This thread is for forum update discussion

I don't pretend to be in the know about this, but the small amount of research I have done (clearly I'm not leading this switchover!) indicates that while the "less secure, not as good for large forums" mantra has been repeated, I've seen little to no hard evidence of either. Patch rates seem relatively frequent, and there are other forums that are larger than XBMC using myBB apparently without issues.

Given that the open aspect is our highest priority, myBB seems to be the most appropriate option at this point.

Obviously if it all turns pearshaped and it turns out that the open option doesn't work, then a closed option will have to suffice. We're willing to give it a go in the meantime.

Cheers,
Jonathan

jmarshall Wrote:We're not interested in new features at this point (though no doubt some will crop up). We're primarily interested in a free and open source solution. Using closed software doesn't fit in with XBMC's philosophy, so that's the primary motivator (plus vbulletin by all accounts is a pain in the arse).

The biggest aim of the transistion is to try and minimize breakage. Expect some to happen - after all, it keeps life interesting, right?

Cheers,
Jonathan

What is XBMC's philosophy? XBMC Piracy stance?

jmarshall Wrote:I don't pretend to be in the know about this, but the small amount of research I have done (clearly I'm not leading this switchover!) indicates that while the "less secure, not as good for large forums" mantra has been repeated, I've seen little to no hard evidence of either. Patch rates seem relatively frequent, and there are other forums that are larger than XBMC using myBB apparently without issues.

Given that the open aspect is our highest priority, myBB seems to be the most appropriate option at this point.

Obviously if it all turns pearshaped and it turns out that the open option doesn't work, then a closed option will have to suffice. We're willing to give it a go in the meantime.

Cheers,
Jonathan

You said before that open has an high priority.

@Robotica: Keep on-topic please. This thread concerns the forum. As always, you're welcome to discuss any other XBMC related stuff in a new (or more appropriate) thread should you wish to.

Thanks,
Jonathan

sorry. I will open up a new topic.

Ontopic:
Hopefully the new forum keeps some room for discussing the philosophy, the foundation and it's governance. Right now those topics tend to go out of control.

If you want easy admin, security updates, and a REAL plugin system I would suggest at least looking at http://simplemachines.org/

Version 2.x has great core features and as I saw in the other posts yes there is a Tapatalk plugin as well. Version 2 is also now released under an open source license.

Seriously to install security updates you just go the admin pain and click update...

Can I request a few forum features while your at it?

- Forum header links to main website index instead of forum index. (damn thats currently very annoying)
- Auto subscribe to threads you post in (thats a default feature of vbulletin)
- Subscribed posts icon on main forum header
- Tapatalk support
- Keep the blue theme (its nice and easy to read)
- Only have one theme (multiple is confusing and distracts from the brand)
- A good smiley theme :O

zag2me Wrote:- Auto subscribe to threads you post in (thats a default feature of vbulletin)

Not sure if everyone will like that. Most will probably find out after they've already been subscribed to several threads before the now they have to disable it.

Like for the team this should be default off or you will go nuts when you get all those notifications.

Martijn Wrote:Not sure if everyone will like that. Most will probably find out after they've already been subscribed to several threads before the now they have to disable it.

Like for the team this should be default off or you will go nuts when you get all those notifications.

Subscription doesn't have to use notifications

Vbulletin lets you subscribe but not send emails by default.

Its really useful to just find the threads your involved in by hitting the "subscribed threads" at the top of the forum page.

You can find it under quick links >> subscribed threads.

Agreed with zag2me! My bookmarked link to XBMC is to my subscribed threads, which is all the ones I've posted in, or manually subscribed too... subscribed threads is the most important feature for a forum to have.