AVForums moves to Xenforo

[Thom Tyler]

You can get around the google font's issue by adding a Text shadow only for google chrome. It beefs the text up a little. I find it hard to believe google still haven't fixed the bug yet.

Are you using a Web font - as it looks a lot worse with Web Fonts (Chrome's bug)

 

[Dad.]

Good job on the move,

Critical Media did a very nice job on the design, @Audentio did a great job integrating it into XenForo.


I do find this a little ironic :
http://prntscr.com/20bctr

Thanks a lot Russ! And rotfl I noticed that too! I was going to alert Stu but then realized it was just a content-sensitive ad

 

[Stuart Wright]

Here is a page which illustrates how we are integrating editorial and the forum.
http://www.avforums.com/article/horror-film-top-ten-post-1968.9265
The discussions section at the bottom is a thread, showing post #2 as comment #1.
The full thread is here http://www.avforums.com/threads/chris-mceneanys-horror-film-top-ten-post-1968.1697216/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Here is a page which illustrates how we are integrating editorial and the forum.
http://www.avforums.com/article/horror-film-top-ten-post-1968.9265

I am logged in but I can't see a way of commenting from that page.

 

[MattW]

@Stuart Wright - getting a 404 error on your sprite.png file

http://static.avforums.com/styles/avf/style/sprite.png

 

[Stuart Wright]

I am logged in but I can't see a way of commenting from that page.

View attachment 60126

That's high on the to do list

 

[Stuart Wright]

@Stuart Wright - getting a 404 error on your sprite.png file

http://static.avforums.com/styles/avf/style/sprite.png

Is that in the page? I'll have to comment that out.

 

[MattW]

Is that in the page? I'll have to comment that out.

I can't seem to reproduce it now. It's still showing in Chrome Developer, but not in the source code.

 

[Stuart Wright]

On Sunday I did comment out an instance of /sprite.png.
We use /avf_sprite.svg now.

 

[Thom Tyler]

Stuart,

Have you thought about making the page background slightly darker - I have a feeling it will help with some of the complaints regarding the high contrast. I tested it in Editor, and it did seem to make the reading a fair bit better.

 

[QueenBee]

I'm investigating whether or not to use Xenforo on my site that needs to be redone. Thanks for putting the link to your site here! I greatly enjoyed checking it out. It looks really easy to navigate and use.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Stuart,

Have you thought about making the page background slightly darker - I have a feeling it will help with some of the complaints regarding the high contrast. I tested it in Editor, and it did seem to make the reading a fair bit better.

The original designers are investigating darkening up the background both round and in the content area.

 

[Luke F]

The laggy scrolling in firefox actually isn't as a result of the position:fixed header, but rather Javascript:

The first and last results are a ~5-10 second window of scrolling
The middle result is the same amount of time but no scrolling
And for a fair comparison, continually moving the mouse on the page for the same amount of time = <10% of the calls/time.

 

[rexxxy]

Wow over 5k post in 24 hours. Participation jump or is that normal?

 

[Carlos]

Wow over 5k post in 24 hours. Participation jump or is that normal?

Normal for a site of that size.

A faster site inspires this kind of jump.

 

[Alpha1]

@Stuart Wright How many addons do you have installed?
What have been the main hurdles with migrating to XenForo so far?

 

[Chris D]

60 add-ons installed. At least one third of those have been custom built for AVForums.

 

[Alpha1]

60 add-ons installed. At least one third of those have been custom built for AVForums.

Interesting. I seems that I will probably install about 85. Lots of custom development coming up.

 

[Stuart Wright]

I give that about 5 minutes before it is deleted

Been closed and moved to the Licensed Customer Feedback forum where potential vBulletin customers can't read how crap vBulletin is.

 

[Chris D]

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.