Comments on: Reflections on using Vanilla forum software

By: cre8d design blog » Integrating Wordpress and Vanilla

cre8d design blog » Integrating Wordpress and Vanilla — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:58:03 +0000

[...] Mark has created an initial helpful guide to integrating Wordpress and Vanilla. If you haven’t come across Vanilla, it’s a wonderful free open-source forum system. (See my reflections on switching to Vanilla.) [...]

By: Rachel C

Rachel C — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:09:41 +0000

For version 1.0, you have to install add-ons to get that, I’m using the older version which had it already installed.

By: BClark

BClark — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:20:48 +0000

nice implementation of vanilla forums. I have installed version 1.0 on http://www.10secondreview.com/ and i was wondering if you know how i can get the nice little ‘welcome guest’ message that you have in the top left corner? Mine didnt seem to have it in the default install.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:57:04 +0000

Month late, but still. I’ve been using Vanilla for 4 different forums since the earlier days, and 1.0 was a definite upgrade for us. The users took several weeks to adjust, but as yours, they quickly caught on and the forum became more used than ever! With no smiley spamming or Huge Frickin Signatures ™ or post counting, discussions became the top priority once again, the whole point of a forum. The main power in Vanilla is the extension capability, if you miss something about previous forum software, chances are someone has created an extension for it already. I love Vanilla, and will likely never go back as long as it maintains the simplicity that makes it unique.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:07:41 +0000

The main complaint we had after deploying it for a client was its lack of email notification when anyone posts in a conversation you’ve previously posted in. Yes, obviously, there are RSS feeds to keep track of conversations, but the majority of mainstream users have no idea what RSS is or how to harness it.

We ended up adding it ourselves to the 0.9.2 source code (not as an addon), but hopefully following the 1.0 release an addon will be released to handle this properly.

By: Automatthias

Automatthias — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:32:21 +0000

What about tags? I was almost sure that Vanilla would have them, but I found only one topic on Vanilla suport forums that mentioned tags.

Categories are disjunctive, while many conversations drift along wide topics and are hard to fit into a single category. Also, tagging a separate posts would help to distinguish valuable posts from the usual jabbery.

By: depressionisms ★ neuropsychosis » User Interaction and Forums - What Works and What Doesn’t

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:13:48 +0000

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