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haqzore

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Tracy Perry said:
The only one I brought back online was my IPS 4.2 site as it has made some great improvements in it.
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Dead on.

IPS is pushing the envelope and taking risks, and I'm grateful for that.

The discussion threads on TAZ for XF2 are about opinions on the stock skin, and what addons people want updated. I think that says a lot.
 
Lisa

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fixer said:
lol you are right but them pirate ships were built a looooooong time ago :)
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But they looked so much nicer and had more personality... they probably had a lot more death too, but still... mmmm pirates!
 
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thats true other than the mmmmm pirates they were some dirty and nasty fellows i imagine
 
Rafael

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phpBB LOL

I do agree tough that the only option is XF that's similar.

HOWEVER, you're missing one: Discourse! I think it's pretty cool and more modern than the rest, tough it's a bit different form factor.

Example forum: https://ubuntu-mate.community
 
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You could argue that between XF2 and IPS 4.2 one ship is better or bigger than the other but I don't think you could accurately say that IPS 4.2 is straight up a sunk ship by comparison
 
rafalp

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Sort of magnificent gravedig but whatever ;)

Tracy Perry said:
Pretty sure that Discourse does not have any of the above available to it.
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This is outdated way to look at web apps, it has been for some time now.

In 2006 Wordpress 4.7 has shipped, bringing complete JSON API with it for other applications to consume. Earlier, back in July 2011, Symfony 2 has been released. Recently Symfony 4 has been released. It still maintains contracts set back in Symfony 2 times. Django 2.0 was released starting this year. It maintains contract with Django 1 released back in 2006. Rails 5 still follows contract from early rails versions.

What is a contract? To put it simply, its an promise made by technology's author that as long as you do something in specified way, things will keep working. Why is it important in our times? Because people eventually discovered that if you have this project A that follows contract, and this project B that follows same contract, they can be used together with little or no extra work because of same contract.

Discorse follows "Rails Engine" contract. The reason there are no "Discourse Portal" or "Discourse Gallery" or "Discourse Blogs" addons lies in fact that any blog/cms/portal or gallery solution that was written in Rails following that contract will work with it.

Now, why I've mentioned the wordpress's JSON API? This is another biggie. We are living in times when a lot of projects come with JSON, REST or GraphQL API of their own. Those API are increasingly becoming an integration layer for different technologies, eventually making services architecture in web apps something easy and approachable, and no longer domain of enterprise solutions costing big buck. And yes, thanks to this JSON API that Worpdress provides and JSON API that Discourse provides, you now have plugins writen in both Ruby and PHP that let you enable different features on those two.
 
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Daniel

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amir22 said:
i really want this software like this site https://iranmember.com
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It's probably not IPS 4.2, but such landing page and the content related stuff could be very easy accomplished with it.

Pages App as landing page and for the news.
There are also at least 2 lovely 3rd party apps for such footers.
 
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