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Could you give us customizable colour themes? (probably a bit much work right now)

 

Personally I like the look of the site, but I'm easily pleased :p

 

A smiley button in the "quick reply" seems to be the most common complaint, along with the look on google chrome (which as I understand is an issue with V.Bulletin 4.0.0 so maybe needs a lot of tweaking for that :()

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Right! Which numpty banned my account? BB39 BTW

 

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/member.php?160437-babybear39

 

That is the account if someone will look at that for BB

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In my opinion the font size is far too small in the post listings, it is better now that the stickys are in a sort of red, but the titles on the post are far too small, have difficulty reading them on my netbook with my specs and can't read them at all on my mobile

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If it's not broke.........Why break it?:confused:

 

I know a lot of people are feeling this way. These are the main reasons:

 

vBulletin 3.x is nearing the end of its life. At the moment they're still bringing out security updates, but I imagine those will stop in a year or so. So the upgrade did need to happen, it was just a case of when.

 

The site was also in need of a facelift - it had become quite messy with notices, announcements, links to sub-sections scattered all over, and we wanted to do some quite radical stuff behind the scenes with the CSS, JavaScript and images to improve performance. It seemed pointless putting in weeks of work on these if we were going to need to upgrade (hence lose all these changes) within a year.

 

With the new version in place, we have the potential for quite a speed increase (don't forget that slow loading of pages was an ongoing problem). At the moment it looks like pages are loading a couple of seconds quicker on average than they were in the past ... but we'll be looking at that more next week, once these other bugs are sorted out.

 

If someone would be kind enough to paste a couple of links that no longer work (eg to threads/posts/whatever) that'd be great. Hopefully we can get these working again, and people won't be left with dead bookmarks

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In my opinion the font size is far too small in the post listings, it is better now that the stickys are in a sort of red, but the titles on the post are far too small, have difficulty reading them on my netbook with my specs and can't read them at all on my mobile

 

 

On a netbook I find CTRL and + very usefull for scrolling in!

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Could you give us customizable colour themes? (probably a bit much work right now)

 

That's a great idea. It may be that we go with a WAP version of the site for handheld devices too (it'd really just be a set of stripped down templates).

 

I wasn't aware that the Chrome problem was an issue with vBulletin 4 - I'll look into it. Hopefully others have experienced it (and solved it)

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I know a lot of people are feeling this way. These are the main reasons:

 

vBulletin 3.x is nearing the end of its life. At the moment they're still bringing out security updates, but I imagine those will stop in a year or so. So the upgrade did need to happen, it was just a case of when.

 

The site was also in need of a facelift - it had become quite messy with notices, announcements, links to sub-sections scattered all over, and we wanted to do some quite radical stuff behind the scenes with the CSS, JavaScript and images to improve performance. It seemed pointless putting in weeks of work on these if we were going to need to upgrade (hence lose all these changes) within a year.

 

With the new version in place, we have the potential for quite a speed increase (don't forget that slow loading of pages was an ongoing problem). At the moment it looks like pages are loading a couple of seconds quicker on average than they were in the past ... but we'll be looking at that more next week, once these other bugs are sorted out.

 

If someone would be kind enough to paste a couple of links that no longer work (eg to threads/posts/whatever) that'd be great. Hopefully we can get these working again, and people won't be left with dead bookmarks

 

Could you please let me know why my account babybear39 appears to be banned? I've have no PM or email about it and was advised by Bookie to create a new account to be able to communicate directly :) Thank you for your help. You can contact me at [email protected].

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http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/member.php?160437-babybear39

 

That is the account if someone will look at that for BB

 

 

Taking a look-give me a few minutes.

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Taking a look-give me a few minutes.

 

 

Ok will make some more enqs.

We dont discuss individual accounts on the open forum for obv reasons.But its being looked into and BB will get a response from Admin with an explanation as appropriate.

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I did read something (I think it was on wikipedia :oops::lol:) along the lines of chrome, safari and v6 and older IE doesn't support a lot of features as theyre not wysiwyg .

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There's now a link to 'New Posts' at the top right, in the dark blue bar

 

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NewPostFlasher.gif there if anyone is still looking for it :p

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There's now a link to 'New Posts' at the top right, in the dark blue bar

 

Using that link gives this error at the top of the page.

 

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3895

 

It looks like a plug in / mod that is causing that checking vBulletin's website.

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I did read something (I think it was on wikipedia :oops::lol:) along the lines of chrome, safari and v6 and older IE doesn't support a lot of features as theyre not wysiwyg .

 

Yeah I took a quick look and found something along those lines. You'd expect it to gracefully downgrade in those cases though - in the same way that the old site still used to function if you had javascript turned off.

 

Anyway,

 

letsdothis: give me a minute and I'll get rid of that warning message

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NewPostFlasher.gif there if anyone is still looking for it :p

Woo!

 

Can you lot put http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?do=markread up there as well? The only place I can find it right now is at the bottom of the index page which with the amount of forums in the list takes AGES to get to.

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That "New Posts" link is actually today's posts, which is wrong.

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