I'm not sure this is the right forum to ask my question, but I'm going to try anyway.
I'm currently running two websites.
One for my company which is using Umbraco 4.03 and I'M LOVING IT! It's simple (well most of it) and very easy run.
My other site is my Microsoft Dynamics User Group community website. It started up in 1995 as a mailing list, then we used the original ASP Forum, later we moved to Snitz Forums before in 2006 moving to Community Server. Originally CS was also open source (more or less) and had very large community supporting the development. Along with Telligent (the company behind CS) was getting bigger and bigger clients, CS moved towards a much more commercial strategy, which basically have caused almost all of their once so active community to abandon the CS.
Today my site have more than 42000 members and over 120000 forum posts. But we also have about 20 very active blogs.We have about 50000 unique visitors per months.
I have been looking a several alternatives to my current setup:
1) Moving the site to Sueetie.com (YAF, plus integrated blogging and wiki software).
2) Moving to Umbraco with YAF, Umbraco's blogs.
3) Moving it to Umbraco with uForum, Umbraco blogs etc.
Where I really like Umbraco very much, then I'm not sure that neither 2 or 3 is the right choice. YAF is mature, but I'm also reading a lot of negative words about it, especially here on Umbraco.
And while I think that Umbraco's own uForum as seen here on the forum is clean and smooth, then I do think that it's to say it mildly not really fully featured. And what really scares me the most is that looking at http://uforum.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets then uForum is a dead project, with no updates since June 2009.
So dear Umbraco community, what will your advise be to me?
"And while I think that Umbraco's own uForum as seen here on the forum is
clean and smooth, then I do think that it's to say it mildly not really
fully featured. And what really scares me the most is that looking at uforum.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets
then uForum is a dead project, with no updates since June 2009."
Hmm, it seems that checkins to uForum got moving after your post Erik. I'm too interested in communities for umbraco, but I haven't come across any. Considering EpiServer, Sitecore and umbraco, this is an unfortunate issue with umbraco. As of yet. Will check out the uForum.
Almost all the sites I make with Umbraco these days include Yet Another Forum. Not all clients need the forum at first, but if they decide they want it someday, it's already there.
It does take some work getting the two to work together, but after getting it working, I've zipped the files needed + a backup of a database (I've included the YAF installation in the same database as Umbraco).
So it's kind of a one-time investment, and now I have an forum integrated, with common users, groups, etc. The only down-side to this, imo, is that the forum administration isn't integrated into the Umbraco back-end.
Thank you. It's not a problem that the forum isn't integrated in the Umbraco back-end. But what do you think about YAF in regards to it's extendability? Is it as bad as "they" say?
Honestly I haven't look at that at all. I'm not impressed by how YAF is made (when I look at the code and the SQL), but other than that it gets the job done.
Once you know what goes where, you can always expand it by writing your own SQL, as the API isn't really that friendly.
Alternative to Community Server
I'm not sure this is the right forum to ask my question, but I'm going to try anyway.
I'm currently running two websites.
One for my company which is using Umbraco 4.03 and I'M LOVING IT! It's simple (well most of it) and very easy run.
My other site is my Microsoft Dynamics User Group community website. It started up in 1995 as a mailing list, then we used the original ASP Forum, later we moved to Snitz Forums before in 2006 moving to Community Server. Originally CS was also open source (more or less) and had very large community supporting the development. Along with Telligent (the company behind CS) was getting bigger and bigger clients, CS moved towards a much more commercial strategy, which basically have caused almost all of their once so active community to abandon the CS.
Today my site have more than 42000 members and over 120000 forum posts. But we also have about 20 very active blogs.We have about 50000 unique visitors per months.
I have been looking a several alternatives to my current setup:
1) Moving the site to Sueetie.com (YAF, plus integrated blogging and wiki software).
2) Moving to Umbraco with YAF, Umbraco's blogs.
3) Moving it to Umbraco with uForum, Umbraco blogs etc.
Where I really like Umbraco very much, then I'm not sure that neither 2 or 3 is the right choice. YAF is mature, but I'm also reading a lot of negative words about it, especially here on Umbraco.
And while I think that Umbraco's own uForum as seen here on the forum is clean and smooth, then I do think that it's to say it mildly not really fully featured. And what really scares me the most is that looking at http://uforum.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets then uForum is a dead project, with no updates since June 2009.
So dear Umbraco community, what will your advise be to me?
Best regards,
Erik Ernst
Nobody with an opinion about user forums in the ASP.NET world?
Rgds,
Erik
Am I right the uForum project is dead?
"And while I think that Umbraco's own uForum as seen here on the forum is clean and smooth, then I do think that it's to say it mildly not really fully featured. And what really scares me the most is that looking at uforum.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets then uForum is a dead project, with no updates since June 2009."
The uForum project is not dead.
Morten Bock is currently working on it.
See here for more info.
Hi Ove,
Thank you, but exactly what should this link show?
Erik
PS: And am I really the only one who think that it is really annoying that we do not get an email when somebody replies one of your posts?
Hmm, it seems that checkins to uForum got moving after your post Erik. I'm too interested in communities for umbraco, but I haven't come across any. Considering EpiServer, Sitecore and umbraco, this is an unfortunate issue with umbraco. As of yet. Will check out the uForum.
Almost all the sites I make with Umbraco these days include Yet Another Forum. Not all clients need the forum at first, but if they decide they want it someday, it's already there.
It does take some work getting the two to work together, but after getting it working, I've zipped the files needed + a backup of a database (I've included the YAF installation in the same database as Umbraco).
So it's kind of a one-time investment, and now I have an forum integrated, with common users, groups, etc. The only down-side to this, imo, is that the forum administration isn't integrated into the Umbraco back-end.
regards,
Steen
Hi Steen,
Thank you. It's not a problem that the forum isn't integrated in the Umbraco back-end. But what do you think about YAF in regards to it's extendability? Is it as bad as "they" say?
Erik
Honestly I haven't look at that at all. I'm not impressed by how YAF is made (when I look at the code and the SQL), but other than that it gets the job done.
Once you know what goes where, you can always expand it by writing your own SQL, as the API isn't really that friendly.
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