[Dev] Release of Updated Feathercoin (FTC) Forum - Software and set-up
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That’s not the biggest improvement IMO. The biggest improvement is allowing the community to self moderate via the up/down voting system. It’s the entire communities responsibility to help facilitate the conversation and you all need empowering. Someone being a bit of a dick? Downvote them. Someone trolling and stopping an interesting conversation from developing, downvote them. The forum needs to be for people to get heard, when people can’t be heard for non-constructive and off topic trolling it will descend into chaos, we can all help fix that. :)
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What**exactly **was wrong with simple machines (1st version of forum)?
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Nothing I’m guessing, but I wasn’t part of the decision make process at that time.
NodeBB however is a huge step forwards from both IPBoard and SMF, gives us the features listed above, takes us back to open source and gives us a platform we can build upon.
UM
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What**exactly **was wrong with simple machines (1st version of forum)?
SM Forum is very basic. IPBoard had much more features. Plus I believe the reason for the move was the security issues that caused the forum hack.
UM is right, nodeBB is much better. We tested two of the best new bits of forum software, Discourse and NodeBB.
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Thanks for the update and the work, actually look forward to the new forum now .
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We are getting there, we have now cleared up the issues we where having with the imports, so the process now completes and we have something we can work with :)
But as with all of these things we are going to have a bunch of manual processing to do afterwards as we can’t automate everything… I’m trying to pull a date together so we can get it announced, but RL is playing it’s hand at the moment
UM
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No point rushing it at this stage. I’m happy it’s moving forward in a good direction.
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Only 1 issue remain now… how to support our Russian and Chinese friends in the languages section of the forum… O0
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Great forum , Can we add a FTC tip in forum ?
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That’s the point Lizhi, open source baby we have the code anything can be looked into.
And that is high on my list :D
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Only 1 issue remain now… how to support our Russian and Chinese friends in the languages section of the forum… O0
What’s the problem with us?
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There is no problem as such… just when the import process takes place all of the characters for Chinese and Russian are dumped into the database as ???
I have managed to fix the problem from freshly created posts on the test forum, but there is little I can do with the content that is already there, but I think I may have a work around for that, that will bring back the historic posts within a few days of us going live with the new software :)
Still don’t have a date for the switch yet I’m afraid folks :(
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Cheers for the work UM, don’t be worried or sorry about doing it right once…
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Set names utf8; first command when connection is set up. Also text, varchar, … fields need to be utf8-general-ci…
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We are almost there :)
I just have to make a couple more changes to the setup and we should be ready for the last data migration… I’m trying to round up a few folks to assist in making changes to some of the existing posts that we can’t “fix” during the migration and hopefully we can do a migration within the next 7 - 10 days
UM
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I’m here.
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Unfortunately I’m occupied for the next two week by my sailing vacation :)
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Right guys and gals…
We have a cut over date for the new forum!!! yep you heard it right we will be cutting over to the new software on Thursday 23rd July 2015! we will be taking the forum off-line at around 17:00 GMT to perform the switch over and hope to have things all back up and running by 22:00. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in order to get things switched over due to the change in database model required and we know there are going to be a few issues but with your help they can all be fixed quite quickly. So wish us luck and we look forward to seeing you on the other side.
UM
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SWEEET. NICE Work. Especially the up/down kharma thing.
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As you can see we have now moved over to the new software and early signs are looking good…
There are a lot of new/different features so if there is something you think is missing or don’t understand then shout up and we will do what we can to help you out
UM
