I've finally managed to clear my desk and have started to chip away at all of the small Dolphin related things that i wanted to achieve. This is mostly converting old mods that I have carried out on my site, into a more useful format so that I can post them up - both for free and for sale.
One of the bigger mods that I wanted to expand on before posting it, was to update Orca into something more usable.
Now before everyone chimes in about simply getting rid of it and replacing it with IVPB or phpBB or whatever, I believe that with a bit of time invested, it can be made more functional, in my opinion a native forum is much better than an add-on one.
Now I'm not talking about a complete re-write - just improvements - things like improved admin controls, layout tweaks, added functionality. For example - here's a screen-shot of my old D6 Site - i created post view counts and post counts for the forum and main forum indexes
i already have a few mods for it, but wanted to hear your opinions on how you think it can be improved - what would YOU like to see in Orca?
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unsticky posts
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Sub Forums
Lose the Ajax
Convert post filtering to HTMLPurifier... like the rest of the site
Inline Moderation
Ability to assign moderators
Soft Delete
Inline moving of threads
Bad word filter
Attachment Uploading
Could even be issued as a derivative work and make it completely separate / different beast to Orca - not really thought that far ahead yet - just wanted to get the mods done and worry about packaging it later
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JFYI - The TinyMCE Browser mod I have also handles File uploads.
Would probably include this as part of overall mod too.
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Long had the idea to improve it - but it's just getting enough free time to do something about it, hopefully I can get something back up and running next week. Will shoot you a link when it's running.
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I was referring to the feature that real forum software like IPB and vBulletin has, and that is the ability to attach files to individual posts. I guess you have to be familiar with IPB or vBulletin to understand.
I amuses me that Orca upsets you so much - lol.
It's funny - when I migrated some old users to dolphin from phpBB - they all said the same - the forum is crap - but they all still post there, and no one really misses the extra garnish that a lot of these other products have, after all the main idea is simply to communicate and Orca achieves this adequately. It's not what the forum DOES - it's more a case of what it CONTAINS.
But I know what you mean about file see more
its good to dump orca...
HTMLPurifer is the way to go. The only reason it's not in Orca in D7, is because Boonex was too lazy to put it in see more
RE BBcode - It is actually a lot easier to implement than you think - you simply parse the submitted content through a bunch of regex replace statements - one for each tag. I used this method to create my own templating system for my CMS, which includes some see more
Boonex fix this shit please. (along with all of the other issues with unity)
Web sites are all about user experience - and this one here continually SUCKS.
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i had a chat with live support, and this is what i got from him. my main inquiry from this chat was what does 'unlimited bandwidth' actually mean.well we all know that an answer could not be provided but here is the conversation:
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terabyte: so the bandwidth is not metered, because in essence there is no such thing as 'unlimited bandwidth'
Julian Vanzetti: Here is an example of a dolphin account on out servers. http://merobook.com/
Julian Vanzetti: Please refer to http://www.pacifichost.com/tos.shtml
Julian Vanzetti: for our terms of services.
terabyte: ok thanks for see more
terabyte: who there on the staff have used dolphin, and know its limits and bounds?
Julian Vanzetti: https://support.pacifichost.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit
Julian see more
now i continued on my quest with this and read their TOS as suggested from the sales agent, and this is what i have found:
20. System and Network Resource Usage
An Individual Shared, Premium or Reseller Hosting account may not:
1. Use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such see more
1. use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. we know that dolphin has had some issues with resource usage on a site with no activity so this would warrant a suspension immediately according to TOS ITEM 20.
2. run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. DUH AV CHAT warrants suspension
7. file-sharing peer-to-peer. both video and audio is a form of P2P, and there is also see more
Regards,
DosDawg
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Regards,
DosDawg
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I know that face. What movie is that from?
Sorry DM...lol...Good work with the Orca files btw. Will you be selling the updates as a mod anytime soon?
I will be keeping a log of the build progress over on my site, mostly as I cannot post screen shots here, plus I do not want to maintain two separate blogs on the subject.
For those interested, please visit - http://www.deeemm.com/resources/boonex-dolphin/3-orca-mod.html#49
Thanks for the feature suggestions. I will post back when a demo is available.
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