Community revamp

psychobunny

Hey all We're looking into revamping our community forums.

First of all - we originally used the http://try.nodebb.org subdomain mainly as a testing ground for the forum. Turns out we've got quite a few regulars here and I'm sure we will grow... so we are considering renaming it to for ex. http://community.nodebb.org.

Secondly, we're looking to build a custom theme for try. Maybe very similar to vanilla but with a bit of pizazz. Every idea is welcome! This is the point of this thread - please feel free to tell us your ideas

Thanks!:)

Steve

Rename is smart, especially early before back links to relevant articles here end up on other sites.

I think with the theme keeping it close to stock is important because the average customer wants to see what it can be out of the box. Custom costs $$ for most who can't come here and understand the finer details. Maybe as a custom feature for this site only add in the ability to change themes so folks can test out 3-4 versions.

Indie

Unless the custom theme becomes a new default :o.

luke

Moving the official forums to a better-named subdomain would be cool, and if the new theme becomes the default, then I'm all for using it.

trevor

Good decision! Makes more sense, we can try NodeBB within the community and grow it from here.

StuartH

You guys don't hang around do you already changed the domain

julian

Hehe - maybe he's talking about the theme.

You can still access try.nodebb.org, it'll just transparently redirect to community.nodebb.org.

StuartH

Hehe - maybe he's talking about the theme.

You can still access try.nodebb.org, it'll just transparently redirect to community.nodebb.org.

when I came on this morning it just hang but I guessed what you had done so just googled you to get back here.