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SMF launches a new Theme Site and a new Online Manual

Started by Compuart, March 29, 2006, 05:38:02 PM

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eriktm


bloc


eriktm


Ben_S

How do you mean what do theme authors get?

They get the pleasure of making people happy and seeing their work used on peoples forums.
Liverpool FC Forum with 14 million+ posts.

eriktm


Thantos

Jeez, if you are going to quote at least quote the entire thing.  The "price" should make it pretty clear I was joking.

bloc

All themes up on simplemachines.org are free. And all theme authors are creating the themes for free, on their own time afaik.

There, that should make it crystal-clear. ;D

pmhoran

Just wanted to add my THANKS to the SMF TEAM ... you collectively do an awesome job.

Thanks too to all the people who develop add-on modules/modifications & themes .... your efforts and generosity in sharing are truly appreciated.   Especially by those of us who do not have the knowledge & "artistic gifts" you all seem to possess.

Thank you all
Peter


Yellowrose

Just installed SMF to my site and was looking for the documtentation. An idea for you might be to post a link in a closed sticky for easy access to new users like myself took me a while to find the link.

The version I installed is the latest 1.0.7 - While reviewing the documentation I noticed there are some things that are not explained for new users, like how to adjust membergroup access permissions once a board has been added. You can modify the board once added and modify membergroup permissions but how do you modify the membergroups themselves that can access a board. Is there a way to modify access permissions by category rather then by board ?

There is also nothing in the documentation to explain where you can make changes to emails sent(ie activation emails, welcome emails).

Will the documentation be updated for the features now available in 1.0.7 I noticed there are some features listed in the documentation that are not available in this new release.

Amacythe

Actually, the documentation is written for 1.1 but much of it can still be helpful for the 1.0.x branch. 

When you find things that are missing, please post to the Online Manual requesting those items.

We appreciate your comments and are attempting to make our Manual as complete as it can be.

Dannii

As it says in the OM title: "SMF 1.1 Online Manual"
Much of it will still be useful for 1.0 though.
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

Burpee

One simple suggestion for the online manual,
Let's connect the user database from the simplemachines forum used to the user database for the manual forum. The reasons to do this are simple.

  • Unregistered users will not be able to post nonsense
  • Users remain recognizable without having to register another account
  • People will (hopefully) be able to actually post something in the feedback and requests board

Amacythe

We had considered sharing the memberbase, To be honest, I don't remember why it was decided against.  However, it was decided to allow guests to post to the manual without registering.

Thank you for pointing out that guests did not have the ability to post requests or feedback.  I've changed the permissions.

bloc

Wasn't it something about having all eggs in one basket..? :) Imho its better to separate it, members have no real use for their profile on the online manual do they? Other than coming with request/feedback..which can be monitored for useless posts anyhow.

Thantos

Also it make certain things like membergroups more complicated.  For example Akabugeyes is an admin on the Doc forum but not on this forum.

Burpee

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Quote from: Bloc on April 13, 2006, 12:44:09 PM
Wasn't it something about having all eggs in one basket..? :) Imho its better to separate it, members have no real use for their profile on the online manual do they? Other than coming with request/feedback..which can be monitored for useless posts anyhow.
Merging the userbase just sounds like a more logical way of approaching it. Your profile/username is always a nice thing to carry around with you as long as you're on the same site. In my view, a feature like that is one of those features that every site owner would want to implement.
Quote from: Thantos on April 13, 2006, 03:18:21 PM
Also it make certain things like membergroups more complicated.  For example Akabugeyes is an admin on the Doc forum but not on this forum.
Actually, I think it would make membergroups less complicated. The doc team already has a membergroup all for themselves on this board. All you would need to do is set different permissions for that same membergroup on the Online Manual board, and make an extra membergroup for "Doc Site Administrators".
Plus, it would make it easier to allow all team members on this board to modify topics on the doc site.

Thantos

Except that then they wouldn't have full admin abilities.  On the Online Manual they can add/remove boards, move things around to their hearts desire, etc.  There really isn't a lot of need for the two to be merged.

Dannii

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

Burpee

... *sigh* ...

You can give non-admin usergroups permissions to administrate certain boards in SMF.
Think outside of the box, stop thinking about the limits and start thinking about the possibilities.
I've made a suggestion, do with it what you wish. I'm out.

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