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Xenforo - Do you guys want it here?

Let's see... Seems I still have access to my modly powers in the off-topic part. Not seeing the moderation center however.

Also, Home links back to forum here right now.

Found something wonky in inbox. I select a box, select something to do with it, but then it acts on it at once instead of waiting for me to click go.
 
Okay, so that site for that style you listed is kinda skeevy, or messed up. One or the other. It sends me to paypal but with a faulty SSL certificate.

I'll find another dark theme somewhere.
 
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Let's see... Seems I still have access to my modly powers in the off-topic part. Not seeing the moderation center however.
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Hmm. I'll look into it. The permissions were rather wonky after the import. I had to set every forums to be for logged in people.

Also, Home links back to forum here right now.
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Yeah, that's no big deal, just a text field in the options.

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Noticed that too. Guess it's just a bug in the current software.
 
First thing I notice is that sent PM's don't show up in the Convos, only received PMs. Also when selecting an action on a Convo topic it does it immediately rather than waiting for the 'go' button to be pushed(Imped on that)
 
The "General" board is hidden to visitors, for some reason. I actually had to log off and back on to see if it was the case here as well, but it's not.
 
Hmmm... I can edit posts given mod powers, but I cannot edit my own posts at this time.
 
What does the CPU/Ram/etc look at for the xenforo test board? Because the site feels slower on the test board.
 
Yet no moderation center... Should still be on the top left, right? But I just see Home, Forums and Members.

I would like to say I can edit my posts... but I cannot say for sure as mod powers got extended to posts outside of off-topic now.

Edit: Oh, wait. I CAN see reported items. Not sure if more is supposed to be seen or if it's jsut that now, however.
 
Well, it's obviously a little late seeing how the license has already been purchased, but I went ahead and sent that twenty dollars that I promised. Whether elgee uses that for the renewal when it comes up, a new skin for the forum or to help pay server costs is up to him. *shrugs*
 
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What does the CPU/Ram/etc look at for the xenforo test board? Because the site feels slower on the test board.
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Yeah, it is a little slower. But that's okay. We always have the option to upgrade. We're barely above free hosts where we are.

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Yet no moderation center... Should still be on the top left, right? But I just see Home, Forums and Members.

I would like to say I can edit my posts... but I cannot say for sure as mod powers got extended to posts outside of off-topic now.

Edit: Oh, wait. I CAN see reported items. Not sure if more is supposed to be seen or if it's jsut that now, however.
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Okay, see if you have mod powers where you should and where you shouldn't.
 
Threads I have set to "notify" are not properly transfered to "watched" on the XenForo test.

Perhaps we could leave the old version up in a completely-locked state for a week or so after the "true" XenForo version?
 
powerofvoid said:
Threads I have set to "notify" are not properly transfered to "watched" on the XenForo test.

Perhaps we could leave the old version up in a completely-locked state for a week or so after the "true" XenForo version?
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Yeah, I intend to leave it locked for a while while the server redirects to the xenforo installation. That does mean this forum won't be accessible.

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Only power in off-topic, cannot edit my own posts however.
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Okay, try now.
 
Aha. Check this email I just got from SMF.

Dear teh elgee ,


Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of our next major milestone for SMF, SMF 2.1! A lot of work has gone into 2.1 over the past 3 years, and with over 5500 commits by numerous developers, we have a whole set of exciting new features and improvements which we hope you will like.
We would like to thank everyone who helped to make this happen!


!WARNING! This is just the first beta! There ARE bugs and incomplete features; it is not recommended that you run this release on a live/production site.


Below is a brief summary of changes from 2.0. For a more comprehensive account, please check out the monthly updates on the Developers' Blog and the GitHub repository, and the Wiki "2.1 Features" page.
Please read the announcement here, which also includes download links: http://bit.ly/1xItRQl

- A fresh, new, responsive design with Curve2:
SMF 2.0 introduced the Curve theme, which was an update that gave a more modern web look to SMF. 2.1 includes a revamp of our default theme called Curve2! Curve2 introduces responsive design concepts to most of the areas of your forum, making it much more easily accessible to modern smartphones and tablets. Additionally, we have a number of major and minor UI/UX improvements across the board.

- Notification Alerts:
In prior versions of SMF, notifications were a distributed affair, with the two primary options being e-mails and PMs. 2.1 changes this with the introduction of Alerts, which can be enabled to display all your forum notifications, major or minor, in a single location without cluttering your e-mail or PM inbox. Alerts' preferences also acts as a central notification preference center where you can specify the format of notification you'd like to receive: e-mails, alerts or none, all in a single place, instead of having preferences scattered throughout the forum. In the new preference center you will now have the ability to set preferences for e-mail, alerts or both for individual topics and boards instead of forum-wide settings, which allows you to exercise a much finer control over notifications you want to receive

- PM and Post drafts:
Ever closed a tab or window on a long post you've been writing for a long time? I know I did while writing this announcement. Or perhaps you simply couldn't finish a post in a single sitting and hoped you could continue from where you left off? Then Drafts is for you, it is fully integrated into 2.1, along with the ability to auto-save posts and PMs as you're writing them.

- Likes and Mentions:
Likes has been added to SMF, replacing the existing Karma system with a more content oriented one. The system can also be extended internally by mod authors in order to allow likes for their own content.
Members can also flag a post to call the attention of other members by mentioning them, using the internet standard @displayname syntax. This will send an alert or e-mail (depending upon the receiver's preference) and notify them of the mention.

- A bunch of other stuff!
-- Full SSL support throughout the forum. (NOTE: Requires appropriate certificate and configurations on the server.)
-- Password hashing has been improved from sha1 to bcrypt.
-- The Admin area has received a number of usability and organizational improvements. A few of the areas have been reorganized and relocated as well as some overall clean up
-- The Moderation Center also has several usability improvements, including enhanced reported topics, and moderator notes among other things.
-- Improvements to membergroup requests and approval.
-- Permissions have been expanded with new permissions for member profiles, accounts etc.
-- Built-in support for Gravatars.
-- Users can select their timezones instead of manually selecting the time offsets.
-- jQuery is now included by default with many functions now using it in core.
-- Support for SQLite has been dropped.
-- Internal improvements reducing memory consumption and improving overall speed.
-- Lots and lots of other internal and external improvements!

As we mentioned, this is just a brief summary. There are more changes that we have not mentioned here, so feel free to give it a test drive, yourself!


Please remember that the minimum requirements of SMF have been increased to PHP 5.3.8+ and MySQL 5.0.3+ or PostgresSQL 8.0+.
Servers running a lower version of either will not be able to run SMF 2.1 and we do not intend to support them. If you have a server running an older version, you can either upgrade your server software or stay at an older version of SMF. SMF 2.1 has also dropped support for IE6 and IE7 but will continue to work with IE8+ (although IE10+ is really recommended) and browsers having similar/fuller standards compliance (any modern version of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera etc will be fine).

The general installation and upgrading procedure remains the same, however, once you upgrade from an older version to 2.1 you cannot go back, so please take careful consideration before upgrading any live site. Have a look at Installing and Upgrading SMF in the Online Manual to know more. You cannot upgrade to 2.1 Beta 1 via the package manager; instead you will need to do the "Large Upgrade" process. SMF 2.1 can be obtained from the Download section.


Please note: Because this is the first beta release, translations and language strings other than English have not been finalized and are, generally, not available yet.


Warm regards,
Simple Machines
Simple Machines Forum
http://www.simplemachines.org/
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Too late now. :/
 
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Any chance of solving the sent PMs vanishing? I personally have few enough that I can manually save the content I have but I'm sure others have alot more that might be lost.
 
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Aha. Check this email I just got from SMF.

Too late now. :/
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Eh. SMF 2.1 would only have been a modest improvement over what we have now, in all likelihood. Xenforo will still be nicer. And that makes no mention of the post-interface either. Which is one of my biggest gripes with SMF.
 
Non-breaking spaces aren't being converted properly, they're showing up as

When browsing a forum the page listing doesn't always show up on hover-over (I'm using Chrome). Might be a problem with the skin? Or does it just not show them for things not replied to within the past day or so?
 
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Non-breaking spaces aren't being converted properly, they're showing up as

When browsing a forum the page listing doesn't always show up on hover-over (I'm using Chrome). Might be a problem with the skin? Or does it just not show them for things not replied to within the past day or so?
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Link me to one of your posts on the test board?

I want to see if I can replicate it.
 
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Hell yes, the dark is gone. XF default is really good and I'll just keep using it like on SB.
 
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Any chance of solving the sent PMs vanishing? I personally have few enough that I can manually save the content I have but I'm sure others have alot more that might be lost.
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Does Xenforo even save drafts? I don't recall ever seeing that in the import list.

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Can I get screenshot of this?

When browsing a forum the page listing doesn't always show up on hover-over (I'm using Chrome). Might be a problem with the skin? Or does it just not show them for things not replied to within the past day or so?
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I just went into NSFW Quests and the page listing showed as I moused over every one. It may be an issue with Chrome.
 
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Can I get screenshot of this?
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http://questionablequesting.com/xenforo/index.php?threads/i-am-so-totally-an-evil-overlord-original-setting.781/page-10#post-148032


It's happening on this page. If you can't see it I'll screenshot it and check on other browsers. It looks like the nbsp tag has just been treated as text rather than being parsed.
 
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Does Xenforo even save drafts? I don't recall ever seeing that in the import list.
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Not Drafts, the Senders half of the convo don't show up, only the received replies are there so you have half a convo. Seen by going to 'My Messages' and under the dropdown box for 'Messages' selecting 'Sent Items'.

Might have something to do with the fact that you have to manually check a box to save the sent PM at all, which is one of the reasons I voted for xenoforo because that is just a bad way to do PMs.

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http://questionablequesting.com/xenforo/index.php?threads/i-am-so-totally-an-evil-overlord-original-setting.781/page-10#post-148032


It's happening on this page. If you can't see it I'll screenshot it and check on other browsers. It looks like the nbsp tag has just been treated as text rather than being parsed.
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I am using Firefox and am seeing the problem too.
 
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Does Xenforo even save drafts? I don't recall ever seeing that in the import list.
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Yeah Xenforo saves post drafts. But what's weird is its not doing it automatically like it should be. When I type on SB or whatever it autosaves the drafts. Whereas I have to manually hit 'save draft' in the post editor on the test site to make it do it. Also stuff like alerts and convo updates does not seem to be automatic. I seem to have to hold the mouse over them or refresh to check to see if I have new ones.
 
Vanathor said:
Yeah Xenforo saves post drafts. But what's weird is its not doing it automatically like it should be. When I type on SB or whatever it autosaves the drafts. Whereas I have to manually hit 'save draft' in the post editor on the test site to make it do it. Also stuff like alerts and convo updates does not seem to be automatic. I seem to have to hold the mouse over them or refresh to check to see if I have new ones.
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Remember, SB may be running mods we don't know about.
 
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