Nypheas Azurai
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Posted - 2011.05.03 02:15:00 -
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Edited by: Nypheas Azurai on 03/05/2011 02:24:42
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If you have any questions about the choice of YAF or anything I've detailed here please let me know and I'll do my best to provide further detail. Thanks for your patience and all your feedback (positive and negative) while we work on getting the new forums to where they need to be
Yes. What support for mods does it have if any?
Because this sort of integration stuff: Quote:
So choosing YAF as a base was an important choice as it gave us a very solid foundation to build on, and we did further work on top of that based on direction from the community team. Once that development effort was pretty much done first pass, we deployed it in test mode to get valuable feedback from all of you. That was incredibly important. From that beta phase we got back both bug defects that were filed and reports from the community team on what else players were saying - from things that were broken to the font being too small, to some folks don't like fixed width sites, etc. That was then prioritized by the team and they worked through it.
Really should not be so painful if you're using a proper forum package. I've seen entire portals and websites hinge on (phpBB fanboi here) phpBB mods and easily swappable Authentication plugins. There are communities which have used modular forum packages to recustomize and portalize the entire site, handling everything from social networking mods, to authentication, to custom database pulls, to avatars - a whole portal integration - done in the span of a few weeks. When going for entire portal integration, the forum package you choose should #1 have hyper-modularity by design, is this a design feature of YAF.net?
My question (and concern) then is this: have you chosen the right solution if so much work and man hours and man sweat and failure was necessary to get authentication and portal plugins working, something that shouldn't appear to be half as hard given a forum package with proper modular design? OR was YAF.net simply chosen because it was the easier way out and jived with the current technologies in place?
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