Vanilla - web 2.0 or classic?
The first post about the Vanilla forum caused a rather big resonance in the habrasociety. This time we will not surprise people like that. We will continue to discuss vanilla.
Judging by the reviews, many were interested in the forum, but complained that there was too little information, for example, the same description of Vanilla add-ons, assemblies and the purpose of the Russian community . There is practically no information about vanilla in RuNet, so we will try to fix it at least a little.
As mentioned earlier , the main advantage of Vanilla is its modularity. Depending on your needs, you can put together just such a forum as you need. Moreover, in this case, some modules are functional enough to be called plugins in the usual sense of the word.
We are assembling Vanilla in 2 of the most general directions - the classic forum and the web2.0 version . We will not describe all the add-ons included in the assemblies - each of them is described on the community forum, and here we give a comparative description of the assemblies.
| Classic | Web2.0 | |
| Login | In the form of a block login / password GuestSignIn 1.2 | As an invitation and go to a separate page Guest Welcome Message 3 |
| Removing comments, topics | Comment Removal 2.1.2 add-on - direct removal of messages from the database | Missing, the standard feature of vanilla is used - hide, stoke topics, messages just become invisible. |
| Text edit panel | Bbcode / text. Forced BBCode | HTML / Text HTML Formatter |
| Additional navigation blocks | Category Jumper 1.0 - selection of categories (initially a list of topics is displayed immediately in vanilla) Next Unread Discussion 1.0 | Category Jumper 1.0 Next Unread Discussion 1.0 Discussion Filters 2 is a block that displays topics depending on filters. |
| Subcategories | There are SubCategories 0.2.3 | Not |
| Counters, additional blocks | Discussion View Count 1.2.1 - theme views counter Statistics 0.4.5 - custom statistics block Whos Online 1.2 - who is online | Is absent |
| Tags, topic subscription, RSS, saving search results, etc. | Is absent | FeedPublisher 0.3.1 - RSS, ATOM feeds DiscussionTags - tag cloud Saved Searches 2.0 - save search results as bookmarks |
| personal messages | Classic PS Private Messages 1.1 | The standard feature of vanilla is the Whisper system |
Also, the assemblies are similar in some basic additions and differ in a number of small ones, which are difficult to attribute clearly to any of the directions, and they can be installed as desired. Naturally, the division into directions is conditional, this is done more for convenience in testing, more experienced users will still do something different from the forum.
In general, Vanilla offers a fairly convenient approach to organizing the forum, and we try to draw your attention to this.
So welcome.