| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bb89567  | | Posted: | Aug 22, 2012 16:41 | | Subject: | Re: vBulletin | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Edit: (hey, that's something I could do in another forum software!  )
Just noticed that forum content is purged after 6 months, so maybe starting fresh
wouldn't be so bad. Offloading all of that content into the forum database would
be nice, then you wouldn't ever have to purge it - there are forums out there
with WAY more than 600k posts.
In Suggestions, statikuz writes:
| | From a newcomer - the forums are definitely one place that BL seriously lacks.
I'm sure there are a lot of longtime members who are used to them, but they pale
in comparison to any of the variety of forum software out there.
This site does a lot of things well but the forums aren't one of them IMO.
vBulletin is probably the most popular/powerful. $200 doesn't seem too expensive.
IPBoard is comparable and also provides for a hosted version (which might be
prohibitively expensive). PHPBB and SMF are two free options. All of them are
leagues ahead in terms of functionality and would be a very welcome addition/change.
Migrating all the current forum content would probably be an epic pain (if possible)
so that's one big problem with switching.
| | In Suggestions, The_Mimed_One writes:
I was just sitting here thinking of ways to improve BL...I thought...why not
use vBulletin?
I'm sure it's been investigated, and I'm not sure of the price...
Just a thought!
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| Author: | bb89567 | | Posted: | Aug 22, 2012 16:34 | | Subject: | Re: vBulletin | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Keeping user accounts straight (single sign-on for the website/forums) would
probably be the most difficult challenge but I'm sure it can be done. It is nice
to have integration from the forums into the rest of BL (user profiles, stores,
feedback ratings, macros for inserting items into posts, etc.) That integration,
since the site and forums were built together, is probably a big reason why they
stick with the current (rusty!) forums.
| | In Suggestions, _JDB writes:
In Suggestions, steekstra writes:
| | In Suggestions, The_Mimed_One writes:
| | I was just sitting here thinking of ways to improve BL...I thought...why not
use vBulletin?
I'm sure it's been investigated, and I'm not sure of the price...
Just a thought!
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v what?? vBulletin ?? 
Steekst
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Forum software. One problem would be that BL2 is being written in ASP.NET, probably
using a Microsoft DB software, whilst vBulletin uses PHP and MySQL.
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| Author: | bb89567 | | Posted: | Aug 22, 2012 16:30 | | Subject: | Re: vBulletin | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| From a newcomer - the forums are definitely one place that BL seriously lacks.
I'm sure there are a lot of longtime members who are used to them, but they pale
in comparison to any of the variety of forum software out there.
This site does a lot of things well but the forums aren't one of them IMO.
vBulletin is probably the most popular/powerful. $200 doesn't seem too expensive.
IPBoard is comparable and also provides for a hosted version (which might be
prohibitively expensive). PHPBB and SMF are two free options. All of them are
leagues ahead in terms of functionality and would be a very welcome addition/change.
Migrating all the current forum content would probably be an epic pain (if possible)
so that's one big problem with switching.
| | In Suggestions, The_Mimed_One writes:
I was just sitting here thinking of ways to improve BL...I thought...why not
use vBulletin?
I'm sure it's been investigated, and I'm not sure of the price...
Just a thought!
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| Author: | bb89567 | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2012 17:55 | | Subject: | Re: Mass change notify box on wanted list items | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yep, you're right - just tried it.  Maybe another fix would be to make that
default setting also apply to parts added via XML?
Although I think the original suggestion still stands - you should be able to
mass change the notify status for a whole list - maybe you're gradually building
a wanted list for some project and don't want notifications until the list is
complete. Once you finalize your wanted list, you could then change ALL the parts'
notification status.
In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, statikuz writes:
| | Not sure if this has been suggested before but I didn't find it in a cursory
search.
It would be nice if you could mass-select the Notify checkbox for all the items
in the edit view of a wanted list, just like you can do with the Move, Delete,
and Query Shops options.
For instance, I uploaded an XML wanted list (omitting the NOTIFY tag) - now I'd
like to change them all to NOT notify without having to select each item's checkbox
individually.
I could be missing a setting that dictates the default value for NOTIFY when
uploading items but this would still be a useful addition I think. Thoughts?
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Turn it default on or of here http://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettingsAdd.asp
Or here http://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettings.asp
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This only works if you are using http://www.bricklink.com/wantedAdd.asp
If upload using XML, those settings get skipped.
Bret
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| Author: | bb89567 | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2012 13:38 | | Subject: | Mass change notify box on wanted list items | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Not sure if this has been suggested before but I didn't find it in a cursory
search.
It would be nice if you could mass-select the Notify checkbox for all the items
in the edit view of a wanted list, just like you can do with the Move, Delete,
and Query Shops options.
For instance, I uploaded an XML wanted list (omitting the NOTIFY tag) - now I'd
like to change them all to NOT notify without having to select each item's checkbox
individually.
I could be missing a setting that dictates the default value for NOTIFY when
uploading items but this would still be a useful addition I think. Thoughts?
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