Kevin
Administrator
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2008
- Messages
- 7,148
- Location
- Sydney, Oz
- Car Year
- MY'03
- Car Model
- Forester
- Transmission
- A/T
At ORS we will soon be migrating the forum to the XenForo platform to provide an enhanced experience overall. There will be some changes with which we all need to familiarize ourselves but we’re aiming for a similar layout to the existing forum and an appearance somewhat like the XenForo community forum here: https://xenforo.com/community/
The plan is to go live end August / early September and your input, and patience, will be very important in shaping the forum to best suit the needs of the ORS community. We are still learning but can assure you that the XenForo experience here will be very different to another Subaru enthusiasts site frequented by some members here!
You’ll see how XenForo can:
- Drag and drop images, videos, sound files
- Provide a better mobile experience
- Use JoyPixels v5.0. emoji and have all textual content supporting emoji, from message text to forum titles.
- Give Likes
- Add bookmarks
- Use Watch lists
- Have a private round-table “Conversation” (PM) with invited participants
- Allow logon with user name or email address
- Edit messages entirely in-place
Why are we doing this – well the vBulletin version being run is creaking and we want to add features but to obtain the latest version, which the experts have advised us against, is a complete conversion and there’s just been so many unhappy users and complaints about the latest vBulletin that it’s just not worth the risk. (BTW, prior to 2010, the developers of XenForo were once the Lead Developers at vBulletin so the transition to XenForo should be very smooth.)
Tapatalk – From a security perspective we would rather not provide a Tapatalk interface because XenForo already provides a good mobile interface. If you currently use Tapatalk please have a look at the XenForo community link above from your mobile’s browser as an example.
The plan is to go live end August / early September and your input, and patience, will be very important in shaping the forum to best suit the needs of the ORS community. We are still learning but can assure you that the XenForo experience here will be very different to another Subaru enthusiasts site frequented by some members here!
You’ll see how XenForo can:
- Drag and drop images, videos, sound files
- Provide a better mobile experience
- Use JoyPixels v5.0. emoji and have all textual content supporting emoji, from message text to forum titles.
- Give Likes
- Add bookmarks
- Use Watch lists
- Have a private round-table “Conversation” (PM) with invited participants
- Allow logon with user name or email address
- Edit messages entirely in-place
Why are we doing this – well the vBulletin version being run is creaking and we want to add features but to obtain the latest version, which the experts have advised us against, is a complete conversion and there’s just been so many unhappy users and complaints about the latest vBulletin that it’s just not worth the risk. (BTW, prior to 2010, the developers of XenForo were once the Lead Developers at vBulletin so the transition to XenForo should be very smooth.)
Tapatalk – From a security perspective we would rather not provide a Tapatalk interface because XenForo already provides a good mobile interface. If you currently use Tapatalk please have a look at the XenForo community link above from your mobile’s browser as an example.
