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- JT Bowlin
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Is there a reason you sometimes do styling for NinjaBoard, but never for Kunena? It's my understanding that Kunena is the most popular/used. I also believe both are working to have auto-skinning to adapt to the Joomla template. I'm not sure how much that affects things. I would love to see a perfectly fitting Kunena board within a RT template.
P.S. - I've always used phpBB for my forums. However, with Joomla 1.6 and the user management, and the feature growth of Kunena, I'd rather used an embedded forum instead of a bridge. So, I'm sold on Kunena for my next 1.6 project.
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- Cretan Studies Association
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I've been thinking about Kunena too, it's easier not to get involved with bridges and stuff (let alone that if you are doing administrative tasks, mostly installations, logging in through the bridge path instead of the proper phpbb root folder can get you into trouble).
The kind of support available for phpbb and the blazing speed of the phpbb forums have kept me from making the transition...
Kunena's auto-skinning / blending with the template does not work well enough at present, one is better off customizing it through its template options...
In Joomla 1.6 with the standart Mootools upgraded, with the user-groups functionality (JT Bowlin, you could use Artof User extension to make it work on Joomla 1.5), it could be a nice and easy solution...
I still strongly dislike Kunena's bulky design, but if this is improved and is made to blend better with the template, it will become more attractive.
I'm still unsure about the technical stuff, though...I've read that it's better to keep joomla and forums separate to avoid the DB growing too much, that if you have a lot of users online, doing different stuff, it's better to keep the DBs separate etc...
it might depend on the main function of the webpage and the number of users after all... - Last Edit: 14 years 5 months ago by Cretan Studies Association.
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- imagine4D
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JT Bowlin wrote:
Is there a reason you sometimes do styling for NinjaBoard, but never for Kunena? It's my understanding that Kunena is the most popular/used. I also believe both are working to have auto-skinning to adapt to the Joomla template. I'm not sure how much that affects things. I would love to see a perfectly fitting Kunena board within a RT template.
P.S. - I've always used phpBB for my forums. However, with Joomla 1.6 and the user management, and the feature growth of Kunena, I'd rather used an embedded forum instead of a bridge. So, I'm sold on Kunena for my next 1.6 project.
I made the switch from phpBB (with matching RT skins) a year ago and never regretted it. While I lost some of the more advanced forum features of the former, Kunena integrated better, especially as I'm using Jomsocial.
I'd love to see some matching Kunena themes, but on the other hand, RT already has the phpBB theme club to develop, I imagine it would be a real pain for them to put in a lot of extra work on Kunena templates for free.
Perhaps a one-off is a solution, I posted such an idea in the requests forum: www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=16...17623&rb_v=viewtopic
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- Penn Wooding
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- I'm afraid that I will not be renewing my membership in July. It seems to me that Rocket Theme are just churning out the same old templates each month, just with a slightly different design. All my websites use old templates which were much more functional on the type of website that I put together. I totally agree, it will be great if RTwould bring out a more simplistic Template that incorporates kunena, after all this forum software is being heavily developed at the moment and more people are moving onto it. Not everyone uses PHPBB, it would be great to see some designs for kunena.
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- PeteH
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Kunena integrates well for me.. no bridges to think about etc.. just install the component et voila ! Although there are issues with turning off Build Titles Spans in order for 'Edit Profile' to even show within Kunena.
I agree on matching themes, but I'm guessing that RT need to ensure that Kunena is indeed a truly stable component before committing to supporting it this way! Kunena only seems to be just coming of age with the release of 1.6 and I'm confident that it will become THE standard forum component more than it already is. The Kunena team appear to be working hard on progressively improving their product, which can only be great news for their user base. I've tried PhpBB3, Agora, Ninjaboard etc.. but Kunena for me has the edge over them all in most areas. Well, hopefully one day we may see the first RT matching template appear for Kunena - that would be fantastic..
Just my 2 cents !
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- PeteH
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Kunena integrates well for me.. no bridges to think about etc.. just install the component et voila ! Although there are issues with turning off Build Titles Spans in order for 'Edit Profile' to even show within Kunena.
I agree on matching themes, but I'm guessing that RT need to ensure that Kunena is indeed a truly stable component before committing to supporting it this way! Kunena only seems to be just coming of age with the release of 1.6 and I'm confident that it will become THE standard forum component more than it already is. The Kunena team appear to be working hard on progressively improving their product, which can only be great news for their user base. I've tried PhpBB3, Agora, Ninjaboard etc.. but Kunena for me has the edge over them all in most areas. Well, hopefully one day we may see the first RT matching template appear for Kunena - that would be fantastic..
Just my 2 cents !
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- Stian Didriksen
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Hi,
In all fairness, this is not about RT choosing Ninjaboard over Kunena.
The way Ninjaboard works is that it simply reuse styling that the template is already doing for modules, and apply it to the forum styling.
That's what we call auto skinning.
That way, the template does not need any styling that are specific to Ninjaboard at all, in order to make the forum look great in the template.
You can see examples of that here: ninjaforge.com/ninjaboard-demo/index.php...=demo&id=5&Itemid=84
None of those demos required any styling done by RT in order to get those results. They're just different configurations of the core template in Ninjaboard, codenamed Chameleon.
The best example I can give you that shows the clear difference in our engine, and Kunenas Skinner option, is by comparing our and their demo of the Grunge template by RT.
Ninjaboard: ninjaforge.com/ninjaboard-demo/index.php...ew=forums&Itemid=146
Kunena: demo16.kunena.org/grunge
So the question you should be asking Kunena Team instead of RT is "Why does Kunenas auto skinner look the same in every template, while Ninjaboards Chameleon changes completely in every template?".
And to answer your question, the reason why Ninjaboard have been up on an RT demo a couple of times is not because RT choose to style it over Kunena. But because Ninjaboard does not require any styling at all, unlike Kunena.
Cheers,
Stian Didriksen - Ninjaboard lead developer - Get the JED Search widget!
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