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darren
09-14-2007, 01:19 PM
Thank you for returning to the vBulletin forums. They are so much easier to use and navigate than the now old Vanilla forums.
pkolmann
09-14-2007, 03:12 PM
Thank you for returning to the vBulletin forums. They are so much easier to use and navigate than the now old Vanilla forums.

I second the thanks.
jstanden
09-15-2007, 12:03 AM
Sure thing!

We figured while we were improving everything else it was a good time to honor this long-time suggestion as well. ;)
chrisdowns
09-16-2007, 12:05 PM
I have to agree it's great to be back on VB forums. I didnt like the Vanilla layout and thats the reason i stopped coming to the forum !! But now its alot easier im glad to be back
NickInOZ
09-17-2007, 08:11 AM
Wooo Hoooo.

Well done team. Bye Bye Vanilla.
netwrkr
09-17-2007, 09:51 PM
Jeff: Thank you!

Tom
cbtrussell
09-19-2007, 01:45 AM
Woot! Thanks for the switch.

But I have to ask - Hildy made such a big deal about Vanilla being necessary due to future Cerberus integrations that weren't possible with vBulletin... what happened to that?
jstanden
09-19-2007, 09:45 AM
Woot! Thanks for the switch.

But I have to ask - Hildy made such a big deal about Vanilla being necessary due to future Cerberus integrations that weren't possible with vBulletin... what happened to that?

Vanilla was my call originally based on the idea we'd need to dig deep into the database to pull out useful content and pair it with tickets. The "awesomeness" of what Fetch & Retrieve evolved into made redoing our forums unnecessary. It also made our choice of forum software a moot point.

A lot more information about why that's the case is described in the official "4.0 Support Center" thread (because it's going to use F&R extensively):
http://www.cerb4.com/forums/showthread.php?p=121

That link probably has all the info you can handle. I hope you have some coffee nearby. ;)
BlueC
09-24-2007, 09:12 PM
Thanks so much for reverting to vB - even though I don't love vB, I really couldn't stand the vanilla forums - they were dreadful!
afrosheen
10-05-2007, 08:59 PM
I want to extend my gratitude to you as well. The Vanilla forums were a nightmare to hunt through, just counterintuitive as all hell. I will be participating much more often with these forums.
jstanden
10-07-2007, 07:42 AM
Poor Vanilla -- it meant well! :D

I'm glad you guys are happy!
docweathers
10-17-2007, 10:55 PM
Being pragmatic, does this mean that 4.0 F&R will work with other forums besides Vanilla... Does this include FireBoard? If not what is it compatible with?
neenach2002
10-17-2007, 11:05 PM
F&R will work with anything that lets you pass it a search via the URL! :)
jstanden
10-18-2007, 06:15 AM
Being pragmatic, does this mean that 4.0 F&R will work with other forums besides Vanilla... Does this include FireBoard? If not what is it compatible with?

Hey there!

As neenach2002 said, F&R works with pretty much anything.

If you have access to a database for any application you can create a search adapter than returns results as RSS. This is even easier if you have access to an application's code and can use its own API to do the search (but it's not required).

Many apps are starting to provide this functionality inherently, and we're starting to pool together some adapter recipes on the wiki:
http://wiki.cerberusdemo.com/index.php/Fetch_%26_Retrieve_Cookbook