Please Consider archiving the Forums on vBulletin and investing in Discourse. this would increase engagement hugely in the community, i for one hate vbulletin, its stuck in a timewarp from a decade ago. discourse IMHO is the gold standard in community engagement.
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Originally posted by fuzzysb View PostPlease Consider archiving the Forums on vBulletin and investing in Discourse. this would increase engagement hugely in the community, i for one hate vbulletin, its stuck in a timewarp from a decade ago. discourse IMHO is the gold standard in community engagement.
I fully agree with this proposal.
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Originally posted by happnatious1 View PostI for one hate change. But out of curiosity is there an example site you can point to?
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Originally posted by happnatious1 View PostI for one hate change. But out of curiosity is there an example site you can point to?
Discourse is here. Click on Community at the top for an instance of the software.HS4 Pro, 4.2.19.16 Windows 10 pro, Supermicro LP Xeon
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This is an interesting thread.
I'd never heard of "Discourse," so I looked it up and found a few example websites. [Google is your friend.] It certainly looks polished and does not induce the 300 baud acoustical scream that I still hear in my head with vBulletin and like BBSs.... (in addition to my wife picking up the phone and me losing the carrier..... sorry hon, are you on the computer? Grrrrr.....)
OTOH, it appears to come with a price..... which IMHO is pretty astronomical.... and I'm pretty sure HS would come to the same conclusion....
OTOOH, I found some 5.x vBulletin websites that were improvements on the existing HS software.
So, I'm just going to throw this out there for rumination.....
1) What is the purpose of this forum ___________?
2) What does this forum do for HS ________?
3) What would induce them to spend the extra cash.... clearly an increase in COB that is justified by _______?
4) Does this forum reach the core HS user _______?
5) Would the benefits outweigh the costs ___________?HomeSeer Version: HS4 Pro Edition 4.2.19.0 (Windows - Running as a Service)
Home Assistant 2024.3
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro - Desktop
Z-Wave Devices via two Z-Net G3s
Zigbee Devices via RaspBee on RPi 3b+
WiFi Devices via Internal Router.
Enabled Plug-Ins
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Current version of vBulletin on Homeseer looks fine to me.
Thinking HST did try an update to vBulletin a couple of years back. The update did not work out well and it was downgraded to current version.- Pete
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Originally posted by happnatious1 View PostI for one hate change. But out of curiosity is there an example site you can point to?
community.smartthings.com
community.home-assistant.io
community.hubitat.com
Those are discourse. I saw other posts about cost (I didn't know there's a cost for discourse). But as for features benefits. Adding screenshots, urls, etc is copy/paste and not clicking, grabbing url etc. Quoting is by far the best of highlight and hit quote and that's it. Inline code features and syntax highlighting of different languages.
Now, I have not seen any examples of newer version of vbulletin, so nothing to compare with. Just bouncing from homeseer, vera, home-assistant, hubitat, smartthings forums and discourse is faster, gives notifications in browser of new posts and replies, I find a lot of times with this forum I don't always get "new posts" and it's sometimes hard to track and follow multiple threads. Or maybe I'm not used to this forum software as much as I am the others and such....
As someone else posted, yes lets go back to vbbs, WWIV, Obv/2, SearchLight.
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Originally posted by jeubanks View PostOh one more thing.
#1 reason for a newer forum? WORKING SEARCH
Current search does not work well and I can't find anything.
[search terms] site:forums.homeseer.com
By far the best way to search any forums that I've found (some actually include searches that just redirect to Google with the Site: option added for their domain)
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