Forum Update/Upgrade

[Dr. Zaius]

basically

I favor darker skins

i use the grey/blue one here, but anything comparable for the new forum would be nice.

[KarthXLR]

Tapatalk is such a pile of shit now.....


Anyways, I have a test forum up at http://www.brbuninstalling.com/testforum/MyBB/index.php
MyBB was the only forum so far that actually converted from SMF correctly.

Please mess with it, try and break it, etc and report back here.

Issues so far:

• Karma is missing. Don't think there is an easy way to copy over due to how it works in the new forum
  
• Avatars are missing. This is on purpose from the merge util devs.
  
• User groups, which we were misusing as tags/titles is kinda wonky.
  

Please feel free to pick out some themes: http://community.mybb.com/mods.php?actio...ory=themes

Oh no, not missing karma b)

[FlyingMongoose]

I don't mind the user groups thing, there's much more fine-grained access control with forums and user groups in MyBB comparative to most other forum systems.

http://community.mybb.com/mods.php

There's also the old plugin page that might have more stuff but will not be updated as frequently.

http://mods.mybb.com/

Note that I'm comfortable with MyBB plugin writing if we need something custom.

[Luinbariel]

I like the darker skins as well, with either blue or green stuff.

[Nitrous Oxide]

MyBB looks pretty nice.

http://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=230
http://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=165

[CaffeinePowered]

Issues so far:

• Karma is missing. Don't think there is an easy way to copy over due to how it works in the new forum
  
• Avatars are missing. This is on purpose from the merge util devs.
  
• User groups, which we were misusing as tags/titles is kinda wonky.
  

No karma is fine
Redoing avatars is also fine
User groups, if we can't preserve them....as long as we can set special titles for special people its all good, just lets us get a flurry of posts for new suggestions since some of them are old and dont necessarily apply anymore

[Dtrain323i]

As far as color scheme is concerned, I think we should keep the orange/blue color scheme. Its kind of our gang colors.

[FlyingMongoose]

On the Titles vs. Groups thing:

http://docs.mybb.com/1.8/administration/user-titles/ <-- Titles are NOT the same as groups but you can enforce a title based on a group.

Also, another thing I'm a fan of (which SMF never had an implementation for) was (and is) an in-line reply. It always kind of bugged me SMF doesn't have that 'out of the box'.

Seeing as this is regex based, I don't see why adding a youtube mycode in wouldn't be the end of the world, yeah it won't be automatic, but it should be pretty intuitive:
http://mods.mybb.com/view-resource/youtube-mycode

Of course changing it to include https as an option (which I believe is just adding bracket s bracket at the end of http, but I'm not good at regex, someone else can confirm).

Or there's this http://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=224

[Kor]

User groups, if we can't preserve them....as long as we can set special titles for special people its all good, just lets us get a flurry of posts for new suggestions since some of them are old and dont necessarily apply anymore

Please... Crits in MWO are still a SUBLIME DEMONSTRATION OF SKILL.

PEW PEW LBX'S

[Nitrous Oxide]

As far as color scheme is concerned, I think we should keep the orange/blue color scheme. Its kind of our gang colors.

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

I suppose I should add my two cents. preservation of posts is the most important thing for me.

[HeK]

Anyone playing with the new forum?
Lets find those bugs before we go live!

[FlyingMongoose]

I've used MyBB for years, if it's still stock, it's pretty rock solid. I used it a little though, fiddled with signatures, and things. Found nothing wrong.

Did you ever install a YouTube embed thingy?

[FlyingMongoose]

• Did a little extra testing today.
  
  MyBB supports video embedding (very nicely) of the following Video Services: Dailymotion, Facebook, LiveLeak, MetaCafe, Veoh, Vimeo, and YouTube
  It works really well.
  
  The BB Code is different from SMF (because MyBB adheres to more common standards than SMF does) so some formatting got screwy and none of the font sizes carried over on posts that used font sizes.
  
  As of right now we're missing (or they're hidden) the following forums.
  Under the General Category
  General Discussion
  - Podcasts
  - Spam Wow
  - Costplay & Conventions
  
  One of my posts wound up losing all of it's line-breaks (the Ark thread), so I had to do a lot of editing to it to make it look right again, and it had an open list tag, but this did not break the rest of the thread (good thing, they have sanitizing code for display, yay!)

There is in-line BB Code based editing and there is full-featured editing with WYSIWYG, this is similar to what we have now. What we don't have is full screen editing (MyBB supports that). There is also an "end-of-thread-reply box" because FUCKING FINALLY, that's one of the things I've missed on this forum from so many other ones I've used before.

The Post Count Star Image Path References are Wrong (or there's no image at that URL), this is underneath where it says "Junior Member" on my post.

Apparently if you reply to your own thread or post without anyone in between on MyBB it will just append your last post with a horizontal rule (I like this)

Lastly, there's this:
http://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=130

[Nitrous Oxide]

Lets find those bugs before we go live!

Nonsense, go live and then find all the bugs.

[FlyingMongoose]

[quote author=HeK link=topic=7529.msg285567#msg285567 date=1435799910]
Lets find those bugs before we go live!

Nonsense, go live and then find all the bugs.
[/quote]

If early access has taught us anything it's that all testing should be done in production!

[Dr. Zaius]

fuck it we'll do it live

[HeK]

The BB Code is different from SMF (because MyBB adheres to more common standards than SMF does) so some formatting got screwy and none of the font sizes carried over on posts that used font sizes.

Could you link some examples?

[FlyingMongoose]

Code:

SMF is closer to an HTML-type
[code]
[list]
[*]List Item 1
[*]List Item 2
[/list]

While most BB is more of a visual interpreted version

Code:

[list]
[*]List Item 1
[*]List Item 2
[/list]

Here's size in SMF

Code:

[size=10]10 point thingy[/size]

(smf as far as I am aware is the only one that actually interprets POINT based sizes (pt)), whereas most others use pixels or HTML interpreted.

Code:

[size=normal]This is also technically 10 points[/size]

I believe the biggest culprit to possible problems is the list thing though.[/code]

Also the WYSIWYG in MyBB is really pleasant

[Nitrous Oxide]

[quote author=Nitrous Oxide link=topic=7529.msg285577#msg285577 date=1435872386]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=7529.msg285567#msg285567 date=1435799910]
Lets find those bugs before we go live!

Nonsense, go live and then find all the bugs.
[/quote]

If early access has taught us anything it's that all testing should be done in production!
[/quote]