XenForo 2.0 Discussion

[adamsmasher]

I believe I read there won't be any sort of conversion system from the current XF 1.x styles to the new 2.x styles, which is understandable considering how much is different under the hood.

I figured as much but thought it was worth asking.

It's not that big a deal though, since I'd need to modify the style for 2.0 anyway.

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

any chance to add option read all conversation

 

[duderuud]

You could do that with an SQL statement...

UPDATE xf.xf_conversation_user SET is_unread = 0 WHERE xf_conversation_user.is_unread = 1;

Rebuild user cache afterwards.

 

[Sim]

They are FA icons.

Awesome

I see what you did there, @Lisa

 

[Lisa]

I see what you did there, @Lisa

At least someone noticed lol

 

[Jim Boy]

Haven't read the thread for a while and not about to go through a 100 pages. Features will be what they are, as long as their is heavy emphasis on mobile.

Three years ago our profile was about 10% mobile and tablet, now it is about 70% and is growing.

It has to be mobile all the way.

 

[jmurrayhead]

Please provide a global disable for the Font Awesome icons. Here's an example showing without FA icons, I think it looks much better.

Sounds like an opportunity for one of your infamous RemoveOns

 

[drastic]

Haven't read the thread for a while and not about to go through a 100 pages. Features will be what they are, as long as their is heavy emphasis on mobile.

Three years ago our profile was about 10% mobile and tablet, now it is about 70% and is growing.

It has to be mobile all the way.

Mobile browsing is HUGE and growing.

I know people who don't even own a computer anymore, they just use tablets/phones now. If they're not in a job/hobby working on a PC, then what do they need one for? (besides something you look at late night wink wink)

It would be very smart to make sure our mobile display is phenomenal. It will retain users, that's a given.

iPhone 6 is still our top mobile browser.

This is a small sample in comparison to the big sites, but it certainly makes a case for why we should all consider having an app as well.

 

[Robust]

Said this before, can't wait for XF 2. XF 1 is a pain to work with in terms of development and offputting, to say the least. XenForo 2 should greatly expand the developer industry, which is good news for customers I guess. Nice work on this, guys.

 

[Arty]

Said this before, can't wait for XF 2. XF 1 is a pain to work with in terms of development and offputting, to say the least. XenForo 2 should greatly expand the developer industry, which is good news for customers I guess. Nice work on this, guys.

You should try developing add-ons for other forum software, then you'll realize that XF 1 is still years ahead of everything else, despite being available for 6 years. There are minor inconveniences, but overall XF 1 is amazingly good to work with compared to other forums. XF 2 will be even better.

 

[drastic]

You should try developing add-ons for other forum software, then you'll realize that XF 1 is still years ahead of everything else, despite being available for 6 years. There are minor inconveniences, but overall XF 1 is amazingly good to work with compared to other forums. XF 2 will be even better.

And it loads very fast, which is a HUGE plus these days

 

[n00bsaibot]

will there be an app?

 

[TPerry]

will there be an app?

I believe that has been answered in the thread (or one that was broken off of this one) - and it was no 1st party app.

 

[Robust]

You should try developing add-ons for other forum software, then you'll realize that XF 1 is still years ahead of everything else, despite being available for 6 years. There are minor inconveniences, but overall XF 1 is amazingly good to work with compared to other forums. XF 2 will be even better.

Forum software itself is generally poorly coded/hard for developers to work with. I'm aware that other software (not sure if I can mention names), specifically one in version 4, is coded pretty late on but it's extremely poorly coded to work with. I've been doing private projects with different frameworks (Laravel, mainly). They're so much easier to work with and really a realisation of how forum softwares in general are so poor to work with for developers.

It's funny, because over one year ago today I picked up PHP and learnt it from asking all the guys here. If it wasn't for XenForo, I probably wouldn't know anything. The fantastic community here answered my stupid questions with clear answers and with a lot of Googling and referring to the PHP docs as well, I learnt PHP. No tutorials or guides or anything (tbh, they never work anyway for me). Now I'd say I'm fairly good at it.

XenForo templating is great, add-on development less but it's still pretty good to work with compared to others, as you say, I agree with that.

 

[adamsmasher]

You should try developing add-ons for other forum software, then you'll realize that XF 1 is still years ahead of everything else, despite being available for 6 years. There are minor inconveniences, but overall XF 1 is amazingly good to work with compared to other forums. XF 2 will be even better.

I have to echo this sentiment. Developing products for vBulletin 4 was a pain, and I think was making me a crappier coder.

 

[Robust]

I have to echo this sentiment. Developing products for vBulletin 4 was a pain, and I think was making me a crappier coder.

vBulletin 4 is 7 years old, it used standard practices at that time. Similar to what WordPress and other software such as WHMCS use to this very day. A lot of software adds on top of their old code (using old standards) to save money and time, also. Complete recodes cost $$$.

 

[Gamorreaner]

A lot of software adds on top of their old code (using old standards) to save money and time, also. Complete recodes cost $$$.

But today we know better .

 

[adamsmasher]

vBulletin 4 is 7 years old, it used standard practices at that time. Similar to what WordPress and other software such as WHMCS use to this very day. A lot of software adds on top of their old code (using old standards) to save money and time, also. Complete recodes cost $$$.

Which is why I'm glad XF 2.0 is all new. I'd rather re-do all my customizations every few years and have them be current, than keep going with something ancient and outdated.

pls to be not repeating what happened with vb3 -> vb4 kthxbai

 

[Digital Doctor]

I wonder if Xenforo 2.0 will be as fast as Xenforo 1.

 

[Amaury]

A new first-point release is not going to be slower than the previous first-point series. It will either be as fast or faster.