convore.json/groups/take2/lets-talk-about-convore-and-other-alternatives/messages.json

[{"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602876.9902661, "message": "(By the way try Vanilla on your phone if that matters to you - on iPhone it's excellent.)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991785}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602883.3576961, "message": "Not really.  And I'd also argue that Tapatalk is barely shy of being unusable for any realistically sized (or busy) forum.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991786}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314605138.214514, "message": "Does Vanilla support quote tags?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991888}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602136.718117, "message": "I found a thing called Vanilla, which feels pretty similar to Convore (if just a little less snazzy in interface) but that actually seems to work. It's been around for years, so it's stable.\n\nYou can embed Youtube AND Vimeo.\nThere are spoiler tags.\nYou can edit posts.\nIt's *fast*.\nAnd it has a slick browser accessible mobile interface, so it's not iPhone specific.\n\nI made a thing here: http://take2.vanillaforums.com", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991741}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602590.855509, "message": "For the record, Convore's probably not going to get better.  They made the awful decision of basing their entire product on a front-to-back web framework, which is fantastic for small, dynamic sites, but really hard to scale.  Twitter learned the same lesson, hard.  By the time Twitter stopped scaling, though, they were already popular enough to make it worth their while to reengineer (and even then, it led to massive instability over a prolonged period).  I'm not seeing that happen for Convore, I'm afraid\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991772}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602771.0927751, "message": "Yeah, what he said.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991777}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602745.803977, "message": "Incidentally, Mr_V and I have already been toying with the idea of setting up our own hosted forum, it's definitely an option. I just don't think it's worth the effort when there's a viable alternative.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991776}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602484.1979799, "message": "Another alternative is that I could set up a private sub-forum on Prophecy, if you want a proper forum set-up. Well, I'm sure I could, anyway.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991765}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314601651.423512, "message": "So we all realize by now that Convore's become a unstable mess, right? Here are some more things that Convore can't do:\n\n- Edit posts\n- Embed Youtube\n- Spoiler tags\n- Load a thread quickly\n- Not be down half the time\n- Reliably post comments without them being in some bizarre pasted code format", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991709}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314601956.6248879, "message": "So, a few of us have been thinking it's time to make a move elsewhere. I really like the way Convore works, if it ... worked. I'd love it more if we could sort out those deficiencies, which, well we can't.\n\nWhat we *can* do is move to another site before we get too thoroughly entrenched. I know this is a pain. We're trading one site's problems for another's, right?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991728}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602528.5948861, "message": "Or we could use the one that Neil set up for us. But I don't really mind, I'm happy to stay here or move to Vanilla, or whatever.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991767}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314603119.383276, "message": "Or we could just use that Take 2 Facebook group that Mr_V started all those years ago...\n\n(LOL)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991799}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314603726.8625929, "message": "I'll say this, though:  In order to prevent \"switching fatigue\" (which is already setting in, I think), a few of us should thoroughly test whichever alternative we decide on, before trying to convince everyone to move there\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991834}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602738.2461679, "message": "We don't lack for options.  *Another* option is that we set up our own forum software on an Amazon EC2 micro-instance.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991775}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602144.3383391, "message": "Let me know what you guys think!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991742}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602268.0620339, "message": "I vote we move. Pronto.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991751}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602576.3354011, "message": "I'm torn on the idea of a full fledged forum. There's something *big* about the feel of it that doesn't really jive with our now limited usage and numbers - especially once we successfully chase everyone away.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991771}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602821.7455521, "message": "Also, a big factor for a lot of us is a clean dedicated mobile interface. With the exception of tapatalk (a paid app) do a lot of forums offer that?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991780}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602904.9643459, "message": "Is it a dedicated app, or mobile website (Vanilla)?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991789}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314603144.2030759, "message": "There's always Twitter\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991801}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314602923.732899, "message": "Mobile website, just head straight to the URL.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991791}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314603202.8483961, "message": "Seriously, though, Vanilla does seem pretty fantastic.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991804}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314603802.034152, "message": "I agree, it's tricky with a few people without duplicating content.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991839}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314603656.9282179, "message": "Quick!  Let's pack our free Vanilla with our 30 allowed users before Iori finds out!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1991831}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314607717.1840739, "message": "Trying to find out. An admin was kind enough to enable spoiler tags on our forum when I asked, I wonder if there's a similar plugin for quotes.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992007}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314610292.712929, "message": "Rephrase: 'you' decide.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992128}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314607994.98069, "message": "You can use <blockquote> \u2026\u00a0</blockquote> on Vanilla, which indents but otherwise does little to set the quoted text apart.\n\nYou can use <code> \u2026\u00a0</code>, which both indents and sets the quoted text against a yellow background, but of course uses a proportional font in the process.  (Additionally, it seems that Vanilla doesn't unindent correctly after </quote>.)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992028}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314608649.2784231, "message": "Ah, the <font> tag works too, so you can differentiate your blockquotes \"manually\", so to speak.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992063}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314609266.0455389, "message": "(Took about five minutes of repeated trying to load this thread. Jesus, Convore.)\n\nAnother thing I just remembered that Convore sucks at: Accidentally submitting a post when you meant to line-break.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992083}, {"user_id": 35612, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314609400.8225131, "message": "At the moment i'm traveling through spain. Mr_V just drop me an email if the group decides to move to a new forum platform. Thnx", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992091}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314609830.6945591, "message": "#Humblebrag", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992106}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314609977.6450651, "message": "@keenest Damn, missed you in Barcelona last week!  #canhumblebragwiththebestofthem", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992111}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314610255.0097721, "message": "I don't really care where we go, just let me know and I'll be there. Also - there needs to be an App for whatever we decide :)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992124}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314610517.1549561, "message": "I'm all for moving from Convore, been seeing the Failtcat way to often.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992137}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314612119.8841729, "message": "Vanilla's search also actually works.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992210}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314621804.064991, "message": "Yeah, Convore is a drag. I'm in for moving if my vote is counts.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992815}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314622214.3079569, "message": "Ooh, vanilla forums, I like!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992858}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314621923.9576721, "message": "Can I make a request, that everyone stays with their usernames, I already have a hard time trying to figure out who all ya'lls are since the move from the take2 forums (who's this Mr V guy btw?)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1992832}, {"user_id": 35612, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314637980.633292, "message": "Mr_V I've just barcelona after 4 days. Now in Valencia which is pretty nice.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1994746}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314638553.288142, "message": "I've already placed EXCLUSIVE content on Vanilla. Now we have to go there.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1994831}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 44607, "date_created": 1314666760.0237911, "message": "Okay, in the interest of not dividing our already beleaguered little community, I'm making an executive decision that we migrate to Vanilla immediately. Convore has become intolerable.\n\nMaybe one day when you're executive, *you* can make the decisions.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1998468}]