Forum Changes - 26th July 2014

[MattW]

...I would like to be the one that burns the Ashes 13 forum in a furious fire before the lights are switched off.

5 minutes of moderator privileges?

 

[sanjeevaloria]

I m already use this good but not excellent
Famous forums
Vbulletin
Ipboard
XenForo
Vbulletin and IP board best

you use these as a member or administrator ?

 

[Spickery]

Will the new forum mean the way we publish news articles changes Matt?

 

[tigerboss]

you use these as a member or administrator ?

Administrator

 

[MattW]

Will the new forum mean the way we publish news articles changes Matt?

Nope.

 

[lion100lion]

I m already use this good but not excellent
Famous forums
Vbulletin
Ipboard
XenForo
Vbulletin and IP board best

Did anyone understand this ?

 

[swacker]

Is it just me or everyone?

 

[MattW]

Is it just me or everyone?

We'll be taking the opportunity of the forum shift to also do a move to a new server - which might help improve things here.

I have been noticing them more often personally.

 

[Abhas]

I believe that was a CloudFlare outage, because I was getting the same for my website sometime back.

 

[IceAgeComing]

Did anyone understand this ?

I guess he's saying the software of the forums that he uses and what he thinks of them.

There's a forum I use that still uses circa-2001 vb2 modified by an incompetent coder literally kept together by string. Like it was before vb had search and the one they created hasn't worked since May and was once broken for two years. I think they're finally thinking of upgrading to something less medieval, but you really can't tell with something awful...

 

[Biggs]

vBulletin has been such a mainstay of the forum world, certainly the ones I've visited for years and years. It's quite old and dated, even with the updates and I guess I'm used to PC.net constantly looking like the late 90s. Lots of differences with XF but I like em and change us always a good thing.

 

[MattW]

A look at the current version of vBulletin shows why we're not going in that direction.

I've not been a member of a XenForo forum myself - it's new to me as much as anyone, but the modern platform, including ongoing support and updates is crucial going forward.

There's some really nice stuff we can do with XenForo that would have been near impossible on here. The responsive design to make the site fully functional on phones and tablets is worth the shift by itself imo.

 

[Biggs]

I much prefer browsing the testing site on the phone, needs to be tweaked a little to be slightly less cluttered but the ability to see non-intrusive avatars on the mobile device is really great.

 

[SRT]

@MattW
Please Allow Me To Just View The Testing Forum Once .

 

[Skater]

@MattW
Please Allow Me To Just View The Testing Forum Once .

Boy, we are having parties in there that you could only dream of. We all think we're having a good time and then Biggs arrives to show us what having fun is really all about.