VB3 Journal/Blog Fiascos?

[sross]

Ah man,

I've been looking for hours. I need a simple journal for my users on vb3 but everything seems to be "In the works!" and "coming soon!" -however the 5 journals I've seen saying this appear to be dead in the water or months aways. Is there nothing out there like sigmachat or photopost that is a blog which uses the vb3 user database? Money is not really a concern here I just want a freaking journal! help? :(

[burnist]

There is at least one journal that is being worked on at the minuite and will hopefuly be released very soon but it would be prettty basic with more stuff to come in a next version eg comments

[sross]

the phrase "very soon" is becoming the bane of my net existence :)

[allan grossman]

the phrase "very soon" is becoming the bane of my net existence :)
Same here :)

My users have been journalless for months - but that was my fault for upgrading to vB3 without a journal solution. I figured one would be released fairly quickly.

I've seen a lot of vaporware, but no working vB3 journal :)

[burnist]

May these to screens of what i want to show so far will help ease your existance(s)

Dont comment on the crap templates, there only for testing purposes until it fully works

[spence2]

Fiasco is exactly the right word!

Ryangel, the owner of the vB2 hack, has not been around here since November. There have been no responses from emails sent to him about granting permission for his code to be ported.

Publicly, he gave permission for someone to modify his code...so in another thread I asked the Admin to respond if they would accept this as granting permission, since he has clearly "left the building."

No response from Admin to my question. So, I pm'd Erwin and he stood by the standard permission granting procedure...even though no one can contact Ryangel.

When someone tried to port this for us because they had done so for their own board, their hack was promptly deleted. Bradloo said that he began to port it but that people were rude in his initial posts. He said yesterday that he will try again, but STILL...the admin will probably delete his as well. As all of this seems to depend on someone accomplishing the impossible...namely, getting Ryangel's permission to port this hack. Kurafire is working on his own Journal System, which has no tie in to the original hack at all. And, yes, it is scheduled for release sometime after they begin working on it. :ermm:

With no solution offered by vB.org for porting hacks originally authored by disinterested or non-responsive hackers, I suppose fiasco is as good a word for this as any, although personally a few more words do come to mind; don't they?

[Brad]

My first version was based on Ryangel's code long ago, currently everything I have is written from the ground up.

[sabret00the]

Fiasco is exactly the right word!

Ryangel, the owner of the vB2 hack, has not been around here since November. There have been no responses from emails sent to him about granting permission for his code to be ported.

Publicly, he gave permission for someone to modify his code...so in another thread I asked the Admin to respond if they would accept this as granting permission, since he has clearly "left the building."

No response from Admin to my question. So, I pm'd Erwin and he stood by the standard permission granting procedure...even though no one can contact Ryangel.

When someone tried to port this for us because they had done so for their own board, their hack was promptly deleted. Bradloo said that he began to port it but that people were rude in his initial posts. He said yesterday that he will try again, but STILL...the admin will probably delete his as well. As all of this seems to depend on someone accomplishing the impossible...namely, getting Ryangel's permission to port this hack. Kurafire is working on his own Journaly System, which has no tie in to the original hack at all. And, yes, it is scheduled for release sometime after they begin working on it. :ermm:

With no solution offered by vB.org for porting hacks originally authored by disinterested or non-responsive hackers, I suppose fiasco is as good a word for this as any, although personally a few more words do come to mind; don't they?
i''m especially annoyed at this all, i mean i want to purchase the best journal available for my site and that's it and so much seems to be going wrong, i'm so close to getting my site live and i can see that it will be the journal system that will hold me up :(

i've requested a few answers over at EvB so hopefully some sort of motion will happen soon.

[spence2]

That's great to hear, Brad.loo! Have you posted your new beginning thread yet?

sabret00the, you & I are here & there & everywhere...surely something will work out somewhere, sometime, somehow....

[Brad]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=494370#post494370" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...370#post494370</a>

[Geographic2]

Check out VBtimelines https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63006

Allows users to create their own calendar, use events as journal entries. Already has
WYSIWYG editor, use calendar attachments hack then users can upload images to events.
Includes a recent attachments viewer and list of 20 or so most recently updated calendars.
Full version to include a more Blog style paged viewing interface customized much like a "homepage" for your users in addition to the stock calendar functions. Will employ subdomains for those who can. Browseable Bloglist by username letter, postbit inclusion, and much more. ;)

A bit of sideways thinking makes the VB calendar very powerful.

[allan grossman]

Check out VBtimelines https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63006

Allows users to create their own calendar, use events as journal entries. Already has
WYSIWYG editor, use calendar attachments hack then users can upload images to events.
Includes a recent attachments viewer and list of 20 or so most recently updated calendars.
Full version to include a more Blog style paged viewing interface customized much like a "homepage" for your users in addition to the stock calendar functions. Will employ subdomains for those who can. Browseable Bloglist by username letter, postbit inclusion, and much more. ;)

A bit of sideways thinking makes the VB calendar very powerful.
A lot of users aren't capable of sideways thinking :D

[spence2]

Those interested in a journal hack should support Brad.loo's efforts with helpful feature suggestions and respectful encouragement...or forever hold your peace...don't you think?

Feature thread. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=494442#post494442)

EDIT: It seems brad.loo has decided not to release a journal hack.

However, AN-net is developing one. (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63881&page=1&pp=15)

[ChessMess]

So, have any been released yet?

[Reeve of shinra]

There is a port of Ryangels vb2 journal hack to vb3 at vbhacks.us and AN-Net is creating a rather exceptional journal which should go beta soon. Those are the only two options available or soon to be available (at least as far as I know)

[TheComputerGuy]

<a href="http://www.runaked.com/forums/journal.php" target="_blank">http://www.runaked.com/forums/journal.php</a>

I got mine working.

[pipedreams]

I crying for a journal / blog system too and am willing to pay good money for one.

Likewise the "coming soon" phrase is so disheartening

I've seen this site http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/journal.php - but I guess they just hacked their own version

TheComputerGuy - you willing to share that?

[Ghostsuit]

You'll find the hack I use here http://www.vbhacks.us/forum/showthread.php?t=430 looks the same as TheComputerGuy one.

Mines had a little change or two but you can see it at http://www.alternativenation.net/forums/journal.php? it's a port of Ryangels hack which can't be released here. Cudos to the guys that ported it :D

[spence2]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=69538" target="_blank">An-NET just released his journal hack!</a>