SMF 2.1 Beta 1 Released

[Kindred]

2.0.x will continue to receive security updates for the foreseeable future (like 1.1.x did when 2.0 was released)

1.1.x is at end of life already, although it continues to receive support. However, 1.1.x will be unsupported when 2.1 gold is released.

[NekoJonez]

Welp, then I'll have to play a waiting game to have the mods I want in 2.1 to be updated :p

[geoff691]

We have a sister site on twitter and it would be very useful to our readers and users to be able to view tweets on the new version of smf.  We previously used 'Calling your Twitter' up to SMF 2.06 but it has since become incompatible with newer versions.

Can we also ask will there be an iphone or Android compatible platform for SMF available with the new version?

[geoff691]

First of all, congratulations on the new version...very well done.  I look forward to upgrading in due course.

Can I ask...

1) Will there be a facility to imbed video in the new version?

2) Will you be able to incorporate tweets and Facebook posts?

3) I struggle to moderate sometimes so are there any enhancements which will make my job any easier?

1) There is no planned feature as "embed" or "auto embed" for videos.
2) I don't really understand what you mean with "incorporate" tweets or FB posts.
3) You need to specify your problems facing while moderating your forum.

Please open a new topic about 2 & 3 with more details so we can help you further.

Thank you

OK, will do.

Where should I open the topic as it relates to version 2.1 ?

[Kindred]

Can we also ask will there be an iphone or Android compatible platform for SMF available with the new version?

Not by default.
Someone may make a mod for it...
(Although I will not, there is no reason that I can see that calling your Twitter would. It work with 2.0.9.)

As for your second question, there is a 2.1 support board now.

[CitrusSponge]

That's pretty cool.

[BellGab.com]

I'd like to encourage people to consider donating financially to SMF if they haven't already. I'm very happy to see development moving along as it now is, and your donations will only help in maintaining this momentum.

[Antes]

I'd like to encourage people to consider donating financially to SMF if they haven't already. I'm very happy to see development moving along as it now is, and your donations will only help in maintaining this momentum.

We are surely thankful for all your financial support to our project. BUT please do not create illusion that donation will speed development up. Your best help will be testing our beta product and give a feedback.

Thank you

[Kindred]

Exactly.  Thank you Antes for addressing that.

While SMF does appreciate donations -- and those are what allow us to keep running our servers, etc., our team are all volunteers. No one gets paid and donations will not speed up (or indeed, have any effect) on development. Testing the beta, giving feedback... this will enable us to address issues and get beta2 and RC versions released.
Additionally, if you know any coding and you discover an issue, submitting the issue AND the fix to our GitHub repository will speed things up, since our dev team won't have to track down and code that specific fix themselves.  -- but ANY contributions of testing and reports are welcome and appreciated.

[Ben_S]

Quick general question, with the new notifications feature, as an admin, is it possible to disable email notifications completely, if you run a big board the amount of junk emails you send will end up getting your ip black listed by google and hotmail etc even if the emails aren't spam, they don't seem to like getting such a stupid amount of emails. I've dealt with this at the moment by making the log_notify table engine blackhole. Not pretty but it works with the current system - barring the odd user who wonders why the notifications don't work.

[Illori]

In your profile you can set what you get as email or just notifications. Just like in 2.0.

[Dragooon]

Quick general question, with the new notifications feature, as an admin, is it possible to disable email notifications completely, if you run a big board the amount of junk emails you send will end up getting your ip black listed by google and hotmail etc even if the emails aren't spam, they don't seem to like getting such a stupid amount of emails. I've dealt with this at the moment by making the log_notify table engine blackhole. Not pretty but it works with the current system - barring the odd user who wonders why the notifications don't work.

No but I guess it's possible, we can add an option in Alert preferences. Not 100% sure if we should do this.

[Arantor]

As an admin you've always been able to go into a user's profile and change their email notifications preference... Nothing should have changed in that regard.

[Dragooon]

As an admin you've always been able to go into a user's profile and change their email notifications preference... Nothing should have changed in that regard.

But the user can change it back I suppose, the idea is to disable e-mails for notifications. Although that would also completely disable PM and other higher priority e-mails as well I guess.

[Arantor]

Why would they? It's not like they're going to get the emails in either case

[BellGab.com]

...our team are all volunteers. No one gets paid...

well i certainly didn't know THAT.  all the more reason to appreciate what you guys have accomplished.  you should at least consider skimming a little off the top to buy yourselves some guinness.  you know... wet your beak.

[Arantor]

That tends to lead to all kinds of discussions, though... how would you allocate payment? Doing it equally undermines the people who do more complex/more specialised roles, doing it based on role undermines the people who put in a lot of time but aren't in the more specialised roles.

[Dragooon]

...our team are all volunteers. No one gets paid...

well i certainly didn't know THAT.  all the more reason to appreciate what you guys have accomplished.  you should at least consider skimming a little off the top to buy yourselves some guinness.  you know... wet your beak.

Nah, lack of money keeps things straight. All the proceeds goes to keep the project running (server, advertising etc), all of us are volunteers and we like it that way because at least I personally do all this for the learning experience and the enjoyment I get from development.

[Kindred]

exactly what Dragooon said...

[Antes]

We send box of small candies to team members every year (j/k we are not doing that too)...