what just happen ?
the vote was IPB = 17 , xf = 21 ....
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what just happen ?
the vote was IPB = 17 , xf = 21 ....
The poll was rigged by guest voters. XF jumped from 3 votes to 50 in a few hours. So I guess now only registered members can vote. That will pretty much exclude people who do not have an VW license, but at least it gives a fair overview.
I thought vw 3 and 4 have different license
That's because it was posted on the XenForo website and people actually want the product. Interesting that that is found to be "rigged".
The problem with guest voting on vBulletin polls is that it doesn't track user IPs. So if any user who really wanted one or the other simply logged out, they could submit an infinite number of votes from the same IP address. This is a serious business decision for us, so we would like to avoid being tricked should anyone have decided to try this.
I'm voting with my wallet. I'm sponsoring money towards the xF integration. @Pegasus, I sent money via PayPal but the donate mod you use failed on the return from PayPal. Please update the mod manually to show my donation!
Do I need to vote again, or is my old vote (previous to the reset) included?
If you just see the results, then your vote is still there, if you see the option to vote, then you need to vote again.
Obviously as an IP.Board based user I would like to see it first in my software. I am quite prepared to pay and also help with the integration process as I do code for IP.Board (generally login integration and some utilities).
Larry
I see ' You have already voted on this poll'
but I am pretty sure that my vote is gone !
Maybe make the poll a public poll so that we can see if votes have been included?
If you are seeing this message on the thread view, then you voted on the poll while you were logged out, and were one of the guest votes that no longer count. In your browser, you will have to clear the cookie named poll_voted for vaultwiki.org, or use a different browser to submit your vote.
Went through and eliminated all the showstopper bugs I could find in the new Admin Panel. Now cleaning up the admin interface a bit with some more CSS (unstyled lists and all). Should be able to handle that tomorrow and start phrasing the Admin Panel.
Once it's phrased, I'll have someone go through and write the admin help for all the options.
My xF vote is still there !
Phrasing is so boring and satisfying and unsatisfying at the same time. On the one hand I see the language XML growing with each hard-coded text I convert. On the other hand, when I look at the page to see the fruits of my labor, everything looks the same. I've also always been quite dismayed by the fact that phrase code and even just their keys typically require more characters than the phrase values themselves.
Just found the site!! Thanks!
I would like to see IP.Board integration, however forget paying more money for it.
I will use ipbwiki if you charge, after paying for IPB, and you expect money for wiki integration where ipbwiki is free and works.
Pegasus: one thing to consider with IPB, is that IPS has an official marketplace for addons. Which means more and faster sales. XenForo unfortunately does not allow commercial addons in their resource manager, and does not have an addon store built in.
You really can't compare IP wiki with Vaultwiki. Its a different league. IP wiki can be compared to vbWiki Pro for vbulletin. Its a bridge between mediawiki and forum software. I have been using it for a year. Mediawiki has a learning curve and thereby excludes a large part of your forum users. Moving to a native wiki solution was the best decision I could take. The contributions to my wiki greatly increased, once I moved to a native wiki. Users no longer have to learn 2 systems. They can just post like they are used to in the forum, with bb code, the same editor, the same discussion functions.
Plus what is extremely interesting is that forum and wiki functions can be mixed. i.e. reward your wiki contributors with forum reputation points*, easily suggest forum post content to a wiki*, use a reference manager in wiki and forum*, use wiki functions in forum, show forum functions in wiki, etc. This shows why a native wiki is in another league than mediawiki bridging.
* coming in Vaultwiki 4.
ug I too one look at ipbwiki and wanted nothing to do with it, if I wanted a solution like that I could bridge dokuwiki but I would like to have a wiki that is integrated not bridged!
After dinner I should be able to grind out the rest of the error phrases, and get to something more interesting: VaultWiki 4's custom admin-help.
YEs, good point. I added buttons to forum headers, which makes it possible to jump from a forum, to its related wiki, blog category, social group, image gallery category, etc. Extremely good to have.
Finally after spending hours trying to use iframes and popups that just didn't work right, just went ahead and used our overlay manager to create the admin help interface. A few more onclicks and onsubmits than I would've liked, but unlike the other options, it works.
For developers, the overlay-manager is a Javascript class we've written, which basically works as follows:
As long as the custom HTML is in a certain format, that's all it needs. Just a bit of exciting stuff to talk about in developer blogs or API docs when that time comes.Code:overlay = vw_Overlay_obj.create('unique_id');
overlay.set_html('custom-overlay-html');
vw_Overlay_obj.open();
Looking forward to using the Admin Help we've built as a more generic Help interface in future versions to help users make sense of posting options and the like.
Will continue training some other devs on how to use it tomorrow, so they can get to work writing the help entries.
Also, I should mention that now that the AdminCP seems to be in "Alpha" condition (good enough for public testing, or so it would seem), I've been talking with some testers about getting accustomed to it, learning it, and posting some blogs about the new stuff from a non-developer's perspective. I also suggested they do some screencast videos. We'll see how much of that actually happens. Hoping to get this started by the beginning of the week.
I should clarify that VaultWiki 4 is still NOT available for public testing (only in-house) since the front-side user experience still needs to be vetted and approved for public eyes.
Let me know if you need a fresh set of eyes.
The point of me "being here" was a call from a post on IPB.
I liked the idea that there maybe another option than ipbwiki.
Oh shit, really?......... Who'd a thunk
Being an asshole costs nothing, as you clearly show here.
Telling me to shut up and wait............
If this is the type of reply that I get for trying to support this vaultwiki, I am not sure I want to be a part of this community, nor pay to get abused.
As I have found out before, If the community is like this, so is the support.
any news