Geeklog - Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Sunday, November 19 2006 @ 11:57 PM EST
Contributed by: Blaine
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I am pleased to announce the initial test release of version 2.6 is now available for download. A number of key changes were made over the past few weeks since I posted that work had been underway. A number of volunteers assisted with testing and feedback refer to full story for more details.

Review the readme.html - for update and install directions. You need to be running a GL 1.4 or 1.4.1 site.

Download Link: Forum Version 2.6 Final

Please post any feedback and issues on my site in the portalparts support forum or on this site in the plugins forum

Summary of features:

Integrated Geeklog group security to create restricted forums
Support for Readonly Forums - example FAQ use
Support for RSS Feeds - now with enhanced formatting and rich content
Advanced Moderation features like splitting topics, moving, making sticky
Integrated BBcode supports using text mode and bbcode tags to format content
Able to now safely just use text mode for posting and still use bbocode and advanced formatting features
Enhanced Code Formatting using the Geshi library
Automatic notification support for complete forums or topics. Able subscribe to a forum but then selectively un-subscribe to topics
Member listing page - able to view all members or just those with forum activity
Centerblock for site frontpage or sideblock for users to monitor new posts
Support for autotags in topic content and can reference other forum topics using an autotag here
Integrated SPAMX and content filtering
Integration opion with glMessenger for member private messaging and online smilie admin
Easy online admin administration and member control of user preferences

Special thanks to Mark Evans for collaborating with me closely over the past 2 weeks. Mark contributed the new bbcode formatting functions and enhanced the RSS feed feature and printing functions plus other fixes and ideas. I also want to thank the following site members that assisted with testing and feedback

Dirk (dhaun)
Tony (iowaoutdoors)
Wayne (suprsidr)
Michael (ironmax)
Oliver (tokyoahead)
Mark (mediagallery)

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Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: ByteEnable on Monday, November 20 2006 @ 11:37 AM EST

Blaine, the forums look really nice! Did you optimize any of the db code?

thanks,

Byte

Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: Blaine on Monday, November 20 2006 @ 01:07 PM EST

Thanks and yes I did but looks like that change was left out of my update. Optimizing the SQL was a big part of this update actually and Tony has tested and seen a 3-10x improvment on his site that has about 250,000 posts.

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Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: LWC on Monday, November 20 2006 @ 01:57 PM EST

What are the changes from v2.5RC1? The changes' list seems to ignore that version and just include it as part of v2.6RC1.

Microsummaries hack for Forum Version 2.6

Authored by: Dirk on Monday, November 20 2006 @ 03:33 PM EST

Here is a little hack I made to add microsummaries to the forum. Not sure how useful it really is - I was just playing around with this new feature of Firefox 2.0 (only works with FF 2.0).

bye, Dirk

Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: tmarquez on Monday, November 20 2006 @ 10:58 PM EST

Wow. It seems much faster on this site and looks great. Good job Blaine and testers!!

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Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: Notch on Friday, November 24 2006 @ 04:02 PM EST

The directions, especially for someone who is new to Geeklog are REALLY hard to understand, seem overly complicated and not laid out in a very clear manner.

I have printed it and tried multiple times and can't get it to work because the directions are completely unclear.

I've seen it in action elsewhere and it looks cool, but again I am a little dismayed at the very complicated steps it takes to install a plug-in and then the very fuzzy install instructions.

Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: Blaine on Friday, November 24 2006 @ 09:24 PM EST

You should post this comment in the forum for a better discussion but what exactly is un-clear is not that clear. Have you installed any other plugin before? Did you refer to the Plugin Installation Overview to get the basics and background of a plugin?

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Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: PostScriptum on Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 03:44 PM EST

Can i use the 1.3.11 geeklog version to plugin the 2.6 Forum Version ¿? because i dont want to updete geeklog-1.4.0sr5
PostScriptum , 10x

Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: Dirk on Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 05:02 PM EST

I think the bit that says "You need to be running a GL 1.4 or 1.4.1 site." is pretty clear ...

bye, Dirk

Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: TechSys on Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 05:19 PM EST

The forum looks great, but there is one thing I wish could be implemented into it. That's a, "posts since last visit" link. I have never seen one of them on any version of this forum, but most all other forums have it.
How hard would it be to add that into it?

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Forum Version 2.6 RC1 Released

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 02:00 AM EST

There is (and has always been) a nice and convenient view all new posts link on the top of the forum index page ...

bye, Dirk

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