Integrated Blogs

[Grover]

The latest version (3.8) Kier & Mike produced for Jelsoft has it... Invision Powerboard has it. So it seems logical/natural that xenForo needs to provide integrated Blogs aswell. Otherwise a large part of customers will be unable/unwilling to transfer their vB boards to xenForo, because we really need our integrated Blogs aswell.

Please do [like] this first posting if you think it is a good feature suggestion for XenForo

 

[Chromaniac]

I have no idea how vB and others have integrated blogs in their forum platform. I was just wondering if this feature request would fulfill the needs of folks who want this component as an official part of XenForo: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-types-in-member-profiles.182496/post-1441440

 

[Hareon]

An official Blog System (with wordpress import compatibility) will be nice.
A club system would be great too. Like in Invision Community.

 

[Digital Doctor]

An official Blog System

Does this count ?

XF 2.2 Thread 'Article thread and forum updates and improvements'

Aug 6, 2020

When we first announced support for article-type threads and forums, we noted that this was an initial foray and that revised styling was in the pipeline.

Today, we can show you some of those revisions and the options that come with them.

Revised article styling​

Firstly, we have some updates for the main article thread page.

The author section at the bottom of the article has had some attention to visually separate it a little more from the article body, and in order to provide a bit more meat for search engines to bite into, the author's...

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[Alpha1]

Does this count ?

Nope.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Profile posts seemed kinda like Facebook Wall posts

 

[Alpha1]

Blogs normally consist out of Blogs and Blog Entries. So I can have a Travel Blog, a Philosophy Blog, a Gadgets Blog and put various Blog Entries in each. A Blog or its Entries may attract reviews, comments. It can be useful to add Tags. Entries may reside in categories.
Functionality wise its useful to skip from one Entry to the next in the same Blog.

My point is: profile posts are too simple for all of this.
Content Types are generally displayed on Profile anyway, just like your profile displays the latest Media and Resources.
It makes sense to allow posting from Profile, but that goes for any content type. Users should be able to post any content from anywhere. Or at least from profile. Why we can't post new media from our profile may make sense from a technical point of few, but asides that its beyond me why we can't.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Profile posts seemed kinda like Facebook Wall posts

It's a Facebook wall without wall features. Which is kinda pointless. Having these features would help:

Show "X is typing a reply"

Currently XenForo tells us whether others have posted a response while we're composing our reply. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a little window above the quick reply box that tells us who all / is typing a response currently? Many messengers do this and I think it's quite awesome.

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Thread 'Profile posts - what's the point?'

Apr 6, 2020

What is the point of profile posts?
They tend to get confused with private messages and lots of people share private personal information on them (such as name, address and phone number).
I have never used them and don't understand their purpose.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

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