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Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
The Good:
- Most everything is working, the other stuff not working is minor. It's late/early depending on your perspective.
- The new Escort Reviews, I can see this as very good thing but who knows. Take a look at the first entry I added.
- vBulletin has it's own Mobile style now, it's different but works for phones. They also have a tie in for Forum Runner which is an app that costs money for Android and Apple not sure if we will go that way maybe I will run a poll.
- Blue Senseless is now fluid and takes up the whole screen.
The Bad
- The Default Style is gone, Blue Senseless is your only choice. Of course some might consider this "a good".
- The old Mobile Style is gone (see above). Now I no longer have to wait for the 3rd party author to update it.
- "What's New?" has changed, now when you click on it you will see the new Activity Stream. I did add "new posts" & "today's posts" to the sub-menu under "What's New?" but it defaults to the Activity Stream, maybe people will like it.
- The green numbers that were on the forums showing the number of latest threads/posts is currently gone. I have to wait for the update by the author, when updated it will return.
- "Who Read A Thread" has been reset, it use to be a 3rd party addon, now it's part of vBulletin and there is no way to move the old data over.
The Ugly
- The new Sidebar on the Forum Home, at least it's collapsible and will stay collapsed while navigating the site. Depending on your browser it may or may not stay collapsed when you log off or close your browser. Maybe people will keep it open, again who knows.
- Banner ads are back as soon as I review with Jimmy who our current advertisers are.
Reply to this thread with any criticisms or issues.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Looks great DT, thanks for all the hard work!
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
My usual routine is to see if I have any Notifications then go to New Posts. How can I exclude NewWhore items from the list of New Posts, as I don't want to wade through dozens of those to find the first few ISOC new posts?
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
Don Tomas
[*]Blue Senseless is now fluid and takes up the whole screen. [/LIST]
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yeah :clap:
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Weyland you click whats new then right under that, the old menu options are there.. "todays posts".. etc. took me a few mins to find it too
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
It sure makes the latest updates a lot easier to see. Being able to click on the old style makes me feel less anxious too.
Great stuff. I sure am glad you're on board. Thanks for your incredible support.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Thanks, DT.
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to keep News Whore out of my "New Posts."
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
DT thanks for all the hard work you do and the many hours of headaches it takes to do the updates/backups.
it is truly appreciated.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Nice , a little confusing at first with the minor changes but easy enough to navigate thru ........
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
weyland
My usual routine is to see if I have any Notifications then go to New Posts. How can I exclude NewWhore items from the list of New Posts, as I don't want to wade through dozens of those to find the first few ISOC new posts?
Where do you see any NewsWhore posts? I thought I excluded them all from the Activity Stream, New Posts, & Today's Posts. That should also be for the mobile style.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
BlueDevil
Thanks, DT.
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to keep News Whore out of my "New Posts."
Never mind to my reply to Weyland's Post, I figured out where you guys are seeing it. That is the problem sometimes, there are multiple Today's/New Posts in the navbar.
PS. I will mention again to remind people, I know nobody likes NewsWhore, but someone does, Search Engines.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
Don Tomas
Never mind to my reply to Weyland's Post, I figured out where you guys are seeing it. That is the problem sometimes, there are multiple Today's/New Posts in the navbar.
PS. I will mention again to remind people, I know nobody likes NewsWhore, but someone does, Search Engines.
And probably many of the guys who have found this forum did so thanks to NewsWhore while they were googling, so I’m sure that overall it’s a very positive feature; but considering that hardly anyone – if anyone at all - reads it NewsWhore should be as deep under the carpet as possible, if that is feasible, of course, I’m just talking from a non-technical, simple user’s perspective.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Gladiator
And probably many of the guys who have found this forum did so thanks to NewsWhore while they were googling, so I’m sure that overall it’s a very positive feature; but considering that hardly anyone – if anyone at all - reads it NewsWhore should be as deep under the carpet as possible, if that is feasible, of course, I’m just talking from a non-technical, simple user’s perspective.
I agree, maybe I will even move it to Old Forums, but right now it is excluded from every search option, I believe. If anyone finds it elsewhere let me know.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
Don Tomas
I agree, maybe I will even move it to Old Forums, but right now it is excluded from every search option, I believe. If anyone finds it elsewhere let me know.
By the way, great work, as always, DT!
I like the widescreen too... :iconTU:
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
DT:
Can you get rid of the top 10 stats feature? It is on the bottom of the forum link. We had that security leak where lower members can read the topic heads in upper levels. I dont think anyone ever reads that thing. If its not too hard to delete I would.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
I just lost the tool bar with the Whats New, and New Post buttons. And I have Newswhore post on mobile. Both issues on mobile
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Hunter
DT:
Can you get rid of the top 10 stats feature? It is on the bottom of the forum link. We had that security leak where lower members can read the topic heads in upper levels. I dont think anyone ever reads that thing. If its not too hard to delete I would.
i like that feature and check it regularly
i change it to show the top 200 to see who the top 200 posters are as they are our main posters:corky:
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
Don Tomas
Never mind to my reply to Weyland's Post, I figured out where you guys are seeing it. That is the problem sometimes, there are multiple Today's/New Posts in the navbar.
PS. I will mention again to remind people, I know nobody likes NewsWhore, but someone does, Search Engines.
when i am bored i scan thru the news whore posts as well.
there is actually a lot of great info located there:corky:
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
Hunter
DT:
Can you get rid of the top 10 stats feature? It is on the bottom of the forum link. We had that security leak where lower members can read the topic heads in upper levels. I dont think anyone ever reads that thing. If its not too hard to delete I would.
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Originally Posted by
whynotme
i like that feature and check it regularly
i change it to show the top 200 to see who the top 200 posters are as they are our main posters:corky:
Jimmy loves stats, I will look into the permission issue.
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Re: Upgrade: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
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Originally Posted by
TNT72
I just lost the tool bar with the Whats New, and New Post buttons. And I have Newswhore post on mobile. Both issues on mobile
Will check on it.