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XenForo Test Bed is LIVE!

#1

Dave

Dave

So last night I paid for a license for XenForo, downloaded it and then installed it. Then I spent about an hour porting over all of our stuff. Flawless. Fucking flawless. It was amazingly easy to do. All of your logins are there and I think the passwords even may be, which is incredible!

I'll give the address at the end of this post but there are a few things you need to know.


  1. User names can not have commas. If your user name had on I simply removed them. So "Allen, Who is Quiet" became "Allen Who is Quiet". I think the only other person this affected is "Fine, Fresh, Fierce". It was changed to "Fine Fresh Fierce".
  2. Any posts you make or changes you make will be erased when we redo the install and port it over - if we end up doing that. It's not set in stone that we are moving to XenForo. Right now I'm looking at more like 75% or so.
  3. No addons are present yet. DragonByte is working on porting theirs to XF so we should be seeing some updates. Other than games I don't see XF needing as many as vB did to be fun & funky fresh.
Please report any bugs you find as well as suggestions and what you'd like to see.

This is still beta software but it is some slick, slick stuff. I'm still learning it and you may see some changes happening in real time as I learn how to do stuff. Have fun and tell me what you think.

https://www.halforums.com/index.php


#2

Charlie Don't Surf

The Lovely Boehner

Honestly, I don't even know why I put the commas in my name in the first place.


#3

Covar

Covar

Ok, I'm really liking it so far. The theme sucks, but obviously you guys will change it.


#4



makare

I dont like the avs as icons thing. That might be a theme thing though.


#5

Dave

Dave

I already added a second theme. If you go to the bottom of the page on the left - basically where you can choose it now - you click on the style and you can change it to XenForce, which is a dark theme.


#6

Allen who is Quiet

Allen, who is Quiet

Dave said:
  • User names can not have commas. If your user name had on I simply removed them. So "Allen, Who is Quiet" became "Allen Who is Quiet".
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Dang. My username is slightly modified.

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Also, my avatar is gone.


#7

figmentPez

figmentPez

It's harder to navigate by keyboard. The specific page numbers after a post don't show up unless you mouse over them. That means you can't Tab down to them. Not a major issue, but just something I noticed (I freqently search for a thread title, and then tab down to the last page number)


#8

Dave

Dave

That happened to me, too. It had something to do with setting up the Admin accounts. Hold on a sec.

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Try it now.


#9

Dave

Dave

One thing that helps a LOT is the fact that we can make the test bed any way we want it and do NOT have to do a total reinstall when we're done! When we get it the way we want we point the front page (or a front page we make) to use the XenForo forum, import the data from the vB database and we're done.

So far other than the amount of addons there's nothing I've seen that makes vB better than XF.


#10

Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

I like the way the test board looks and feels...


#11

strawman

strawman

Me likey.


#12

Covar

Covar

makare said:
I dont like the avs as icons thing. That might be a theme thing though.
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See, I like that. Makes it really easy to see who started a thread and if you posted in it.


#13

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

My avatar tells people to push a button, but says nothing about bacon whatsoever


#14

strawman

strawman

CrimsonSoul said:
My avatar tells people to push a button, but says nothing about bacon whatsoever
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It adds suspense!


#15

tegid

tegid

Dave said:
So last night I paid for a license for XenForo, downloaded it and then installed it. Then I spent about an hour porting over all of our stuff. Flawless. Fucking flawless. It was amazingly easy to do. All of your logins are there and I think the passwords even may be, which is incredible!

I'll give the address at the end of this post but there are a few things you need to know.


  1. User names can not have commas. If your user name had on I simply removed them. So "Allen, Who is Quiet" became "Allen Who is Quiet". I think the only other person this affected is "Fine, Fresh, Fierce". It was changed to "Fine Fresh Fierce".
  2. Any posts you make or changes you make will be erased when we redo the install and port it over - if we end up doing that. It's not set in stone that we are moving to XenForo. Right now I'm looking at more like 75% or so.
  3. No addons are present yet. DragonByte is working on porting theirs to XF so we should be seeing some updates. Other than games I don't see XF needing as many as vB did to be fun & funky fresh.
Please report any bugs you find as well as suggestions and what you'd like to see.

This is still beta software but it is some slick, slick stuff. I'm still learning it and you may see some changes happening in real time as I learn how to do stuff. Have fun and tell me what you think.

https://www.halforums.com/index.php
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Awesomesauce


#16

Dave

Dave

THere are currently already 13 addons for XF - 2 of which are from DragonByte. Neither of them we own, but they are making headway.


#17



makare

Hey if we are going to lose our halbucks and stuff let me know. Im going to spend it if Im going to lose it. >.>


#18

Dave

Dave

makare said:
Hey if we are going to lose our halbucks and stuff let me know. Im going to spend it if Im going to lose it. >.>
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The information will still remain in the database. So under the user information it'll still show that makare has 959 HB, and the gift of...You get the idea. Initially, these will not show up unless DBT gets the mod completed before we port over. When that happens they will read right from that table and input the numbers. You SHOULD lose nothing in the translation.


#19



makare

Then I am pleased.


#20

Dave

Dave

Update:

I added 2 of the recently released addons, which may or may not be included when the gold release comes out.


  1. Expand/Contract Categories - Never go into Tech Talk and don't want to see it on the Forum when you click on it? Collapse it and it's still there but not expanded. Save yourself some space. Please note that this does NOT work on the dark XenForce style. I'm working on it.
  2. Separate sticky from normal posts - Like we have here so you can tell when there's a post that has been stickied.
I have also been playing with styles and templates. We now have a new default style. No, I didn't create it. But I could have - working with colors and such are very, VERY easy. Basically once this gets done and I figure out how to easily switch things we can have a great number of styles and it's not an issue. No, there's not a WoW themed style yet.

There's more to come and I have NOT figured out yet how to make LONG images resize. Wide is no problem. Long.......problem.

But it's coming together. No date for gold release yet but when it gets announced I will update this thread with the information.


#21

Covar

Covar

Ok, Dave the new theme is great, glad to hear it's really easy to make them. I'm having an avatar issue on there, but I posted a thread on there about it.


#22

Dave

Dave

Amorous Eyes;444066][QUOTE=Dave said:
Never go into Tech Talk and don't want to see it on the Forum when you click on it? Collapse it and it's still there but not expanded.
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Is this supposed to work on StopFluid?[/QUOTE]

It would if I had typed it right. It's for things like "Forum Hub " or "Topic Discussions". I made a mistake saying "Tech Talk".


#23

Krisken

Krisken

I dig the 'like' option with trophies better than the Reputation system on this forum. I was pleasantly surprised by that feature.


#24

Dave

Dave

Right now I'm working on a new Portal system and seeing how well it'll mesh with Alfie. If it does I'll be very excited.


#25

Dave

Dave

Okay, so we're getting closer to how we want this to look. We're still having a few issues with images that we can't figure out but we're still doing well. I have added a few things to the test board:


  1. Portal Page - This reads from a specific (hidden) sub board and will hopefully be used as a possible news/front page. But of course we have to get the images fixed or we won't be able to use Alfie. And we're GOING to keep Alfie! (By the way, Ame just discovered a flaw in the portal that we need to address so it's turned off for the time being.)
  2. Double Post Prevention - This was a big one for me. This way we don't have to worry about it.
  3. Chat - I know, I know. I've tried this before. Right now it loads into the #Halforums IRC channel and possibly even the #pvponline channel if we want. Or just the #pvponline channel. Sorry,makare.
There may be more to come, like when DBT gets their stuff written for XenForo. But I'm going to be very picky about what I put in. Still, I do know of a few things that are coming or that need addressing.


  1. The Wretched Hive is currently locked. This is due to two things. First, when (if) I put ads back in, they can't be in the same sub as dirty pictures. and secondly, I can't age-lock boards yet. When that comes to pass I'll open it back up.
  2. The Arcade will be ported over when it's complete. The data should still remain so nobody will lose their scores.
  3. DBT is currently testing their Downloads mod which we will be able to use in conjunction with the NSFW area to upload/download large files, pictures & videos.
There's probably more but I'll post them as I get to them.

Is there anything you absolutely want to be there before we switch? (Which will not come soon - we're just experimenting right now.)


#26



makare

You're not sorry now. That's a bullshit sorry. But you will be! You WILL be!


#27

Krisken

Krisken

Off with his head?


#28



Disconnected

I like the new. do it up.


#29

GasBandit

GasBandit

In general it seems acceptable. I don't like the mocha-off-white layout, but I can deal. I do like that it can provide a list of watched threads, gives thread previews on mouseover, and can jump to first unread reply. Those are the big important things to me about the forum part.

Does this mean hal blogs are going away?


#30

Dave

Dave

GasBandit said:
In general it seems acceptable. I don't like the mocha-off-white layout, but I can deal. I do like that it can provide a list of watched threads, gives thread previews on mouseover, and can jump to first unread reply. Those are the big important things to me about the forum part.

Does this mean hal blogs are going away?
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Nothing is really going away at this point. It'll depend on when the XenForo Gold is released, what addons are set up for it and many other factors. I just never want to keep you guys in the dark.


#31



Disconnected

I like it with the lights off though.


#32

Dave

Dave

Backed up the vB Halforums to the new Test site and have blown away the XenForo site. Am currently rebuilding the XF site to test some installation functionality. I will then be making a brand new WordPress/ComicPress installation and binding it with the XF test bed.

If this works...I'll be happy.


#33

Dave

Dave

Testing


#34

gargoyle_eva

gargoyle_eva

*poke poke prod*
Looks like it's working. Looks very flashy dave.


#35

GasBandit

GasBandit

Requesting a style that uses black instead of white for its basis >_<

Kinda like the old software's ones that were blue on black or red on black.


#36

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Where's my "New Posts" and "My Posts" buttons?


#37

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

My avatar got changed. :(


#38

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I, for one, welcome our Xenforo overlords.


#39

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

There, back to normal.


#40



makare

I am mostly fine with it but I would really like LOVE to be able to not have avatars as the thread icons.

I have so many avs image blocked that stupid icon thing messes that up. makarage!!


#41

Jay

Jay

I will actually state the fact I CAN see Avatars pretty damn awesome.


#42

Krisken

Krisken

Yeah, I like knowing who posted a thread. Makes finding the ones I started a WHOLE lot easier.


#43



makare

Well I just want the option to turn it off for ME because I HATE IT


#44

Krisken

Krisken

I understand that makare. I wasn't trying to say you were wrong for wanting that option, if it seemed that way.


#45



makare

Amorous Eyes said:
To remove that a completely new separate style would have to be created, I think. The avatar in front of threads is something innate to Xen and as far as I know (not an expert on Xen) it cannot be turned off on a per user basis. Maybe in the future that will be an option but for now you are just going to have to suffer.
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Then I has a sad :(


#46

Jay

Jay

I'm sure once all the fires are taken care of subtle requests to create sub-themes for select users with tiny changes will make everyone happy.


#47



makare

It's not the end of the world. Overall the new forum is nice. Although I have nearly 3 times the posts I used to have >.> and that is just plain weird.


#48

Krisken

Krisken

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out what message count means in relation to post count, and what trophy points I need to get to make up for the huge difference between me and others with the same message counts/likes received.

Edit: It got fixed (I imagine that was an Ame action).


#49

Vagabond

Vagabond

My AV is frozen, y u do this?

And allow me to crank one out for the loss of the nsfw section.


#50

Dave

Dave

Animated gif avatars are a pretty good drain on resources. Yours is still animated, but you have to click on it to see it. If people go to your profile they see it.


#51

Krisken

Krisken

Yay! I hate moving Avatars!


#52

Espy

Espy

Krisken said:
Yay! I hate moving Avatars!
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:(


#53

Krisken

Krisken

Nothing personal to Vago and Espy, of course.


#54

Espy

Espy

Yeah, yeah, thats what they all say.


#55

Krisken

Krisken

Not They!


#56

Vagabond

Vagabond

Fair enough.

I don't want to be a dickwad and hold back the entirety of the forum with my novelty seizing salamander.


#57



Rubicon

Prefer the old forum setup, I personally do not like the new one (software or themes).


#58

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I'm curious what exactly this new fandangled facebook integration entails.


#59

Krisken

Krisken

Disintegrate? Like what Jabba did to his last interpreter?


#60

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I can't imagine a purpose for it.


#61

jwhouk

jwhouk

XenBlue appears to be okay (at least for me).


#62



Philosopher B.

Post


#63

Covar

Covar

Whoa!

I knew this was coming, but I didn't expect it so soon. This is going to take some getting used to.


#64



BErt

I don't like change! :aaah:


#65



makare

BErt said:
I don't like change! :aaah:
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me neither :(


#66

Dave

Dave

As with everything a little change is good....a lot? :aaah::aaah::aaah:


XF has a lot of good things going for it. Like adding pictures, for one. Second, you can follow people. Those you follow you can see in your News Feed and watch as they post. I think you can even set up an RSS feed for them, but don't quote me.

There will be a lot of tips & tricks as we move on. But it's already faster, yes?


#67



makare

Where's my chat hatman......


#68



Rubicon

On the plus side, the DFX (or whichever) theme ain't half bad. I just don't like the "style" of this forum software.


#69

Dave

Dave

makare said:
Where's my chat hatman......
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Main forum. Right side. Just where it always was.

Rubicon said:
On the plus side, the DFX (or whichever) theme ain't half bad. I just don't like the "style" of this forum software.
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Themes are actually very easy to add in. In fact, if you go to THIS PLACE you can see all sorts of stuff that we can add. Any style you see that you like just let me know. Graphics and language files might be a bit more challenging, but styles are easy peasy.


#70



makare

I don't see it :(


#71

Seraphyn

Seraphyn

S'allright. It's so much faster that the "need to get used to this" time just blasts by. :p


#72

Covar

Covar

hmm, already time to go...TO THE BUGS FORUM!!!



#73

Dave

Dave

makare said:
I don't see it :(
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You're right. When I did the last test I didn't change the permissions for registered users.


#74

Hylian

Hylian

Amorous Eyes said:
Animated avatars are not allowed (and automatically converted to .jpg) in threads. This saves time on loading threads. Xen wants to be fast. On your profile and your member card, however, it will continue to animate... or.. dance uncontrollably in your case.
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Welp I guess it is time to get a new Avatar (any suggestions?)


#75



makare

Ok i still don't like the avs as icons thing but i do think it is cute that my little av pic is at the corner of the big av for threads ive posted in.


#76

Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

/em looks around suspiciously

.... somethings different.


#77

Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

I got a haircut. Thanks for noticing.


#78



Philosopher B.

So I guess this means the NSFW forum is gone?

< Isn't too choked up, as it was all but dead anyway

Edit: Also, I suppose I will have to switch to a smaller avvy now. Mah pimp tags are out-of-frame. :(


#79

Dave

Dave

Philosopher B. said:
So I guess this means the NSFW forum is gone?

< Isn't too choked up, as it was all but dead anyway

Edit: Also, I suppose I will have to switch to a smaller avvy now. Mah pimp tags are out-of-frame. :(
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It's still there and will come back when I figure out how to make Google Ads not show up in that sub. It's against their TOS and they'd drop me.


#80



Disconnected

I like the new forum.
ya'll are just picky.


#81



tapatalk

Test reply :)


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