Lets combine funds for a Reviews CMS with business/product directory

[lazytown]

I think you can assume the 'development' was fluff.

[bigtree]

pretty disappointing from the zero response here. Hard to get inspired to even invest but I'm hopeful. I see on the GARR site they do have a download for testers there. Its of no interest to me to test something on a production site so I'm just hopeful this is actually in development and the coders are inspired enough to share whether its fluff or happening? Come-on guys?

There is another developer doing one, which I like called Product Review. Its simple but all I need. Once they get it using the vb4 editor, I'm in.

[Alfa1]

The GARS test download is not working and no one has got it to work. Its a dead end.

The product review forums shows promise. Especially if you have a low number of review forums. If you have a large number of review forums, then this can cause your site to slow down, due to vbulletins limit in forums. Having more than 500-1000 forums will cause performance issues.

I have been pretty occupied with other software development projects for my site and with the migration of my site from server to cluster and many issues flowing from that.

I still need this to be developed.

[bigtree]

bummer...

What do you mean 500 - 1000 forums? You mean threads? or actual forums?

[Alfa1]

Actual subforums/forums. The reason that I mention this is that with GARS and now Product Review Forums, review categories are forums. So if you have hundreds of review categories or if you already have a lot of forums, then this approach can cause performance issues.

[Mooff]

off-topic: Where exactly will those vbulletin forum speedbumps show up? We have 1028 forums/subforums on our site and i wouldn't ever have thought we might run into a hidden performance issue there.

[Alfa1]

The vbulletin support staff on vb.com have frequently stated that such large amounts of forum will cause performance issues, extreme server load and general forum slow down.

This is a database design limitation carried over from vb3. Once you get that many forums you start running into problems, particularly with forumjump, search and managing that many forums in the Admin CP/ forum manager.

The exact limit depends upon your server setup. A high end cluster will only hit performance issues at 1500 forums, while a low end server will hit problems somewhere below 1000 forums.

You can solve part of it by using Varnish & Sphynx.

[ForumsMods]

First I want to thank all those who participated in the first phase of testing.
We are making great progress in which incorporated new features requested by testers.

Surely by mid-month, a public beta version will be launched.

[rootsxrocks]

I'm sorry I havn't been able to help test the beta or be involved I have been busy keeping life support on my site.

[rootsxrocks]

Has anyone looked at 360directories.com's CMS system I am seriously considering the investment I am tired of waiting and I am ready to shell out what it takes for a real deal CMS.