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Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

And how about PCad and botto? OK, maybe that is taking it too far :roflmao2: Is there not better software out there? Just saying.

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

And how about PCad and botto? OK, maybe that is taking it too far :roflmao2: Is there not better software out there? Just saying.

holy ****, i actually agree with you.

holy ****, i actually agree with you.

Off the meds, b?

Off the meds, b?

if i agree with you, i must be on them.

I'd say this is one of the best forum softwares I've seen.

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

And how about PCad and botto? OK, maybe that is taking it too far :roflmao2: Is there not better software out there? Just saying.

It is a free software. Take it or leave it. Beside it is just a forum. I've never noticed any real inconvenience aside of it being slow every so often.

I'd say this is one of the best forum softwares I've seen.

I agree.

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?


Too many forums use this software package and there really hasn't been enough development, or if there has been, too few forums have updated to the latest releases. At least they got rid of that god awful 30 second search wait (which even triggered on failed searches, to top it off).

Two things...

PHPBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)
and
Image Zoom for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/139)

I actually think this forum is fine compared to some others that have participated in.
easy to post mssgs, read threads, add images hosted here, embed images that are hosted elsewhere.
Overall pretty good usability.

I haven't experienced either of the problems you site.

Isn't there a six-month probation period before new users can start complaining?

Let's make it nine.

I would like it if the forum blocked really large images, or just kept all the text visible on screen. They did do an upgrade a while back which fixed some things, but that annoying attachment viewer showed up in decompensation for it.

Isn't there a six-month probation period before new users can start complaining?

Let's make it nine.

What are you, the hall monitor? Look if botto agrees, I must be on to something.

Invison Power Board is significantly better

Two things...

PHPBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)
and
Image Zoom for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/139)

Thanks!! That image zoom add-on is really useful.

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?



I agree with you. It's very annoying. But good luck convincing anyone.


http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=502884

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Definitely agree on the two points you mentioned. Showing pages that don't exist is annoying, and not auto-downsizing ridiculously huge pictures is annoying too. The auto-resize seems like it would be an easy fix. The imaginary pages, on the other hand, is a database issue that could be more difficult to track down.

Rather than blame the software, blame the people who don't know how to resize their images to something usable. I accidentally posted a huge image once. I think it was 2600 pixels wide. Oops! So I immediately shrunk it down in PS and re-uploaded it to my server. Disaster and annoyance avoided.

To be fair to those who might still be using a 15" monitor, I try to keep my images at 600 pixels wide. Can we start beating those who don't?

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

And how about PCad and botto? OK, maybe that is taking it too far :roflmao2: Is there not better software out there? Just saying.

We are very sorry that you don't like the software, but I suspect that it will remain vBulletin for a long time.

What don't you like about PCad and botto? Personally, I find both of them to be interesting and informative.

East Hill

We are very sorry that you don't like the software, but I suspect that it will remain vBulletin for a long time.



East Hill

Usability issues be damned. I guess one gets what one pays for, right?

Usability issues be damned. I guess one gets what one pays for, right?

IMO the forums work fairly well. It isn't perfect but what is. Given the size of this community (very large) I think vbulletin does an admirable job. THere are other forums which are more feature rich, but would not be appropriate for such a large forum.

Every feature requires a certain amount of server power, time/resources to implement as well as time/resources to support and maintain.

It would be very costly to try and convert these forums to a completely different engine. And a good chance that historical data could get hosed in the process.

And the bottom line, is that all of these things cost money. A forum this size I am sure if expensive to run. I don't know their finances, but their revenue comes from ads and members.

Given your lack of any stars next to your name, I would suspect you are getting what you pay for.

-D

It's too early in the century to worry about it.

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

And how about PCad and botto? OK, maybe that is taking it too far :roflmao2: Is there not better software out there? Just saying.

MitchellH, barring autosizing, which is probably in the script anyway, you can use a scrolling mouse and click and hold the wheel while dragging. 360 degree drag travel is not hard to accomplish as such.

Them thingies are righteous.:beer:

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

And how about PCad and botto? OK, maybe that is taking it too far :roflmao2: Is there not better software out there? Just saying.It's actually very good software. This particular implementation of it isn't very good. There's tons of cools stuff that can be done with vBulletin. There's a plug-in for it that automatically resizes images to a pre-determined size, with the option to expand to normal size by the reader. I've mentioned it in this subforum multiple times, and either nothing has been done, or they don't care.


It is a free software. Take it or leave it. Beside it is just a forum. I've never noticed any real inconvenience aside of it being slow every so often.vBulletin is not free. (https://www.vbulletin.com/order/)

Invison Power Board is significantly better

vBulletin is owned by Jelsoft.

East Hill

vBulletin is owned by Jelsoft.

East Hill

Was owned by Jelsoft, before being acquired by Internet Brands.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1383883#post1383883

You can make some of the people happy all of the time or all of the people some of the time but you will never make all the people happy all of the time......words to live by!!

Was owned by Jelsoft, before being acquired by Internet Brands.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1383883#post1383883

Exactly my point, Allen!

:lol:

Exactly my point, Allen!

:lol:

In other words, the chances of Internet Brands switching Bike Forums from vBulletin to something else are pretty slim.

In other words, the chances of Internet Brands switching Bike Forums from vBulletin to something else are pretty slim.

I think that sums it up, right there :thumb: .

Leaves much to be desired, to put it nicely, IMO. I mean, how come if someone posts a large picture all of a sudden the whole thread is now a use right arrow to follow thread?

This should not happen, each post should be its own table. Posts should stretch to the width of the window unless there is a large image that stretches the post table to the right. One of the IB design guys is going to have to look into this further.


And how many time have you gotten to the end of a thread and it shows that there is another page and when you click on the last page, there is no there there?

My guess is that this is a MySQL database limit issue. I sold BikeForums when it had four and a half million posts, no we have eight million two hundred thousand posts. Its time for BikeForums to jump from MySQL to something more robust, maybe PostgreSQL?

At least the uptime is better! :thumb:

This should not happen, each post should be its own table. Posts should stretch to the width of the window unless there is a large image that stretches the post table to the right. One of the IB design guys is going to have to look into this further.

Well ... this does happen. Just about every thread that has a photo in it requires me to scroll right. Many times all I can see of a photo is a tiny bit of the upper left corner, and then if there is text in any subsequent post, I've got to scroll way over to read it all.

Well ... this does happen. Just about every thread that has a photo in it requires me to scroll right. Many times all I can see of a photo is a tiny bit of the upper left corner, and then if there is text in any subsequent post, I've got to scroll way over to read it all.

Which is why people who post huge images should be beaten and forced to ride Huffys.

Was owned by Jelsoft, before being acquired by Internet Brands.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1383883#post1383883

And I use versions of both everyday. The coding elements are fairly common and shared by thousands of sites, so it seems. the difference as I see it is that my other daily IB site has less than a dozen regular users, not over 170,000 total members.

Audiokarma uses something very similar, if not it. This platform is a lot better than some think and what does that leave, YaBB (Yet Another Bulletin Board)? that's good for some things but I've never seen a really large YaBB site?

I know there is room for improvements and I'm not here to squash any criticism either yet I have to ask that impatience be patient and learn every workaround you can.

I had to deal with Google Groups for a long time and Google folks are in a disconnect on purpose in my opinion. It's an alien world and I'd blame it on Sergey and Larry(?) that started the place. Their business acumen only worked because we were all on Planet X at the time and didn't know better.

This site is still heaven and it's pretty graceful to me. Everything hiccups now and then and some things are disabled. This is a place to communicate with other cyclists and that works great most of the time.

I'll stop babbling now and go find another 12V turn signal set at the thrift store.