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Synergy by Zoints - A system like Digg integrated into forums.
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Installation and Upgrading FAQ, Changelog and Troubleshooting Pre-written threads This plugin is not currently available for vBulletin 3.7.x. Several users have reported serious incompatibilities, and we would not suggest attempting to install it on a forum running 3.7.x at this time. Foreward Awhile back, two visionaries by the names of Sal Collaziano and George B realized that a Digg-like system for forums could be highly beneficial. Kudos to those two for their understanding that by working together, we can all benefit. What is Synergy? How often does this happen to you? You or a member write a great thread, Google indexes it a week later, but it is buried in the search results so the masses never end up reading it. Frustrating, isn't it? Zoints solves this by taking a system like Digg, then integrating and mirroring in across all forums in a manner that allows great threads to be read by the masses. Synergy is designed to bring you more traffic and inspire your members to create higher quality content in order to obtain "Top Author" status. Demos (with forums like these using Synergy, you're sure to get some traffic) You'll notice all the demos look virtually the same except for the skins. This is due to the system mirroring itself across the forums. When a link is clicked, it takes the reader to the originating forum. Ubuntu Forums NASIOC ThumperTalk LWS How Synergy Works You have a lot of high quality threads on your forum. When you (or a trusted usergroup member you permission via the admincp options) decides a thread is worthy of Synergy, you select the "Add to Synergy" link as seen below.  During the next step, you write a short description for the thread and select which category it should go into.  Your thread is then added to a queue on your forum. Once every X hours, the top thread in your queue is added to Synergy.  When your thread is added to Synergy, the system distributes the link and description you wrote to all participating forums. If someone on any forum around the net clicks on your thread link, they are redirected back to your forum to the actual thread so they can read it. If people like your thread, they can vote on it which ranks it higher. Higher ranked threads, especially those that make it to the front page will in turn bring you more traffic.  The admincp settings are as follows:  Proof of Traffic If you submit good content to Synergy that gets to the front page, you WILL get a lot of traffic. The following screenshot is from a small forum early in our testing. Guess which day it got a thread on the front page?   As more forums join Synergy, more and more people will be reading your threads. Let's work together to remove our reliance on search engines to send us traffic. Our communities are full of great content, it's time for it to be read! Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Show Your Support
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| Digg.com System Integration | ZomgStuff | vBulletin 3.6 Template Modifications | 77 | 24 Mar 2008 22:13 |
| Synergy by Zoints - A system like Digg integrated into forums | Zoints | vBulletin 3.5 Add-ons | 17 | 11 Mar 2007 05:11 |
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#31
30 Jan 2007, 14:33
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Very exiting addition. I would love to have a local variant though!
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#32
30 Jan 2007, 14:37
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Originally Posted by tormodg
It is possible to only show articles from your local site. When on the zoints page just choose the "Show only threads from this forum" from the options link.
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#33
30 Jan 2007, 14:37
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Very very cool.
We run a football (soccer) website which obviously fits into Sports but are there any plans in the future to narrow down the categories with sub-categories? Mixing football with what I'm sure will be a heavily US influenced category with American Football, Baseball, Basketball, etc might not work that great for us. Having said that I definitely want to give this a try as the potential is huge.
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#34
30 Jan 2007, 14:41
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Also I'm not sure if this is the case or not but is there a "read only" type system available? Say for people with a website but no vbulletin forum. Having the ability to put a Synergy page on there to display the news would be great, even if they couldn't submit news themselves.
It looks like you've already killed http://www.dementia.za.net/forums/ with traffic as that forum is down and has the most popular story.
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#35
30 Jan 2007, 14:59
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Having an issue. Installed Zoints and created the forum. The forum, called synergy at www.potatowned.com is obviously going to the wrong place. When you click on it, it goes to http://www.potatowned.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18 which is a broken link. Any ideas? I'm at a loss on this one...
Thanks, Dan
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www.potatowned.com Last edited by dlee : 30 Jan 2007 at 15:16.
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#36
30 Jan 2007, 16:54
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David - This mod does not appear to work with VBseo. CLicking on the Synergy forum just redirects to my forum homepage. Please advise.
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#37
30 Jan 2007, 18:20
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Works fine with vBSEO on my forums...
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#38
30 Jan 2007, 18:21
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Originally Posted by ubuntu-geek
Yeah but I would need a completely different set of categories.
 It's a great plugin, but customization of the categories would make it brilliant for us.
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#39
30 Jan 2007, 18:30
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Originally Posted by tormodg
Good to know. Hmm... gotta take another look at this. EDIT - OK. It's confirmed. I am an idiot. (blush) I was missing a slightly important file. Works great! Last edited by caliman : 30 Jan 2007 at 18:43.
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#40
30 Jan 2007, 19:49
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This is absolutely awesome. If I didn't have such a niche forum, I would be totally installing this. I would love a 'digg' style system that was local though, so users can vote up their fav threads in a similar way.
Alleria is full of collaboratively written stories and so on, which would not fit in the majority of those categories. I really need something like Horror Romance Action etc etc, which users can nominate local threads to, and see in a similar system. Please note this is not a feature request for this, as I know it is to drive traffic, but it is not entirely suitable for our community, and I would love a 'local' version of synergy.
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#41
30 Jan 2007, 20:18
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I just installed this, great addon
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#42
30 Jan 2007, 20:38
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Originally Posted by Caerydd
Why not? I think it's a great feature request. Seconded by me (I already asked for it above). A local version that supports custom categories would be awesome - and worth paying for.
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#43
30 Jan 2007, 21:54
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Originally Posted by Carlos2
Not right now. However, we would love to expand to other languages. It all depends on how successful this system is. If lots of people install it and lots of other language boards want it, then we'll naturally add additional languages. For purposes of development efficiency, we couldn't add multi-language suport from the start though.
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#44
30 Jan 2007, 22:00
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Originally Posted by ChrisSy
No, sorry.
As for those of you requesting a local variant, I respect and understand that desire. However, that's not what Zoints is about. Our vision is to bring communities together in a mutually beneficial manner. As can be seen by the traffic people are already getting from this modification, that is happening. And that doesn't take into account the long term SEO benefits people who get threads to the front page will receive. Point being, we do not plan a local variant. With that said, every forum has their own personal category and members can choose to only show threads from your forum if they so desire. The options on this are pretty powerful and allow all kinds of configuration.
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#45
30 Jan 2007, 22:02
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Originally Posted by RobParker
As traffic grows, we'll definitely look into expanding categories and the customization options. We need to keep the category options narrow right now to avoid dilution.
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