At last! DPreview.com moving to Xenforo

RobinHood said:
Doesn’t Discourse have a hybrid approach that keeps sub threads readable but also adds the new message to the end of the main thread?

I always thought that was kind of cool, I’ve not used a discourse forum heavily enough to know how good it really is in practice though.
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Yes but it looks terrible.
Vertical scope have done this to all forum software and it looks bad.
Even proboards has it.
 
Alpha1 said:
That's easy to fix:
[XB] Post Comments Painbaker

[XB] Post Comments

Threaded discussions with nested replies
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That's not actually a viable solution because conversely to those who are somewhat loud about the loss of threaded view, there's another bunch who are very happy that everything is in flat view, which was a preference in the previous software.

Most of you will understand from your own imports and migrations to XenForo that there's always going to be a loud minority who are averse to change. Most will get used to it and adapt.

DPR will continue to assess feedback and consider adding a threaded option back if it's deemed appropriate.
 
Chris D said:
That's not actually a viable solution because conversely to those who are somewhat loud about the loss of threaded view, there's another bunch who are very happy that everything is in flat view, which was a preference in the previous software.

Most of you will understand from your own imports and migrations to XenForo that there's always going to be a loud minority who are averse to change. Most will get used to it and adapt.

DPR will continue to assess feedback and consider adding a threaded option back if it's deemed appropriate.
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Why not allow an option between the 2 "modes" for the Xenforo software? Seems like good interest on both sides of the coin.
 
Alpha1 said:
A migration will always cause a stir. After the dust settles it will be clear how big of an issue missed features really are.
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This is why my crew always make the choice of using Xenforo over some free software.
We think it's miles better than some of the others out there.
We've had proboards, vBulletin, smf, phpbb, ipb and xenforo.
If we wanted free we would have stayed with smf.
 
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why would they restrict the forum searching to such a degree ?

if you are logged in are there better options ?

it's made worse by this original search menu ... which works OK for the reviews, but not the forum.

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The forum needs a prominent search area like this:
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They buried the forum search here:

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People can't find it.
 
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