Question Hey Team...

Some of you may remember me from the old Joomlaboard dev team.

I could not find the contact info, but then again I'm all for the complete transparency here.

Anyway, after the start of the Fireboard project I was briefly a member of the development team, but that ceased as they wanted to put pressure on whoever was involved with deadlines, tasks and assignments. As for me this is purely a hobby that is supposed to be a pleasure, I could not commit to that...especially since *I know* that there are going to be periods when I will have absolutely no time for the project, but what I obviously do have is 'stickability', and that is something that is even more important in my opinion....but I am sure you know it all too well.

I continued my own little Fireboard with a ton of fixes and customizations, the general release is in my opinion an usability and redundancy mess and deviated quite a bit from my ideas of a efficient forum. I did think the project is dead, and I am happy to see that somone else took over.

Lately my main point of interest has been usability and forum interface, CSS, validation/compliancy, and getting rid of the ton of small annoyances scattered throughout the forum. You can actually check the live forum here: www.jabucnjak.hr/forum
It has been stripped of all the things that are unnecessary or redundant while still keeping the most of the funcionality intact. I know that this forum is probably "too clean" for most people, but this has been accomplished with minimum changes to the code - and that is what I'll be aiming for to allow easy customizations without changes in the code.

Obviously I do have my own interests here - I'd like to have some influence in the direction the forum is taking so I can keep using it in the future for the site.

I get minus points for having zero experience with Joomla 1.5 and for some parts of the code which are, looking back, downright embarrasing - but this was a laerning experience after all!

To keep it short, I'd like to (re)join the team if my skills and ideas fit in general directions you'd like to take with Kunena.

We can continue in mail or right here, I'm fine either way!

Almost forgot - congratulations to all of you who made it happen!

Riba,

It would be great to have you join the team. Please apply to the dev group on our community pages and we will take it from there.

As for commitment - our expectations seem similar. We need sticky members. All of us will have downtime, when others need to take over.

Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Thx!

fxstein

I would love to hear your ideas and have you in our team.

Thanks, I'm on it. See you over there.

Riba wrote:

Anyway, after the start of the Fireboard project I was briefly a member of the development team, but that ceased as they wanted to put pressure on whoever was involved with deadlines, tasks and assignments. As for me this is purely a hobby that is supposed to be a pleasure, I could not commit to that...especially since *I know* that there are going to be periods when I will have absolutely no time for the project, but what I obviously do have is 'stickability', and that is something that is even more important in my opinion....but I am sure you know it all too well.

I am more than familiar with this feeling of pressure hence the reason I left the last dev team I was with. Projects like this need to continue to be fun while at the same time a learning experience. Also having little to no voice towards the end forced my hand. I think you will find this group to be vastly different as they want to produce good product for the communities sake and not just their own and be a true team while doing it.

Riba wrote:

I continued my own little Fireboard with a ton of fixes and customizations, the general release is in my opinion an usability and redundancy mess and deviated quite a bit from my ideas of a efficient forum. I did think the project is dead, and I am happy to see that somone else took over.

Lately my main point of interest has been usability and forum interface, CSS, validation/compliancy, and getting rid of the ton of small annoyances scattered throughout the forum. You can actually check the live forum here: www.jabucnjak.hr/forum
It has been stripped of all the things that are unnecessary or redundant while still keeping the most of the funcionality intact. I know that this forum is probably "too clean" for most people, but this has been accomplished with minimum changes to the code - and that is what I'll be aiming for to allow easy customizations without changes in the code.

Very nice to see a much more "usable" interface.
The basic usability issues in FB have been an ongoing irritation.
Prime example - the non-standard pathway confuses 99% of users new to any FB forum.
I see from your example site above that you have fixed this problem.

Your other interface improvements are also welcome usability relief.

A Kunena theme similar to your much more usable theme would also be a great addition.
Most of the current FB themes suffer from the same "useless-eye-candy-is-better" disease as most Joomla commercial templates.

Hope to see you involved again.

Regards,

KM