Merged Kunena 2.0 "show and tell"

Thank you so much Matias and sozzled for the fast and informative replies. Much appreciated.

About the template i guess i will not have serious problems. I will wait for the final version i use and will tweak it a little bit for my needs. But generally i have been always very satisfied with the default one.

And the info about "in a few months..." is exactly what i wanted to know - doesn't matter if 4, 6 or 8 months. I prefer it that you take all the time you need.
Sadly i have not the time to participate (i would have already ask for tester group).
It took me more time i thought to get JS running on the new J2.5 in combination with JReviews and i lost already 2 months of my licenses. I can feel with you about the open source development, i know what you mean.

Looking forward to more news, articles and the roadmap.
Keep it up folks and thanks again!

M.

After much research I have decided on Kunena as the best choice for my new Joomla 2.5 site.

My concern/question is this:

If I go with the current version of Kunena, will there a seamless upgrade route to version 2, e.g. within Joomla Admin, or will this be a manual upgrade, having to migrate the mySQL databases etc?

Thanks.

Yes, the upgrade from the current version should be seamless. I've done it a few times using development builds on a site that has many thousands of posts. Kunena 2.0 is intended to upgrade any existing Kunena forum from 1.0 onwards. Even Fireboard, I think. The only exception might be with custom Kunena templates. Those won't be carried over. But if your current template is based on Blue Eagle and only has CSS changes, then those CSS files (and any images) *should* carry over just fine to Kunena 2.0.

GoremanX wrote: Yes, the upgrade from the current version should be seamless. I've done it a few times using development builds on a site that has many thousands of posts. Kunena 2.0 is intended to upgrade any existing Kunena forum from 1.0 onwards. Even Fireboard, I think. The only exception might be with custom Kunena templates. Those won't be carried over. But if your current template is based on Blue Eagle and only has CSS changes, then those CSS files (and any images) *should* carry over just fine to Kunena 2.0.

Sounds excellent.

So the message really is to stick within the existing Kunena template options for the current version, upgrade seamlessly though Joomla Admin, and then modify the style/template?
Ii have looked at kunena in considerable depth and have zero concerns about its capability as a forum - to the conrary, it is excellent - but a crucial aspect of Joomla as a whole is that everything withiin the site follows the same style instead of looking as if it has been "bolted on" retrospectively.

I am going to go with and support Kunena, and hope that version 2 will allow for more complete site style integration

Beta demo?

rinuccio sp wrote: Beta demo?

Soon. We're hoping to move the forum at this website to use K 2.0. Then you will see what K 2.0 is able to do.