<snicker> sd has a bunch of mods in script; wonder what he has in yui :x

I voted UI....not that have a clue "how" you guys go about doing the things you do to make this stuff work. I simply voted on the fact that Rick said the blogs would be much simpler and easier to "plug in" if he did the UI first....so....imagining how time consuming and mind boggling some of this may be, I suggest doing the major overhaul first then doing the "add ons"....my .02

I would like to see the daily digest feature restored.

Hi there,

I voted to UI , I am very sorry to go far from the main aim of this topic which is choosing between two options ,

But for me, I it will be good thinking if you give a third options which is improving the speed/response of UBB script like:

- Overall Tunning, DB normalization , Code normalization.

Please see my suggestions here :

Click here

Hope that redoing the UI is not meaning of Template and Designs only, we need to see our UBB faster than now.

Thank you
AlNadabi

I don't see why you want to implement blogs in UBB unless they're an import of Wordpress or Blogger blogs which are the market leaders.
Why re-invent the wheel?

I still can't believe that LDAP Authentication has not been implemented. Large organizations hate having separate databases of users which is a reason they choose not to buy UBB.

According to Rick from '07
http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/182907/Rick.html#Post182907
"At this time, we do not [support ldap]. It's something we've had on our todo list for quite some time, but always gets pushed back because the demand for it has been fairly minimal."


Now's an ideal time!

Well I may see your point in some ways but not all ways here with your comment about blogs. This is all fine and dandy and if you do not wish to use blogs that is your choice.

A while back I was totally satisfied with UBB.Classic and have watched Gizmo post down in the Classic area boasting to get Threads. I fired a few comments at him as I Love threads. I had been looking for blogs in my Beagle community for some time back then as well. I had seen the conversations by Rick telling that blogs were coming very soon. I was so happy I bought yet a third UBB license. Yippie.

Why do I need blogs with my UBB? Well now that is a great question in it self. My communities are designed to discuss them selves and their Beagles. I have a new community about racing, same thing but Cars not beagles.

My community is designed that each person has a story and would like to show off their beagle. What would be a great way to have a short little space to do this incorporated with their registration? Why a BLOG.

I understand most of YOUR communities are not oriented like my communities however perhaps you my wish to understand how OTHER communities are structured and run before making statements like, "I don't really understand what the purpose/desire is to having blogging capability in a forum software.", "I'm very skeptical about the need for blogs in UBB.", or "I don't see why you want to implement blogs in UBB unless they're an import of Wordpress or Blogger blogs which are the market leaders."

Well. I'm not a market leader so perhaps I shouldn't have a community online right?

Anyway here is my statement from the other side of the fence, "If you actually had a totally family oriented interactive site I can't see why you would be running without blogs in your community."

Yes that was quite harsh and it was meant to be in a way however you really shouldn't speak for others as I shouldn't speak for your community.



Blogs have been a long time coming. It wouldn't be very nice to keep delaying them to those users who have wanted them for a long time. To go to a third party blog software and then hack it to use the current UBB member database and such would be a real pain in the rear and totally unnecessary as blogs were discussed as far back as 2006, it is almost 2009.




Well, thats my rant for today, LOL.

If you are looking at new script libraries for the UI overhaul then jQuery is a great option. Just moved to using it instead of Mootools and some of the plugins are really swish.

I chose "blogs" because the UI overhaul is gonna take a while...

While the need for blogs might not seem like a big issue, we cater to all sizes of communities. It's true, our blog implementation is going to be basic at best, especially compared to true blogging systems, even more so in our initial release. But it will still be useful on many sites.

It's somewhat like our photo galleries. Software that is strictly dedicated to photo galleries is always going to be better, but ours serves a purpose and is quite useful for many sites.

Our initial implementation is really just going to be an extended profile page. It's not actually going to take a long time to complete. Just the ability for certain groups to create blogs that will show in their profile, where other users can comment on them. Like I said, quite basic for our initial release, but we'll go from there.

Allen is also right in the fact that the UI overhaul is a big project. Not quite as daunting as when we worked on 7.0, but still a pretty big task, so it's going to take quite a while. Pretty sure we'll split it into two releases, with the first one covering the control panel.

I plan to use the blogs feature as a 'mobblog' for all users on the site who've reached a certain number of posts - really, not much more than setting a particular forum to post to the portal and allowing trusted users to start new topics in that forum. Update a few things in profiles to highlight recent new topics and voila!

Because a couple forums have moved to table-less design we have an idea of where to go, but the re-design of the front end is gonna be a huge project - what browsers do we support would be the first question