Xen Foro tips and tricks

[oplholik]

I believe it will be available here.

 

[spartanstew]

I can easily mention somebody by adding @ before username in our local boards.

I hope it'll be avaliable here after the update

It will.....

 

[Rsunderl]

I'm thinking we can shrink the Supporting Member badge a bit.

As for the avatars, we'll have to see what the final size is going to be. That's not set in stone. Yet.

I vote for keeping the current "Supporting Member" badge - it's classier

 

[Rsunderl]

Yep. Plan on 24 hours of down time. We hope to have it all finished long before that, but we have to plan for the unexpected. We're definitely not going to say it's just for a few hours as the actual database import will take several hours to do.

Then we have to go through and make sure all the permissions are good before we turn things back on and turn you guys loose.

So.. When the announcement hits, expect the site to be completely down for 24 hours. We do hope to have it back before then, however.

OH NO! ECF Withdrawl!

Where's my mod!?!?!?!

Just kidding - wonderful job, everyone!

 

[tiburonfirst]

I can easily mention somebody by adding @ before username in our local boards.

I hope it'll be avaliable here after the update

oh no! i might have to beg retired to fix my username

 

[retired1]

@dontyoudaretagmeallthetime?

 

[Katdarling]

IMG tags will work just as it has in the past.

And the drag and drop feature? You can drag an image from another site directly to the text box in XF. How cool is that?

Muey koolio!

Not safe for work


which reminds me...will the option to hover your mouse over acronyms to get the definitions still work?

Sadly, we haven't found an addon that does this for us yet. So once the site goes live with the new software, that feature won't be available until we find an addon that does this, or we hire someone to make it for us.

<ahem> <cough> I do believe there's an ECF thread about acronyms.

Okay - I don't want to jump to far ahead here, however I do have a slight concern after rereading an earlier post of "Your's" (#3) and some of the "stuff" available on the "Xenforo" website (YES - I am doing "My" research so I can be prepared for the change over and also be able to help others), including the Resources/Forum section that deals with the "Social Media Integration" that will be offered - and more specifically about Privacy . . .

It seems with the new software that it will be even easier for people to "share" directly with even more "Social Media" sites . . . AND - If I remember correctly, when "Facebook" was first integrated on ECF there was an uproar by a number of people (including "Myself") who found it very intrusive to have all these "Links and Buttons" across the thread headers. SO - Thankfully, ECF Administration saw the light and "We' were able to select and opt-out of "Social Media" and "Disable social buttons shown in the forum header" through "General Settings" on "Our" Profile page . . .

Given this, I would like to know if "We" will be able to . . . 1) Disable/Opt-out having the "Social Media" links again ? ? ?

AND - Even More Importantly, given that what I personally "share" here on ECF is meant only for ECF Members 2) Is there going to be any way to prevent people from "Sharing" our personal post directly with other's outside of ECF through their "Social Media" by using the links here on ECF ? ? ?

BTW: I do understand and know that nothing is really "private" on the Internet and that this is an open forum which many people can access, even those who are not members, who can come and read what people have said in their post. However, I would rather not see that people can/could "Share" what I have posted on ECF as easily as just linking a post or multi-quoting post to their "Social Media", especially without "My" Permission . . .

Just a concern and if not available yet, hopefully something that ECF Administration will possibly think about implementing into the software . . . THANKS ! ! !

Uncs, check this post, sweetie. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/forum-how-tos/666330-xen-foro-tips-tricks.html#post15604741

 

[retired1]

As we get closer to the actual event, we're seeing that 24 hours may be an optimistic, if not unreasonable guestimate. Better plan on 48 hours. The database import alone is going to take around 12 hours (if nothing goes wrong with it).

We'll be making an announcement when we have a better idea with links to keep tabs on the progress.

 

[oplholik]

8-o That'll be the whole weekend. Noooo! Jeez, I need a life this weekend, anyone got an extra I can borrow. Where's that cat, maybe he has an extra.

 

[Semiretired]

Going fishing this weekend so no problem...

 

[oplholik]

Lucky you. Have fun.

 

[retired1]

The actual move is doubtful for this weekend as we're still working on scripts for the import. When you have a forum as large and complicated under the hood like ECF is, we have to make sure we get it right the first time so we're not scrambling after the import to fix things.

We're now looking at sometime during the early part of next week. We'll see.

 

[DavidOck]

Cancel the fishing trip!

And doing the transfer during the week, rather than on the weekend, might be less impact on the members? After all, some still work

 

[Uncle]

Uncs, check this post, sweetie. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/forum-how-tos/666330-xen-foro-tips-tricks.html#post15604741

"My" Sweet "Katdarling" I guess "You" didn't read "My" post correctly, since that is exactly the same post I referenced and why I asked "retired1" the questions I did . . .

SEE

I've even highlighted it for Ya' ​

Okay - I don't want to jump to far ahead here, however I do have a slight concern after rereading an earlier post of "Your's" (#3) and some of the "stuff" available on the "Xenforo" website (YES - I am doing "My" research so I can be prepared for the change over and also be able to help others), including the Resources/Forum section that deals with the "Social Media Integration" that will be offered - and more specifically about Privacy . . .

It seems with the new software that it will be even easier for people to "share" directly with even more "Social Media" sites . . .

NOW - If only "retired1" will be kind enough to respond to "My" original post and provide an answer to the 2 questions I had, especially since it seems some other members are also interested in knowing too . . .

 

[retired1]

It's up to you whether you use the social buttons or not. If you don't want to use 'em, you don't need to. However, if someone shares a post you've made, there's absolutely nothing you or we can do about that.

 

[retired1]

I should also add, if you don't associate your ECF account with Facebook, Twitter, or Google your posts will not be associated with those accounts.

 

[AttyPops]

Okay - I don't want to jump to far ahead here, however I do have a slight concern after rereading an earlier post of "Your's" (#3) and some of the "stuff" available on the "Xenforo" website (YES - I am doing "My" research so I can be prepared for the change over and also be able to help others), including the Resources/Forum section that deals with the "Social Media Integration" that will be offered - and more specifically about Privacy . . .

It seems with the new software that it will be even easier for people to "share" directly with even more "Social Media" sites . . . AND - If I remember correctly, when "Facebook" was first integrated on ECF there was an uproar by a number of people (including "Myself") who found it very intrusive to have all these "Links and Buttons" across the thread headers. SO - Thankfully, ECF Administration saw the light and "We' were able to select and opt-out of "Social Media" and "Disable social buttons shown in the forum header" through "General Settings" on "Our" Profile page . . .

Given this, I would like to know if "We" will be able to . . . 1) Disable/Opt-out having the "Social Media" links again ? ? ?

AND - Even More Importantly, given that what I personally "share" here on ECF is meant only for ECF Members 2) Is there going to be any way to prevent people from "Sharing" our personal post directly with other's outside of ECF through their "Social Media" by using the links here on ECF ? ? ?

BTW: I do understand and know that nothing is really "private" on the Internet and that this is an open forum which many people can access, even those who are not members, who can come and read what people have said in their post. However, I would rather not see that people can/could "Share" what I have posted on ECF as easily as just linking a post or multi-quoting post to their "Social Media", especially without "My" Permission . . .

Just a concern and if not available yet, hopefully something that ECF Administration will possibly think about implementing into the software . . . THANKS ! ! !

It's up to you whether you use the social buttons or not. If you don't want to use 'em, you don't need to. However, if someone shares a post you've made, there's absolutely nothing you or we can do about that.

The "problem" I think he's referring to, is the original posts were made without "sharing" enabled. After import, they are all sharable (and could be misunderstood out of context).

So is there an option to "not share this post" or "not share old posts" or something that preserves the understanding that was in place when the posts were made?

So if he's not on FB, can someone who is on FB share his posts on FB?

Maybe import them with social sharing disabled for each thread. Can be enabled thread-by-thread going forward? Or maybe can be enabled/disabled at "forum/sub-forum" level.

P.S.
Is this it? https://xenforo.com/community/resources/bd-social-share.2182/

 

[retired1]

Considering any post made in a public forum is grabbed by Google's search engines within minutes of being made, I fail to see what the issue is here folks. As it stands, anyone can share a public post made by anyone with the new software.

 

[KattMamma]

I understand the concern about sharing a post out of context - I've seen it happen elsewhere. But it's always been possible, the new forum software will just make it easier. And this is the evolution of the internet as we know it - it can't and won't be stopped. I've quit trying to swim against the tide.

 

[AttyPops]

Apparently you guys don't post in the "shark tank". That aside for now, I was just translating. I don't have a problem with any of my PUBLIC posts being shared. It's the non-public "knock-down drag out fights" in the OUTSIDE! that I'd rather not FB.