Using Esotalk until Flarum is stable?

flarumr

As I posted in a former discussion, I want to use Flarum for a project in production. Because there is no date available by when 0.1 version will be released (I understand the issues of the devs), I am thinking about to use Esotalk and switch to Flarum later when it reached a stable release?

I would like to know your opinion about this idea? Will there be a migration tool to switch from Esotalk to Flarum and is latest Esotalk release good enough for use in production?

Thanks for your help!

Prosperous

Without speaking officially for the developers here or Toby, esoTalk is definitely capable of running a site as it does have a stable release. Flarum is still in beta but I personally am using it in a production environment without any issues or hassles however one thing you've got to bear in mind is that the more you modify your forum, the higher the chances of something screwing up if and when you are to upgrade the software (even between beta releases).

Questions you should be asking yourself; can I run the beta temporarily until a stable version is released? How long can I wait? Can I take the time and resources to create a community with esoTalk and migrate everything to Flarum? How would such changes impact my community?

Hopefully this helps shed some light on your goals.

flarumr

Thanks for your opinion!
Would you tell me the url of your forum? Just curious!

Prosperous

flarumr It's barely worth a mention at the moment in all honesty. Not only is it still early stages but it is more of a personal project as opposed to a business site or large community for example. There are many other examples you can find throughout the forum which show exactly how capable Flarum really is even in the beta stages, some bone stock like my project is and others more heavily modified.

Keep an eye out for them.

jordanjay29

flarumr You can find links to many of our users' production and testing forums in the Showcase tag. This is where we allow people to post these links, doing so outside of this area is a violation of our advertising rules.

KnownSyntax

Yes there will be a migration tool from esoTalk to Flarum as Toby has stated on both projects.

The question that you should ask yourself as Liberty stated is are you up to running a beta on your website? Will you be able to handle things if a update requires some back-end knowledge, things break without any explanation on why, are you able to tell your users that there may be some flaws which could be a security issue?

esoTalk works great, just doesn't have the speed improvements like Flarum does or the theme/style which is very sleek. I personally run esoTalk currently until Flarum is stable enough to be used and supported by everyone (currently it's too much of a pain to update and also users tend to like things that stay the same and not break or work partially). So far people I've had my discussion board with love Flarum and see esoTalk as a temporary but required solution to avoid issues which may be out of everyone's hands.

I'll share my URL of my esoTalk installation in case you want to try things out or see how it feels; http://discuss.freshaquaria.org/