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- Jan 8, 2009
I have this thread on Elliquiy, but may as well go here too, as Blue Moon is going to get it first - it simply has to as the database design for Blue Moon's current forum software was developed by people with an extreme case of mental deficiency. Using the word 'retard' is an insult to those with such conditions, as it takes a very special combination of arrogance and stupid to actively decide to do something worse than your predecessors.
Anyway.
CMS: Content Management System. If you visit a website and you see some means of organizing data with it, it runs a CMS of some sort. MyBB ('My Bulletin Board') is the CMS that drives Blue Moon, for example, though it's tailored to be a forum rather than a full-blown CMS, thus usually isn't classified as such. The new software running BMR (and later Elliquiy) will be much more powerful in that regard, however.
With the server move completed shortly, after finishing up a few sideprojects, I'm going to be moving back to working on the new software full time again, this time lacking the interruption that got me last year.
As I mentioned on Elliquiy, the new CMS software is going to be coming to Blue Moon first. The primary reason for this is because what Blue Moon users use most - the PM system - is not only the most broken subsystem here, but also by far the best developed component in my new software.
I'm still loathe to give too many details, but the private conversation system is more like an IM program with the full formatting features a forum typically provides, and then some. You give up the ability to arbitrarily BCC non-staff, and gain what amounts to a set of private shoutboxes on steroids.
There are also a number of features I'll be able to get away with completing later - file handling, integrated wiki, etc. I know one complaint is that I pay less attention to Blue Moon than I do to Elliquiy, but that won't apply when they're both running what I've been dreaming about doing for the past decade.
Anyway! Don't be afraid to make large requests, request that some things get removed, etc. While I do occasionally fix some borked element in MyBB or SMF (what E runs), for the most part I plan on devoting my dev skills to something that actually has a potential future.
Anyway.
CMS: Content Management System. If you visit a website and you see some means of organizing data with it, it runs a CMS of some sort. MyBB ('My Bulletin Board') is the CMS that drives Blue Moon, for example, though it's tailored to be a forum rather than a full-blown CMS, thus usually isn't classified as such. The new software running BMR (and later Elliquiy) will be much more powerful in that regard, however.
With the server move completed shortly, after finishing up a few sideprojects, I'm going to be moving back to working on the new software full time again, this time lacking the interruption that got me last year.
As I mentioned on Elliquiy, the new CMS software is going to be coming to Blue Moon first. The primary reason for this is because what Blue Moon users use most - the PM system - is not only the most broken subsystem here, but also by far the best developed component in my new software.
I'm still loathe to give too many details, but the private conversation system is more like an IM program with the full formatting features a forum typically provides, and then some. You give up the ability to arbitrarily BCC non-staff, and gain what amounts to a set of private shoutboxes on steroids.
There are also a number of features I'll be able to get away with completing later - file handling, integrated wiki, etc. I know one complaint is that I pay less attention to Blue Moon than I do to Elliquiy, but that won't apply when they're both running what I've been dreaming about doing for the past decade.
Anyway! Don't be afraid to make large requests, request that some things get removed, etc. While I do occasionally fix some borked element in MyBB or SMF (what E runs), for the most part I plan on devoting my dev skills to something that actually has a potential future.
