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Sneak peek at bbPress.org 2.0

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    It looks hot!

    maybe at least a month - as target release? :)

    I was planning on moving from phpbb3 to bbPress 1.0
    but maybe it will be better to wait now ...

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I think too many people are confusing the new theme look for THIS WEBSITE (bbpress.org) with the bbPress software

    bbpress.ORG is not bbPress 1.0, the first is this website, the latter is the software program

    Sam is showing how THIS WEBSITE will look soon, the new theme.

    It has nothing to do with bbPress 1.0 (except that of course this website is for support of bbPress 1.0)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Oh! :)

    Thanks CK :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Looks good.

    I'm delighted to know that people are giving their time to work on new versions. I like BBPress and want it to continue.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Look awesome...! Getting closer of the wordpress.org theme, unity... I like it !

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I like the layout, but only wished, that bbpress would have some options by default.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Looks great! Thanks for the update.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    nice work.

    but I think avatars is too big!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    It doesn't seem that complicated or fancy of an update to the website, why is it taking so long to change?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Looking forward to the new look. Sam, we getting close?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Honestly can't say I'm a fan of the green, and I'm not too sure what the red, green and white dots are for either?

    I don't want to be the only person with issues, but I'm sure you guys are capable of handling criticism. ;) Outside of those two things, I think it's looking pretty darn snazzy. Can't wait to see it go live!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    That's for support tickets, IIRC.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I wonder if a key/legend somewhere conspicuous on the page wouldn't be a benefit?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Is this still being worked on?

    Whats up with this?
    http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    There have been talks about retrieving Sam's work and getting it done, but I doubt it's a priority. Consider it to be planned for 'further down the road'.

    bbshowcase is not an official part of bbPress (i.e. no direct affiliation with Automattic); I believe it was once maintained by an active bbpress community member and plugin contributor, who sadly does not think as highly of the project any longer.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I still have the files for this design, I don't think anyone ever asked me for them when I left Automattic.

    I think there are bigger plans for WordPress.org now that supersede this work, especially if bbPress becomes a canonical plugin.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Why anyone don't ask? Design is pretty good!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    @Sam
    Why don't you attend a meetup on wednesday on IRC and put forward the point of the new design? I really love that one and also tried to copy some bit of it.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    The bbpress 2.0 template looks nice.

    http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

    The new order with the forums on the left site and the recent discussions on the right site is excellent. Hope that it will be published soon.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I also dig that design very much and was expecting it real soon.

    Too bad Automattic folks aren't interested... or maybe they've got something else in mind:
    http://matiasventura.com/bbpress/features.htm

    This appeared on the newly launched wp-ui mailing list.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    There was talk in one of the meetups, or maybe email, that WordPress.org was getting a makeover, so they didn't want to emulate the current wp.org in a design for bb.org, then have bb.org stuck with the outdated look (again) once wp.org is redesigned. I can't find it in the IRC logs so maybe that was in email correspondence.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    sambauers -- MT would love the files if you still have them around. I think he emailed about it but maybe it got lost.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    @Chris - That was with me, and yes, it was over email. I had suggested this as a new design, but that fell short because of those rumors. Nevertheless, I think the colours are somewhat in tact, though the layout would need to be different.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    @dragunoff
    In one of the first meetups there was some brief talk about designing a better features section for bbpress.org (http://bbpress.org/about/features/); that is just a simple working mockup of that.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    That looks awesome, but please make the "Add New" button more prominent in future releases. Most of my new users can't figure out how to make a post because it's such a small text button.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    matt, I've sent those files on to MT. The bbPress theme was actually pretty close to complete.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    @ sambauers:

    This is great news! Way to go Sam!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    And here a mock up of the feature-site http://goo.gl/NQXE

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    @Shagalaga - That has already been mentioned in this post.

    @Sam - Nice to see you're still checking bbPress updates. :)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Fantastic new theme, hope to see it soon. Though, I'm sure that it would be released anyway in some way shape or form, that is, if there are any planned updates with the bbPress software. Would you be able to release the CSS file at least, if any of us do want to make a clone version?

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