New Forum Software with a few interesting features

I think there are not a true solution for a forum community. See their editor, very limited! Only few tags, lol. I can use it for a commercial website, for support etc., but if i want to have a true community, i'm feel to limited to use this.
But if i'm not wrong this is a full community suite, and not simple a forum solution...however i can't see this of a true competitor of Xenforo/VB/IPB etc.
 
I think there are not a true solution for a forum community. See their editor, very limited!
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I spotted that in the video as well, but won't comment about it. As I'm not a great fan of TinyMCE used here.
 
I like the way how its editor work for "Add a Photo, Video or File" its much much faster than xenForo's popup windows, I hate on waiting the popup windows to load.
 
What only attracts me is the inline editing feature really. Take that one out, you have an average (maybe less) forum software.

What I like at most in XenForo is all the cool moderation features taking advantage of jquery and javascript. It makes the work more enjoyable and faster. Maybe in the near future more of these new generation technologies as inline editing can be adapted.
 
mrGTB said:
Take note of the importers they already offer and which forums are covered. ;)

If you look at the Staff Team page, then scroll down and look at the footer area and what's displayed in it. I see it uses the Zend Framework and JQuery. So yeah, I'd say it does have pretty close connections with XenForo, it uses the same doesn't it and is built on more or less the same platform as launch.forum?
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XF is based on the Zend framework, and uses JQuery, yes. Also MVC is involved there somewhere.
 
xenDach said:
Hi,

Just found this.

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I like the idea of the design changes on the front end. Don't like the use of the wrench though. I also like the on the fly content box creation. Not sure how flexible that can be, but interesting. I heard the creator was one of the vBSEO coders.
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I dunno when I view a forum ...I want to see it how everyone else see's it....I would never want admin things (creating categories on the forum index? no thanks) on a regular page. Moderating content and being an admin on a board come with their own set of things to do thus making separating them logical....and I don't like the clutter. You only have so many pixels to work with for the average viewer so you need to make them work for you not against you. Either way I like having a separate administrative section with all my options logically placed so I can find them.

Anything else I can say is based on looks alone since I know nothing of the software and I have been trying to not say anything unless I have something nice to say. Best said for me could be "that software is not my cup of tea.". Best of luck to them though.
 
I've always wondered about inline editing options and wondered why no major forum software had offered such functionality. The ability to click a logo or category listing and change its colour or width inline would be great.
 
Peggy said:
XF is based on the Zend framework, and uses JQuery, yes. Also MVC is involved there somewhere.
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I won't answer that here Peggy, you really should have replied to anything posted on my site (at my site) instead of copying it over to here expecting any answers from me. You won't get one, no offence!
 
Ah! Sorry Peggy, I've wrote a thread on my site just now that included pretty much the same thing said. For a minute there I thought you'd been and quoted something I said there, bringing it here.

I do apologise, my mistake.
 
Brogan said:
I would completely disagree with that.
We make extensive use of them on our site.

http://cliptheapex.com/community/pages/2011-race-hub/

To label them as you have is grossly inaccurate.
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I agree my words were on the erring side. But, how many Xenforo clients are extensively using Pages? How easy is it to set up pages like you've done on your site for non-technical folks? Besides, I imagine people would prefer static pages to be placed outside of the "forum" folder.

LP's native portal is inspired by http://mashable.com. Why can't XenForo have something similar straight from the box? If Joe Ward can borrow good ideas from XenForo, Kier and Mike can reciprocate too. :)
 
Maximilian said:
I think there are not a true solution for a forum community. See their editor, very limited! Only few tags, lol. I can use it for a commercial website, for support etc., but if i want to have a true community, i'm feel to limited to use this.
But if i'm not wrong this is a full community suite, and not simple a forum solution...however i can't see this of a true competitor of Xenforo/VB/IPB etc.
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Don't forget what you are seeing on their site is Lite version. My understanding LF will be rolling out Pro version soon. Read below:
Joe Ward said:
So within a few months coding kicked off. Even after all that time, what you see so far is Launch.forum Lite. We have some very cool new forum features coming to LF in the coming months. =)
http://launchforum.com/ask-about-launchforum-3/long-take-code-158/
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They are already talking about making their gallery independent of topics.
http://launchforum.com/ask-about-launchforum-3/forum-calendar-122/
 
ajnos said:
It seems that this thread is the best way to get new customers for them....
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I expect threads like this one to be popping up on other forum software sites as well. Can't escape it. My hope is that LF will keep XenForo ever more advanced. Competition is good for customers.
 
kyrgyz said:
I expect threads like this one to be popping up on other forum software sites as well. Can't escape it. My hope is that LF will keep XenForo ever more advanced. Competition is good for customers.
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Yes, and why I started this thread. The competition doesn't sleep and competition always helps the customer in the end. Also the ideas of other softwares, when they are good, will be done by the other companies for the sake of meeting (or beating) the competition.

For instance, one thing I'd like to see in XenForo is a UI for changing the structure/ style of any page directly looking at the page itself. I am not a coder and am not sure how hard it would be to do, but since modern CSS designs are all based on div elements, it must be possible to make them customizable via a front-end point and click system much like launch.forum is doing. However it should be taken a step further where the placement or the parameters of the divs is also changeable via drag and drop. So for instance, I want to move the forum blocks from the right to the left and make them wider, I'd go into the customize mode and just pull them to the left and then widen the block area itself. This, I'll call it, "Wysiwyg Style Editor" does the rest in the background with changes in the stylevars. The same goes with any other major element in the design. This wouldn't stop the need to be somewhat proficient at CSS, but it surely would help noobs change the style of their forum/site to something more personal/ customized, which is what launch.forum is obviously aiming at doing. They are trying to take away the fear of customization work.

"Hey, you don't really know your way around HTML or CSS? No problem! Just point, click, slide, pull or push and in no time you'll have your own personal design."

xenDach
 
I think people have lost sight of what XenForo pages are. They are nothing more than templates sitting within the node tree. They are simply not intended to be a CMS or an article system or to support a drag and drop UI builder, nor do I ever forsee a time at which they will. They do a simple job, fulfilling a need to be able to define a small number of web pages that can be controlled by node permissions relatively easily.

A CMS, an article manager, or a drag and drop UI builder are all far more complex propositions, and XenForo's Pages system is entirely the wrong place to start working with them. Those things require far more back-end support and architecture and have completely different requirements from Pages.

I'm not promising that XenForo will never have those things, but I am saying that if you are looking for them as features of Pages, you are looking in the wrong place and you will end up disappointed.
 

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