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There hasn't been an update the this addon in almost a year and a half. I have a client who recently wanted to add a forum, did some research, and said, "hey, I found there is a plugin called Discuss for MODX." I had to tell them, sorry, it has bugs and also isn't compatible with the version of MODX your site is running. Not good. The Github page shows no activity at all; no milestones, issues unfixed since last year. What's going on?
Nope.
The original author is no longer maintaining the repo, there had been some attempts to replace the forum add-on but didn't make it.
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I do know of a client who is using the extra as is. It seems to be working for them.
The odd thing is that AFAIK, some enhanced version of that extra is running this Forum.
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Discuss 2 will not be made real? From what I can figure, the 2.0 version is not completely new but rather a fixed/augmented version of 1.0.
Is this not going to happen? If so, give it to me straight, I got the whisky right here.
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Is it incompatible? Where did you get that information? I don't think that has been documented, but maybe it has.
I am still under the belief that sooner or later Discuss 2 will come out. It might take awhile though ;-)
I find Discuss quite extensible but still a little tough because you have to do so much of the legwork yourself.
That list of extras that are compatible on github gets on my nerves some times. 2.3 is 99% backwards compatible with 2.2. The only real issues is when they extended certain core extjs widgets (Articles is a good example of a popular extra that did it). For the most part, most extras don't touch that kind of stuff. I don't know if Discuss does, but I don't think so. The back-end component is really barebones though, and moderation/management is best handled through the front-end.
Discuss is pretty stable. It indeed runs this forum. I don't think there's many tweaks, aside from running a special search class instead of the default. Back when I worked at MODX I was actually working on this for some time and it was in fact just a standard install of the package, built from the same github repo everyone can access. That's been a while though, so it's possible that's changed.
We still have a support forum in the pipeline for modmore, and as soon as we can find the time to really sort out our theme, that'll go live based on latest Discuss 1.x.
As for wether someone is still developing Discuss, I don't think it's on anyone's #1 prio. But MODX.com still depends on it, and soon modmore.com will too, so there are stakeholders in the community that should be around when stuff goes down.
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Mark, you made some comments about Discuss 2 before, is it your understanding that it will be released eventually?
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