forum

[alanyuchenhou]

I'll try to find an existing forum platform we can use. "Plug and play" components are always the best. Same thing goes for #11 .

[alanyuchenhou]

in #14 @Taxidea-Jen mentioned " it is important that this site not be linked to any external sites". So we'll need to use a forum package and host it on our own domain.

[ylhou]

how about NodeBB ? an open source forum software, based on nodejs . we can customize it, deploy on our cloud, then embed it into athanasea. take a look http://athanasea.nodebb.com/ https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB

[alanyuchenhou]

I think NodeBB has very high quality, and we should consider using it. I think we should let @Taxidea-Jen decide whether we self-host or use their hosting service. I still prefer using their hosting service, because this save us time(and equivalently, money) in the long run - unlimited storage, scalability, free updates/upgrades... On the other hand, I can see the advantage of self hosting too: the forum can have our domain name, style, and integrated login.

[Taxidea-Jen]

I'm completely fine with whatever forum template you would like to use, but I would prefer it to be on our domain name, if possible. If you think it's better to use the athanasea.nodebb.com, then that's fine, just so long as there is seemless transition between the two sites (must be fully customizeable so it can look just like the rest of the site).

[alanyuchenhou]

@ylhou , do you think telescope is a better option than nodebb?

[ylhou]

a bit progress about forum .

[alanyuchenhou]

That looks nice! Can you push the code?

[Taxidea-Jen]

I just want to ask if this is going to look like a website or a mobile device app, because those screen shots all look like an app for a mobile device, and I'm intending this to be a website.

[alanyuchenhou]

Hi @Taxidea-Jen , our web app should work well and look great on most of devices and operating systems, as long as you use a modern web browser(e.g. chrome, firefox, etc). The app should look differently with optimized visual effect depending on the device you use. I deployed it to our testing server at http://athanasea.meteor.com/ Give it a try with whatever device/OS/browser combo you have!

[ylhou]

now the question is, if we build a website only, like http://www.eldemore.com/index.php, items become too small to click when displayed on mobile. our implementation make the site usable for different devices. we will beautify the UI further

[alanyuchenhou]

Our earlier attempt on highly integrated forum and athanasea core wasn't very successful. I think it's better to reduce the coupling of the forum and the core. For now we can leave this issue to backlog and concentrate on the core feature development. Eventually we should deploy 2 of them separately for easier maintenance, with shared css and user account for consistency.