New Forum Bug Reports

[WTFH]

From a different forum

The big news this month is big news indeed, in the next 7 to 10 days we will have a brand new site with a new look and a lot more speed and functionality. We have been doing a lot of testing behind the scenes for some weeks now and have determined that vB5 (the forum software we use) is basically a piece of crap. Whereas vB4 had 75% of the market, vB5 holds less than 17% and as far as we can see that’s for good reason.

We therefore have made the decision to go over to xenForo who are the new market leaders in forum software for medium to large format forums. .... At that load the forum is still 10x faster than the current one whilst running on a far less powerful (test) server. We are sure you will be impressed by the speed and efficiency of the new version.

Might be worth looking into.

A few years ago (OK, about a decade), a forum I was involved with switched from vB to Huddler. Huddler had a great sales pitch, and the concept was pretty clever, but after a couple of years, Huddler pulled the plug and gave all their fora a matter of weeks to backup their data.

[eek]

From a different forum

The big news this month is big news indeed, in the next 7 to 10 days we will have a brand new site with a new look and a lot more speed and functionality. We have been doing a lot of testing behind the scenes for some weeks now and have determined that vB5 (the forum software we use) is basically a piece of crap. Whereas vB4 had 75% of the market, vB5 holds less than 17% and as far as we can see that’s for good reason.

We therefore have made the decision to go over to xenForo who are the new market leaders in forum software for medium to large format forums. .... At that load the forum is still 10x faster than the current one whilst running on a far less powerful (test) server. We are sure you will be impressed by the speed and efficiency of the new version.

[ladymuck]

Maybe it's a feature but you can rate your own threads. Mine are all going to be 5* now.

Only if no-one votes lower...

[d000hg]

Maybe it's a feature but you can rate your own threads. Mine are all going to be 5* now.

[northernladuk]

Are the forums broken in some way? The last 3 posts in NL payroll providers - Contractor UK Bulletin Board make zero sense there and seem to be connected to a completely different thread regarding professional indemnity insurance

Just seen that. I assumed Lance had posted in the wrong thread and we'd just carried on but on second look that's highly unlikely.

As to whether the forums are broken in some way? Well...erm

[eek]

Are the forums broken in some way? The last 3 posts in NL payroll providers - Contractor UK Bulletin Board make zero sense there and seem to be connected to a completely different thread regarding professional indemnity insurance

[WTFH]

I'm getting quite a few pages loading slowly, with "Working" being displayed.


Edited to say that this post took about 30 seconds to process.

[ladymuck]

Is it just me but is the forum landing page not updating. If I pick on Forum in the breadcrumbs it shows me all the areas but the latest posts are all yesterday. I'm using Chrome and checked IE and it's showing an even older set of posts. Even if I click CTRL F5 it doesn't bring up the latest ones.

I remember caching being mentioned in the past. Is this still happening?

Same happens to me intermittently. I just ignore the landing page now.

[northernladuk]

Is it just me but is the forum landing page not updating. If I pick on Forum in the breadcrumbs it shows me all the areas but the latest posts are all yesterday. I'm using Chrome and checked IE and it's showing an even older set of posts. Even if I click CTRL F5 it doesn't bring up the latest ones.

I remember caching being mentioned in the past. Is this still happening?

[SueEllen]

Not a bug: can we embed tweets? Would be handy.

Yep in fast moving situations most of the news comes via tweets so if I could embed the links it would be helpful.