Recent content by BikeGremlin

I did a major redesign in terms of making the two language versions stand out clearly, while drastically reducing the number of stuff listed on the front page (no wall of text as is the case with most forums including this very XenForo community front page): Basic layout...

Take this one example where I have reliable info: No. Sanctions were at best a convenient excuse for the Serbian politician(s) to "save face," but that's as far as it goes (even that is a stretch). Regarding that "Bosnia War" - my comments on the decent BBC documentary...

The first two posts talk only about "feeling uncomfortable" "doing business with a Russian organisation." No technical talk about sanctions and legal boundaries, but feelings (i.e. moral judgements). At least that's what it looks like to me - everyone can read and decide for themselves.

Sanctions (or bombs) don't motivate people against the government (any more than they already are motivated). From my first hand experience, I've concluded that it in fact makes it easier for the government to stay in power. I suppose most people can't know that because propaganda says...

As someone who's grown up in sanctions - and protested against the government - I can confirm that sanctions mostly punish the normal people and nothing else. Politicians who impose them know that very well - but the general public is brainwashed into believing that sanctions do something for...

Not really. It is more like outright ban of any kind of links, regardless of the context and link type.

Apparently, the solution is to ban anyone posting any link(s). :) Such platforms are not my cup of tea - even though most people seem to love them. A practical example of what I see as unreasonable to ban/delete...

Yeah - Internet without its basic building element, links, is what the corporations openly require. LOL. **** 'em.

This strongly implies that XenForo devs are not into vibe coding... :)

Not necessarily. :) If your article gets linked and discussed on reddit, googling even for the exact article title is very likely to return the Reddit thread. Talk about irony - and (shady) deals. Edit: I got banned from Quora too - LOL.

From my experience, I would say that this is incorrect. Definitely more nuanced than what you say. It is a Google issue - and depending on the exact pages (and searches) compared, you can often see forum threads beat WordPress articles (even with good on-page/site SEO for WP). Even if the WP...

That makes sense fixing if it needs (don't see it as nearly that bad, but that's a tangential topic). I'm talking about not making the forum into a social network copy. You made a typical straw man fallacy by implying that I think XenForo is perfect as it is, like it doesn't need any...

Indeed. And a shocking turn of events I must add: posting about forum development… in the forum development feedback thread. Truly revolutionary!

Wrote a reply in a thread that got locked - LOL. :) It did turn to be like this one - so probably a good call by the mods. Forums (and websites for that matter) are a dying breed (have been since 2015 one could say, but now it's getting more and more obvious, extreme, and faster). But trying...

Changes are never optional - not in practice. Stay behind updates for a year or two, and you run into all sorts of unpatched vulnerability issues and even compatibility issues (if you don't run a 100% custom VPS - though even that won't solve the security patches issues). It's a moot point at...