fiv3isaliv3 said:

Thanks for the heads up.

Don't get smart with me.

Oread said:

OK, done...
but WTF does "OP" stand for?

original post, or original poster.

maverick said:
Loving the project guys, totally innovative and fun to use.

Thanks :) Tell your friends

enzofsilva said:
When I install the forum on my host's server, does it come with the ads on the left? Is there a way of getting rid of the ads or even placing my own ads instead of yours?

I suppose I should write a license for this thing saying what I would like people to be able to do with it.

If you're hosting it on your own servers, it would be nice if you left the ads there ;) But in no way can I actually force you to keep them there. They just come in the installation by default because thats how they are deployed to our hosted server.

All you have to do is go into /engine/core/settings.php and look for the line that lists the menu shards its running, and remove the "m_google_adsense" one.

enzofsilva said:
also, is it possible to add, remove and rename categories for the menu bar?
thanks again.. great project by the way.. everyone does the same: you tried something different!

Yep, just go into engine/shards/m_forum_nav.php. You'll see how it lists the tabs and what they link to.

Obviously since the names of the tabs are language dependent, they just point to entries in /engine/core/lang/en.php. If you don't care about remaining language neutral, you can just name the href tags in m_forum_nav whatever you'd like, in english, like a normal link would be.

error404 said:
Keep in mind if you do intend to go with using MF as a sort of core and need to do work trying to come up with interesting ways to better extend or modify it talk about it on here with Brian and the rest of us. It may be something worth directly merging into MF itself, or making available as additional or something.

def.

error404 said:
I still personally vote to get a few more core features implemented that might be missing and then temporarily version lock MF. At that point a lot of consideration should be given for things like plugins and such, and a fairly extensive review/rewrite process should then begin moving from beta 0.X releases into 1.0 RC releases where its made ready for official launch as the code is cleaned up and reorganized and whatever. I know the code has got to be a mess at this point actually, but thats because MF went from uber-simplified forums into total awesome, and a lot of hack had to probably be incorporated and a lot of forward design planning just never counted on some of the changes that were necessary.

thats a good idea, it seems. i am only a few days into metaforum so not too familiar with its history but i know all about prototyping phase and then going back to do re-writes etc.

error404 said:
I might be insane enough to even help with the discussion of such a monstrous task... perhaps Brian will start a thread on it. Its an old forum idea I had way back, basically a really tiny shell revolving around plugins, and now that we are this far along I think its fair to say we could see all the various types of plugins that could be built and removed from the core (ie: some of the bbcode type stuff). Sounds like a lot of fun doesn't it Brian?

having the discussion now would be sweet. glad you are interested in at least entertaining this stuff.
a plugin system would be key, i think. keeping the core as lite as possible. bla bla. not like we havent heard that before. but there is some very innovative stuff going on within metaforum and def worthy of molding into an even more modular framework.

one project i may consider hacking on as an exercise to get more familiar with the current metaforum, is to integrate a feed aggregator as a post type.