We've updated the community platform

ianmorland

Morning folks,

As we announced here, this morning @tariqthedev and I performed our first major update to the new community platform since we launched on 27th August.

Many of you have helped us out by testing this update over on our preview site, so we're pretty confident that you'll see a reduction in the number of issues you've been seeing.

We're not ones to rest up tho, we are continuing to look over your feedback submitted so far, and will continue to provide fixes and improvements as quickly as we can.

If you do happen to notice any new issues with the platform, we'd be very grateful if you would let us know using the feedback tag, so that we can make sure we don't miss any of it.

Over and out, for the moment

Ian

peterhall0012

ianmorland thanks 😀 for the information and there is a problem and used you feedback in your thread.

davidevans0000

ianmorland Cheers.

bluenose5

ianmorland Cheers Thank You 👍️

ukrun

ianmorland Thanks for the update

brulaw

ianmorland

Thanks for the update / info , good to hear that the update went as planned , looking forward to future developments .... Flarum is already better than Lithium ( for me and I think many others ) so it will get even better as the glitches are sorted out and the required tweaks are implemented .

sha_shah1

ianmorland
Thanks for update.i am sure everyone try their best to make it better

pettsey

Thanks

persco

Thanks for the update. We will continue with feedback.

Are we going to see what the updates are in the weekly development updates or there were only back end? @ianmorland

ianmorland

persco Are we going to see what the updates are in the weekly development updates or there were only back end?

I'm sure we'll be mentioning this in our weekly update of course, but this is only a small part of our work this week. @meezaan has the honour of posting this week's 'Dev Diary', which should be published sometime today.

This particular maintenance window was to allow us to upgrade the underlying open source code from Flarum 'beta 9' to 'beta 10'. The full changelog can be found here 🙂

endorphin

ianmorland upgrade the underlying open source code from Flarum 'beta 9' to 'beta 10'

I'm a bit surprised these are beta releases! So Flarum is still under development?

pw6049

Thanks for the tip

ianmorland

endorphin I'm a bit surprised these are beta releases! So Flarum is still under development?

Technically speaking, yes. To quote one of the Flarum core developers:

The amount of beta's we released tests your patience, but also ours. We have discussed our options at length, including a possible jump to stable immediately, but there are some things we absolutely have to take care of first. In terms of stability the software is doing okay, but the performance is still something to improve.

We've mitigated some of the performance concerns, and shared some of our expertise back to the Flarum team.

Think of Flarum as being half way between beta and stable, I would say - purely down to the aforementioned performance issues.

alex_w

endorphin The type of software we're working with here will always be under development, one way or another. Keep in mind that Gmail was marked as a "beta" for years after it was made available to an awful lot of people.

There's betas that are marked as beta because the code is still buggy . These tend to have limited release. Then there's betas where the code is pretty stable, but there's some core features that aren't complete yet and where some planned changes might cause significant change. Flarum's the latter type of beta - there's some core features that aren't complete yet, and we know that there's a change planned for the future that will substantially alter some of the basics of how Flarum works currently.

But, having said all that, Flarum's not too far away from a full release and having us working with them is accelerating that progress.

endorphin

ianmorland thanks for the explanation. Perhaps Release Candidate would be a better moniker for them?

germansheppard234

ianmorland team.

Think of Flarum as being half way between beta and stable, I would say - purely down to the aforementioned performance issues.

Its running pretty good for a new forum in a short space of time
Well done so far

ianmorland

endorphin Perhaps Release Candidate would be a better moniker for them?

Perhaps. Maybe suggest that to them over on their forum?

endorphin

ianmorland as the next release is possibly going to be labelled as stable I will wait to see if it is.

endorphin

alex_w no worries - the platform works well apart from a few minor bugs and missing essentials. I'm confident that we'll get to a "stable"/"alpha" release soon from the looks of things. I like that giffgaff are helping Flarum develop - I hope you get some kickback from them for this!

alex_w

endorphin Beta 10 is a big step in the right direction - there's a little bit of our work in there. The next release should have even more, alongside their own work from what they're learning seeing it running at our scale.

extreme_one

endorphin I'm confident that we'll get to a "stable"/"alpha"

endorphin Alpha is the term used for pre-Beta software, usually with a very narrow distribution as it's generally buggy and unfinished.

Sorry for splitting hairs. 😉

endorphin

extreme_one you're right, I meant "Gold", you hair splitter you.