this need. Using it, admins can remove the BB code mode button from the editor’s interface.

As an admin and moderator, I often need access to content in plain text, seeing clearly the tags and their option values, editing either one in-line, troubleshooting, etc. One of our forums uses advanced typography with heaps of BB codes. It is common practice for the moderator to copy the...