Better Blogs [Deleted]

[Rho Delta]

So is this better than Xi blog?

 

[HWS]

Really hope someone will help me with this. Suddenly no one can add an entry. The box to type in is missing

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Only one idea: Try to reset the template.

 

[Robyn Unc Privette]

Tried that and nothing worked. So then I uninstall it and can't reinstall it because it says there is a duplicate column. I found it and deleted it and it says the same thing over and over. Very frustrating.

 

[DRE]

I would switch to XI blogs if they had vanity urls.

 

[Mouth]

I would switch to XI blogs if they had vanity urls.

Second that.

 

[Robyn Unc Privette]

Is this guy ever going to come back and give support or am I now stuck with a useless product? :/

 

[HWS]

Is it really useless? We bought it too and didn't use it until now.

 

[Robyn Unc Privette]

It is now because something happened to where no one could create an entry so I uninstalled it and now it won't reinstall.

 

[HWS]

Oh, that is bad. I may ask for a refund then.

 

[DRE]

So is this better than Xi blog?

No but if you've already bought it and converted your blogs over then you are stuck with it because their is no converter to xi or ln blogs. I suggest you buy showcase by bobster to highlight your members best blogs since better blogs index will not be improved until xenforo development resumes: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/nflj-showcase.1208/


In the meanwhile I'm gonna have to change my review rating to accurately reflect my experience so far.

 

[DRE]

Alright Rigel I've rated your resource 1 star for now. I'll change it back to 5 stars whenever your decide to improve the index because my members don't seem to like this addon at all. As a customer who has spent $140 on this addon so far I reserve the right to change my review after development has stopped. I ain't even mad. Just dissapointed.

 

[Grover]

Alright Rigel I've rated your resource 1 star for now. I'll change it back to 5 stars whenever your decide to improve the index because my members don't seem to like this addon at all. As a customer who has spent $140 on this addon so far I reserve the right to change my review after development has stopped. I ain't even mad. Just dissapointed.

Stuff like this is exactly the reason why I choose to never install any (unofficial third party) plugin on my vB3.x powered platform. If we ever switch to XenForo (I bought 2 licenses but can/will not use them because of the uncertain state of this product/company) I definitely need integrated blogs. Why not Wordpress blogs? Because I don't want to bother with Wordpress Multisite and most importantly: I want my endusers to have the exact same interface/experience when they post on the forum or in their blog. Seriously, I can not expect my users to learn a completely new WP interface just to post their blogs! And I am not even talking about the integration benefits an integrated Blog comes with...

I do very much hope that XenForo can get their thing together and extend their flagship product with Blog functionality soon.

 

[DRE]

I just read your reply in the review Rigel. If development is paused did you also pause support as well?

 

[SchmitzIT]

So will there be updates to this again with the XF development getting back on-track?

 

[SchmitzIT]

I'm seeing the following error when clicking the Blogs tab:

[/S]
[S]The user for the blog was not found[/S]
[S]

Any clue how I can figure out which user in particular is yielding this error, or how to solve it?


Edit:

Hitting Debug yielded the following:

[/S]
[S]SELECT[/S]
[S]    blog.*, blog.user_id blog_exists,[/S]
[S]    user.*[/S]
[S]    ,user_privacy.allow_view_blog,user_follow.follow_user_id blog_owner_follows_visitor,xfa_blog_watch.watch_id watch_id,xfa_blog_read.blog_read_date[/S]
[S]FROM xf_user user[/S]
[S]LEFT JOIN xfa_blog blog ON user.user_id = blog.user_id[/S]
[S]    INNER JOIN xf_user_privacy user_privacy ON user.user_id = user_privacy.user_id LEFT JOIN xf_user_follow user_follow ON user.user_id = user_follow.user_id AND follow_user_id = 1 LEFT JOIN xfa_blog_watch ON user.user_id = xfa_blog_watch.blog_user_id AND xfa_blog_watch.user_id = 1 LEFT JOIN xfa_blog_read ON user.user_id = xfa_blog_read.blog_user_id AND xfa_blog_read.user_id = 1[/S]
[S]WHERE[/S]
[S]    user.user_id = ?[/S]
[S][B]Params:[/B] 0[/S]
[S][B]Run Time:[/B] 0.001311[/S]
[S]Select TypeTableTypePossible KeysKeyKey LenRefRowsExtra[/S]
[S]SIMPLE              Impossible WHERE noticed after reading const tables[/S]
[S]

When I run the query without the WHERE clause, I see a number of users without a matching blog-table entry. I re-ran the cron-job for the customized sub domains a few times, but for some reason these users do not get updated. I assume that might be the cause of the error, but haven't yet figured out how to work around this issue.

Solved. Apparently it was an issue with a route-change I implemented. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Alpha1]

Does this have the function to create mandatory admin set categories?
i.e. Admin sets nodes, so that members need to choose which node they post their blog to.

 

[Mouth]

Does this have the function to create mandatory admin set categories?
i.e. Admin sets nodes, so that members need to choose which node they post their blog to.

Don't bother asking - you can consider this an abandoned add-on and look to spend your money elsewhere.

 

[Deepmartini]

This is sad. I hope the developer comes back. Looked like a promising addon. Hope xenforo develops their own soon!

 

[DRE]

This is sad. I hope the developer comes back. Looked like a promising addon. Hope xenforo develops their own soon!

This addon was very ambitious and he tried to add alot to it as time went on. It's just some features broke, some very expensive features broke and some very basic features got left out (global RSS, latest blogs sidebar).

 

[Deepmartini]

If he comes back and fixes the addon, people would be willing to give it a try. There is a need for a good blog addon.