Recent content by BikeGremlin

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...

That is very general (vague if you like). From what I can see in this thread, many (most?) requests are aimed towards making XenForo more (or as much as possible) like social networks. If that is what most forum users and owners want, maybe that is the way to go. It would not be the first time...

I think you missed my point. You can't out-Reddit Reddit. It is a lot like arguing with idiots on the Net: they bring you down to their level and beat you with more experience. Forums resemble current social networks in the same way that proper, good cooking resembles McDonalds. LOL. :) The...

Just... try to keep it a forum - not a "social network" (Reddit too is one). Less is more. Engagement farming should be kept to those corporate-owned places.

Thanks, that makes sense - and agreed, WebP optimization combined with something like R2 offloading can be a practical solution in many cases. In some cases it can be an extra hurdle and bring more complication (my stuff for example is non-profit so any extra money or time/effort is not easy to...

Regarding that last item: Cloudflare Polish just works at the CDN level - it doesn't compress or replace the files stored on the server. My concern was specifically about disk space usage on the origin, not just delivery optimization. So image optimization tools that overwrite the actual...

Fair enough. Apologies if my previous comment came off as ranty - based on what you explained, it sounds like there aren't any straightforward options for improving compression without manual tweaking. Which isn't really practical for a forum where different users upload all sorts of images...

I understand you point, but still, an example (which I find confusing): A 700x700 photo was resized to a 200+ KB webp. Putting that same image in squoosh.app interface gives a 50% size reduction at 85% quality (minor quality change) and 35% reduction at 85 quality if using webp...

Quite limited, and counter-intuitive. Setting the $config['maxImageResizeQuality'] = 20; can result in a larger image compared to setting it to 95 (at least with some PNG image I tested with). Likewise, it performs poorly and does no size change when uploading a webp image. Highly inferior to...