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EE Forums 4.0 in Development

Tucked into an announcement to developers about some upcoming changes to EE, developer Robin Sowell mentioned the “Discussion Forums 4.0 currently in development.”

I couldn’t tell what this meant. A new version of the Forums? A complete rebuild?

I reached out to EllisLab for clarification and they told me that the Discussion Forums 4.0 is an upgrade to the current Discussion Forums (version 3.x) module and includes some new features. It is not a rewrite or redevelopment of the module. There isn’t a release date set yet for the upgraded forums, so stay tuned to EE Insider and the official EE Blog for more information.

Posted on Aug 03, 2011 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: EE Add-ons, EE Modules, EllisLab, ExpressionEngine 2

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Any tried Vanilla Forums? I'm looking for a good EE friendly forum package and saw this today - got my hopes up - read this and thought "oh well". Vanilla looks pretty slick and there is a module for Single Sign-on, but I'm curious if anyone has experience.
Posted by Chip on 2011-08-17 22:43:58 Hope they at least fix the templating so it isn't filled with tons of inline css. Preferably move it all to work with the main templating engine.
Posted by Sean on 2011-08-05 17:52:50 When I saw this title in my RSS Feed, I was hoping for a complete rebuild. Maybe along the lines of PunBB's offering. Very minimal so that you can mold it into what you want. Sounds like it won't be anything like that, though. Most likely will still be a pain in the ass to work with. :)
Posted by Deron Sizemore on 2011-08-04 10:22:04

Deron Sizemore — 10:22 on 08.04.2011

When I saw this title in my RSS Feed, I was hoping for a complete rebuild. Maybe along the lines of PunBB’s offering. Very minimal so that you can mold it into what you want. Sounds like it won’t be anything like that, though. Most likely will still be a pain in the ass to work with.

Sean — 17:52 on 08.05.2011

Hope they at least fix the templating so it isn’t filled with tons of inline css. Preferably move it all to work with the main templating engine.

Chip — 22:43 on 08.17.2011

Any tried Vanilla Forums? I’m looking for a good EE friendly forum package and saw this today - got my hopes up - read this and thought “oh well”. Vanilla looks pretty slick and there is a module for Single Sign-on, but I’m curious if anyone has experience.

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