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Site Changes Afoot

By The Guru on July 15, 2009

You might have noticed today that things are different here at Symbian-Guru.com. Indeed, after months of thought, we’ve decided to disconnect the forum from our main site. We won’t be completely shutting the forum down, but you will notice that new posts on the front page are no longer posted to the forum, and the old WordPress comment system is back in action.

While this might not be the best overall situation, it solves several problems we have been having with the WordPress/vBulletin bridge. For starters, the bridge was never able to successfully show the correct post author. For most of our news items, this isn’t a big deal. However, when it comes to reviews, editorials, and the like, we noticed that it was confusing for you, the reader, and it’s important to us that you know which Symbian-Guru author has written each story. We have also had issues with the corresponding thread being available initially after a post is published.

Also, we’re planning quite a few changes for Symbian-Guru over the next several months, including a complete visual overhaul that will hopefully declutter this front page and make it easier for you to find the content you’re looking for. This will also include touch-friendly versions of the mobile site and forum. The forum bridge was holding several of these things back, unfortunately, so we had to disable it to move forward.

The Forum is not going away, though. We will continue to post interesting competitions and polls there, and want you to know that it’s a great place to carry on the conversations that might not be related to a specific post on Symbian-Guru.com. The Symbian-Guru Forum was created as a place for Symbian-Guru readers to connect with others, and it will remain as such.

We’re also doing away with the new toolbar that you might have noticed along the bottom of the screen. Enough of you let us know in the feedback that you didn’t care for it, so we won’t be using it any longer. We will be introducing some of the features separately, though, so be on the lookout.

Thanks for everyone who provided feedback, and thanks, as always, for continuing to make Symbian-Guru one of the most-read Symbian resources on the Internet.

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The Guru, aka Ricky Cadden, started Symbian-Guru.com in November 2006, out of his excitement for the S60 3rd Edition version of Symella. The Guru has used Symbian devices since the Nokia 6620, and is known for his perspective as a power user. You can follow The Guru on Twitter at @Rcadden

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  • http://thenokianetwork.com SteveRowlands

    I must say, I am glad to see that the legacy commenting system is back, I’ll be sure to be more active with commenting now. Disqus integration may be a worthy move forward for you to consider in the future as a suggestion from me.

    Steve

  • http://steverowlands.wordpress.com Steve Rowlands

    I must say, I am glad to see that the legacy commenting system is back, I’ll be sure to be more active with commenting now. Disqus integration may be a worthy move forward for you to consider in the future as a suggestion from me.

    Steve

  • Rafe

    Good stuff Ricky. Look forward to seeing what you have in store.

  • Rafe

    Good stuff Ricky. Look forward to seeing what you have in store.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/ TheGuru

    Steve – I’ve looked at Disqus, and while it’s tough to argue with their feature-set, I’m not currently interested in allowing a 3rd party to host any additional pieces of Symbian-Guru – if they go down (which they have), then I’m screwed, with no options. In any case, I think you’ll enjoy some of the new things we’ve got planned.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com TheGuru

    Steve – I’ve looked at Disqus, and while it’s tough to argue with their feature-set, I’m not currently interested in allowing a 3rd party to host any additional pieces of Symbian-Guru – if they go down (which they have), then I’m screwed, with no options. In any case, I think you’ll enjoy some of the new things we’ve got planned.

  • http://www.fonearena.com/blog/ varunkrish

    Ricky ,

    I have been holding back on commenting on this site just due to the forum bridge . Glad you got rid of it !

    Have you tried js-kit ?

  • http://fonearena.com/blog/ Varun

    Ricky ,

    I have been holding back on commenting on this site just due to the forum bridge . Glad you got rid of it !

    Have you tried js-kit ?

  • http://mobilpresse.com/ Modser

    Nice to see the toolbar gone. Nice to see you actually care about the readers voice. And nice to see Symbian-Guru moving forward.

    One question though: Without the forum bridge, comments will no longer be linked to the corresponding forums account? That´s a tiny bit sad, but still nothing compared to the advantages.

  • http://mobilpresse.com Modser

    Nice to see the toolbar gone. Nice to see you actually care about the readers voice. And nice to see Symbian-Guru moving forward.

    One question though: Without the forum bridge, comments will no longer be linked to the corresponding forums account? That´s a tiny bit sad, but still nothing compared to the advantages.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com/ TheGuru

    @Modser – correct. It’s an unfortunate side-effect. We could have kept the bridge and *only* used it to bridge users, but that would still have kept the technical limitations that are preventing the site from moving forward. Seems it was best to dump it altogether. We’ll still be actively participating in the forum, and hope you guys will, too, but for now, this is the best move for the site, and according to the few comments here, seems you guys agree. :)

    We’ll be adding more comment features soon, such as the ability to subscribe to email notifications, etc.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com TheGuru

    @Modser – correct. It’s an unfortunate side-effect. We could have kept the bridge and *only* used it to bridge users, but that would still have kept the technical limitations that are preventing the site from moving forward. Seems it was best to dump it altogether. We’ll still be actively participating in the forum, and hope you guys will, too, but for now, this is the best move for the site, and according to the few comments here, seems you guys agree. :)

    We’ll be adding more comment features soon, such as the ability to subscribe to email notifications, etc.

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