Hi all,

I just had a question for you folks about the ongoing development of the forums module in mojo portal.  I almost decided to install another application inside mojo portal for my web site (which ultimately failed), that had more forum features than mojo seems to provide.  Is it planned to have support for subforums (subcategories inside main forums), ranking system, and personal message system?  Because my site, (though still flakey at the moment due to my being in college and having school duties that come first), is going to look really silly in the way I have to include the subforums by placing forum modules inside each other on different pages inside one forum.  I don't think that's a very practical way of handling this situation.  Please keep me informed on whether this will be proposed or not, and if you want, I'm sure I can find some of my affiliates from the blind community who are ASP.net developers to give you a hand. 

Many thanks,

Katherine

So then what is my best bet at making sure that subforums are stacked under the main forum?  like for instance, if I had a technology forum, I'd want to put all of the subforums that go with it underneath it.  So technology, and under that would be screen readers, general, tech support, and news and updates, for example.  But I would want those to be accessible through the technology forum as subforums.  Am I missing something? 

I'd love that.  I'd join the project if my C# skills were stronger.  Right now, they're barely anything it's not even funny.  now it's just figuring out how to put forums inside forums with what Mojo does offer. 

I should mention, that YAF - MP integration is under way. Currently YAF developers wiped out some JS things which were making it impossible. Now the last major problem still exists, but already in a process of resolving. Moreover you will have a possibility to use YAF with MySQL too, if you site is not too large. PostgreSQL and Firebird datalayers can be synced too if there will be enough users or a sponsor.

I can't say exactly when it will be made,  but I'm making my site based on MP + YAF + MySql and an integration code will be available January next year in every case. Unfortunately, trade-off for my hosting prevented me from PostgreSql usage and this has made the process to slow down.

Just a bit more patience  and we will have it ready.

One of the YAF developers dedicatedly works on it for a long time and he almost surely will be first who'll come up with new code.

Hi guys,

Thanks for following up on this.  So, considering I don't know squat about source code, would you suggest that I leave my site the way it is till the actual module comes out?  In your opinion, would that be easier?  Thanks.  And I also wanted to say, for your own good and the project's, worry about the most common database platforms (SQL Server, MySQL) first.  No one really uses those others since they're such a pain to set up.  I even think that MySQL's a pain if you ask me.  Keep us updated! 

The problem comes when you have a specific technology that you do not like forced on you.  That happened to me all this year in college.  The class I was taking forced us to learn a bit of Java (horrid language in my opinion, i'm loyal to MS and the .net framework forever), and not only that, but the teacher had no knowledge of the Windows OS, so I was stuck fending for myself the entire time thinking that I was going to get by with being able to just do the code on Windows.  That never happened, and it nearly drove all of my enthusiasm away.  I've decided that from now on, for learning programming, I'll stick to online courses where it's more discussion oriented rather than the "we're doing this this way" type of environment.  I'll never do that again.