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Discuss: native threaded forum for MODx Revolution

  • lossendae Reply #71, 13 years, 3 months ago
    This a good idea.

    In the meantime, I would love to see Discuss out before thinking about a bridge laugh
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      faolie Reply #72, 13 years, 2 months ago
      So, I’m a little confused about Forum packages for revo. I see discussions about SMF, Vanilla, Discuss etc but I’m not sure what to use. Discuss looks the best option but I see it’s still in alpha - not sure that’s a good idea for a live site. See, I have a client who wants to move from Drupal to MODX, which is fine (and good), except they have some forums on their existing site and I really don’t want to commit to the development if I haven’t a forum package.

      Advice anyone please?

      thanks

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        BobRay Reply #73, 13 years, 2 months ago
        I haven’t used it myself but my sense from reading the forums is that Vanilla is the best choice.
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        • lossendae Reply #74, 13 years, 2 months ago
          Vanilla is the best for a simple forum solution (i don’t really like the overall organisation for daily use), SMF is not too shabby for more robust solution and IPBoard is the best forum software ever but not free.

          Obviously, Discuss is going to better than all the others... when it will get out of it’s cave smiley
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            fourroses666 Reply #75, 13 years, 2 months ago
            yup really would like a modx powered forum and not some intergration.
              Evolution user, I like the back-end speed and simplicity smiley
            • Ryan Thrash Reply #76, 13 years, 2 months ago
              Vanilla now has nested categories and is a first class SSO solution. We’re going to use it at MODX.
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                odeclas Reply #77, 13 years, 2 months ago
                What version of Vanilla are you planning to use Ryan? I keep getting a ghost user created using the standard Vanilla SSO and MODx (no user returned by MODx creates blank user in Vanilla). The other downside is that there’s no baked-in way to get the MODx user data displayed or usable in Vanilla - eg to use MODx group information for authentication or role giving, or the MODx user profile in Vanilla to prevent the need for double entry by the user.

                That said, the new embed Vanilla plugin is pretty sweet.

                And I am but a nemotode on the dev evolutionary scale, and these problems will no doubt be child’s play to the core team.
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                • lossendae Reply #78, 13 years, 2 months ago
                  Quote from: rthrash at Mar 04, 2011, 05:32 PM

                  Vanilla now has nested categories and is a first class SSO solution. We’re going to use it at MODX.

                  I do prefer SMF compared to Vanilla to follow conversations daily.

                  Ideally, the best one is IP Board, but since it’s a commercial forum i imagine that it is out of the question for modx.

                  All in all, at the end, a native solution will replace them all laugh
                  • Ryan Thrash Reply #79, 13 years, 2 months ago
                    We’ll be on whatever the latest release version when it’s completed. With their help, we now have all users, posts and PMs converted from SMF. Straightening out and streamling the SSO conversion with the modx accounts, Ignore boards and Solr search are our minimal things to get in place before we can flip the switch. That’s right, our forums search will stop sucking!
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                    • Ryan Thrash Reply #80, 13 years, 2 months ago
                      Quote from: lossendae at Mar 04, 2011, 05:42 PM

                      Ideally, the best one is IP Board, but since it’s a commercial forum i imagine that it is out of the question for modx.

                      All in all, at the end, a native solution will replace them all laugh

                      We have zero hesitation about using commercial software actually ... it didn’t enter the thought process at all. Vanilla has a brilliant team behind them and is doing some very cool things. Lots more on that front in the future. wink

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