A few of my users still reminisce about their editable/custom user profile page functions.
Nexialys made cool add-ons for vBulletin 3.x that I wish were added to the core when I still used that software, but the only one I really miss since going to xenForo is his "Newscast," which I renamed on my forum listing page as "Sample Topics." As hinted, the add-on allowed me to choose any number of topics from any forum (forum ID can be added for inclusion) to display the latest topics from.
What was so notable about this add-on though was that you could also choose the amount of characters from the opening post of these latest topics to display below the topic title. The topic title was click-able and there was other useful information such as time stamps, consideration of permissions (i.e., a member without proper permission cannot see certain topics), on/off option for BBCode formatting, etc.
I'm planning on migrating this Saturday (1/7/12).What is it that you are missing at Xenforo from Vbulletin ? I mean what is your favorite feature/function from Vbulletin that you are missing at Xenforo currently.
If you look on my main site, I have RSS feeds set up two different ways. One as a 'Recent News' block that Digital Doctor mentioned and the other as a 'Recent Threads 2' block. You will see it on the bottom left. Only the 'Recent News' has a snippet. You can control the amount of words for the sample. There's also a Recent News 2 block as well that you could have beside it if you want to feed two different forums but I haven't set that up because I prefer the Recent Threads 2 block.Nexialys made cool add-ons for vBulletin 3.x that I wish were added to the core when I still used that software, but the only one I really miss since going to xenForo is his "Newscast," which I renamed on my forum listing page as "Sample Topics." As hinted, the add-on allowed me to choose any number of topics from any forum (forum ID can be added for inclusion) to display the latest topics from.
What was so notable about this add-on though was that you could also choose the amount of characters from the opening post of these latest topics to display below the topic title. The topic title was click-able and there was other useful information such as time stamps, consideration of permissions (i.e., a member without proper permission cannot see certain topics), on/off option for BBCode formatting, etc.
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I posted a request for, and more details (including another screen shot) about, this add-on here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/nexias-newscast-existing-vb3-add-on.8651/
The closest I found for such an add-on was RagTek's "Latest Posts Header Block" (http://ragtek.org/xenforo/threads/latest-posts-header-block.232/#post-828), but there are several problems. Besides the add-on not displaying characters from the opening post and lacking several of the other features mentioned above, the author of that add-on disappeared so even if I wanted to get the add-on I cannot. That is, I may apply for premium membership to download this paid add-on, but it does not matter because the author needs to be at his forum to approve my premium membership.
Most of my members miss this. They had put music playlists and interesting backgrounds on their profile page. I used to like checking out their pages to see what new stuff they did to it. I would seriously buy this modification as a paid add-on.A few of my users still reminisce about their editable/custom user profile page functions.
vbulletin ended up breaking it anyway between 'updates'.
...everything else I can think of personally was an add-on and not part of the vb core.
100% agreed there. While the reply system is nice, we really, really need a multi-quote systemNo (true) multi-quote - probably the biggest thing I'll get flak on.
There's a hack for that ... Hint, see my sig!No mass smiley importer. Manually adding 100+ smilies wasn't fun.
Son of a *****, I spent some time looking throughout the mods section for an importer, but the only one I found was one that required me to install some stuff in Windows.There's a hack for that ... Hint, see my sig!
Huh? Ctrl - B (and I, U, etc) all work in the vB editor.I don't mind the editor, in fact, honestly, I kind of like it, opposed to the vBulletin editor. Being able to actually use things like ctrl-b, etc is a good thing.
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