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Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby GunnGunn » Sun Feb 02, 2025 1:43 pm

Hi everyone,

I am tinkering with the idea of upgrading the forum hosting platform. I really like XenForo and it would allow us to implement a lot more options for media integration etc and modernise the look.

I am open to suggestions from everyone on features you would like implemented.

I would like a dedicated home page, with direct news to rumours and everything Arsenal related, with a blog page for members contribute to, which would gain more external media momentum.

Hit me with your ideas.

Thanks,

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Re: Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby Ach » Sun Feb 02, 2025 3:23 pm

Bring the music back
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Re: Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby Rockape » Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:29 pm

Needs to be easy to post photos.
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Re: Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby Nuggets » Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:52 pm

Rockape wrote:Needs to be easy to post photos.


Yup would be good.
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Re: Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby Arsenal Tone » Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:53 pm

What is missing on the net is a place to go for for rumours that filters them.

Like a transfer area with tiers of reliability.

I'm guessing it's missing cos it's difficult to do.
Raya/Ramsdale
White/Timber--Saliba/Tomiyasu--Gabriel/Kiwior--Calafiori/Zinchenko
Partey/Rice/Jorginho
Odegaard/Smith Rowe----Rice/???
Saka/Jesus-------------------Martinelli/Trossard
Havertz/???
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Re: Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby Highbury Hillbilly » Fri Feb 07, 2025 3:19 pm

Xenforo does seem like a modern, stable platform to move to. We could finally get rid of the eyesore of super long pages where a lengthy post is quoted and replied to over and over again. Xenforo "trims" these posts visually with a "click to expand" button so they don't take up an entire screen length each time. Huge improvement.

Also, "quoted" posts would include links back to the original post, which can be useful.

And yes, the ability to post images more easily would be huge. I assume attachment images are tiny to save on bandwidth, as this forum's underlying tech is from the 2000s.

One big question: what would happen to the historical posts on this site? Can they be migrated to Xenforo or would we be starting from a blank slate?
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Re: Suggestions + Potential Forum upgrade

Postby GunnGunn » Sat Feb 08, 2025 2:54 pm

Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Xenforo does seem like a modern, stable platform to move to. We could finally get rid of the eyesore of super long pages where a lengthy post is quoted and replied to over and over again. Xenforo "trims" these posts visually with a "click to expand" button so they don't take up an entire screen length each time. Huge improvement.

Also, "quoted" posts would include links back to the original post, which can be useful.

And yes, the ability to post images more easily would be huge. I assume attachment images are tiny to save on bandwidth, as this forum's underlying tech is from the 2000s.

One big question: what would happen to the historical posts on this site? Can they be migrated to Xenforo or would we be starting from a blank slate?

Everything can be migrated, so all posts and content would remain the same, but the look and format would change.

It would also allow users to directly upload photos to the forum from any device, easily, as well as allow you to view any live updates to threads whilst making a comment.

There are a shit ton of plugins we could use.


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