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"commentID": 96303,
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"name": "Re: Integrating Vanilla with Wordpress?",
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"body": "I'm absolutely chomping at the bit for this as well. My community currently runs on Wordpress + vBulletin and I want to move to Vanilla as quickly as possible. I currently have a custom-built bridge between the two. If there was a vBulletin->Garden importer and a Wordpress/Garden bridge, my life would be radically simplified.
This is one of those \"I'll do it if I have to but please-oh-please someone else do it first and better\" posts ",
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"name": "Re: New design: mostly fine, logo sucks",
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"body": "@LoOkOuT, could you link? I'd find that interesting and don't see it on the blog here.
I think the logo is a little ridiculous, a little sexy, and a lot flavor. I dig it.",
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"commentID": 96347,
"discussionID": 9793,
"name": "Re: How to make Vanilla Forum exactly like the Forum on this website",
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"body": "I agree the V2 theme is much improved and a better default starting point.",
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"commentID": 96348,
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"name": "Re: vBulletin -> Vanilla Convertor?",
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"body": "I'll start making a simple vBulletin importer once I can get V2 installed (we seem to be missing pdo_mysql and I'm waiting for our server admin to fix it) since I know vBulletin's user tables pretty well (unfortunately) and I've done a few migrations like this before. Please don't let that stop anyone else from giving it a shot as well though; I can't promise how great it'll be.",
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"commentID": 96380,
"discussionID": 9754,
"name": "Re: Licensing for 3rd party applications & plugins",
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"body": "I don't know how similar Vanilla's themes and plugins are to Wordpress, but this is what the Software Freedom Law Center had to say about licensing of their themes & plugins: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/",
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"commentID": 96415,
"discussionID": 9857,
"name": "Re: Websites built using Garden Framework",
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"body": "Garden & Vanilla 2 are still in beta; I highly doubt you'll find any production websites based on them yet as we're all just starting to get our bearings and explore it.",
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"commentID": 96436,
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"name": "Re: Licensing for 3rd party applications & plugins",
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"body": "Thanks for the clarification @Mark.
Also... yup, definitely a spambot.",
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"commentID": 96437,
"discussionID": 9854,
"name": "Re: is there a deadline for the release of v2?",
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"body": "/me bites his tongue to avoid commit / Git pun.",
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"commentID": 96438,
"discussionID": 9857,
"name": "Re: Websites built using Garden Framework",
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"body": "any [other] production websites ",
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"commentID": 96470,
"discussionID": 9854,
"name": "Re: is there a deadline for the release of v2?",
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"body": "@yesahasureok the GitHub tree is here: http://github.com/lussumo/Garden/tree/master
It's not \"a final release\" though it's just the lastest version of the beta. Use on production at your own peril. ",
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"commentID": 96475,
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"name": "Re: websites using Vanilla?",
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"body": "One thing I notice is that people don't tend to dig in and radically change the appearance. I see this trend on vBulletin forums a lot too, though. They play with the color scheme and call it a day. One of my challenges is going to be to make the homepage more inviting. I really like the usability of it, but I worry the discussion list looks too cold and I want people to see my community as very inviting even at first blush.
Also, I think the makezine forum is one of the largest I've seen so far, with ~4,000 discussions. The forum I'm looking to migrate is approaching 76,000 discussions so I'll be keenly interested in how the findability of discussions scales and how easy it is to keep track of discussions when we have more active threads in a day than appear on the homepage. Some interesting challenges but I'm not overly worried about them.
I'm going to take some of the usability lessons I've taken from the V2 default and create a new design from scatch, and then craft the theme with any necessary plugins to match the vision rather than incrementally inching away from the default. Really excited about the possibilities.",
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"commentID": 96476,
"discussionID": 9720,
"name": "Re: What theme does this forum use?",
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"body": "@Mark, am I wrong to assume that the default Vanilla 2 theme has the same structure (if not the Vanilla-tastic style and header) as this site? (Still working on fixing my blasted server to install it myself and see)",
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"commentID": 96506,
"discussionID": 9765,
"name": "Re: websites using Vanilla?",
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"body": "Nice example, @matt. I dig the left-side postbit and category pixel art.",
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"commentID": 96524,
"discussionID": 9871,
"name": "Re: Error installing Vanilla 2",
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"body": "What version of PHP are you running? Vanilla 2 needs 5.1 or newer: http://vanillaforums.org/page/Requirements",
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"commentID": 96526,
"discussionID": 9758,
"name": "Re: Vanilla 2 Installation Error",
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"body": "Looks like XAMPP doesn't come with pdo_mysql, a PHP module you need to run Vanilla 2.",
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"name": "Re: Vanilla 2 Installation Error",
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"body": "You've got me, then. Might have better luck using the issue tracker though. There's probably a size limit on posts because it wasn't meant for error logs.
http://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/issues",
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"commentID": 96645,
"discussionID": 9907,
"name": "Re: Need basic .php help",
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"body": "@snails07: Book recommendation if you want to jump into PHP quickly: http://astore.amazon.com/icrontic-20/detail/0321245652
That's what I used to get started (a few editions ago, but same great author). I put together a special page of my site's Amazon bookstore for beginner PHP programmers: http://astore.amazon.com/icrontic-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=2",
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"commentID": 96648,
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"name": "Re: Free hosting for Vanilla",
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"body": "Yes, how could signing up to make a single post advertising free Vanilla hosting on a site planning to make its living on Vanilla hosting possibly be considered spam?
/me coughs and excuses self",
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"name": "Re: Pasting code",
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"body": "Excellent, thanks. ",
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"name": "Re: A central list of all the new features that are in Vanilla 2?",
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"body": "Vanilla 2 is a complete re-write of the software, so technically every feature is new ",
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