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Hello,

For people who have managed several forums (and forum softwares), you would know that getting an SEO addon to work is quite a tedious job, except for some ‘exceptional’ geeks. However wouldn’t you be surprised if HiFiBB gave you the power to enable SEO just with one click in the AdminCP?

Yes, you guessed it right. HiFiBB is coming with in-built SEO friendly URLs.

For now, on my dev installation, I have already implemented SEO for forum, topic, user-profile and post URLs (it surprisingly took < 24hrs!). Whats more… the SEO data is intelligently cached and the overall regular SEO overhead (with cache-fetching) is just 0.001 – 0.002 sec. That accompanied with the regular load times of about < 0.04 sec, which can be seen on the HiFiBB community site is superfast by any means.

Just keep your fingers crossed as SEO friendly URLs will be coming soon with the next set of updates.

The URLs are like this for id = 123:

forum: /f123-forum-name

topic: /t123-topic-title

user-profile: /u123-display-name

post: /p123-post-subject

Some additional aspects of SEO will be done once HiFiBB development goes far ahead as I guess this much is enough for the time being.

Points to note: The SEO cache has been intelligently designed to have the maximum efficiency between cache-file analysis time and uncached processing time. For example, I can go on putting everything into the cache but that would hamper performance especially because everything is not needed in a particular page and reading a large cache file would unnecessarily slow down the page. So there is a trade-off between what it stores and how much it stores. Additionally, the ‘how much’ aspect can be customized in the AdminCP.

Hello,

Its been a tough time for me to go through the update process primarily because of server issues for several days and now I have finally setup the updated version here. Have a good look… you’ll find it awesome I’m sure.

There are several features that need to be done and I’m working on them one by one, so don’t give up if you don’t see a feature implemented yet as it’ll soon be integrated.

For now the points to look at in this update:
1. New logo, looks cool, isn’t it?
2. Larger and better menus
3. Pages load faster as a result of code optimization. Now supports mysql persistent connections.
4. BBCode support for most commonly used ones.
5. Inline URL formatting
6. Right-click menus for usernames (anywhere you see a username), and thats to be done for topic titles and forum titles as well in future.
7. Collapsible sections with minimum static code. No DOM element id(s) involved!
8. Blog has been setup for regular tokens of information about HiFiBB.
9. Skin enhancements to look better

For those who want to use HiFiBB, the wait is still far from over as development process is a long one and I only intend to release it publicly once it becomes substantially feature-rich and more popular. The license for HiFiBB whether it’ll be free-to-use or a paid one is still to be decided as the development progresses. More updates in subsequent months.

I hope you join me and the community in the journey to develop HiFiBB into one of the popular, feature-rich and ultra-modern forum softwares.

Thank you,
TheUniqueTiger (Nayan Ghosh)

Hello everyone,

HiFiBB is now accepting sponsored advertisements on HiFiBB. Ad placement will be the top banner, bottom banner and also banner after the first post in each topic. Text ad links will be placed in a section near the footer like the Statistics section. (An ad placement feature in AdminCP will be integrated into HiFiBB by default, but as I have not coded it yet, I’ll directly place ads for now, if any.)

If anyone is interested in placing such ads on HiFiBB site, please send an email to support [ at ] hifibb.org including your name, email, your preferred ad location and quote/week. Please start the subject as [Want to advertise], so that the email is considered quickly. I shall reply asap.

Hello everyone,

After a year or so, this is finally the first time I’m addressing the world using this HiFiBB Weblog. I wish to inform you that I did resume development and new features are being added as earlier listed… The features listed below have been completed in the dev version and shall soon be uploaded for you to enjoy and appreciate.

The progress log from the last landmark post is as follows:

• [Improved] Right-click menus are surprisingly better.
• [Changed] Every section with a header and content are dynamically collapsible… No need to add the +/- image… HiFiBB automatically detects the section header and content and adds the +/- button as well. Whats more, it can also have default collapsed state just by adding a token to the class name. And even more, you don’t have to implement ids for such sections, and surprisingly you’ll find out even the HiFiBB script doesn’t use ids for such purpose. (Some logical restrictions however apply for the DOM. The DOM is heavily emphasized in HiFiBB.)
• [Improved] AJAX implementation further improved. Now developers can simply use two functions, one to trigger a request and one to receive a request. HiFiBB background scripts do the rest.
• [Improved] BBCodes processing now even faster.

A few other features are also coming up which shall be declared once its completed.

Thanks to all of you for your interest in HiFiBB. Thats the basic motivation I need to keep developing HiFiBB to the best of your expectations.

Right from TheUniqueTiger

Hi guys,

This is Andy here and I thought of updating you guys with the developments that TheUniqueTiger made recently. You’ll be seeing them shortly with the next bunch of updates.
1. User Control Panel – He’s only finished the board preferences, but it required a lot of work since it was the first page in HiFiBB which has both conventional “POST” submission as well as AJAX submission. All the UCP pages will be that way with a lot of AJAX embedded in it. The subsequent UCP pages will be just quickly and smoothly done.
2. Made a new modern Logo, matching with the header… You’ll be seeing it soon.
3. BBCodes fully implemented. Added some bbcodes that he forgot initially.
4. All sections are collapsible by simply double-clicking the section header… Whats more… it has a cool fade-in/fade-out effect like dropdowns. Actually reduces the need for coding ids and images for the collapsible sections unlike other forum softwares. Initiated at page-load time on the browser.
5. Dropdowns are now JS friendly since they are basically CSS dropdowns, and JS only enhances the fade-in/fade-out effect.
6. Right-click menu for Usernames is implemented.
7. Optimized the topic page, significantly reduced topic page load time.

I’ll keep you updated on the other advancements.

So be sure to check this blog everyday!!!

Andy

Hi again,

I have some good news for you. As you know we only have the domains HifiBB.org and HifiBB.in but now DNMaster (Admin of www.dntemple.com) bought us the domain Hifibb.com . It will be used for downloads and the customer support. It will be launched shortly. I will keep you up to date with the domain.

Have fun!!

Andy

Hello there,

I am Andy and I will be here to give you every information you need about HifiBB.org . I will also be posting the news and the updates from the administrator (TheUniqueTiger). I have been a contributing to HifiBB with graphics and now with this blog. I will post atleast once a week to keep you updated with the information and the new stuff happening.

So be sure to check this out regularly.

Hope to see you guys around.

Andy

Contributor – Author, Graphics