Small announcement about AVForums

[Stuart Wright]

Stuart, Will you be using the Searchlight addon or will you be using the xenforo search addon?

There isn't a Searchlight addon for Xenforo as far as I'm aware. I've got to say that Floren's Searchlight product for vBulletin has been absolutely rock solid. Very, very impressed by that guy's work.
No, we're going with Elastic because I prefer to go with as much vanilla stuff as possible. All our editorial stuff is being coded to use Elastic as well and the plan is that search results will include forum and editorial content.

 

[Stuart Wright]

It's the little things which are a PITA.
Besides things like organising a replacement for iTrader, our Moderator Checkpoint System, the suite of addons for our classifieds section (Custom Post New Thread button, Thread archival, Birth Date restrictions, Max thread count per forum, Custom Thread Form, Disallow Poll Creation),

Competitions, DFP Banner ads, Mailing lists and Surveys, it's the little things which can be a real pain. Things like the custom smileys we've been using for years which simply don't exist in any form for Xenforo. And the custom BB codes which we've used for ages. It's these little things which, if we don't find working replacements for, will break posts and cause a disproportionate volume of complaints from members.
Forget all the awesome new stuff we will be bringing to our members like Xenforo's beautiful UI, Showcases, Hotspots, XenAttendo and a gallery. It's the stuff which breaks which will cause the most fuss. I bet.

 

[Paul B]

You can customise your smilies in the ACP.
Just upload the smiley images and add them in the ACP with the title and replacement text you want.

Custom BB Code will require an add-on though.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Getting nice Xenforo style smilies which do the same job as the esoteric ones from our collection is not easy.

 

[Hornstar]

I'll be interested in what ever you come up with to help with the cookie stuffers. I've been getting swamped with them lately.

 

[DRE]

What's a cookie stuffer?

 

[Stuart Wright]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_stuffing
We'll probably show the moderators a count of images in a post. If there isn't obviously an image in the post, a moderator will know there is an invisible one there.

 

[imno007]

Getting nice Xenforo style smilies which do the same job as the esoteric ones from our collection is not easy.

I'm guessing you can't use your current ones because they're copyrighted by VB? Here's some similar ones that you can check out:

http://community.mybb.com/thread-2212.html

 

[Stuart Wright]

Thanks for the link. Copyright isn't an issue. It's more to do with the fact that our smilies are a bit of a mish mash built up over the years, and I want to use the nice new XF style ones throughout for a more consistent feel.

 

[Brent W]

Hurry up and convert so I can steal @Chris Deeming and we can all get xenMediaGallery 1.3!

 

[Chris D]

That's the plan!

 

[DRE]

Hurry up and convert so I can steal @Chris Deeming and we can all get xenMediaGallery 1.3!

WORD

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Hurry up and convert so I can steal @Chris Deeming and we can all get xenMediaGallery 1.3!

That's the plan!

WORD

Chris Deeming and his one man band, ladies and gentlemen!

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Apropos of nothing, but in regards to the earlier conversation about Huddler, the reason I got into this game is because my favorite site (styleforum) switched over to Huddler and it really went to ****. No one seemed to care anything about it since the money was rolling in, so I figured "alright, if you think you can do it better, then put your money where your mouth is!"

Now I'm $500 poorer and spend most of my time talking to myself

 

[OSS 117]

Thanks for the link. Copyright isn't an issue. It's more to do with the fact that our smilies are a bit of a mish mash built up over the years, and I want to use the nice new XF style ones throughout for a more consistent feel.

If you've got money to burn for your board, you could hire @Shelley redo them however you wish. It won't be cheap, but her work speaks volumes.

Edit: Did I do the "@" thing right? Pretty sure I messed that one up.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

If you've got money to burn for your board, you could hire @Shelley redo them however you wish. It won't be cheap, but her work speaks volumes.

Edit: Did I do the "@" thing right? Pretty sure I messed that one up.

You did just fine

 

[Deebs]

@Stuart Wright just wanted to say good luck on the forum migration which is happening right now (was wanting to look some things up and saw the holding page)

 

[Brent W]

Good luck!

 

[Matthew Hawley]

The migration is happening right now?

 

[Chris D]

Yep. Nearly finished, in fact.