Discussions

• • Large Vanilla Sites

  As a part of my considering adopting Vanilla, can anybody give sample URL's of Vanilla sites that are "large", meaning lots of content, lots of users, high traffic, etc.
  
  Thanks in advance.

  • 5 commentsMost recent by Mark March 15General
• • Quick help need

  I need to merge Icon with panel list defintion from TagThis extension:
  I'm trying to do this like that:
  
  $Properties['ListName'] = '<img src="http://site.com/rss-logo.png" alt="Feed logo" />'$Context->GetDefinition('AllDiscussionsFeed');
  
  But in not work - any help, how it should look ?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by garymardell March 15Vanilla 1
• • Enabling SSL in Vanilla 2?

  Is there a setting for this? Had a quick look but I can't see one. What to secure the join and sign up process. Cheers.

  • 92 commentsMost recent by derekdon March 15Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Unable to get Vanilla 2 in a subdirectory (eg /forum)

  Hello,
  
  Vanilla 2 is looking nice. We'd like to give it a spin, but can't seem to get it installed outside of the server root. We are attaching it to an existing site, so would like to place it in forums.
  
  Looking at the debug log, it is looking for libraries in the root, even though the path is set to forum.
  
  Does anyone have it working in a subdirectory?
  
  We are able to get the same install working if placed in the webserver root.
  
  Any pointers, or is this still too early?

  • 6 commentsMost recent by s0mean March 15Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Subcategories... Well, sorta...

  Almost every bulletin board software I know of has "subforums" in one way or another, the exception is Vanilla ;)
  Yes, I know Vanilla1 has an addon available, but let me continue a little more.
  
  The purpose of a subforum is to further narrow down your list, to make it easier to categorize and in theory, easier to find things as well.
  Now that has one important drawback, it usually forces the user to click more, and waste more time getting to what they want.
  
  That right there is the main reason Vanilla intrigued me so much when I first discovered it; On the first page of the forum everything I want is right there in front of me, all the recent discussions without needing to click anything.
  Other forums have their "portals" or their "active topics" and so on, but a lot of the time users don't even know those extra pages exist.
  
  So why am I requesting subcategories for Vanilla when I just described them as "bad" from my view? Well because I think other forums are just going about the implementation the wrong way, and I also think Vanilla can do better ;p
  
  Vanilla reminds me a lot like deviantART, because as I said, everything recent is right there on the first page.
  Now if you go to http://www.deviantart.com/ and click on any of the categories you'll see how it works wonderfully.
  
  The "All Categories" root shows everything, and with each (sub)Category it narrows down your search. This is very important, because it doesn't just divide the content like folders on your operating system for example, it shows all the content inside that category and recursively shows the content of the subcategories below.
  I propose Vanilla2 do the same with discussions.

  • 10 commentsMost recent by piggies March 15Feedback & Feature Requests
• • Embed code not showing

  Hello im running vanilla 2 and all appears to be working fine except when i embed video into a post it does not appear, any ideas? im new to vanilla in general i didnt start with v1
  
  

  • 11 commentsMost recent by garymardell March 14Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Locale & translations

  Hello there!
  
  I'm starting an early French (fr-FR) translation of Garden and Vanilla 2. I've understood that all the translations have to be in the proper application/plugin locale/ folder.
  
  I need a list of all the strings I have to translate. Does such a list exist or do I need to create it myself by searching all the calls to Gdn::Translate() method?
  
  Thanks in advance.

  • 23 commentsMost recent by Mark March 14Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • JQuery plugin updated to v19-1.4.2, gets CKEditor 3.1

  Read about the v19-1.4.2 update
  
  Hey everyone, long time no see. I've just updated my JQuery extension for Vanilla 1 to jQuery 1.4.1 and added CKEditor to it. Please everyone have a go and break it, I'm sure it's a little rough around the edges, but it worked for me on Vanilla 1.1.10 so have at it!
  
  CKEditor require HTML Formatter to be installed and enabled, you should also save your sanity and formatting by turning the HTML_CONVERT_NEWLINES option to "0" (zero).
  
  Please let me know what you guys think.

  • 44 commentsMost recent by formloves March 14Add-ons
• • 14 HTTP requests

  Pretty sure I brought this up with version 1 of Vanilla too..
  
  Is there really a need to make 14 http requests for each page before it's even rendered? There's so many calls for separate JQuery files its unbelievable.

  • 19 commentsMost recent by [-Stash-] March 14Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Convert bbpress to vanilla

  Hello
  
  I want Convert bbpress to vanilla
  
  

  • 15 commentsMost recent by AnotherDan March 14General
• • Vanilla forum 1.x VS 2.x

  Hi Everyone, just wanted to get your feedback. We are keen to use Vanilla as our choice of forum, however we're confused which one! I've just actually setup Vanilla Ver 1.x and I enjoyed setting up a few add ons, and installing a cool theme.
  
  But.. should we reconsider and go for Ver 2.x ?
  
  I'd like to get some feedback from users who moved on from Ver 1.x to 2.x.
  
  Thanks!
  
  Mark

  • 2 commentsMost recent by [-Stash-] March 14General
• • Vanilla 2 Upgrade

  I just did a upgrade test from Vanilla 1 to 2 today while preparing our upgraded support center. I noticed just two little issues with the upgrade script:
  - There is a typo in the upgrade script that is causing Comments to be loaded into the ConversationMessage table.
  - Username from Vanilla 1 is being loaded into the Name field in Vanilla 2, since username isn't used anymore, shouldn't First Name and Last Name be loaded into Name field?
  
  Otherwise everything worked smoothly and with some cleanup to roles and permissions and the addition of url codes for the categories, everythign was ready to go.
  
  Mike

  • 2 commentsMost recent by bobtheman March 13Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Changing category view to traditonal forum type view

  This is probably heresy, but has anyone know of a mod for V1 that will show the category and discussion list views etc similar to traditional forums?
  
  Stone throwing may commence, but only after some sensible replies please.... :)

  • 3 commentsMost recent by halo_12 March 13Vanilla 1
• • How to move the Not Signed In/Signed In As

  I am working on building a community and I would like to move the Not Signed In/Signed In As area out of the top right hand corner (because it breaks my theme and you can't see it up there).
  
  How would I go about doing this? Mainly, I can't even find what file it is in.
  
  Thanks!

  • 2 commentsMost recent by Dinoboff March 13Vanilla 1
• • Minogi.com - a different kind of Vanilla Forum
  

  
  
  Hey out there Vanilla Community,
  
  I've been working on a website with a couple of my friends over the past couple months. We started development on this site right when Vanilla 2 was coming out and we were very excited about the prospects. Due to deadline in the project however we were unable to use Vanilla 2 and opted for Vanilla 1.1.8
  
  We've appropriated much of what is out of the box in Vanilla as something else (e.g. Groups are actually extended from Categories). You can easily see this based on URL configuration as we haven't hidden anything...yet. We think that this might be one of the more radical uses of a Vanilla Forum. We'd love for you the community to take a look and give us any kind of feedback — we know we've gotten both positive and negative feedback from our client and we know it has it's fair share of bugs :D
  
  Probably more of a reason to check out this site is that we've made some plugins that don't exist that people seem to be asking for on the forums. A few are:
  
  • Groups
  • Facebook Connect
  • Flickr Image Uploading
  • User Activity
  • Friends
  • et al
  
  Some of these are inherent in Vanilla 2, but for those Vanilla 1ers out there we're still itching to see some progress on that. Anyways, cheers and we look forward to a long-lasting engagement with this community.
  
  http://minogi.com/

  • 5 commentsMost recent by halo_12 March 13Vanilla 1
• • Has anybody made a jQuery UI theme for Vanilla 1 default style

  Vanilla 1.2 will come with jQuery 1.4.x and probably jQuery UI 1.8.x; however I still have to add the UI theme:
  
  http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/
  
  Do you know if someone made one already?

  • 6 commentsMost recent by halo_12 March 13Vanilla 1
• • extending profile pages

  on v2 how are extensions handled for the profile page, is the data stored in the database or is there a writable html file?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by s0mean March 13Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Handler and Hook?!

  I'm currently trying to make a plugin that work in the body of each post and comment but I don't seems to find the proper magic function to get this information and change it....
  
  Can please someone help me!? is there any list of all the possibility?

  • 4 commentsMost recent by ZeFish March 13Vanilla 2 & Garden
• • Changing someone's username?

  Can you actually change a user's username? I realize they could just create a new account but then they would lose everything attached to their old account. Can you just hack the mysql database or is it more complicated than that?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by Dinoboff March 12Vanilla 1
• • Joomla! Users Sync. & Vanilla 2 Translation

  Well, I searched the forum and I didn't find anything interesting, because I Just want Vanilla sync the users data with Joomla!. I don't want any Joomla! component or anything else.
  
  And I want to know how is possible to translate Vanilla. I've looked at the source files and I didn't find anything interesting.
  
  Thanks,
  Scorch

  • 4 commentsMost recent by [-Stash-] March 12Vanilla 2 & Garden