Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Saying 'user content' is superfluous, because all the content is user generated. It's just 'content', you massive cunt.

This is the kind of useless content that I'm talking about.

Oh, and now we've lost the underlines (which I think is generally a great improvement) it is now hard to see links within posts. would it be possible to bring the underlines back just for them?

I don't think I've got an unusually shitty or badly set up monitor.

This is the kind of useless content that I'm talking about.

We don't need any more of your examples, thanks.

Oh, and now we've lost the underlines (which I think is generally a great improvement) it is now hard to see links within posts. would it be possible to bring the underlines back just for them?

I don't think I've got an unusually shitty or badly set up monitor.

Underlines for the links within posts have returned.

You need to refresh your cache, or some such magic.

• breathes a sigh of relief. In that case I can't think of anything I don't like about the new set up. Thanks VB!
  

We don't need any more of your examples, thanks.

No, you're a cunt.

Example of cuntent?

You always worry so much about the nursery and the rules that I thought you might enjoy to be locked in as you will have a lot of things to explain to the new members.

Well, the above was a joke, as I intended to flag up by an ;). ;)

I don't really worry much about it, I just dip in there from time to time. I do love running gags, though, and persistent Nursery evasion is one.

JonoMarshall is correct.

The down arrow serves no purpose, as the thread title on an unread thread has exactly the same behaviour (take you to the first unread post), and on a read thread the down arrow isn't shown (not applicable).

It can be removed without affecting functionality at all.

Yes, Jon's obviously right in that--I just thought it was more logical for the thread title to link to the first post, although it is undoubtedly more practical in the majority of cases for it to link to 'newpostinthread' (which I think is up to a week old if you haven't looked at a thread for a while or have never looked at it, but there may be more nuances).

Another option would be to make 'newpostinthread' always link to the first post the viewer hasn't seen, i.e. if they've never looked at a thread, it would link to the first post. That would emphasise the first post (whose quality would obviously vary). People could click through towards the end of the thread fairly quickly. Or, if they hadn't looked at a thread for two weeks, it would pick it up two weeks before. However, I'm sure the 'one week before' rule was introduced for a reason, and I guess this may be one of those aspects of vBulletin that would take more major re-writing, even if you thought it made sense.

Yes, Jon's obviously right in that--I just thought it was more logical for the thread title to link to the first post, although it is undoubtedly more practical in the majority of cases for it to link to 'newpostinthread' (which I think is up to a week old if you haven't looked at a thread for a while or have never looked at it, but there may be more nuances).

Another option would be to make 'newpostinthread' always link to the first post the viewer hasn't seen, i.e. if they've never looked at a thread, it would link to the first post. That would emphasise the first post (whose quality would obviously vary). People could click through towards the end of the thread fairly quickly. Or, if they hadn't looked at a thread for two weeks, it would pick it up two weeks before. However, I'm sure the 'one week before' rule was introduced for a reason, and I guess this may be one of those aspects of vBulletin that would take more major re-writing, even if you thought it made sense.

That is exactly what it already does.

And if by chance the link isn't going to the first post in the thread, then the "Started by" underneath appears and is hyperlinked to that first post.

It does what you wish it would, and always has.

Oliver, I know you like jokes and thats way I like to make jokes with you, your jokes are a great source of inspiration for mine and thats why together we go so well.

I also know that the more I'm giving to you the more you are asking for.

No worries, I like jokes.

That is exactly what it already does.

And if by chance the link isn't going to the first post in the thread, then the "Started by" underneath appears and is hyperlinked to that first post.

It does what you wish it would, and always has.

Ah, sorry, my misunderstanding here. I was looking at 'New posts', and not a forum listing, out of habit as I almost never use forums themselves. The only other thing I really use is the User CP. I think the only times when I use forum pages is for catching up on 'Rider down' reports. Of course, in 'New posts' somehow it seems quite logical that you're only taken to 'newpostinthread'. :)

'Newpostinthread' does limit the newness of the post that it links you to to a maximum of one week ago, though, doesn't it? I suppose this may be done so that the database doesn't have to remember where you've been in every single thread for more than a week? If that's not the case, and the database does keep a record of where in every thread a user was, then I'd prefer it if 'newpostinthread' linked to that place, as I've never liked that cut-off. Again, not very important and probably overly fussy, or indeed another misunderstanding.

It gets better by the day.

It would be nice to have customised stickies. For example, I usually only look at a couple of threads in the M&M forum. It would be nice if I could sticky them.

It would also be nice, now that the presentation is looking so good, if something could be done about the quality of posts.

Velocio, are you able to access older versions of the forum? Are they archived?
Y'now for posterity
Here perhaps http://www.archive.org/web/web.php?

on Subscribed Threads page, the key for the thread icons is still at the bottom of the page.

Maybe I will tweak again ;)

We need alternating background colours for thread titles etc..

9 or 12 months?
Code quicker.
Or just delete the regions to appease me.

This. Outside M25 = dragons.

It would be really great if once you'd ignored a forum (that's you, freestyle and tricks), it could not appear in the drop down list, and then something you actually like (miscellaneous and meaningless) could take its place? Not sure if this is easy to do or not, but would be appreciated and seems to make sense.

Just noticed that the donate button gets dropped onto a new line on my phone. Happens zoomed in or out. Looks like there is space for the word, but not the little gold star
Sony Arc S running stock 3.x and stock android browser
http://db.tt/5j2wl9fU

That's actually fine, on your screen there isn't enough space for the whole menu width without making you scroll horizontally.

So the menu items that would overlap all move to the next line.

Tags are back.

With some restrictions.

Restrictions:

• Maximum 75 tags per thread
  
• 25 tags by the thread starter
  
• 50 tags by all other users
  
  

Any thread which had above 75 tags have had all of the tags removed.

Sorry for that, really... some of them were funny, useful, and had forum history in it. But the state of the database was that bad that even though I only cleaned tags from 63 threads, I actually deleted some 97k tags, or an average of 1,500 tags per thread.

This is why things blew up when it got misused last year... the whole tag system was really meant for < 10 tags per thread, hundreds hurt the system, thousands and tens of thousands (on a couple of threads) would actually slow the database down significantly during the busier parts of the day.

What happens if a thread goes above 75 tags now?

Do all the tags on that thread suddenly vanish, or are we starting afresh and can apend hundreds of tags to threads still?

It's not possible for a thread to have more than 75 tags.

The system will now prevent that from happening.

Unfortunately, that has a side effect... it freezes the tags as they are unless someone chooses to delete one.

Meaning, they are now useless for rolling history on long lived threads. Because no-one is likely to purge the history, so no new history can be record in the tags.

As tags though, permitting useful searches... they retain all of their utility. And as a small scratch board of history, they are somewhat useful.

And as a repository of hate and bile, of course.