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- Any update on the NodeBB Forum?
- Would it be possible to see some screenshots of the current desktop client?
- Any update on the Foundation Charter?
Forum will be up later today, though it will be SMF instead of nodebb due to stability issues. We are just moving hosting to avoid clumsy redirects. Screenshot below, board thumbnails to be added:
Why not use Discourse :
http://try.discourse.org/ /
http://try.discourse.org/categories then? Discourse is being used by MaidSafe (
https://maidsafe.org/) & Ubuntu (
http://discourse.ubuntu.com/)
SMF doesn't look or perform anywhere near as good as Discourse/NodeBB and has far less features than both of them.
I would be nice to get off SMF... Discourse does have a better look and feel... I know you guys have worked hard on the SMF forum already...
It takes less 10 minutes to set up an SMF Forum and probably 1 hour to customize it to get it to how it currently looks. With the amount of time you had available you could've researched for better forum software of which there are many. SMF is an old outdated piece of software that internet communities (outside of the crypto-scene) don't run because it looks
hideous compared to other forum software.
Here are the suggestions which I posted a few weeks back. To those interested take a look at these and compare them to SMF and you'll see what a difference it makes :
Majestic v4 Theme for NodeBB :
http://convoe.com/ (Used on Convoe, this was something I discussed for quite some time)
Customized Discourse Forum :
http://discourse.ubuntu.com/ SMF has been time tested and is stable and has all of the features we need for a strong community. I posted an update about the forum a week ago.
NodeBB just simply is not ready for prime time. There are a lot of really weird quirks and we were having stability issues. Also, customizing it to where it would function how we wanted would have taken too much time.
We spent a good period of time really trying to get it to work how we wanted, but it just isn't going to work right now. As I mentioned in the previous post where I responded to you about this, we aren't closing the door on transferring to a different platform later, but right now we need something stable and functional.
As far as discourse, I also spent several days messing around with Discourse and I actually don't like it. It's basically a blog commenting system pretending to be a forum. I personally don't want to use Discourse. I did however really want to use NodeBB due to the functionality but it's just not quite there yet. In a year it may be amazing if they keep up the development but right now I just don't think it's ready for us to use.