Reply To: One forum to rule them all
@BrettGlass What you’ve described as your preferred option is the default for this forum, and option 2 matches your last sentence.
@JoAnn_in_VA As @mrgoldenbrown guessed, any of these changes would only affect the main forum page. Cruise topics will *always* be available to anyone through the sidebar.
@Bry Option 2 is my preference as well, but I thought it was important to get feedback before implementing anything by fiat. (:
In theory we could ask to have our revisions merged into the main codebase, but to do that we’d need to fork from the most recent revision on GitHub (2.0.18.4). I’m leery of upgrading the current install (2.0.17.10) to something that has a whole new, unknown set of bugs unless it’s a major improvement over what we have. It’s something I was looking into (I installed a test forum with the latest stable release) but without a proper data set I can’t test if, for example, the search is fixed for our purposes—ie if upgrading would cause any less work for us.
My slightly kludgy plan was to fork the 2.0.17.10 code, hot fix the issues that matter to me, and make Scarface install the custom version. If I have the time I’d like to contribute to the main codebase too, but I want a fixed version here sooner rather than later. The Vanilla authors have been mentioning a 2.1 release for months, but judging by their blog it’s not a priority.