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#1 Re: Announcements » FluxBB 1.4.0 released » 2010-06-24 12:15:29
- Kaboon
Congrats guys! 
#2 Re: Announcements » Welcome to our new website :) » 2010-06-24 12:14:31
- Kaboon
I agree with downliner, I really miss the active topics on the front page. 
#3 Re: Announcements » Style competition entries » 2010-04-16 11:31:13
- Kaboon
kaost, I wish you made that mockup ~2 months ago, that is one awesome mockup and beats the rest by far, imho!
Any plans on continuing work on that design and make it an actual theme? I'd sure be using it.
#4 Re: FluxBB discussion » The future of FluxBB » 2009-01-09 13:58:20
- Kaboon
Keep this in mind, people who like the actual 1.3 release could always consider forking FluxBB again... 
#5 Re: FluxBB discussion » The future of FluxBB » 2008-12-27 08:46:18
- Kaboon
yann wrote:Please reconsider your position - you don't have enough people to maintain two branches. Maintain 1.2 with security fixes, release a rock solid, evolutive 2.0, and then add features, regularly, making sure the upgrades are easy.
Agreed 100% !
Disagreed 100%! 
But seriously, I'm pretty sure this can be done if wanted. There are a few people who'd be willing to continue work on the 1.2 branch besides Paul, Elbekko and Conner who could concentrate on (a followup of) 1.3.
And I'm starting to like the idea of skipping version numbers. How about bumping 1.3 to 2.0 and 1.2 to 1.4? Just to draw a clear line between a 1.x branch and a 2.x branch.
#6 Re: FluxBB discussion » The future of FluxBB » 2008-12-24 13:53:36
- Kaboon
Affirmative, elbekko.
Glad to hear that. If that's the general idea then I'm fine with it. I'm also comfortable with the idea of having separate development teams.
#7 Re: FluxBB discussion » The future of FluxBB » 2008-12-24 07:48:32
- Kaboon
I like the idea but I'm not sure if the planning would work out. The way I interpret it, it means that the improved version of 1.3 will be released in roughly a year. Knowing when Paul does commit his changes it shouldn't take too long (from what I've understood) to finish the actual 1.3 release. A lot of people seem to have be especially waiting for this release. Releasing a delayed, but improved version of it might not make them too happy.
I'd personally wait a bit more longer for Paul to commit his changes and polish things up for a release, extend 1.2 anyway and then develop/merge 1.3 into the new 2.0 version. 1.3 would make an excellent starting point for that.
I just think that too many people got used to the looks and feeling of 1.3 and for those, 1.2 might be a step back. They might even considering leaning over to using PunBB 1.3 instead and that's the last thing I'd like to see.
On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with the proposal. I'm glad to see some action from you dev's again.
#8 Re: FluxBB discussion » Is FluxBB still an project in progress? » 2008-12-21 12:14:11
- Kaboon
elbekko wrote:Yes, his work and career is a bigger priority than Flux. Is that a problem?
Not for him. But it's obviously a massive problem for Flux. Or hadn't you noticed?
No you are making a problem of it. There's at least a hand full of die-hard fans which are willing to wait for Paul to commit the changes.
raptrex wrote:i think hes saying to find someone else to do his job
That's exactly what I'm saying. Unless he's the only real programmer on the project it shouldn't be a problem for anyone else to pick up his work and finish it.
Paul's changes have major impact on FluxBB. Taking over needs research and rewriting which might even take longer then wait for Paul.
La`me wrote:Paul knows more what he is doing with the style than someone else.
Scripter wrote:but he's basically the only one who knows whats to be done.
Which is exactly the problem. No single individual should have complete control. Otherwise they hold the entire fate of the project in their hands, and can kill it with delays. As is happening now. If he would take the time to tell the rest of the team "what's to be done" they could do it while he's unavailable. Then the community wouldn't have turned on them for being 6 months late to a beta deadline.
I somehow have to agree on the first part. Multiple people should be able to work on the same project. But when a certain person offers their knowledge to do a complete rewrite of a certain part of the system, he should be able to do so.
Everyone has it's own specialty and is in charge of his own "department" in case of FluxBB. How many times don't you hear that a piece of software delayed due to a certain department not having their thing done? The only way the problem can be solved is by either adjusting your deadline or releasing a partly-broken product. The guys at FluxBB wisely chose the first option. I know this is not an excuse but this a common thing, things can turn out to be more work then expected. Users, communities and developers have to deal with it (especially in the open-source community).
elbekko wrote:Not to mention it'd be incredibly stupid to just throw away all the work he's done and replace it with something most likely inferior.
Nobody suggested throwing it away. In fact my exact words were "send his notes for what is left to be done to the team so they can complete the job".
Paul is in the progress of finishing it, unless it's really well documented and planned, I think this would be an unmanageable task and you'd basically need to start from scratch.
SuperMAG wrote:oh cammon guys, that last thing this project need is the resignation of another developer.
Nobody said resign, we're just saying give up the deadlock and let the rest of the "team" help.
We've heard a lot of excuses for why there's been a six month delay. But the fact of the matter is there is no excuse. Either Paul needs to give up the strangle hold he has on the code or the rest of the team needs to get serious about this and take it away from him. Though the damage done at this point is probably too much.
Did we? The only excuse I've heard is; "Paul is busy, we will wait for him to commit his changes".
Personally, I think we just need to wait for Paul to commit his changes and bitch less about the whole issue. The kind of behavior I've seen on the forums lately isn't really what an community should be about. And besides that, it makes development less fun for every one. The whole team, including the community, is working hard to make FluxBB one of the best light-weight forums around. So instead of constant ramblings about things taking a bit longer to be finished we should prepare the lanch party as good as we can, so when it's finished we can make everybody happy.
Just my two € 0.02...
Meow, suggesting another piece of software does not make one a betrayer...
#9 Re: General discussion » Word Association Thread » 2008-12-09 13:35:28
- Kaboon
Freedom.
(Also; thanks xintron )
#10 Re: General discussion » Is Fluxbb dead? » 2008-12-03 07:27:12
- Kaboon
Last night I threw an idea into #fluxbb to post some kind of announcement (either a site update or an actual forum announcement) in the hope to prevent these questions over and over. A lot of people seem patient enough to wait for Paul, the ones who've been asking are either the impatient ones (no offense) or newbies who don't bother searching or reading the multiple pages topics on this issue.
#11 Re: Show off » Wii 1.3Beta2 » 2008-11-28 09:33:18
- Kaboon
BTW, to test your site on multiple browsers and OS's, http://browsershots.org/ can be quite useful.
#12 Re: Show off » Wii 1.3Beta2 » 2008-11-27 21:02:11
- Kaboon
I ran the site on:
Fedora 10 / FF 3.1 (latest trunk)
Windows XP / FF 3.04
Windows XP / IE 7
No problems in the overall layout. Haven't been looking further then yet though. Do you've got any specific area's you want us to check out?
#13 Re: Show off » Wii 1.3Beta2 » 2008-11-27 08:37:35
- Kaboon
Nice! /me likes
#14 Re: Programming » Free PHP IDE » 2008-11-24 14:51:24
- Kaboon
Back in the days when I didn't have Zend Studio, I used to use Dev-PHP (http://devphp.sourceforge.net/) or HTML-Kit 292 (http://www.htmlkit.com/download/).
#15 Re: Announcements » Development team changes » 2008-11-24 14:48:09
- Kaboon
...but if you expect 24/7 support and updates...
Show me where anyone said they expect something that exaggerated. Please don't be insulting by suggesting that the *reasonable* requests made are in fact completely, completely different *unreasonable* ones.
I never intended to be insulting in any way. And I'm sorry if you feel offended by that remark. My intention was to exaggerate it on purpose. From I developers point of view I know it's hard to keep up on development if you've also got a personal life to maintain. All I'm asking for is a little bit of patience and sympathy for the developers of FluxBB and especially Paul. These people give up their spare time (as if they have got any) to work on something quite nice. I cannot deny that it's been taking a while now to finish some of the important elements of the forum. But what I'm trying to say is that we just should hang on just a little bit longer. Eventually it will be fixed and it will be worth waiting for. And look at the bright side of it, at least FluxBB didn't get sold out. PunBB on the other side, could be your next paid product which you've been looking for...
...why not get yourself a paid product?...
If I knew of a lightweight commercial forum software, I would have bought it already. I'm open to suggestions if you know of any.
Besides the highly customizable ones (such as vBulletin / UBB / IPB), I found two alternatives which seem to have a fairly simple concept;
WowBB : http://www.wowbb.com/
WSN Forum : http://scripts.webmastersite.net/wsnforum/
Obviously none is being as good as FluxBB.
I want to emphasize that this post is not an intended flame. I'm just trying to understand what all the fuzz is about.
#16 Re: FluxBB discussion » Translation portal » 2008-11-21 14:15:07
- Kaboon
May I add that breadcrumbs would be nice? When you're finished editing a certain language file, you have to go back to "Translation portal" again to select the language of your choice. I think I'd be more convenient if the language name ("Dutch translation for delete.php") was click-able or something, to go back to Dutch as main category. I know this thing is still under development so it might already on your to-do list. In that case forget everything I just wrote...
#17 Re: FluxBB discussion » Translation portal » 2008-11-21 14:01:02
- Kaboon
Looking good guys! A very useful tool!
#18 Re: Programming » Pictures not showing up » 2008-11-19 13:04:09
- Kaboon
755 afaik
Regular folders should have chmod (0)755
Regular files should have chmod (0)644
Perhaps you could try to use the absolute links to the images to bypass the problem?
#19 Re: Programming » C++: stopping a while loop from outside » 2008-11-19 12:56:35
- Kaboon
It's actually done, but the topic is interesting...
I was working on a simulation of a street with two gas stations. Every second there is a car, 1 of 60 cars stops and so on...
I hope that's enough explanation.
Couldn't that just be easily be done by doing;
if((CURRENT_CAR % 60) == 0)
// do some kind of action herein the loop or am I missing the point here?
#20 Re: General discussion » Word Association Thread » 2008-11-19 12:45:43
- Kaboon
Dinosaurs
#21 Re: Announcements » Development team changes » 2008-11-16 12:35:40
- Kaboon
I find it rather amusing that people can actually complain about a free product.
Don't get me wrong here, FluxBB is an excellent product but if you expect 24/7 support and updates while you ask for it, why not get yourself a paid product? I think the team is doing an excellent job by taking their time for creating a product that eventually will rock your b0x0rz. Only patience, proper feedback and decent bug reports will help creating such a product.
Communication is important but in my humble opinion there's been enough said already. Paul is busy finishing the markup. The others are more or the less waiting for that and in the mean while small bugs are getting fixed as we can see in http://fluxbb.org/trac/timeline.
So in other words, I guess we just have to wait a little longer for Paul's changes being committed to the source. But it'll be worth the wait.
Keep up the good work guys! And if I can be of any assistance, just let me know (as stated somewhere earlier in my introduction, I think).
#22 Re: Announcements » Welcome to FluxBB » 2008-05-28 13:12:19
- Kaboon
I'm here.
Good thing you've made this move guys. I've seen a few projects around who 'died' they got sold out. I'm pretty sure Rickard has made the right choice but nevertheless it means that I'm going to switch FluxBB anyway since I think that I share the same opinion as the current dev team.
If there's anything I can do, just let me know. I don't have that much spare time although I like to play around with projects like this while spending it. I work for a hosting company as a programmer for a living. If you guys need anything please let me know and I'll see what I can do.
- Kaboon
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