Central Registration System

[ManagerJosh]

A central registration system would be most appreciated. This way I can hook several XF forums together to power a small network of forums . Or any future XF products

 

[-GR-]

I liked first post. I am all for a central user base between multiple sites. I could definitely make use of it.

 

[Dave]

At the risk of heresy, and being tarred/feathered, I wouldn't mind a delay in xenForo if this got implemented completely before the release of version 1.0.0 Stable

I'm with you! This would be a great feature that would be worth the wait.

 

[Stormkeeper]

I'm adding a vote in for this.

 

[ManagerJosh]

need the registration system ..

 

[lightbox]

Great suggestion! Here's my 1000 votes for this one.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

The fact that we keep bumping this one may show the need for this. The forums are not an island anymore.
I was visiting XenFans yesterday and I saw the AWESOME bar that Floris has on the top that connects to wetalknation.net, and I though "omg, this is convenient"

I was bummed when I clicked on wetalknation and I was NOT logged in. In fact, I left, I didn't want to register again, and even logging in through Facebook is troublesome since it asks me to create an account which I don't want to do ...

I myself have a network of sites, so I understand the reason for this.

 

[MordyT]

Need more people to like the first post.

 

[ManagerJosh]

Need more people to like the first post.

Hahah... that or get people to promise Mike and Kier some good beers if they do it

 

[CFodder]

Could see us getting at least one other licence if this can be implemented .

 

[ManagerJosh]

Could see us getting at least one other licence if this can be implemented .

I think we need to start buying Kier, Mike and Ashley some good beer for this to be implemented soon

 

[alpukn]

All is needed is a user API and the rest can be easily implemented.

 

[ManagerJosh]

All is needed is a user API and the rest can be easily implemented.

Care to explain why an API would solve this challenge?

 

[alpukn]

Care to explain why an API would solve this challenge?

If there was an API for the users, it would be easy to Add new user, modify user, search user etc. This would allow anyone with basic php knowledge to extend the system.

 

[ManagerJosh]

If there was an API for the users, it would be easy to Add new user, modify user, search user etc. This would allow anyone with basic php knowledge to extend the system.

Very well thought, but I think it's a bit more complex than that. By adding ONLY an API into the system, user management is still very much decentralized across multiple systems. Essentially, any user management has to be coded across multiple systems so they interact properly.

Case in Point. We have Forum A, Forum B, Forum C, Forum D.

If a user updates on Forum A, we need code to send data for Forum B, C, D
If a user updates on Forum B, we need code to update Forum A, C, D
etc.

Essentially there's so much pushing of data unnecessarily and unnecessary code floating around.

If we centralized it at point 0, all the data would be pulled from point 0 regardless if you are using A, B, C, D. This way you have only one set of data, and that data is up to date.

I do agree an API should be added into a central registration system. But definitely not on a that granular of a level.

 

[ArnyVee]

I "liked" first post to show my support for this one

 

[ManagerJosh]

I have run one single vb license for some time and have tried many different ways to expand my site into geographic regions (needed because the topic of my site has different laws etc per country and if a user gets mixed up they could kill themselves) but I decided to bite the bullet and get Xenforo and will eventually have 8 sites...that's $1,140 worth of licenses compared to just $140 if I stuck to 1 license. That's a pretty good argument for having some "single login" system like IPB...have 2 license now but will hold off to see what happens...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

$140 * 8 = $1120

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

$140 * 8 = $1120

That is my scenario also, I am done with creating a "one forum to rule them all", and instead I have switched to create smaller, more integrated communities. The problem is I cannot promote them as one network, as the users are not easily shared. Having a "master" forum to which the others could ping for account validation when the user tries to login would certainly seem very helpful.

I understand this feature can mean different things to different people, and can become really complicated really fast, myself, I mentioned some of the challenges the first time I came across the suggestion years ago. For example, handling duplicates for forums that are already running and should be connected, and the amount of information that should be shared (would I have two profile pages with visitor/profile comments, or just one? If someone starts a personal conversation with me, should I be notified in all the network?, If I change an avatar, shouldn't it be changed everywere?)

Dealing with latency and external dependencies could also be a nightmare.

I would strongly suggest having some core functionality in place, after all, we just want a single sign on ... and that should be fast to implement. And promoting it as a simple way to share logins but that's all it does.

 

[Michael Dance]

Great idea, if they did want to postpond the time to do this and a few more feautures, i would defo wait, we brought the licence and we dont mind waiting as long as its stable in the end, Unlike VB releasing a rubbish vb4.

 

[Jeffin]

I am actually waiting for this one to buy a second license and plus waiting for money to invest.

 

[Shelby]

For a lot of folks there is little point of investing if this isn't going to be supported.