Forum upgrade to new version.

[Spitman]

On posting a reply to a thread, previously if you took a long time over it and it logged you out, it would tell you to log in, you could log in and then go back to the form which still had your entry in it. Now I think it takes you back to a blank form, which is annoying, to say the least!

[BDSM_Tourguide]

On posting a reply to a thread, previously if you took a long time over it and it logged you out, it would tell you to log in, you could log in and then go back to the form which still had your entry in it. Now I think it takes you back to a blank form, which is annoying, to say the least!

This is an issue that has been discussed in these forums before. If you'd like, you can find all the information you need to eliminate user timeout by reading this thread.

[Spitman]

Ah yes, I missed that. Thanks TG.

However I was unable to find a 'remember my login name and password' option in my User CP. I tried all of the pages. Duh!

[BDSM_Tourguide]

Ah yes, I missed that. Thanks TG.

However I was unable to find a 'remember my login name and password' option in my User CP. I tried all of the pages. Duh!

Well, you also have to take into consideration that thread was written before the upgrade was made. Some things might be a little different now.

[blackshadowmast]

First off Love the new design of the site I think you did a great job.

The only problem I'm having is that it the pages don’t fit on my screen. I have to scroll across to see the entire page, where as before the upgrade all worked well. Can anyone tell me what if anything I can do to fix this problem?

Thanks
BSM

[Curtis]

Change your resolution? I'm not having your problem. 800 by 600 resolution fits on my screen, but you could try 1024 by 768. Good luck.

[kittenfemme]

I think that my only complaints so far are with the private messaging system. I'd love an option along the lines of, "Don't request read-receipts for every single message sent" on a user by user level. At the very least I'd like to see the read receipt pop-up's button messages changed. I'd also like to convince vBullitin that I don't want to save copies of sent messages by default.

I realize there's little anyone other than the bulletin board's software designers can do about those things though. We can (and I plan to) leave comments about desired design issues in the vBulletin Forum. Many have already complained that The pop-up for Request Read Reciept has got to go. I don't suppose you'd consider turning PM tracking off altogether Djinn or Tourguide?

While I fully realize that such things may simply be subject to stylistic code preferences, is there a particular reason for sticking with vBulletin other than the fact that a license was already purchased? Some of the opensource alternatives are fabulous. I love phpBB for example. Yet Another Bulletin Board it decent as well, in my opinion. I've even used the Invision Board extensively at DykeWrite, though I don't particularly care for it.

I can say that each alternative I mentioned is pie to install, especially phpBB. I've set it up on several sites with admins ready to go in under fifteen minutes (broadband/ T3 ftp time included).

In the end, it doesn't really matter. I'm merely curious. The previous version of vBulletin used here (v2.?) seemed quite stable, as does v3.0 so far. I'm not sure that one BB has more features than another but those features are arranged differently and presented in different ways.

[Lord Douche]

I'm using Firefox, and I can resize this window quite small. The only pages that need scrolling are the Post Window and ones with large images. IE seems to be pretty similar (I could get Firefox a little smaller before it needed to scroll)
By default I use 1152*864, so I have no problems
BSM, if you're having difficulties, try turning down the font size in your View Menu -> Text Size. I use Medium myself.
LD