My Boards.ie

Sparky

I must say, ive been looking at this for a few minutes, as per the announcement and it looks very promising

Well done cloud, btw will the quick links at the top of the forums be added in there soon?

RuggieBear

pretty cool.

Is it possible to import the old blogs

Cloud

Mmm the quick links hit a small snag in that I can't propagate the theme colours to the menu, so I could stick it in with a fixed set of colours but it would look crap in styles like Evil etc.

So I need to think on this some more, but I do plan to put them in...

I don't have any plans to import blogs, because WordPress has many more features than these free blogs. But that's not to say that you can't swap to Drupal if you prefer it...

Cloud

BTW you can turn / off the various side blocks in your my.boards.ie settings.

Goodshape

how about an option to display custom RSS feeds?

nice work btw

CuLT

Snazzy. Nice work!

Cloud

There's lots of RSS things available -

There are feeds from the blogs, nodes, topics - and you can add feeds on the side - e.g. I've added Planet Boards, which you can click on a little b and add to your own blog.

Is that what you meant?

Steveire

Say I want to add a feed from bbc.co.uk for example...

Dont be at yourself

Nice work, a possible new homepage!

Though I can't find any community pages

Cloud

Haven't created any community pages yet (or allowed moderators access just yet until I figure out the best structure)...

20 Times 20 Times

I don’t think I like it, Eh I find it slightly hard to navigate and a lot of stuff seems to be there for the sake of it. I see no reason to use it at the moment I might be wrong, hope im not been too negative will look at it again. That was my first impression.

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Goodshape

Cloud wrote:

There's lots of RSS things available -

There are feeds from the blogs, nodes, topics - and you can add feeds on the side - e.g. I've added Planet Boards, which you can click on a little b and add to your own blog.

Is that what you meant?

Hmm.. not sure. I can see the Planet Boards feed there but how do I go about adding more? or can I?

Think the whole thing will take a bit of playing around with before I figure out just what's going on anyway.

BEAT

its very easy to use, I never got help setting up a blog as a subscriber and I still dont know how to do it so I will use this one. One question,
on the main page where you see peoples blogs, you see thier nick then the title, mine you only see the title...is it because I am using this new blog?

Will there be a link for me to be able to go back in and add to it or will you leave that link open in the announcement for us to use?

thanks!:)

Cloud

I haven't allowed people to add feeds as I need to see if they show for everyone or just some...

TD: that's just due to the RSS feed from my.boards.ie being different to the planet.boards.ie one - doesn't have the name in the title...

seamus

I'm completely lost. What announcement? Where's the link for this thing?

steveland?

seamus wrote:

I'm completely lost. What announcement? Where's the link for this thing?

http://my.boards.ie/

Also the announcment was only for one day so the SSF one wasn't interrupted for too long

Tar.Aldarion

seamus wrote:

I'm completely lost. What announcement? Where's the link for this thing?

I agree with this man...I've been keeping an eye out for this announcement but it remains hidden.
Edit,Oh seems steve is on the ball

Cloud

I'm gonna highlight this again shortly...

Sparky

Cloud wrote:

I'm gonna highlight this again shortly...

Oh i see i have Sparky_s Blog above my Joindate now.
Nice one.

CuLT

Any chance this could be placed within the Username-clickable drop-down menu?

Just looks a bit messy where it is.

[Edit: Oh I see this is changing every time I post. Don't mind me :v:

Cloud

Yeah I might do that later (when it's been noticed enough ).

Sparky

Tbh it would look better under the Friends|FOAF

Unless cloud is just testing it in his templates to see where the better placement would be

Or how about a

Blog: Sparky_s

under Posts.

Cloud

Yep probably better there!

I'll bold it for now and unbold later...

kaimera

is it just me or the my.boards.ie space very slow to load?

pings are kinda up and down between low double and treble digit pings but the webpage is very slow to load for me.

hmmm...it appears it could be PeerGuardian slowing the page...

BuffyBot

Probably best on the drop down if you ask me

qz

How about "Blog" instead of "my.b.ie Blog"?

Mr.Nice Guy

Seems like a cool feature. Well done to Cloud as I'm sure alot of effort went into it.

Sparky

Yeah it would would'nt it

Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Dublin
Posts: 4,429
Friends | Blog
Mod: Elisha Cuthbert


I like the idea of the mod bit

Cloud

Turned on caching for my.boards.ie - seems faster now...

BEAT

eggggcellent

I loves it, my own my precious my blog :v:

Cloud

You may need to join the "Bloggers" group in your User CP to post for now...

andrew163

Looks promising, but...



When I went to any other page or hit refresh it logged me out..seemed to only show up once.. .still, may be a problem worth looking at
(sorry if this has been mentioned before.. looked through feedback/upgrade forums though and didn't see anything about it)

Cloud

Okay I've disabled this until I find out about this bug...

steveland?

Would it be possible to have it like it was back in the day:

Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: G - to the muddaf**kin - Nevin
Posts: 3,241
Blog Entries: [url=""]7[/url]
Friends | FOAF
Mod: Lost, Pimpdaddy

Cloud

Okay turns out that the "bug" showing someone else's page is just a caching issue, so nothing to worry about...

GoneShootin

Dahamsta's got 101 pms'

Stabshauptmann

to quoth the server, 404.
my.boards.ie has gone down, how will everybody read all the [strike]pointless dribble[/strike] facinating adventures thats happened to me in the past 12 hours...

Piste

Aye, I was all excited to see i had a boards blog where my FOAF used to be and now it's dissappeared :0

Cloud

Figured out where boards was slowing down - the blocks used to show the latest posts and hot topics aren't optimised (sometimes taking 5 seconds to build EACH query).

I've removed these and am in contact with the software author...

But it's still not optimised... so my.boards.ie remains down for now...

BEAT

/sniffles

Stabshauptmann

and I had quite enjoyed reading about your miserable weekend TurquoiseDream...:)

bringitdown

Any chance the My: Blog link for subscribers could link to their WordPress blog??
Or make if configurable ....

TIA
BID

Cloud

I'll try and get this sorted.

azezil also mentioned this.

BEAT

Kaptain Redeye wrote:

and I had quite enjoyed reading about your miserable weekend TurquoiseDream...:)

ya I bet you did

Mr.Nice Guy

I can't access my blog. When I go to 'create content' I'm asked to log in and when I do I'm told I will be redirected but I end up on the same page and I'm still not logged in!

Anyone know what's happening here?

Vokes

You have to join the Blog group in your User CP, i think.

Sparky

SofaKing wrote:

You have to join the Blog group in your User CP, i think.

exactly

Mr.Nice Guy

SofaKing wrote:

You have to join the Blog group in your User CP, i think.

Where is it in the User CP section?

Cloud

It's on the left hand side, called Usergroup Mgt or something...