FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.

The current stable release is FluxBB v1.4.5.

It is both my duty and pleasure to inform you about ongoing and upcoming changes around our "resources" repository.

First of all: unfortunately, we will not be able to continue reviewing modifications. This job has been far too time-consuming and resource-intensive to keep it up with our limited resources and team size. This duty has also mostly been fulfilled by Quy Ton, who will only have very little time for FluxBB until October. Thank you for all the efforts and your eye for detail, though!

The bright side: you will never have to wait for us to review a quick release that just fixes a little problem in an older version of your modification. Still, we obviously don't want to see the quality of submitted modifications drop. There are multiple options on how we could go about this, and we would like to receive some input from the community about them.

We could

• add a simple rating system.
  This would happen similar to how it is done on many other sites: registered users are able to rate a modification, using a 5-star-system. This way we would basically use the crowd to come up with good recommendations on the quality of modifications.

• allow users to write comments/reviews.
  Users could write a small text about a modification, judging its quality. This would, of course, take more time for users and less users would contribute.

• do something else?
  What are your suggestions? I can also imagine the 5-star-rating in combination with automatically generated per-release forum topics - the way it was done at PunRes. Your input, please!

Let's move on to nicer things:
After having started with removing all the review code from the repository, I am currently in the process of cleaning it up. This has always been the major roadblocker for me to adapt the repository to plugins and styles, too. But you can now expect the plugin repository to roll out fairly soon. How does that sound?

On a related note, I would like to add a screenshots feature to modifications. Is that a good idea? What would you think is the most important feature that is still missing?

P.S.: The release of FluxBB v1.4.6, our last feature release in the 1.4 branch, is just around the corner. Another update on the progress of v2.0 is also in the pipeline. Stay tuned!