ElkArte Community

http://www.deadman.cc.nf/index.php?topic=19.0

I so could not resist doing it! LOL

And for those that do not know it yet, I am and always was, DeadMan. :)



EDIT: Changed link to new improved post in newly converted site. :)

I'm sorry and I really don't want to slow you down, but this isn't a review in my opinion. It's more a kind of a news, don't you think?  ;)

As a review it lacks of personal experiences with the software. It doesn't describe the every day life with ElkArte in your role of an admin and an user. Is ElkArte easy to use, comfortable and fast? Those questions aren't answered, compared to other software.

Sorry again if I am to clear in my words. Thank you for the article, but no. No review in my opinion.  O:-)

Well, in his case, it's best "he" can do, since he's stuck using WordPress.... LOL
I'll edit and do more, once I get him converted over.

That's my next project, as I'm really tired of the issues I have on WP...
I just need a really good dark theme, for one. As well as the time to do it.

I used WP a few years too. Now all my articles are postings in ElkArte. I converted them on my own.  ;)

Converting the posts, is not really the issue...
The really good layout that I want, is! LOL
That's what's going to take time to do. :)

It's a matter of re-designing display layout. A simple theme for blog board. If you got time, that should be pita.

There is one feature I saw in Wedge, I'd love to see in ElkArte...

The ability to have a board displayed as a blog.

When they see board index, and click to enter the board, it does look awesome as blog layout for the posts.

Like I said. It's a matter of theming the board.

Plus, you might need first post to be always on top addon for that. You might also need relevant topics addon too.

The only lacking, if you need one, I might say is reply to reply (not to first post). Other than that, the theming could be done quite easily.

Theming the board, is not going to do the blog list of topics, instead of the regular.
That's a fair amount of coding, which if not mistaken, is in more than the topic display template.

Now, with the SP pages feature, I can set blog pages up, but then the blog boards would still be visible to everyone who accesses the board index.

Unless, I get crafty, and try to use css, to hide those boards. However, how would I do that, for all but the admin?

Seems like you need a more pure blog addon. There was once a good blog mod in smf but it was withdrawn after it almost finishes. I can't remember its name but I think I have a copy of that in my pc for personal reference.

However, that will definitely make your forum buggy.

Alternatively, bridge EA with WP. There is already a working mod for that in SMF.

I'm trying to ditch the ever buggy and annoying WP. :P LOL

For me, we should let the user profile become a blog page. For that we just need to create or convert an addon so that a user can write a blog his own status, thought, etc. Have you look into Breeze?

Breeze, is made by SMF's Lead Dev.
A woman, I totally despise, for her superiority complex. LOL

Also, I highly doubt she'd let it be ported.
Not to mention, I'd like to see some improvements done to it, where not every link to a member's profile brings up the wall, but some would bring up the normal summary page. Or, find a way to combine the 2 pages.

By the way, updated the "blog" and new link to a more in depth post:

http://www.deadman.cc.nf/index.php?topic=19.0

Lol. She's ok. Her mods too. Lol.

If I'm not mistaken, the license (MPL 1.1) allows anybody to modify it and may be port it subject to the license toc.

If you are using SP, then you can re-list the message index for the blog board next to your post. The related topics mod can also do the trick of listing similar topics but it needs to be ported.

Much better! Well done!  :)

Meh... Worked on a different theme, so check now.... LOL

I'm not a blogger and is difficult for me to write in english, but here is my review after a few months using Elkarte:
theadminzone.com/threads/my-fisrt-impressions-of-elkarte-after-5-months-of-using-it.133951/

I don't think ElkArte is a fork of SMF 2.1.

Looks more like 2.0 with some of 2.1 added in. ;)
I think some of the 2.0 forks, have been updated with some of the 2.1 code.

Not really. I don't see some of the code from 2.1 but eventually a may be unless ElkArte direction is totally different.

@Burke Knight  , who is the lead now ? Suki ?

Michael "Oldiesmann" Eshom - Lead Developer

But, Suki seems to like to make it like she is, and even stated it once in a post to me, which got deleted with my reply. ;)

We started from 2.1 development code a long time ago, when it was considered feature-frozen (i.e. before someone decided betas are for active development).
So, it is a fork of 2.1, but not the current one. If it makes sense. LOL

A 2.1 Before-SMF-Changed-Ways-Pre-Alpha
Let's see...Makes sense to me! LOL  ;D

Lol... I always thought ways before 2.1 pre alpha is 2.0...

I can see she added a lot more hooks but are that hooks really needed or necessary or is the whole new future of it?