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Welcome ladies and gentleman, this is the release thread for GRPS, an interactive groups commune. I hope you enjoy this release and i sincerely hope it provides everything to your community in which you're looking for.
What is it? It's a groups commune. The original idea is that forums with lots and lots of forums on the front-page suck, as a result i thought most of the conversation was rather obscure in regards to what the forums were trying to achieve, so it'd be nice to have that all going on elsewhere, not detracting away from the content and stopping your front-page from looking like a car crash. Features?
Special Thanks to harry1951, without his help testing and his recommendations, this would've never ended up the way it did. Honestly, i can't think of anything else, if you appreciate the work gone into this mod, please donate (in GBP)  (right click open in new window)Hopefully you all appreciate that i just relaunched my site and rather than soak up the atmosphere there or go out drinking i came to release this tonight. Screens below, rest to your right  Please note this mod does work with 3.5.x PLEASE DO NOT JOIN MY SITE IN A BID TO PLAY WITH IT OR HAVE A LOOK AT IT FURTHER, MY SITE IS SOMETHING I VALUE FOR BEING SOMEWHERE I CAN CHILL AT, IT'S NOT A TEST SUITE OR DEMO! Bug Fixes
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#1152
02-02-2007, 04:12 AM
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I just found what I believe is a somewhat serious bug... if on the groups page while logged in, the navbar links work fine (i.e. User CP, Memberlist, etc). However, if you are logged out and on the groups page, the navbar links are all directing to groups/page.php instead of forums/page.php and the login at the top right does not work from that page at all!
My groups are set to be not accessible if you are not logged in, so you get the vBulletin "Not logged i" error when you try to view the page as expected, but no links work properly. the main login on the page (in the center) works fine, but at the top, it does not. 
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#1153
02-06-2007, 02:09 PM
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Sabret00the ~ Will you be doing any more development of this mod?
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#1154
02-06-2007, 02:12 PM
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#1156
02-11-2007, 11:35 PM
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Seems that the reporting feature does not work within Groups -- I tried to report a post and once I hit "Send Report" it just refreshed the page and no report was sent.
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#1157
02-12-2007, 03:10 AM
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This is quickly becoming a nightmare, I'm afraid.
Due to the mod being outside the forums directory, I am having issues with links, forms, etc not working. For instance, if a user is not logged in, the login form and navbar links on the groups page weren't working. I had to go into the templates and manually add in absolute URLs (i.e. put $vboptions[bburl]/ in front of all links) so it would link through the forums directory and not the groups directory.I thought I was making progress, but then there is the same issue with forms, such as the report post form. I fixed one issue I found which was the link that is supposed to take you to the thread you are reporting was not working (I added &t=$reportinfo[threadid] to the URL so it would go back to the correect thread). I cannot, however, get it to do anything but refresh the page when the report is submitted. I notice also that it's (for some strange reason) posting the description of the private forum where reports are supposed to be sent at the top of the report page. Also, I had to edit newpost_usernamecode to fix the "Logged in as" link as it was again trying to pull a page from the groups directory. The deeper I get into all these additional edits needed to make it work, the more I fear I should just be uninstalling it. Am I just missing something totally simple, or have others not tested it as much as I have been and that's why all of this stuff hasn't been mentioned yet? I feel like I'm losing my mind! I LOVE the idea of this mod, but the implementation is difficult at best and I'm nowhere near working out all of these bugs I've found. No one has really posted to this thread in a week -- has everyone given up or are they just busy? Are these issues all just related to my template or is this how it is for everyone?? sabret00the, where are you?
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#1158
02-12-2007, 03:25 AM
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I'm sorry -- I'm going to have to agree. I've tried to do some mods that would make this integrate better with VB to give it more presence (either an RSS feed or update post to the main forums), but it's just not happening. It's a wonderful concept, but without more attention from the programmer, I can't have a dead section in my community. They would love to do something like this, but at this point I may just have to set up regular forums for them.
And I invested $100US into this hack. I may come back to it when it's fully developed. I'm disappointed.
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#1159
02-12-2007, 09:27 AM
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I can see that everyone is getting impatient and for that i apologise. I have no abandoned this project, this is something i assure you of.
As stated previously, when i was just about to go crazy putting in work, there was a lack of feedback in regards to some issues raised, that left me in no man's land in regards to what to do. That together with the fact my enthusiasm seriously wavered for the project. I just decided to put in some hard graft on another project (my peer review system) which as a result, has been largely overhauled. I do realise that i have a couple PM's that went un-replied to. The reason being that once i started the project, i wanted to finish it before i committed to time-scales or deadlines. After all a lot of people are feeling quite disappointed by this at the moment. I am committed to this project, after all it's my baby. however sadly i can only go as far as the slowest person in the chain and developing something like this requires a lot of time. At times i have had to dedicate whole weeks to this. Time is really an issue when you're unable to move forward due to wanting to legitimately improve this in a direction the community wants. I have said, that i will improve this product and as such i've publicly committed to folding in the gallery add-on i've been playing with. However given that there were bugs i wanted to deal with first, it's not happened yet. We're approaching 1200 posts and i've tried to stay on top of every single one of them. The same can't be said for everyone and it's not expected to, so requests for feedback go missing and people (namely me) get frustrated. The break i've had, seems like it's been a good one, it's given me a chance to just have fun with my coding and that's important to any one putting into a community project like this. Please note, that sometimes things are just super difficult for me to sort out. If i can't replicate a problem on the two systems i've got running; my development board and my live board. then i'm really unable to fix it adequately if at all. I really do, really do apologise the people who have followed this thread diligently and have been slowed down or felt neglected. That has not my intention, however please understand releasing releasing potentially three releases a week is something very few can manage or sustain without going crazy. I have an email with outstanding issues raised in this thread from Merriweather of which i'm unbelievably grateful for. It helped me immensely and as such i will repay that hard work by trying to release this in the best fashion possible. I've had a lot of ideas on how to improve this and mod and get the best out of it. Some things are really quite exciting. As for an RSS feed as i can see is requested in the post above this. I made one up a while ago and so will be sure to include it in the next release. some of the other stuff that i'm hoping to put in here are; Subscriptions (not sure if pm based or email based yet), Favourite threads, Favourite photos and some other stuff i've forgotten. Oh and of course some AJAX here and there. Please note however that vBulletin 3.6.4 was released towards the end of November and despite numerous bug fixes that has gone into 3.6.5 a new release has not been seen as of yet. Please use that to gauge some perspective, especially given that there's a team of developers doing a job there and i'm just one man trying to keep over 150 people happy in as much time as i can dedicate while trying to maintain an existence elsewhere. I am personally a BIG, HUGE fan of GRPS, even when my enthusiasm is wavering, i do personally love to use it, especially as an end-user. As such, i will not allow it to fall by the waste side. I am hoping to to be finished with PRS this week and thus resume work GRPS the following day, or in the following days. Hopefully then, this project will redeem itself in everyone who's gotten very disappointed eyes. Of that i can only hope. I do humbly apologise for the long delay in status reports or indeed updates and hope that by 2.1 you'll all be extremely happy or at least on your way to happiness.
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#1160
02-12-2007, 01:48 PM
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there is some easy template edits I can suggest for those links that don't work. Just lemme know which ones and I can tell you guys what to do. I have a variety of things outside of the forums directory so I've learned how to adjust
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#1161
02-13-2007, 02:35 AM
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sabret00the ~ My offer of cold, hard cash still stands (check your PMs) if it's the motivation you need to get some of the bugs out so it's public release worthy.
 As I've said, I do love the idea and am jumping at the chance to implement it, but there are some major bugs in the functionality that do need addressed. I think as soon as you get those out of the way, it will be fun for you again and you can play with all of the cool additions you have in mind. I'm sure it's not easy to keep up with all of the comments here, and hard to sort out what's a bug and what's a user error, so kudos to you as well for your dedication.
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