At last! DPreview.com moving to Xenforo

Say's in the comments they're using XF Cloud, which is good.

Seems like a lot of fans of the old threaded conversations.

Hopefully, DPReview will convince XenForo to add threaded view.
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No drama queens whatsoever 😄
Your amazing design is what kept me a dedicated member since 1999. This new design pretty much ends it for me.
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Maybe getting a big photo site like this on board will give the XF team a nudge to give the media gallery a much needed proper revamp.
 
RobinHood said:
Maybe getting a big photo site like this on board will give the XF team a nudge to give the media gallery a much needed proper revamp.
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Dpreview write in their announcement:

This update will deliver significant performance improvements and introduce new features, including a mobile-responsive design, enhanced photo galleries, and an all-new direct messaging system that supports group conversations.
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Hard to imagine that they are referring to the XF Media Gallery add on here. If they do their photo gallery until now must have been abysmal.
However, they made a video about the change and you can see their Gallery there:

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Other than that a new customer of this size is a pretty big fish for XF and for the XF cloud. There must have been intensive discussions, preparations and adaptions for that project. Maybe this explains partly the delays with 2.4.
A forum of that size in XF cloud must generate a big revenue stream, so maybe (hopefully) this benefits all of us longer term.
 
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At the start of the video the admin explains that additional features are coming. Maybe they are enhancing XFMG with a plugin. Otherwise members will voice their needs clearly.
 
Alpha1 said:
At the start of the video the admin explains that additional features are coming. Maybe they are enhancing XFMG with a plugin.
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As until now, according to their announcement, they have relied on a self-baked forum software they should have staff able to do that. On the other hand it is a bit strange for such a huge forum to move to XF now, given that 2.4 is "almost ready". The more with massive customizations that would probably have to reworked with a major update of XF. This could indicate that 2.4 will be delayed further and - as such a big migration will typically be planned for quite some time in advance - maybe they decided that they did not want to wait longer as no release date is in sight. On the other hand they are on Cloud, which means (at least normally) XF decides about the pace when they will be upgraded to 2.4 (and they will have to have their custom add ons prepared by then). Possible that with such a huge customer things are a bit different or - which would be awesome - that with 2.4 the media gallery will finally get some love from XF.
 
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Keyboarding through a thread is kinda fun.
 
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That's actually pretty interesting that they have those shortcuts like that on such an 'old' site. Especially seeing how common they are now most modern web apps that have any kind of power users.

I was thinking the other day about how it could be nice to have a command pallet in XF to easy jump between forums, kind of like modern version of the old quick navigate button they used to have in XF1 but scrapped in XF2.
 
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