Mods that I should / could install wicba

[Cthulhu]

Mods that I should / could install wicba:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=202476 (AME / Videos)
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205388 (vB -> Wordpress bridge, users can log into the frontpage with their vB stuff, comments go to forums and vice-versa. The site does indicate it won't work with subdomains though due to cookie issues, which would be a bummer :/. Still though, we could just make thelifestream.net/forums the main forums location and just redirect visitors of forums.thelifestream.net there to make this work.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=199556 - Something like a shop hack, there's demos on the page.

Just let me hear a definite 'yea' or 'nay' on either of the links. The latter one is especially up for debate - I hope you can disable some aspects of it, since I doubt we'd want to use all of it in order to keep the forums clean. Still though, I've seen it in use somewhere before (can't remember where), and it would promote people with good behaviour and put those with poor behaviour to shaem.

 

[Tetsujin]

Yay for the Wordpress thingy.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Wordpress integration and the videos hack are good ideas, methinks.

 

[Makoeyes987]

I like all those hacks so definitely yay

 

[firehahahahahaha]

Colored usernames .

 

[IndianaoftheJones]

They all sound good to me. I especially like the word press one.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Coloured usernames doesn't really even require a hack, it should be pretty easy to manage with just some template modifications + custom profile fields. On top of that, it would be pretty easy to pretty up the postbit as fcf/fg have done and make it optional whether to view all the colouring, that way people don't have to get pissed off at others' custom font colours if they don't want to see them. Given access to templates + member profile fields I could probably set it up in about fifteen minutes.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Someone just make Aaron a Tech Admin. It's pretty stupid not having him on staff.

 

[CK]

Remove the bookmarks shit thing down the bottom of the page?
I approve of the hacks also.

 

[Cookie Monster]

That shop mod looks insanely complicated. But, aye. FGJ.

 

[CK]

Also mobile phone skin, FCF has a really nice one that i'm sure we can let you guys use.

 

[CK]

oh oh oh

and the Ajax stats box down the bottom of the page thats on FCF. AND SHOUTBOX.

 

[Tennyo]

SHOUTBOX is an awesome idea.

Also Wordpress integration.

And would the video thing mean that we'd be able to post YouTube vids again?

 

[CK]

You should be able to post youtube vids already because this version of VB already has it. But it could be disabled.

 

[Tennyo]

You know I haven't thought to test it on vB yet. All I know is that on the forum we were on before every single video had the "external embedding disabled" thing even on vids where it hadn't been. :/

*tests*

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iefF9SS5yM"]YouTube - my little pony - the smooze[/ame]

EDIT: Guess not.

 

[Ⓐaron]

looks like it's not installed by default. I think there's a really simple modification they use on fcf/ffof/elsewhere.

 

[CK]

yar it is used on FCF, I thought it was default with the new VB but it must of been a hack.

 

[Ⓐaron]

also, apparently TLS doesn't have a set way of keeping tracks of post reports & who's responded to them, which could lead to confusion among staff members. Best way to sort this out on a temporary basis is to make a separate subforum of the staff section for post reports and warnings issued, then go to vBulletin Options -> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options and set User Infraction Discussion and Post Reporting Discussion fora to the appropriate subforum. I'm sure there are moar sophisticated hacks to mirror what was set up on ACF, though - I'd look into it moar, but honestly neither FG nor FCF gets enough traffic to bother, and FFOF doesn't have enough activity to even bother enforcing rules really.

 

[Cookie Monster]

vBulletin Options -> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options and set User Infraction Discussion and Post Reporting Discussion fora to the appropriate subforum.

Wtf? Where is this?

 

[Ⓐaron]

i'm assuming it's in a part of the control panel you don't have access to. D;

 

[Cookie Monster]

Probably. :/

 

[IndianaoftheJones]

I know I said shoutbox on the old forum but I don't remember what people said in response... but a shoutbox might be fun.

Also couldn't we embed youtube on SMF? It doesn't seem to be working here.

 

[Cthulhu]

We had a hack on SMF that embedded videos, but it quit working, probably due to Jewtube changing their video player or something.

On FFOF we have the same hack I listed in the first post, which should be easy enough to integrate.

The WP integration hack can be installed, however, the forums would have to move from forums.thelifestream.net to thelifestream.net/forums in order to work. It's a minor change really, but people might be bothered by it.

V as admin's fine by me, but I don't decide who becomes admin - poast a poll fgj, as I indicated earlier, .

Mods don't have access to the full ACP, just to the bits that matter. vB options can be edited by regular admins though (i.e. me, X, and 'Oeyes). I'll set up the report thingy now, fgj, and look at the plugins once I'm done reading the rest of the threads.

 

[Cthulhu]

Thar, videos can be embedded now. Just post the links and it'll work. For threads that have a youtube video link, just edit and save and it works (as with the last post on the previous page).

Edit: nvm, there's a script that converts old posts with youtube links to working videos. Running it now.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Getting rid of the subdomain isn't a big enough loss to be bothered by when compared to integrating with the front site. I doubt anyone will care much, especially since you can just install a word filter to change all links to match appropriately.

And I don't really want full adminship; you guys already have enough moderation staff and are doing fine by yourselves. The only stuff I rly need is access to the technical aspects of the control panel/ftp access If that still requires a poll though someone should set one up :p