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What the Sam-H has happened to my forum?
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I too can imagine it was big work for them, but we have to ask: were there any features missing in vBulletin that were consistently asked or begged for, so that the heavy burden of migration had to be put on the teams shoulders and ruin their free time?
Are there any reasons that made the change inevitable? If not, then either the "team" did it, because they wanted to and were willing to put that much effort in it OR they were doing it in an act of mercy, because they felt they couldn't let the members suffer much longer and let them be held back from the fancy new future.
There is no sarcasm intended, nor do I want to offend anyone. I really appreciate the skills and efforts of "the team", but I try to find myself the reason for all this (considering the huge trouble for the team behind it and now as it is moved, for the member(s) sitting in front of it).
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Bond girl?
PS: oh, that makes sense "language chooser" is for setting the time format to 24h or 12h.
Don't mind the look its fresh enough, only real issue is the change of habits it brings - got soooo used to being able to scan down the board index and see the first post in each category in the old setup (nice and convenient) whereas its all a level in now.
There's a good few threads I'd never have replied to in subforums I don't usually bother with if I hadn't spotted them as latest thread while scanning the old index, just wondering how many other folks that applies to.
At end of the day if it makes adminning the thing easier for those that are stuck with the task, then just going to have to grin and bear it
There's a good few threads I'd never have replied to in subforums I don't usually bother with if I hadn't spotted them as latest thread while scanning the old index, just wondering how many other folks that applies to.
At end of the day if it makes adminning the thing easier for those that are stuck with the task, then just going to have to grin and bear it
So you like the new forum, great glad you like it, but there is not way in the world being able to see the top post in each forum at a glance without any actions is slower than having to click on a link to see each one individually. It has nothing to do with workflow. Maybe you can explain how clicking on a bunch of links is quicker than clicking on none. We will have to get used to it or not, but faster? Lets be honest here, there is not way possible. It's not designed that way.
Snorkelman makes my point:
Wow... I'm not a fan of this format. Also it would have been nice to migrate preferences (digest email, posts/page), but understand that may not have been possible.
Those issues aside this format is kind of bright and harsh. I'm sure I'll adapt the same way I did with iOS8
Those issues aside this format is kind of bright and harsh. I'm sure I'll adapt the same way I did with iOS8
Time to log out for a while until either the next change is made or I just forget the forums exist.
This is ugly enough to me that I'll simply stay away. At the end of the day I don't care how much work went into it; this new format has lost a user.
All the best to everyone here.
This is ugly enough to me that I'll simply stay away. At the end of the day I don't care how much work went into it; this new format has lost a user.
All the best to everyone here.
The old forum software was end of life. It was a version of VBulletin 3, which has long been canned.
It'd be nice if the box was renamed and "English" was removed from the names of the options. I'd also like to see a way of making dates appear in DMY order... and I'm sure that other people would appreciate a YMD option.PS: oh, that makes sense "language chooser" is for setting the time format to 24h or 12h.
Overall, I like it. It's clean, and well thought out. The new layout has taken a bit to get used to, but I'm already starting to get a feel for it.
The only thing I miss is seeing the latest thread in a forum while browsing through the landing page. With the old setup, I'd occasionally see an interesting thread somewhere I normally never go, and hit it up. With the way things are now, I'll miss out on them entirely.
But that's a small gripe about a small change overall. Something I think I can live with.
The only thing I miss is seeing the latest thread in a forum while browsing through the landing page. With the old setup, I'd occasionally see an interesting thread somewhere I normally never go, and hit it up. With the way things are now, I'll miss out on them entirely.
But that's a small gripe about a small change overall. Something I think I can live with.
I've been a member here for quite some time, and even though I knew it was coming (and long overdue) the sudden change was jarring.
What was the consequence of it being end of life? Did it start to get security problems?
You need to take a step back about 8 years! The short version is that Jelsoft the company behind vBulletin got acquired by a company called Internet Brands who one could suggest were more interested in profit than the product. The original lead developers behind vBulletin disagreed with the new owners, left in 2009 and went on to setup XenForo. vBulletin 4 was horribly buggy so most forums stayed on v3.8 which is 6 years old now, hasn't been patched in years and pre-dates the massive popularity of iOS devices and other smartphones and tablets.
Out of curiosity, do these work yet? I see a few people with some points, and many without any, even though based on https://forums.macrumors.com/help/trophies it seems that quite a few more people should have some points (in the sense that anyone who has ever posted anything should at least have 1 it would seem).
Huh you're right. Seems I'm the only one with trophies - which is why I assumed it was working for everyone
I'll have to rebuild all the caches. I shortcut some of them. Seems I shouldn't have.
arn
Yeah, has been going on for twenty minutes or so. No actual messages, of course, just the notifications. This is to an iOS7 iPhone running an ageing version of Tapatalk (iOS7.1.2 and Tapatalk 3.1.1 to be precise).
EDIT: and, fifteen minutes later, this post (made from a desktop) hasn't appeared in the 'participated' section of Tapatalk. Was running fine earlier today but it looks like the new forum platform and Tapatalk have decided they don't want to play nicely.
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I'm on 8.4 and Tapatalk 4.1 and this has been about the same time length as what you said. It was working OK (previous to platform change, I got my new thread in sub-forum notifications, and now I dont) for the most part after the transition up until now.
Different iOS and Tapatalk versions, but if it was a universal problem there'd be a dozen new threads on the subject by now. Curious...
Well it stopped now for me being that all my PMs came in and thus there was nothing more to send.
But yeah, it is odd that no one else is reporting this if it's happened to 3 of us on different systems and Tapatalk versions. Does anyone know if this happened on the regular desktop forums?
I have 49 PMs – sorry, 'conversations' – but didn't receive 49 messages from Arn; seemed to be three or four batches of five messages. So I don't think there was a straight one-for-one correlation with PMs. I haven't enabled push notifications to my mini, but while these notifications were arriving to my iPhone I had MacRumors open in Safari, and they didn't appear to be coming to the browser: no flags, no nothing.
Oh, and Tapatalk's 'participated' is working normally once again. Hopefully it was a one-off blip.