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POLL: Any Interest in an EEVblog Mastodon server?
RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 27, 2022, 12:54:18 pm ---Never seen a site use SMF 3 because it's not released, right?
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My bad, sorry, not 3, forgot what version it was.
I've installed something on a RaspberryPi two years ago, it was a beta for the next SMF release, the major difference was a new WYSIWYG editor that can drag and drop inline pics, but the pics were inserted as base64 text instead of being attached. Another thing to the new editor was that it was not preserving the spaces, turning double spaces after a full stop into single space, and mangling spaces or tabs at the beginning of a line, and so on.
All recent web editors mangles spaces (at display time). :-//
Just curious, can XenForo display consecutive spaces?
Jackster:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 27, 2022, 12:57:25 pm ---There is a whole bunch of stuff to consider, even down to how Google would handle the indexing of the old posts if the system changed.
Massive decision even to try it out I think. It would need a lot of user backing.
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Google handles redirects quite well. It will remove old links and replace them with new ones when it sees a 301.
All can be done with some .htaccess or redirect rules. This will help with other places on the internet and local threads still linking to older URL formats.
BRB going to try it out. Got the afternoon off anyway.
voltsandjolts:
If switching from SMF to something else, perhaps setting up a demo server (to be wiped after a month or whatever) and invite all members with ?K+ posts on this forum to try it out and give feedback.
For me, I like things as they are.
But if the backend is causing headaches then something needs to be done.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on November 27, 2022, 01:26:32 pm ---All recent web editors mangles spaces (at display time). :-//
Just curious, can XenForo display consecutive spaces?
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Don't know, but it copies and pastes HTML and images very nicely IIRC.
wilfred:
If XenForo improves site searching then it would be worth considering a change for that reason alone.
Why not set up a test mirror of the forum on it so users can check it out and give feedback. Should you change you are going to have to test out migration of existing posts and all the other back room stuff. May as well crowd source some of it.
You could try migrating the XenForo copy back to a second SMF server and create a test suite to compare the original forum contents to the twice migrated copy to help identify problems.
I checked out the XenForo site and the first thing I read was this "Bypass your IT department and have your community up and running in minutes with a XenForo Cloud subscription featuring the complete XenForo software suite."
That's a very '90's attitude to corporate IT where everyone with a PC thought IT was a pain and they could set up a local solution to better suit themselves. It's a red flag to advocate that sort of approach these days.
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