Reading About Ranch JForum (Wiki forum at Coderanch) (original) (raw)
JavaRanch/CodeRanch made a fork of jforum.net "pure" JForum. We've written a number of articles on the topic including:
- About our migration from the old software to JForum
- Interview about our yearlong process to move
- How we migrated our data to JForum
- Ernest's humorous description of the migration
- Solving a threading problem that turns out to be an issue in the pure JForum source as well.
- Writing integration tests for JForum
- Public announcement of the impending transition
We've also tried to release a significant feature each year on January 3rd - Jumping JForum Day. Other features get released throughout the year.
| Year | Features | Announcement thread |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CloudFlare and uploading customer profile/cover phots | thread |
| 2024 | Ranchoversary PIE and autoreply for PMs | thread |
| 2023 | Multiple websites in user profile and rel=me | thread |
| 2022 | BB Code Tag Preferences | thread |
| 2021 | None (due to pandemic) | thread |
| 2020 | Merit badges | here |
| 2019 | Cow poll enhancements and git migration | here |
| 2018 | New user profile and scavenger hunt | here |
| 2017 | Custom dashboards for category and forum list view and thread boost feature | here |
| 2016 | Wiki now integrated into site, beta view becomes primary view and PIE | here |
| 2015 | Cow polls and advertiser list | here |
| 2014 | Rattlesnake Pit, Flags, Beta Look and Feel take two | here |
| 2013 | Cows, Beta Look and Feel, Multi Forum Support | here |
| 2012 | More like this and show which threads viewed | here |
| 2011 | bumper stickers, blackbeltfactory and other user personalizations | here |
| 2010 | mobile site | here |
| 2009 | Initial migration | here |