XenForo 2.0 Discussion

[Pierce]

Yeah, tell me the format - any format - that would compel me to read every single post in this thread? Would I be any more inclined to do so if all the posts were on one endlessly scrolling page? Not me.

Name another data structure that would highlight the most important posts?

Not all good posts will be upvoted or engaged.

 

[imno007]

Name another data structure that would highlight the most important posts?

Not all good posts will be upvoted or engaged.

Umm, I'm not disagreeing. Plus, even if all the good posts were upvoted or engaged, if they numbered in the hundreds or even just dozens I probably still wouldn't read them all.

 

[CTXMedia]

Flagging individual posts as interesting and then having a link that just shows the 'interesting' posts would allow you and/or your community to water a thread down to selected highlighs.

 

[Pierce]

Flagging individual posts as interesting and then having a link that just shows the 'interesting' posts would allow you and/or your community to water a thread down to selected highlighs.

Could use "thread marks" addon for XF, yay all our problems solved. Next!

Just kidding its over simplified I know.

 

[imno007]

Flagging individual posts as interesting and then having a link that just shows the 'interesting' posts would allow you and/or your community to water a thread down to selected highlighs.

I suppose it might be better than nothing, if you trust people to flag posts that you'd personally consider the best of the best, as opposed to posts by people they like or who are popular or whose viewpoints simply agree with their own.

 

[xenfans]

Could use "thread marks" addon for XF, yay all our problems solved. Next!

Just kidding its over simplified I know.

And not to the point either.

Why even develop version 2 of xenforo when the devs could just say "just write a plugin for it, or customize the visible source code", NEXT! ..

Just because there's an addon implies there's a desire by the community for it (or at least some). It doesn't mean there's a solution for it, in regards to the topic at hand here.

 

[Pierce]

And not to the point either.

Why even develop version 2 of xenforo when the devs could just say "just write a plugin for it, or customize the visible source code", NEXT! ..

Just because there's an addon implies there's a desire by the community for it (or at least some). It doesn't mean there's a solution for it, in regards to the topic at hand here.

Because xf2 is supposed to be Dev friendly as such make it easier to test creative ways to organise/rank/sort content.

Expecting devs to have all the answers is crazy.

Just because a mod was created doesn't mean everybody knows about it. Or considers it important

 

[xenfans]

Because xf2 is supposed to be Dev friendly as such make it easier to test creative ways to organise/rank/sort content.

Expecting devs to have all the answers is crazy.

Just because a mod was created doesn't mean everybody knows about it. Or considers it important

Did you even read my post?

 

[sheel]

Did you read&understand Pierce'?

As the XF devs have told people about 200 times, XF2.0 is "not" meant to have many new features, but it is meant to be a cleanup of the inner technical stuff. Frontend features are something that will become important again at 2.1-2.2 and later.

 

[KhanTastic]

Sorry butting in, any idea when this new version will be out for customers?

 

[Ozzy47]

Sorry butting in, any idea when this new version will be out for customers?

No, there is no timeline as to when 2.0 will be gold, but you can test it out now as the alpha version, if you have an active license.

 

[Pierce]

Did you even read my post?

Yup sure did, commented on it how I see it.

XF2 isnt about having everything built in. It's about allowing others to create anything for it.

Windows doesn't do everything but allows anybody to do anything.

 

[xenfans]

Yup sure did, commented on it how I see it.

XF2 isnt about having everything built in. It's about allowing others to create anything for it.

Windows doesn't do everything but allows anybody to do anything.

Even the NSA.

 

[Pierce]

Even the NSA.

Haha yeah guess that's why I used it.

 

[imno007]

I got an email this morning from IPB announcing Invision Community 4.2 (beta), which I have to admit has some pretty cool features. I figure this is good news for all of you looking for more social media integration/features with XF, because I feel pretty confident that XF will next be setting its sights on keeping up with the competition.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

I figure this is good news for all of you looking for more social media integration/features with XF, because I feel pretty confident that XF will next be setting its sights on keeping up with the competition.

In my opinion and from my understanding of what defines "social media" a forum platform is in fact in and of itself a "social media" platform.
XF already provides the following feature and to assume it doesn't and suggest it needs integration/features in addition to what it already provides is bloat.

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. ... Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.

 

[imno007]

In my opinion and from my understanding of what defines "social media" a forum platform is in fact in and of itself a "social media" platform.
XF already provides the following feature and to assume it doesn't and suggest it needs integration/features in addition to what it already provides is bloat.

I think it safe to say that I was referring to its popular or "colloquial" usage here. Perhaps unfortunately many people today tend to think of "social media" as being synonymous with Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest, etc. I feel pretty confident that my target audience in this case had no problem understanding my message.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

I feel pretty confident that my target audience in this case had no problem understanding my message.

Unless you identify specifically who the individuals are that are your "target audience" is here its safe to say anyone who reads this is the "target audience"
People tend to put everything into one basket or category such as "social media" and tend to deny or ignore that the platform they are asking to have this integrated into is already a social media tool. It's like people always asking for CMS (Content Management System) to be integrated into XF when XF as it is manages content.

 

[imno007]

Unless you identify specifically who the individuals are that are your "target audience" is here its safe to say anyone who reads this is the "target audience"
People tend to put everything into one basket or category such as "social media" and tend to deny or ignore that the platform they are asking to have this integrated into is already a social media tool. It's like people always asking for CMS (Content Management System) to be integrated into XF when XF as it is manages content.

The target audience is, as I said, "all of you looking for more social media integration/features with XF." I think it reasonable to assume that one can deduce from that that it means anyone looking for more social media features such as those found on Facebook - considering all the people in this thread doing comparisons between XF and Facebook and Twitter, etc. Let me be very specific and rephrase my original sentence so this does't turn into an argument over semantics, where one side pretends he didn't/doesn't understand what I was talking about for the sake of proving a point: "I figure this is good news for all of you looking for more social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) integration/features with XF because I feel pretty confident that XF will next be setting its sights on keeping up with the competition."

 

[RobinHood]

People tend to put everything into one basket or category such as "social media" and tend to deny or ignore that the platform they are asking to have this integrated into is already a social media tool. It's like people always asking for CMS (Content Management System) to be integrated into XF when XF as it is manages content.

Sure it's a social media tool, but it's also a community platform. The big social media sites are types of community platform, forums are a type of community platform, they all have slightly different approaches and takes on the matter, but the fact is they are collections of tools and features that bring people together to communicate and interact with each other. That's different from comparing it to a curated content management system.

XF already provides the following feature and to assume it doesn't and suggest it needs integration/features in addition to what it already provides is bloat.

Yeah, lets not add any new features because the product is perfect and to do so would be bloat

What do you want out of XF2 if you don't want new features?


I think some of the new features in IPS look great, particularly clubs. There are some great tools to help better foster and build community, particularly local community.

It's actually quite refreshing to see some cool stock features coming from a competitor. Competition is great.

I can't wait to see what XF are able to do to complete and start ramping up the release of their own new features once they've finished all the behind the scenes legwork on XF2. Bring it on