DragonByte Tech
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[DBTech] DragonByte Social Groups [Paid] 2.3.0b1
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DragonByte Tech
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DragonByte Tech updated [DBTech] DragonByte Social Groups with a new update entry:
2.3.0 Beta 1
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2.3.0 Beta 1
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DragonByte Tech
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There's currently no integration with the XFRM, but that's certainly something I could look into for future versions
michalss
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Thx for that. So i will wait till this is done. Well there is not any addon who can consider team as multiple person and act as on behalf the team. Its a huge black hole in XF and i did not find any addon capable of such a thing and im pretty sure there is many ppl who need thisThere's currently no integration with the XFRM, but that's certainly something I could look into for future versions
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DragonByte Tech
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XenForo Resource Manager by default allows for teams to manage resources.Thx for that. So i will wait till this is done. Well there is not any addon who can consider team as multiple person and act as on behalf the team. Its a huge black hole in XF and i did not find any addon capable of such a thing and im pretty sure there is many ppl who need this
michalss
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I know but you need to add each member manually up to 10 ppl and also for each new resource. Also i would to see a members is in the teams. Then members can act on behal the team in XF forums, articles, resources.. This is what is essential for me..
Arnox
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This is not entirely the solution you're looking for, but what you could do is make an account and have a team share it, or perhaps multiple accounts for different duties. It's not fully ideal, I know, but it could make for a decent stopgap until the functionality you're looking for is implemented.
D.O.A.
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In Nobita groups there's two tabs, one "news feed" which is just a wall of comments and replies down the page, and "discussions" which is any forums that group has created.
With "discussions" is that something you can import (forums and/or threads) and how is that handled with your add-on, shown the same way?
I notice your add-on has only "discussions" but no "news feed"? So how are you handling import, as news feed are not threads, they're displayed like this image:
I'm working out what we stand to lose by changing add-ons.
DragonByte Tech
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I can check the code later but I believe they are imported as discussions, and given a generic title.
a1omads
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little confused, should buy this https://xenforo.com/community/resources/social-groups-for-xenforo.5651/ or https://xenforo.com/community/resources/dbtech-dragonbyte-social-groups.9176/
Can any help? which one has more features? anyone can send direct message too or reply here
Can any help? which one has more features? anyone can send direct message too or reply here
DragonByte Tech
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I'll quote a message I sent in the DMs to another user who asked a similar question:
tl;dr:
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- Better UI/UX
- Better privacy controls
- Better control over what permissions group moderators can be given
- Forum staff can manage social groups
- Main group page is customisable by admins via the Widget system
- Main group page displays more info
Up until last month, the biggest difference would be XenForo 2.3 support
Other than that, I would say the UI/UX. One of the main things I pride myself on is making addons that look like they could be official XenForo add-ons - that is to say, they fit seamlessly into the native UI. Navigating Snog's addon when I was creating an importer was challenging for me. I would have to imagine that the multiple non-standard UI features shown in their screenshots would not play well with more advanced 3rd party styles, though I cannot say that for a fact.
Other than that, an important difference is how you navigate groups. Snog's addon uses categories, whereas I use tags. In my opinion, tags are superior to categories because they're the equivalent of adding a group to multiple categories at once.
Admittedly, searching for groups via tags can be improved in my add-on (and I believe there's an open ticket for that from the person who is funding most of the feature updates, on the back burner just now). Ideally, it would be possible to combine tags to find only groups matching all tags, similar to how you would filter, for example. a manga database.
Another important difference is the back-end that's being used to store group discussions. Snog's, as well as truonglv's, uses forums and threads as their back-end. This has pros and cons.
A pro would be that you don't need to reinvent the wheel; XenForo has already done the heavy lifting when it comes to how to post threads and posts. Add-ons that deal with threads and posts will likely work out of the box too.
A con would be the fact that XenForo's permission system currently does not like it very much when you have a large number of forums (nodes) created.
When I experimented with back-end storage during development, creating only 100 social groups already slowed down the creation of future social groups to an absolute crawl, forcing users to sit through a minute-long "Rebuilding permissions..." pop-up, like the one you would see if you added a new node or changed a node's permissions on your site just now.
In other words, it straight up does not scale very well. Even if you bypass XenForo's permission system entirely for social group nodes, you'd still run into the same problem the next time you wanted to make a change to nodes in the AdminCP, forcing you to wait for minutes per change.
Other than that, it also pollutes the node list when, for example, moving threads, forcing you to scroll past potentially hundreds of nodes.
Furthermore, when using nodes as the back-end, disabling or uninstalling the addon would render all the social group content visible to normal members, if you don't also apply permissions to all the social group nodes manually before doing so. Of course, with my back-end, uninstalling the addon will simply delete all the data, so that could be seen as a downside of my approach.
a1omads
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Thanks for explaining. Can you send me 3 to 5 website that uses your add-on so I can see how Google is crawling those sites group?
DragonByte Tech
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That is not something I'm able to post, as I don't know whether any given customer wants their site URL to be public.
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