The New Kunena Website
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Welcome to the new Kunena website!
This website has undergone many changes in the four years since it was first launched. As the Kunena Project continues to grow, we know that changes are needed so that the site also reflects this growth. Therefore, we've used this opportunity to implement ideas that will ensure the project's continuity. We want to assure all members of our intention that we will continue to serve the community as we always have but there will be also be more announcements in the coming weeks about how we intend to enhance those services even further.
While we're fairly sure that you will welcome many of these changes, we've also said good-bye to a few "old faithfuls". Among those features that have disappeared are JomSocial, the Kunena Extension Directory and the "Vote for new features" feature. Another thing that had disappeared was the integrated private messaging system.
The new Kunena website relies on a standard build of Joomla and Kunena. We felt that it was important to keep things as simple as possible and future-proof the website so that, when the need arises to migrate to future versions of Joomla, we will not be hamstrung by legacy issues that may impact on site maintainability when future versions of Joomla emerge.
Designing and implementing the website for Joomla 2.5 gave us the opportunity to refocus our attention on our current and future business. Although the primary goal of Kunena as open-source, community-driven software — that is available free-for-use — remains, we're putting into action alternative methods to derive a more sustainable income stream that will assist the project into the future. These opportunities will present new challenges for all of us in terms of how people perceive the way we've assisted them to utilise a web-based discussion forum component in their websites. These challenges may be difficult for all of us to accept and how we're going to handle the difficulties that often come when change occurs.
Our policy has always been, we believe, about transparency and that's the one constant that we're sure will remain unchanged.
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The old Kunena logo was more interesting.
I liked effect upon transition between pages.
I would replace this color #0099FE with this color #5388B4. It more readable. The THANK YOU button is now painted with this color.
Very nice work for this update.
A small note in passing
For credit kunena page concerns the link on this well on all versions of translation.
Redirects would be desirable for the following pending correction of translation files
Sorry for my english not always brilliant in conversation
This is the first day of your new site/design for me and it looks nice but I got a lot of white blank pages after logging in, and traveling around the threads I needed to use the "back" button a lot to view the items
I am also unsure of your facebook twitter and google buttons right on the scroll bar
Anyway just my first look
Would like a profile status in the header, to see if you are logged in or not
Eg a menu option with forum and then on with support.
Dont see why it should be difficult to get to the forum. Its a forum tool and therefore easy forum access, if you ask me
The red-blue kunena theme in the forum is a little too strong....
I like the follow on facebooks tabs, what module is that?
Congrates. Nice with a new layout...!
I switched my site immediately to this template, but I still need to have videos resized as well, so went back to normal template...
joomlabamboo's fitvids plugin is supposed to work for AllVideos extensions as well, but did not work for me...
anyway, the page is much cleaner and more modern as well
I do miss the extra detail though..
Mirage and Joomla Bootstrap, Thinking Forward
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There have been a few questions asked about why Kunena did not release a new template for Kunena version 2.0. As well as these, we understand that people would also like to know about Kunena Team's position in relation to the future of Joomla and the support of Bootstrap. We like to share with you how we are thinking forward for Kunena's design.
Kunena team members have been actively reviewing Kunena's current design. It was decided over a year ago that Kunena needed improvement to meet current web design practices including utilising new HTML5 and CSS standards, improving the perception about how website users should be able to interact in a web-based discussion forum context, and to draw Kunena closer to Joomla.
But how to do this? How to achieve a recognisable User Interface (UI) that is more flexible, adaptive and can deploy the software’s features more quickly while, at the same time, avoiding design conflicts with the other design practices in the “Joomlaverse”? How to improve the perception about how Kunena should be used?
Read more: Mirage and Joomla Bootstrap, Thinking Forward
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This topic outlines what is involved and the general concept about the Mirage template. It's good to know these things. People can follow the progress on GitHub. Kunena is open source software and the development activity is open to anyone to observe and interact as much (or as little) as they want to or as they are capable of doing.
anyone had a look on github?
Mootools will be also included, but not needed anymore for Core-Joomla (and be disabled as standart).
So for Kunena it would be also great to switch to JQuery.
A little suggestion to the template: I would like the 'New topic' and the 'Reply' buttons to show up for not-signed in users as well. If they click this button the should be taken to a log-in/sign-up page. That would have more users to participate in the forum, I think. Great work, anyways!
Randal wrote: Joomla 3.0 = Bootstrap = jQuery ...
My last info is, that MOOTOOLS will still be included in J!3.0
As we know Kunena WAS based on jQuery then convert to Mootools to have full compatibility. So what's now?
I'll be very happy to see Kunena native on jQuery again. And this is direction of Joomla 3.0 so? You will left Mootools also in Kunena 3.0? How much work it is?
Kunena 2.0 Released
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Important Update: Kunena 2.0.1
The Kunena team has released Kunena 2.0.1 for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 2.5. This is an important maintenance release and replacement for Kunena 2.0 and we recommend that all users upgrade to this version at the earliest opportunity. Please read the K 2.0.1 release notes for important details about this release.
Introduction
The Kunena team is very pleased to announce Kunena 2.0.0 in stable version as a native Joomla extension for J! 1.5 and J! 2.5. In this version the Kunena team has fixed many issues (and has added some new functionality) to make Kunena more popular and more robust than before.
Kunena 2.0 is a project that has been over two years in the making. Among other things, one of the main design objectives for Kunena 2.0 is remove the last remaining Fireboard legacy issues from the code. With the end of J! 1.5 in sight and with J! 2.5 growing in popularity, this new version of Kunena will better satisfy the demands of users around the world who want reliability and scalability to meet their growing needs.
What's different?
People may not notice, at first sight, the substantial differences between the version of Kunena that they have been using and this newest version. For example, the Blue Eagle template still exists and looks similar, the categories are organised similarly, too, but you can be assured that there's a lot that's happened behind the scenes. For starters, there is overall improved performance and many of the problems that existed in previous versions have now been fixed. While people may not see many differences in the front end, the backend/forum administration has a modern new look and feel. Therefore, even though people may not see changes, they should be aware that a considerable number of structural changes have been made.
After months of testing, feedback from the those who have beening using Kunena 2.0 is that it feels more intuitive and, after getting used to a few small changes, much easier to use both for administrators and end-users alike.
Because of the substantial changes that this new version introduces it is important that you read through the Kunena 2.0.0 release notes carefully before installing for the first time or if you are upgrading from an earlier version of Kunena.
Read more: Kunena 2.0 Released
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Thanks also to the team for moving the code over to MVC, must have been a lot of hard work but Kunena is so much nicer to work with now.
I still have the original fireboard files lying around and looking back through those, the forum sure has come a long way.
K 2.1 will still run on J! 1.5 and J! 2.5. K 3.0 will run on J! 2.5 and we hope to get it also working on J! 3.0. K 3.0 will not operate on J! 1.5.
Yes. Please see K 2.0 Upgrade Guide .JSene wrote: Can I upgrade from Kunena 1.7.x to 2.0.x just installing the packages?
I sent a small donation and will continue to donate regularly. Everyone should do the same. At the same time I'm participating in the translation to Portuguese, as a translator. I have the forum working on 3 different sites and it works very well. Thank again!
thanks for the great work!!! :laugh: :silly: :laugh: :silly:
:silly:Sorry that I don't have enough time to help you anymore in coding, I just can give some donations from time to time (that should do every Kunena user)...
Keep on the great work.
Greetings, Roland
However, the Latest Post module doesn't seem to be working. I just get "No posts to display"
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Never mind I found the answer here: :whistle:
www.kunena.org/forum/K-2-0-Kunena-Latest...t-Module-Not-Working
John wrote: Wow! This version is really fast! Time to create page drops from 2.5 to 0.5 seconds!!
Very good job guys!!! Now ask my template designer for an update.
Couldn't agree more! Vast improvement with page loads and I like the new bells and whistles K-Team!
Excellent work and hats of to the entire team.
Look forward to upgrading as soon as other extensions and plugins have been sorted! (E.g., Spam Killer, Jomsocial, etc. - anyone who's made them work or has tried, please do post here.)
EDIT: Typo earlier, I meant Spam Fighter. In any case, this is now compatible, woohoo, looking forward to migration
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...pam-protection/16331
Revving Up for Kunena 2.0
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Kunena 2.0 is a project that has been over two years in the making. The design objectives for Kunena 2.0 are, primarily, to implement changes that "remove the last of the remaining Fireboard legacy". In the course of this project, a number of improvements were backported to Kunena 1.5 resulting in the transitional software known as Kunena 1.6 (now Kunena 1.7). With the end of Joomla 1.5 in sight and with Joomla 2.5 growing in popularity, that transitional version is less likely to fulfil the demands of users around the world who want reliability and scalability to meet their growing needs.
There's nothing seriously wrong with Kunena 1.7. Kunena 1.7, like it's predecessors, was based on the legacy of Fireboard and, in that sense, it is limited in meeting the emerging and current web technology trends that we witness today — issues like CSS3, mobile web apps, among others. Further, the design of Kunena in the versions available up to Kunena 1.7 is not optimised for large websites involving millions of messages or hundreds of thousands of users. Change is inevitable under these conditions in order to make Kunena the most reliable, scalable, durable and robust forum component for Joomla that we can make it and to give people the best solution to meeting their forum needs.
The main design objectives for Kunena 2.0 are, among others:
- Database schema optimisation for improved performance and scalability to large forums up to millions of posts.
- Creating a Kunena framework that can be easily used in other Joomla extensions.
- Joomla! MVC compliance, making it easy for designers to customise Kunena.
- Meeting the emerging and current web technology trends and giving users better experience.
As work continues to be done to develop a public release of Kunena 2.0, we will shortly be making visible changes to this website. The first of these changes will be to implement Kunena 2.0 here, at www.kunena.org, so that everyone will have the opportunity to trial the new software before a public beta release becomes available. This article describes some of those changes that people will see.
Read more: Revving Up for Kunena 2.0
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... doesn't leave us much time to give to providing frequent progress reporting.
If anyone (with a background in public-relations/communication) would like to step forward and offer to assist us, we would greatly appreciate the help. People can contact any member of the Kunena team at any time with such offers of assistance.
I see the dates have slipped which is fairly normal and to be expected with free software.
But it would be useful to see a revised roadmap to help in planning what to use for future projects.
