New forum software is live - report any errors, bugs, or issues here.

rick said:

The New Discussion area works a little bit differently than it did on vBulletin. When you click on the Recent Discussions button, it takes you to a page that lists all the discussions with new comments. When you click Mark All Viewed, it does not erase the list. It changes the color of the entries of the list. After they are all marked as viewed, 

When I saw a list of discussions in the old vbulletin software, any discussions that I had posted in had a different icon.  That feature was missing in the most recent vbulletin and it appears to be missing in this vanilla software.  Too bad.

On the other hand, this new vanilla software is quicker and more responsive than either of the vbulletin softwares.  I very much appreciate all the work you administrators and moderators are doing to keep this forum up and running... Thanks!

--vtMaps

rick said:

Aguarancher said:

More of an observation than a question, but looking at users online shows visitors in the single digits. On the old forum that count was always in the hundreds. Is the website still blocked in some areas?

I've noticed this as well. I'm not sure what the reason is. The new forum has been online for a couple of days now, so if it's due to the DNS settings, we should see an increase sometime today in the number of guests. It normally doesn't take more than 48 hours for DNS changes to propagate around the globe. Otherwise, I'm not sure why there are so few guests unless Vanilla just doesn't show them all for some reason, which I find unlikely, or maybe the numbers that vBulletin was showing us were incorrect. It's hard to say why, but I'm going to keep and eye on it and see if it improves.

The difference is likely due to the duration of the time slice that is used to measure the number of viewers. Different forum software have different methods. The software we use on the forum I administer has a default setting of 15 minutes. It counts everybody who has been online in the past 15 minutes in the figure that is displayed as users online.  That could be changed to a smaller or greater time slice. maybe Vanilla is using a real time count?


DNS should be fully propagated by now.  You can check using a service like this  looks ok to me except Karachi did not report in.

Vic said:

When quoting,  and placing the Quote above text that am entering,  often,  it seems impossible to create a definite break between the Quote,  and the text,  added by another person.  How does one do this?   Customarily,  Quotes are well-defined in a box,  or similar feature.

After I hit the quote button, the quote shows up in the comment box, but there is a few second delay before the comment box enlarges itself enough to see the quote.  When it does so, it puts the cursor inside the quote box, rather than below the quote box. 

This seems to be tripping up quite a few posters.

--vtMaps

vt,

The thing that probably affects the inability of getting the new poster's comments separated from the Quote box,  might well be that if  the poster places the cursor inside the Quote,  to TRY to edit it,  forever after in that post,  all of the new post will be inside that Quote box ...  will play more.

Still cannot Edit a post,  FWIW,   BUT,  Thanks Wind-Sun for changing from vbulletin.   Vic

Sure do not understand the convolution in the Edit function ...   Guess that the Edit Button below, does nothing ...   wonder why it is even there ...  misleading,  seems.     FWIW.

This thread is now three pages long, but it is hard for me to know what page I am on.  Not only are the comments not numbered, but the pages don't appear to be either.  Am I missing something?

--vtMaps

Agree that Post numbers would be helpful.

Highlighting the page that one is current viewing is very important.

The counts for New Posts since last visit is usually wrong,  as is the Navigation to them.   Also,  seems that it is difficult or not possible to know if there has been a new Post in a thread that one has was posting into,  even upon returning an hour or so later,  but this is difficult to test ...   just a feeling.

Seems that we cannot Delete our own Posts,  being able to do so would be nice (although many Forums do not have the Delete function.

Have not seen Badges before.  Post counts kind of do the same thing,  as does showing Join date.  Even post counts seem to encourage some folks to make vacuous Posts,  with little,   or no contribution to the discussion,  and a number of those posts seem outright incorrect,  IMO.

It would be great if it were easier to SEE that a Topic (is that the word?) had New posts since the last visit,   AND  if there was a special icon or appearance in Threads in which one has made previous Posts,  which was in the vbulletin version prior to the last one used on Wind-Sun.

Know that it is easy to complain and pick at the new software,  like I am doing.  Thanks to the site owners,  BB Bill,  and all those making useful comments.

Impatient Vic.

westbranch said:

Just realized that the date of the post does not include the year...
Oh and there is no underline option, only BOLD, Italics  and strikethrough

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following,  is what Vic said:

Hi wb,

It appears,  that for Posts that are made in the current year,  the year is omitted.  For the current day,  the date is omitted ...  For historic posts from earlier years,  the year and month are shown,  but not the date or time the post was made.

Guess that saving these little bits of data add up,  but can subtract a bit from the  user's experience for some .

Sure do wish that the "new" post functions worked ...   sometimes it does but often new posts are not flagged.  Very easy to miss what is really new.

Wish that an Enter did not double-space,  wish that there was a Cancel current post,  and Delete post functions as buttons.

Being redundant,  general consistency of the function of Forum software allows users to use what they already know,  and use on other Forums.  When there are convoluted command sequences,  with mystery Icons,  it gets in the way of functionality.  Also,  absent,  yet important functions do add to the mystery of things,  but get in the way of doing what it is that we come here to try to do,  IMO.

Wish that the Quote box was better defined,  and that if one EVER places the cursor in the quote,  then it is IMPOSSIBLE to make one's post look like it is a post,  not just another or different quote ...  cannot Cancel the post and start over, or Delete the post and start over.  Wish that Quotes could be edited.

Oh well,  it IS different than vbulletin.    Thanks,    Vic

1. Right now this thread shows up as having three pages. But none of the page numbers is distinguished to show which page is being displayed AND the display for page 2 and for page 3 is exactly the same list of posts.
Very frustrating.

2. When quoting I once hit a situation where it would not allow me to move the cursor outside the quote bracket no matter what I did.
And exiting the post just took me back to the same unusable draft quote when I redisplayed the page (no Cancel button.)
What I had to do was erase (by backspacing) the entire content of the Draft. That let me start over with a new Quote button press and that one ended up usable.

3. Basically in addition to being missing some familiar features the software is flaky!