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Vanilla forum themes?
Hi.
I'm setting up a gaming community and would like to have a central source of communication.
I did pick Vanilla as forum system mainly because i really liked how LET functions through it! - i've successfully installed it but now im looking to add a custom theme to it, problem is, i cannot find alot of sites that create themes for Vanilla.
So far i found:
and that's it. there is a serious lack of good themes. it would be great if you guys could share some links for more themes - i dont mind paying a fixed price for them.
Thanks!
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Best of luck, personally I suggest you find a different forum software.
And if you follow the suggestion above, take a look at discourse.
+1 I'd suggest IP.Board otherwise hire someone to make a theme for you or make one yourself.
I would suggest you stay with Vanilla Forums, is a pretty damn grat forum software, has alot of capabilities and is fast, very fast. Play around with the original theme or try to contact someone to make it for you, I will say that going 'vanilla' is better, is not how your forum looks but what the content is. Good luck!
Sounds nice. Does it needs a lot of ressources to function properly?
Thanks
edit: hardware requirement from https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md
Dual core CPU recommended
1 GB RAM minimum (with swap)
64 bit Linux compatible with Docker
That's quite a bit...
Vanilla is a nice forum software but they are lacking in themes. Some other similar alternatives would be discourse and nodebb.
Thanks for the feedback guys but i wont switch forum software just because of the lack of themes. Vanilla is perfect for what i want to accomplish so i guess im going to get my hands dirty and start modifying the default theme myself.
If in the meantime anyone finds another resource for vanilla themes feel free to share it.
It may be perfect for what you need now, but when the community grows it will probably stop being that perfect.
Vanilla is far away from perfectness and lacks a lot of useful features..
I would suggest you to go with IP.Board (paid) or MyBB (free).
I've used MyBB in the past, and it's great. Now, I'm using IP.Board and developing some applications/modifications for it; that's why I left MyBB. Although, of all the free forum platforms, MyBB is the best.
If you're happy with BootStrap, grab this theme - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/bootstrap-theme
And modify the hell out of it, it's all fairly simple.
If it really won't work out i definitly choose MyBB, i've worked with it before but its just so bloated..
I really like how Vanilla's flow is, but I don't care too much for the Vanilla Team one bit. Their lack of themes is frustrating, but the only one I've come closed to near the Vanilla experience is EsoTalk. I wish people would build a better forum similar to these two with a great community behind it. LowEndForum anyone?
Put XenForo to your list if you want to have more alternatives to Vanilla.
They have a very active community and finding themes is much easier.
Hi, vanilla for gaming community is not good.
The main problem of vanilla it's not friendly interface.
Try something like xenforo or IPB.
Both very good.
Both have tons of plugins, themes, features.
Vanilla is sad. Search is awful
I personally like Vanilla. That said, I also have a vB5 licence for sale if you're interested.
Xenforo for gaming community website.
If you just want Vanilla and not santisfied with default theme. Go themeforest and find a designer to make one. Not cheap but also cheaper than you find some random companies online.
If you give up of Vanilla, try XenForo
Please don't use XenForo, IP.board, Vbulletin, MyBb or phpbb3...
For my vanilla sites I just made my own based off the standard theme.
Looks like i'll be using Vanilla after all. I've found a theme that i really like and vanilla has alot of plugins avaible! so far i'm really comfy with this forum system and i believe that this is what matters the most.
Nice
Would you link to this theme here so that we can check it out?
Thx!
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Do you wanna rate it? lol.
anyways - http://vanillaforums.org/addon/apptastic-theme
Well, a nice vanilla theme is always interesting to know about, even if I don't like the 'vanilla business', i kinda like the software
'vanilla business' - what do you mean by that?
Well, some time ago the link to the software had been removed, pushing as much traffic as possible to the hosted plateform, and you had to make quite a few jumps to find a link to a tarball (if you ended up successful). The link came back after a few weeks though, but I felt strange about that.
I'm used to 100% community made software though, that's probably why that did feel strange.
We can't blame them to make some dough to keep coding, hey
@Mark_R which game is the community about?
multiple games. as the community grows more gameservers for different games will be setup. i'd like to have one big fun non-serious community without 360noscope pro bitchasses - the community is mainly for people who just wanna blow off some steam and have a good time after coming back from work.
well nice, let me know about this, i'd like to take part if possbile
I've sent you a private message.