Official Thread to Report Bugs, Concerns or Suggestions With The New Site Platform
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I have found your personal permissions, somehow it got buried after vBulletin move. The security on th enew software is more robust, so it must have set your to alost no options or services for some bizarre reason. Try it now, should be good now. Ypu have yes to everything except mods.
CAN YOU LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE LESS PERMISSIONS?
In the import from vBulletin some odd things have occured with some member permissions, resulting in lost member status (Industry Expert, for example) and no edit options to posts etc. Members in fact now have more options and facilities to add images, style text and order folders. Once we get the odd permission glitch sorted, it should be all good.
In the import from vBulletin some odd things have occured with some member permissions, resulting in lost member status (Industry Expert, for example) and no edit options to posts etc. Members in fact now have more options and facilities to add images, style text and order folders. Once we get the odd permission glitch sorted, it should be all good.
Latest activity is now perfect, thanks!
All it needs now is Ked getting an avatar - too many people using the colored B !
All it needs now is Ked getting an avatar - too many people using the colored B !
Our long time down yesterday as stated was to move the live forum to the ROOT directory and to hide the old VBulletin and XENMASTER forums such that we could finally after 8 weeks finish our SEO data as well as correcting the Google search problem. Now when you use Google to search Whats Best Forum you land on the home page of the live site which we couldn't do 2 days ago
there are 8 different font styles included. Are you saying you desire more font styles
We have no desire to add so many different colors, styles , fonts, combinations etc because if you think the forum is difficult to follow the hodge podge created iwith everything you want would cause IMO nothing but sore eyes
These colors and color combinations were selected because they are the easiest on the eyes
There are also color assortments that can be selected from the Text Color button which is there at the top of the post box
I can set a count in the sub forum section BUT it looks like the count won't then be added to the total count for the Vinyl forum. Not sure if that is a good idea? See the panel here where I can click count in the sub section (or not).
Problem solved here Tima
What I am finding is that many (if not most of the suggestions) are already available as changing the chronological order of reading the posts
I encourage members to look at the new format and explore each button as to its function as almost certainly the answers to your questions will become evident
bear in mind that Xenforo was created by 2 former VBulletin creators so even though things look different, if you explore you will find answers to your questions
Hopefully in the next day or 2 we will make operational the enhanced search add on which we purchased. One thing we can all agree on ws the the search function in VBulletin was terrible. We promised to make that better. Personally I have had no problems with the included Search option but when this add on is installed I expect things to be even better
I would include those 2 options for the post count for each member
Have all of you discovered that if you click the small chevron under your avatar, your personal stats are made visible
You may be replying to someone else's item.
Do you have any comment on 1) the PRIVACY issue I've mentioned twice? 2) the lack of VIEW COUNT mentioned twice. Those items are not about post ordering or search.
Hunting and pecking for prior feature equivalents is one way to learn.
Did the former VBulletin developers create any documentation, such as:
Old Board funtion ABC = New Board equivalent function XYZ? If so that might make the transition easier for people. (Many developers create documentation only after its absence becomes painful.) Hopefully your developers are regularly reading this thread.
As an IT manager for 30 years I understand and appreciate the work that goes into creating new software and deploying it. It is hard to create something new that exceeds end-user expectations without breaking those expectations. It is typically surprising to discover all the different ways people come up with to use a piece of software, along with the many different work-arounds they create. Hopefully you have back-end developers who can answer questions for you? For software of this scale, it is more than a full time job for one person during the rollout period.
I suggest keeping a list of bugs and questions reported along with their resolution status maintained only by Admins. This might be categorized. That way end users can view and search before adding to the workload. Also people can see if their report is acknowledged or accepted. A thread for "How Do I...." type questions to which end-users can contribute may also lighten the workload. Thanks.
I posted about the count function, and uploaded an image grab of the cPanel. We could set the counters but that will affect the overall category counters....
@bonzo75
That is a regular problem for search. Typically search will look for combinations of letters anywhere it finds them. That means inside other words - and that can mean large numbers of irrelevant search results. It doesn't know what you want. It's a trade-off. Having something like "search whole words only" could be an option that avoids that issue. For example putting your search term in quotes (eg. "SRA") could mean search only for the term surrounded by white space.
Typically you'd buy a quality search engine that can be customized to your particular subject domain and to which work can be handed-off, rather than re-inventing the wheel by writing your own.
----> Hopefully search will NOT search on people's equipment lists unless specified to do so.
Suppose I want to read messages about the Aesthetix Io phono stage. If by default search goes across equipment lists then every message posted by a person with that in his equipment list will return as a result. It's a waste of computer resources and end-user time.
VIEW COUNT - that is, the function that counts views - is already known as it does show in one place (that I've found.) It should be a matter of calling it (or retrieving it) on a page that lists threads for a sub-forum.
How do I change the display to show the posts in reverse order; that is the last (current) post is first on page 1. I can’t find that option even though it is probably right in front of me.
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