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  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    "...you can just as easily re-design your standard forum to appear like Vanilla fresh but it would take some major work and if you really want to make it special you would have to redsign it all in CSS..." - more major work than creating a 'delete comment' extension for vanilla (which already exists, anyway)? If so then please go ahead and use that other forum software with a lovely new design. "...is it so hard to add a friken delete button..." (anyone else bothered that that quote came between quotation marks and not in a specially coloured block of the page?) - no, bugsmi0, it's actually *less* work to put a delete button into forum software because when something gets deleted you dont have to worry about not selecting it from the database when building the page. With the hide button Mark has to use an extra statement in the sql query to avoid picking up hidden comments (big deal, I know). The point is even if none of the forums you frequent have ever been or become real life communities that's not to say it never happens and for some people out there it's nice to know you've got a bit of a shield if life rears its ugly head and bites you on the arse one day.
  • Arturo G.Arturo G.
    About the hide+clean procedure. Now I understand why is it appropriate for many (most) situations. Indeed, other forums have also such kind of containers or categories for 'inactive' threads. But, for any other situations you have the Comment Removal extension which really deletes something pressing a button.

    Vanilla is a configurable software with a lot of optional extensions that the administrator may donwload and activate. Thus, I would not say that Vanilla doesn't have that kind of delete button to erase comments directly from the database. It's just a matter of activate that feature. I really like software which do not have every possible option embedded and activated by default in the core. It makes software more efficient, easier to maintain, and more realiable in general.

    It will surely evolve, getting more and more extensions with facilities similar to other more complex forums. But the main core will be simple and light-weighted. And the kind of features available will still be the administrator choice.

    But, what it is important to me is that Vanilla has a nice and simple look and feel, which help newbies to use it, and which concentrates the experience in the flow and content of discussions. In that point I don't agree with Holy, although I understand his point. No software is appropriate for any kind of situation or need. There is no (and it is better that it does not exist) Universal forum-software which pleases everyone and fulfills everyone expectations.
  • chrissychrissy
    edited August 2006
    aren't you meant to be at leeds festival? (Mini that is)
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    So I came home for a shower and a shit. You're surprised?
  • bugsmi0bugsmi0
    which came first the shit or the shower lol
  • gigingergiginger New
    If the Leeds toilets are anything like the Reading ones then it has to be the shit.
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