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Should the new forum feature a "like" system? (note: this is like only, not dislike)

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I'm guessing there wont be any. It already exists somewhere at some address, just not publicly. Possibly the testvb.overclockers.co.uk address, because it requires authentication to view now whereas it didn't before. :)
 
Acme said:
I'm guessing there wont be any. It already exists somewhere at some address, just not publicly. Possibly the testvb.overclockers.co.uk address, because it requires authentication to view now whereas it didn't before. :)
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Surely you'll need downtime to sync databases?
 
as user posts will be staying, what about join dates? I find that really useful when reading someone's post as i can then see how well familiar they are with this forum.

MikeTheNative said:
if there is a post that you agree with then it's better to like it than to just have another post with it quoted and 'this'.
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see i prefer to see the agreement by a new post, rather than "this post has 20 likes". i think with all these like buttons on sites it's losing the way people naturally converse in person. In person if someone says something you agree with, you will respond to that comment and everyone can see that in a group conversation. i know many times on this forum i read someones comment, think nothing of it, then see later someone quoting it and saying just "this", so then reconsider what was originally said as being something more of value i may have not picked up on first time. 20 likes in the corner for a comment i don't think will add any value


DampCat said:
The whole point of a forum is discussion. Writing out a post agreeing with someone is infinitely more valuable than simply pressing "like".

By all means add a Thanks button for someone who has contributed something useful, that way people who weren't originally the target of said help can show support.
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this i think is a good idea and hope they implement a thanks button. doesn't even need to be shown to other users how many people thanked that person, just to the person who wrote the post originally they can see the thanks if there are any.
 
Throrik said:
I would guess they're constantly selecting the data from OcUK and migrating it to OcUFORO - so there's not going to be a big disparity and the sync time will be minimal.
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Not quite, unless they've hired a developer to support incremental updates as far as I am aware I'm the only person who has a full system able to do that, and ocuk haven't purchased it from me :D

Which leaves them with, the inbuilt import system, which on a forum of this size would take a good day on an optimized system.
 
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kindai said:
Not quite, unless they've hired a developer to support incremental updates as far as I am aware I'm the only person who has a full system able to do that, and ocuk haven't purchased it from me :D

Which leaves them with, the inbuilt import system, which on a forum of this size would take a good day on an optimized system.

Or finally the big board import scripts which would be a few hours of downtime, but again ocuk haven't purchased this either :D
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Surely it's just a MySQL Database (I haven't looked into it at all) so you can just select the data and import it yourself, that's what I did whenever I worked with migrating from Staging to Live on any system.
 
Throrik said:
Surely it's just a MySQL Database (I haven't looked into it at all) so you can just select the data and import it yourself, that's what I did whenever I worked with migrating from Staging to Live on any system.
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Yes and no, there are constraints to be considered, for example, if you import a user a week ago, then do an incremental update to bring in new users, what if the users brought in a week ago edited their passwords, or changed preferences in that gap.

While static data can be done as you say, on an environment as fluid as a forum where data can be changed often and easily, just bringing in the new records isn't good enough for integrity. Queries can be run to check and compare, but usually those queries will actually take longer than doing it from scratch! (We tried this technique and abandoned it due to this reason).
 
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When I went from VB4 to XF, it took a good hour for just a million posts and a few thousand members, the SQL database was about 1.2GB, so a forum of this size will have a pretty immense database which takes a lot of time to import.
 
ultralaser said:
Change for it's own sake is generally a stupid idea... Ill just leave that here.
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I think you just made it onto the "accidentally erased during database migration" list :p

But in all seriousness, I'm pretty sure this isn't for the sake of change (security and functionality improvements etc).

Do you really think they'd go through all this effort and hassle for ****s n giggles? :o
 
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