XF 2.3 ?

[sbj]

So you're telling me that if i were to edit your stuff you'd be ok with it?

Well, who said you would have the permission to do so?

I control the site, I decide who gets to edit what on my terms. And just in case, all is send to approval queue anyway and there is the edit history to revert back to stuff when needed.

I think you don't realize what we are talking about. Obviously nobody likes when their own posts are edited. Not talking about normal posts here.

We are talking about articles where everyone can contribute to. So there is no "my stuff", it is a wiki article, it belongs to the site. So, if your contributions are good, I may let it through. Also there are the discussion threads for the wiki items, so instead of editing the articles themselves, one can propose them in the discussion threads and then one can include them or not.

I think you have to see it to understand it.

 

[Suzanne O]

@sbj

XenForo Wikipedia Entry

You're a good man! Thanks Peggy... :)

xenforo.com

read up on here

 

[MarenLBC]

If you are not innovating, you are falling behind. New customers won't come and current customers will leave. Stability and innovation when it comes to any software are not mutually exclusive, they are minimum requirements. Maintaining a stable product with no innovation is not a good indication of a promising future for any piece of software.

Expertly said.

I agree and I'm sure the majority of today's social media users would agree but I suspect the majority of forum owners posting here would tell you infinite scrolling is the devil's child.

It's very noticeable that a lot of the functionality being requested here doesn't really mesh with what the average social media user is actually using which is pretty basic.

I think there's still a rather large rift between the desktop owning providers and the mobile owning consumer. I'd like to think 2.3 will attempt to address that.

Infinite Scrolling could be problematic in thread view as is but not with a feed. In addition with inline post replies infinite scroll is less problematic in my opinion.

 

[Taylor J]

@Forsaken
do some reading

VBulletin

This says they had a website (actually a forum that was ran on UBB.classic, which was written in Perl) where the niche was Visual Basic...

This plus your last post to @sbj linking them to a thread about the XenForo Wikipedia page shows that you either aren't paying attention to what you're reading here or just being plain ignorant to it. XenForo comes with an amazing permissions system that can make it so an owner/admin can only allow certain user groups or users to edit certain pages.

 

[Forsaken]

This says they had a website (actually a forum that was ran on UBB.classic, which was written in Perl) where the niche was Visual Basic...

This plus your last post to @sbj linking them to a thread about the XenForo Wikipedia page shows that you either aren't paying attention to what you're reading here or just being plain ignorant to it. XenForo comes with an amazing permissions system that can make it so an owner/admin can only allow certain user groups or users to edit certain pages.

Thanks for responding, I don't know if I could have been nice at this point .

 

[Suzanne O]

This says they had a website (actually a forum that was ran on UBB.classic, which was written in Perl) where the niche was Visual Basic...

This plus your last post to @sbj linking them to a thread about the XenForo Wikipedia page shows that you either aren't paying attention to what you're reading here or just being plain ignorant to it. XenForo comes with an amazing permissions system that can make it so an owner/admin can only allow certain user groups or users to edit certain pages.

And all you're doing is trying to cause conflict.
From a course i did on programming is that you never use unsupported software

 

[Taylor J]

Thanks for responding, I don't know if I could have been nice at this point .

I had to say something especially after ignoring the vBulletin is written in Visual Basic statement as just accidental confusion but then they pushed harder on it .
Also I had time to spare while waiting for a 15 minute load test on an API at work that I now have to make tickets for in the morning as it doesn't meet our standard of <75ms at 90% percentile

 

[VBX Co]

We'd just like the old editor back. The "new" one has always been clunky and inconsistent across devices and browsers.

 

[Taylor J]

And all you're doing is trying to cause conflict.
From a course i did on programming is that you never use unsupported software

Well I'm actually not trying to cause conflict, just making sure incorrect statements aren't taken as fact.
What does unsupported software have to do with anything here (because you first said it was not coded software)? MediaWiki was last updated 11 minutes ago, but that still has nothing at all to do with the Wiki suggestion by @sbj (which I actually think is a really good suggestion). No one would be taking anything from the MediaWiki codebase and just putting it into XenForo. I'm pretty sure Reddit didn't do that when they implemented their wiki feature (which for the sub reddits that use it, it's some of the best wikis I've ever seen). Your only argument is that people can "edit" anything they want, which with the permission system that is handled.

 

[DarkGizmo]

You’re right. No one has been working on anything for the last 2 years. I only work 1 hour a day. Kier? He hasn’t done a day’s work for 10 years. The other devs aren’t really devs. We just pay them to make it look like we’re busy.

Being paid to look like i'm busy/actually doing something when i'm not? Where can I apply/sign up?

 

[DarkGizmo]

The XenForo staff are so fed up with this 2.3 version story that they will immediately upgrade to 2.4. End of the story.

The next version is so y'uge, it completely skipped a number point version cycle!

 

[Mouth]

I’m all for innovations but can you list some of the innovations? Or better still make them as suggestions?

What new features? What world needs?

Suggest you do your own research. Start with all the suggestions here, look at what alternative products have done in the last 3 years, see what features/functions those new to community sites expect to see that makes them want to stay and/or engage more.

If you're oblivious and/or happy then no need for you to engage or challenge others. You keep current functionality that's all you need, others get new functionality that is parity or innovative, everyone's happy.

Whereas for me, continuing to provide a stable, solid platform for a site remains paramount. New features are a bonus at this point and they need to be done so as not to affect the stability of the platform.

Great, you have no interest/need for 2.3, and can remain on 2.2. Once 2.2 reaches EOL, then you can consider 2 3.

 

[Mendalla]

Great, you have no interest/need for 2.3, and can remain on 2.2. Once 2.2 reaches EOL, then you can consider 2 3.

Depends on what is in 2.3. I will deal with it when I see it. I see no reason to worry or cheer about it until I see an HYS.

Maintaining a stable product with no innovation is not a good indication of a promising future for any piece of software.

Innovation vs. stability is a false dichotomy. You can do both. What I am really saying is do innovation carefully rather in the bull in a chinashop fashion that I see too often in the IT world. "We have to have this because it is cool!" is all too often followed by "Here's the fifteen patches you need to load to deal with the security and stability issues the cool stuff introduced." If it takes two years to get the cool stuff stable, I can wait. After nearly 25 years in IT, I am sick of dealing with buggy crap rushed out just to catch a wave.

 

[tajhay]

Will xf2.3 come with a feature to block seeing @aussiefooty posts in the core?

 

[Suzanne O]

Well I'm actually not trying to cause conflict, just making sure incorrect statements aren't taken as fact.
What does unsupported software have to do with anything here (because you first said it was not coded software)? MediaWiki was last updated 11 minutes ago, but that still has nothing at all to do with the Wiki suggestion by @sbj (which I actually think is a really good suggestion). No one would be taking anything from the MediaWiki codebase and just putting it into XenForo. I'm pretty sure Reddit didn't do that when they implemented their wiki feature (which for the sub reddits that use it, it's some of the best wikis I've ever seen). Your only argument is that people can "edit" anything they want, which with the permission system that is handled.

Visual basic is the pearl language.
i studied it so i know more than you
Also when you check the source in your browser you will see a lot of html language.
Do a programming course. I encourage you to learn about how things work.

 

[TPerry]

Might only need 30 seconds.

If you can't do it in 23.8, your'e slacking.

 

[JamesBrown]

Suggest you do your own research. Start with all the suggestions here,

Except some suggestions here are a bit vague, the thread is a collection of Gifs mostly, you pointing a suggestion list, another saying keep up with world needs. What does that mean?

Let's not fall out over this. I just don't get what the constant clamour for 2.3 is about. Tell me, what do you want to see. Be specific, excite me enough to come on here moaning once a week because, whatever it is, is not here, and I will.

 

[Mouth]

Except some suggestions here are a bit vague, the thread is a collection of Gifs mostly, you pointing a suggestion list, another saying keep up with world needs. What does that mean?

You'll need to ask the authors, I'm not about to try and interpret on their behalf something that you don't understand.

excite me enough

I'm not here to excite you, nor am I interested in doing so. You're not my community, nor my vendor. You appear to be confused by this.

If you're not interested or bothered by a 3+ years wait for a first dot point release, thinking that's normal or acceptable in the commercial software industry, then I'm not interested in your rebuttal discourse as you'll have already demonstrated your level of irrelevance to me.

 

[JamesBrown]

I'm not here to excite you,

My expectations were low, so I'm not disapointed.

I'll leave you here to moan.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Suggest you do your own research

It would be a lot easier and quicker for you to list just some of the innovations you mean. I see various suggestions here but I am just politely asking for you to clarify with some examples. If you can’t do that I understand but I just thought it would be very quick and easy compared with me trawling through this thread.

Otherwise I am tending to think that some people want innovation for the sake of it rather than based on sound reasoning and need for something specific.

Meanwhile maybe I will ask my community what new features they would like to see. That does seem a useful way forward.

If only I could ask those who haven’t registered why they haven’t and what new features would entice them to join.