whynot
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It's easy to get a disposable phone number.
XF 2.3 ?
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Chromaniac
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as a forum owner, that's exactly the kind of thing you do not want on your platform. you do not want to make it easy for spammers to be able to create accounts on your platform. emails are easy. you can manage a list of email services that are blocked. you can use addons to restrict account creation to certain domains. there are dedicated databases like SFS which would tell you the reputation of email accounts. forum owners do not have the same kind of resources as facebook or reddit that you allow account creation using disposable ids. not to mention most forums are just not targeted at the general public.
i do believe xenforo needs to add support for apple id. google id is already covered. with these two, you have essentially covered majority of smartphone users. except for maybe audience from china. i imagine if you have an apple or google id, you already have an email account no matter if you use it or not.
I read Google/Apple support docs and it looks like Apple ID requires an existing email id. Google lets you use an existing email id or it would create one for you. It seems unlikely that you can have either of these IDs without having or getting an email account.
i do believe xenforo needs to add support for apple id. google id is already covered. with these two, you have essentially covered majority of smartphone users. except for maybe audience from china. i imagine if you have an apple or google id, you already have an email account no matter if you use it or not.
I read Google/Apple support docs and it looks like Apple ID requires an existing email id. Google lets you use an existing email id or it would create one for you. It seems unlikely that you can have either of these IDs without having or getting an email account.
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Alpha1
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That was put on ignore.
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ShikiSuen
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Not work for forums hosted in China. Cellphone registration is required by law (though not seriously obeyed by all forums at this moment).
(My website is hosted in HongKong, hence being excepted.)
Mendalla
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For how much longer I wonder. It seems China is hellbent on bringing Hong Kong "into the fold" as far as public security laws are concerned.
ShikiSuen
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HK still has a separate law system (like how states in United States use individual law systems).
However, from a homeland security perspective of view, HK is part of PRC.
at least user must know what to expect! VB stopped, many moved to XF 1, that is dead now, now all on XF 2
before creating XF 3, I advice to think variant factors
I had 5TB files on VB, moved to XF 2, it took 10 days
now I have 8TB files, I won't move to XF 3 if all data should be imported,
I shall move to XF 3 only if upgrade is possbile without uploaded files being toched.
before creating XF 3, I advice to think variant factors
I had 5TB files on VB, moved to XF 2, it took 10 days
now I have 8TB files, I won't move to XF 3 if all data should be imported,
I shall move to XF 3 only if upgrade is possbile without uploaded files being toched.
Wildcat Media
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Yep. XF2 completely rewrote the architecture XF1 was built on. At least XF does versioning correctly, unlike a few other packages I can think of.
Wildcat Media
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would be good to see new options in 2.3, like sales, more payment gateways, maybe another tab for products with different view styles.
many guys say the forum is a forum & should stay as it is, but time is passing fast, in one short moment we will be in 2025-2030
what I want to say is: if sales were implemented in XF, there would be no better engine than XF
just imagine adding crypto gateways like blockchain & finance, which can bring lot's of customers to XF
or another great idea would be an advertisement board, like eBay, nft market (https://opensea.io)
many guys say the forum is a forum & should stay as it is, but time is passing fast, in one short moment we will be in 2025-2030
what I want to say is: if sales were implemented in XF, there would be no better engine than XF
just imagine adding crypto gateways like blockchain & finance, which can bring lot's of customers to XF
or another great idea would be an advertisement board, like eBay, nft market (https://opensea.io)
Frode789
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Tinfoil mode:
If we look at the time between the other feature releases on XF2 (2.1 & 2.2), it was 1 year and 8 months between them. Time from first HYS to release was in both cases 3 months.
The first 2.2 HYS was June 2020, which would place us at February 2022 for first HYS in 2.3. And then release 3 months after that barring no unprecedented problems during beta/RC, so May 2022.
So let's hope we will have some tasty HYS threads to look at within a few months at the latest..
If we look at the time between the other feature releases on XF2 (2.1 & 2.2), it was 1 year and 8 months between them. Time from first HYS to release was in both cases 3 months.
The first 2.2 HYS was June 2020, which would place us at February 2022 for first HYS in 2.3. And then release 3 months after that barring no unprecedented problems during beta/RC, so May 2022.
So let's hope we will have some tasty HYS threads to look at within a few months at the latest..
Wildcat Media
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There, I fixed it...
