Solved Formatting issue on fresh install of K5b5

jhebbel wrote: Coming from Chrono yourself, do you know of any way to import board data? I have tens of thousands of posts id rather not lose.

I wrote an "opinion piece" some years ago (posted on this site and updated in my own blog) about the possibilities, the problems and pitfalls associated with migrating from one forum product to Kunena (or any other product, for that matter).

While it is certainly true that CF provided a single-click import feature—it was one of the features that attracted me to CF in the first place—CF is kind of in an exclusive class. AFAIK there isn't a means of importing from CF to Kunena, certainly not with a single mouse-click.

However, nothing's impossible; "where there's a will there's a way" as the saying goes. But the means to achieve this outcome might prove to be a time-consuming or financial barrier. I'm happy to discuss your situation with you—free of charge—and give you some suggestions or "benefit" of my experience. Skype might be something you could consider (my Skype address is in my user profile on this site).

sozzled wrote:

jhebbel wrote: Coming from Chrono yourself, do you know of any way to import board data? I have tens of thousands of posts id rather not lose.

I wrote an "opinion piece" some years ago (posted on this site and updated in my own blog) about the possibilities, the problems and pitfalls associated with migrating from one forum product to Kunena (or any other product, for that matter).

While it is certainly true that CF provided a single-click import feature—it was one of the features that attracted me to CF in the first place—CF is kind of in an exclusive class. AFAIK there isn't a means of importing from CF to Kunena, certainly not with a single mouse-click.

However, nothing's impossible; "where there's a will there's a way" as the saying goes. But the means to achieve this outcome might prove to be a time-consuming or financial barrier. I'm happy to discuss your situation with you—free of charge—and give you some suggestions or "benefit" of my experience. Skype might be something you could consider (my Skype address is in my user profile on this site).

I will likely write my own import script, I did the same when I switched from phpBB to Chrono. Even though Chrono had the supposed ability to import from phpBB, it never worked quite right, so I wrote my own. Should Not be very hard for kunena as it seems to have a pretty common sense db structure.

Definitely liking the way kunena is written more than Chrono. Even though it was missing some features that I liked, the code is well written in kunena enough that I have already been able to code the changes that I found shortcomings. I easily added joomla group badges as well as additional social and profile fields. Thumbs up to the devs here using the more standard model-view approach as opposed to Chrono's php soup.

Still hoping to get some resolutions regarding the issues with K5.0 now RC1 bootstrap not working. I am now correctly loading bootstrap through the JHtml command but still have 2 serious errors.

1) The quick reply lightbox does not appear to be correctly styled.
2) Additionally, notice the profile column to the left of the post, how when the forum is wide enough it splits the profile itself into 2 columns, its not until I narrow my window that it looks correct. Likely not something any of you have seen as my monitor is much wider than normal.


3) The Icons for the editor still point to a directory location that is invalid (does not exist)


Additionally, a suggestion; as reply is likely to be the most sought after or used button, I dont think it should be hidden in a menu. It should be its own dedicated button. I'd even go so far as to say it should stand out and be made green just as the new topic button is. Furthermore, the quick reply button after each and every post alludes to the reply being in response to that specific post, in which case the original should be quoted, if not I would just use a single quick reply at the bottom of the page as most traditional forums do.

jhebbel I agree, I can't understand why the reply button was hidden within the action menu. It should be it's own button and made to stand out.

This is more what I feel a commonly accepted forum layout looks like.

The drop down menus are ok for a responsive template once the screen gets small, but when there is plenty of room all they really do is make things harder to find.

Additionally breaking out every single thing to its own "row" vertically extends the forum more than it needs to be. Things like timestamp can be on the same row as post title, post related buttons can be on same row as IP.

Of course I can modify the template myself, but a few of these things just seem like they should be part of the template from the get-go.

I can't sadly not include it to our code, because you need to think also at translations.

For example the Dutch language strings for the action are big, and if you do it without the groups, then it wouldn't fit on the screen.