#1 By: Jack Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 19.Jun.06 21:59:34

just fyi:
http://area51.phpbb.com/docs/features.html

beside many things sm already has, it brings a bunch of new cachings

#2 By: webmaster Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 20.Jun.06 00:08:11

How long has it been since I proposed custom fields in user profiles? Seems to me that they are doing alot of the same things I been asking us to do.

I still think they have some loose security issues to contend with but dam, somebody has it right.

#3 By: Datarunner Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 21.Jun.06 10:37:26

I suppose we are the idea-givers, and how many people are working on Supermod? I suppose not many...
I mean, in phpbb that might be more than 20 people, or?

anyway we have a chance, I got some special improvements like: group management (95%), wikipedia implementation (90%), coppermine gallery implementation (working), and you can take a look at a javascript menu staying at a fixed position on http://www.heidelfreaks.de/community (95 - 100%)

I am not currently working on supermod, but I hope to do that in a few weeks. At latest in November, when I have finished all my written tests, in the beginning of November!

Datarunner

#4 By: Datarunner Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 21.Jun.06 10:58:07

We need more bug testers.
I suppose we can make this a good forum anyway, but we need to get Supermod really working. I have just installed Supermod on goldmountaindiscus.com. With the supermod 3.0 release a lot of things had to get changed in the configuration afterwards. The whole photoalbum had to get set correctly, the online path had to get created manually etc...

Currently phpbb is faster and not as big as supermod, but these differences will vanish in the next year. Then it will be about what forum will be better for community building. And that is why a lot of things have to be done in supermod...
I would like to see supermod go into the direction of mindviz.com.

I do believe that with maybe 3,4 motivated php programmers we can create a better forum that phpbb.

Unfortunately I am not available until the end of this year, but beginning with next year I am going to work on the bugfixes and on more features, whatever they are.

If anybody knows programming in javascript, please contact me. I have taken a closer look at the phpbb template engine and if you are motivated to do sth. about the templating of supermod and know javascript (for programming sth. in fckeditor) please contact me.

#5 By: webmaster Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 23.Jun.06 14:46:32

You have some great ideas Oliver and I would love to see things like this put into place. However you and I are the only two people that seem to be interested into doing anything for SM anymore. McJeron has left the ship due to he has a new life now with a baby and a new job. John has been chronically absent and that?s due to his new home, his wife expecting a baby and his job is demanding more from him. I haven?t been much helping myself either because of the move and the new job.

I am so frustrated about this.. I guess I will have to start financially pushing money into the SM again, offering incentives and paying programmers to get themselves involved in the project. I either do that or we kiss this baby goodnight and put it out of its misery, we've gotten to a point now that very few are concerned, very little is being done, and very few are interested.. And its a dammed shame its gotten to this, we have put so much into the project and we see so much in possibilities that this project has and can have.

#6 By: Datarunner Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 06.Jul.06 16:16:27

Nah, I see it the same way as you do, but I still have Hope.
If I only could spend more time on this ...
I still have to work on some other things... in October I am writing my tests. Sorry to write you that...
I am still developing on a map implementation, not by google maps but map24.com. It could be finished in a few days.
I have a 300KB Group management feature which could be interesting for some people, but it's a special project.

I also see that there are new technologies being developed, like Ajax (www.ajaxian.com).
I wonder how SMF is doing. They seem to have some more templates and fewer bugs. And they seem to earn money with what they are doing.

Anyhow I have asked some girl to create a new button set. And I also get support by some personal friends for the group management tool (->300KB) I have written. It could happen that at least two huge boards could have interest in what I have written.

I have also asked Nox if he wants to have the coppermine plugin for supermod. (This works for 99%, except that CHANGES in the profiles do not update in the coppermine member list). If this works, at least we have the first forum possibly working with coppermine, although it's a simple plugin.

The wikipedia plugin for supermod works, but it needs some additional code and a way of displayal through xmlhttprequest (also known as ajax), for which I have a book which is appearing by the end of this month.

As soon as I have finished the map24 pin function in combination with my groups feature, I have to work on sth. for my uncle who has a small webdesign company. Some shopping function with oscommerce. As soon as I have time - and that's approximately in a month (I know that my dates and times are not very precise), I will put interest on the cookie problem of Supermod. And hopefully, starting with November, there will be time to work on the codebase of supermod for php 5.

What I am wondering and what would me glad to know, did Jeff Lewis do all the programming on his own for YaBBSe or with how much code did he come up, before YaBBSM came out and all the other stuff, back in 2003... ?

thank u for your interest
Datarunner

#7 By: webmaster Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 08.Jul.06 15:47:27

These things your working on independently like the wikipedia and coppermine plug in pretty much stalls me on doing anything. The reason why is I don?t know where you?re at, and where I should go. We were supposed to been working together on the code base. But since you?re not working with me we're off in a tangent making changes separately. I feel this is going to bring us problems; we should be putting our efforts in this together.

Jeff never did anything on his own, he always had his partners and they always worked together as a team. The three original partners of yabbse built a loyal following of contributors, but this was back when there weren?t any other forum packages available. Back when people worked together as a team to build projects. I cant get that now.. Least, I have been unable to get anyone to work together as a team. With the market now flooded with multiple forum packages and php gaining in popularity with multiple projects all over the Open Source world, its hard to find anyone who would want to volunteer efforts.

Datarunner, you and I are the last men standing for SM. If you and I can?t revive the development and interest in SM then we should just let it go. Since you?re working independently on these add ins and other things, perhaps you should take the lead and take over SM and re-package it under whatever title/name you want it to be.

#8 By: Datarunner Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 11.Jul.06 13:46:47

I could have imagined that this gives us problems, me working on some own things.
This is however taking only approximately 1 week. As soon as I have finished working on these small things, I will
get online and start working on getting the code of supermod running on php 5.x / your pc. So I would really
like to have an overview what parts of the code already work and which parts need debugging.

Now this is really my shake-hands to give supermod a better place on my to do list. In one week, when I have finished a minor bug fix of a new feature I am programming in, I am going to be available.

Datarunner

#9 By: webmaster Subject:features of new phpBB3 beta 1 Time: 12.Jul.06 00:52:59

Thats the thing Oliver, we left the code nearly 80% functional. But we need to comprehensivly go and use every single option and every single function. I tried using the Send Topic feature and it's not functioning. We have to document all the things we tested. As soon as we have tested the code fully we can have Chris (splungent) upgrade his server and we can move the code back into the internet realm and get people from the internet involved.

NO MORE NEW STUFF. That has not been benificial for us.. not in this stage of the game. Get the existing foundation fully tested and fully functional. . THEN get the new things in.. But its been far to long and we lost our followers so we need to get serious about this and get a release out NOW.

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