Recent content by smallwheels

Looks nice but in practice I'd say barely anyone would use it, let alone profit from it. A very good example of feature lust. Most forum users are overstrained with things like question threads, voting threads or switching to discussion tabs. Some even with quoting, posting to the correct forum...

It doesn't change the presence if you mentally live in the past - it is gone. Which seems reasonable. It is like it is and some of those that liked the past but not the presence drew their consequences as they - probably rightfully - assumed the future won't be like the past either. Well, face...

They have: Stay on topic, have no problem. What they do is their choice...;)

I agree with you here, the more for the hosted version. What I'd expect from a decent actual forum software today is to deal with new developments and threats and AI-bots are one of the biggest. Sure one could argue, that this kind of stuff should be done on the network layer and not on the...

Exactly - but there are barely any legitimate reasons imaginable to let it hammer other peoples forums at scale. These are scrapers, cheaply made ones - those who are made with a little more intelligence fake their user agent. You can simply block those in your .htaccess: <IfModule...

Today it is five months since the last update. Hard to believe that over this period no one form the team would have had the 30-60min to write a proper update (let alone the 5mins it would take to drop a short status note). It is. safe bet to say that the silence is not caused by time...

Possibly you could have a look at the thread topic and relate to what you have been posting about in this thread... ;) Only if you do local optimization for one single situation and leave out the majority of situations. While the advantage is that it is easier to follow various side discussions...

... and probably pretty horrible to read. In fact a very dated forum software. Also, if you open such a thread in that forum to read the postings there is no threaded view any more and no navigation, so basically a bit of a strange implementation.

And these are "every" platform? I do have my doubts. Btw. interesting, that you did not mention a single forum. It has often been said: If you want general social media use general social media, not a forum. If you want your forum to imitate social media, eager for the traffic those platforms...

The benefit of using interpunctation is validated for basically centuries, still you ignore it. Also it is well known that an argument like "it is obvious for everyone" is nothing but a cheap rethoric trick used by those who do have in fact a strong opinion but no real foundation. Could you...

How do you know? Or is it wishful thinking? Did you try the add on that enables threaded replies?

Given the size of the DPreview forums and the amount of huge pictures in there I would be curious about the backup strategie of them as well as of XF-Cloud in general. Either way the migration and the DPreview forums could be a nice showcase to tell for XF marketing.

Is this your comment or someone else's that you copied over? I would rather state the opposite. While i like threaded views in general in extrensive discussions and preferred them in the usenet 30 years ago whenever I hit threaded views in forums today the implementation seems pretty annoying...

This suggestion, dating back to 2014 (!) is an excellent example for both: How useless it is to make suggestions or vote on them and how unloved MG is by it's owners. This is one of the many features that should not need a suggestion and still should have been implemented ages ago.

As until now, according to their announcement, they have relied on a self-baked forum software they should have staff able to do that. On the other hand it is a bit strange for such a huge forum to move to XF now, given that 2.4 is "almost ready". The more with massive customizations that would...