IRON HEART FORUM MIGRATION - Help Us Make the New Forum Even Better
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IRON HEART FORUM MIGRATION
This year, we will be migrating the forum to a more up to date platform than SMF (which is not particularly hard..)
The main reasons to migrate are to improve the speed of browsing, add visibility of replies as they are happening (like on iMessage, WhatsApp etc) without the need to reload the page, to give us more flexibility on adding in custom plugins to improve integration with other platforms or to add customisations that we think will benefit the forum overall, and last but certainly not least, to make the mobile experience so, so much better than Tapatalk / viewing the pages on a browser on your phone.
Because this place is a community, it's only right to run this as a community-driven project. We want your feedback, good and bad, on the forum in it's current guise, and your suggestions on what new features would make this place better both for you guys, but also more appealing to bring new people into the fold.
One of the key requirements from our side on the initial implementation is that the layout of the forum stays looking more or less as it does now in terms of the boards and child boards. This should keep the switch over as easy as possible for those who have been on here for a long time.
In terms of platform, the current frontrunner is NodeBB, and we have compared this with Discourse and Invision Community. For those of you who are on multiple forums, please also let us know your thoughts on our current front runner platform.
Look forward to hearing peoples views, and to giving this place a bit of a facelift.
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Most of the forums I use, use the Xenforo platform. I'm not familiar with the ones you mentioned Alex. But I will research them when I get a chance.
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all these computer science stuff is beyond me. but it'll be nice to have a mobile layout for safari or chrome, without having to view desktop layouts..
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Not sure I understand your concerns, but it sounds like you’re worried that the layout of the forum will change. It will not.
One of the key requirements from our side on the initial implementation is that the layout of the forum stays looking more or less as it does now in terms of the boards and child boards. This should keep the switch over as easy as possible for those who have been on here for a long time.
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I believe they were referring to the COVID-19 virus going away and maybe possibly some slight apprehension to fear of the unknown. I think new forum software is a great idea, especially when you consider that IHUK gives this place to us for completely free. I am excited to see what the new platform will be like. Thanks a lot Alex.
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How you tag someone on Tapatalk. The @ plus name is coded different in the app. Using this button will allow a proper tag.[mention]Kasi [/mention]
[mention]SKT [/mention][mention]Fadez [/mention] I’ve also had trouble tagging people using Tapatalk on the iPhone. Let’s see if this one goes through.
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Nah hasn’t worked by the looks of it
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So, it looks like the tag works when viewing within the app but not on a web browser.
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I’m not sure it even works in the app. When [mention]Fadez [/mention] tagged me above, it didn’t notify me anywhere.
Also, is using tapatalk frowned upon? I access the forum on my phone and the web version is challenging to navigate through a browser for me but I do it when I need to tag someone.
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@SKT:
Also, is using tapatalk frowned upon?
It isn’t. But this is one of the main reasons for the migration. The forum is great (if archaic), on a desktop browser. But that does not work very well on a phone.
Tapatalk works on a phone but loses functionality. It also lags horribly at times, crashes, throws hissy fits and is generally a bit pop. So it serves a function but only just.
The hope for the migration is that we will end up with a more seamless mobile/desktop interface with parallel functionality.
