Top Three Issues to be Addressed

[Kestryll]

I know since the move things have been both better and worse in various ways.
I'm seeing several different topics and issues but chasing them all simultaneously creates a mess and stuff gets missed.
I want to find the top three issues, focus on those and then revisit the next three.

I will be posting a different thread elsewhere to get your thoughts on the move to the cloud server, it's better but I'm not sure I'm sold on it.

Post what you consider the top three issues we are dealing with right now, things like search issues, images, etc. and I'll average out the top three.

Thanks!

[saudadeii]

#1 Search

#2 significant lag going to Message Center/Notifications (sometimes other places too but Message center issue is constant)

#3 Search

[Kyle1886]

1: Search
2: As mentioned in the other thread; although I don't own a cell phone I would think those that do, may think loss of the TapTalk thing is important.
3: My Photos. I didn't have many but I guess they did not make the transition. Maybe I just don't know where the folder is for pic is a possibility. It's not in the "profile" area. No biggie.

Kyle

[mdr110]

Make using cell phone more friendly.

Make more top threads in a page like before. Instead 50 new pages to 20 pages.

Would be nice if new threads are bolded like before.

[Garv]

More cell phone friendly.

More threads per page.

New Posts (or Topics) button.

[SkyHawk]

Local Search - the entire site needs to be reindexed from the beginning of time

Google Search - almost everything is missing from Google now - hardly any image results etc. I am sure a large percentage of new users found Calguns when searching Google for something, and it was also useful for existing members to get around search limitations with the forum software when doing advanced searches.

User avatars - I know this is not top of the list but the forum looks sort of broken since most avatars are jacked up now. Some are tiny, some are spilling outside their box. Is there no way to allow the old sizes of avatars? Also when avatars are cropped and miniaturized by the forum in various places it gets even weirder. The CP says the avatar should be 300 x 100 but most of the time they are displayed as squares, sometimes ovals, and other times tiny rectangles. I have no idea what these forum programmers were thinking. I also have no idea now how to make an avatar that would be optimized for all of these various displays of the avatar.

[Spanky8601]

1 Search

2 More topics per page

[mygeaux]

Local Search - the entire site needs to be reindexed from the beginning of time

Google Search - almost everything is missing from Google now - hardly any image results etc. I am sure a large percentage of new users found Calguns when searching Google for something, and it was also useful for existing members to get around search limitations with the forum software when doing advanced searches.

Agree with these two, and with adding buttons for "New Posts" and "Today's Posts" like on the old platform.

[command_liner]

For those of us on the edge of the internet, the size of the HTML stream matters quite a bit.

1) Use proper compression of ALL data elements, and get rid of non-performant add-ons. I do not need custom fonts that
occasionally take 100 seconds to load. Use the commonly available tools to see what behaves slowly or is not compressed,
and fix those things. Check that box in the CloudFlare configuration that enables zstd compression, and set the compression
attributes to (non-default) maximum compression. Force all images and video clips to be recoded with webp.

2) Very low information density of the page. Get twice as much text on the page. Make the stupidly long list of things of the left
side of each posting into a clickable button with the moniker "Details". I do not want to know about Facebook, or X, or your join
date, or your contributor status. Your post count is about as interesting as your toenail cutting habits. Hide all this crap.

3) Better search might be useful.

[sonofeugene]

We need a button for all new posts since the last time we visited CalGuns. It allows quick and easy access to things we are most interested in. Is was, perhaps, the most used button before the software switch.

Please??!

[BillSmith]

1) New posts button (Is function of New Topic button similar?)
2) More posts per page
3) Bacon

[Preston-CLB]

command_liner, you seem to be pretty savvy with this stuff. How about asking Kes if he needs any help?
-P

[Kestryll]

I contacted vB about the search and rebuilding the index, this was their reply:

Rebuilding the search index is an intensive process, especially in the AdminCP. Due to this and the fact that some people rebuild the search index without reason, it is only available via support request in Cloud. This allows us to send the request to a task processor and offload it from web-based processes. I've scheduled this task for your site.

I'm not happy about having to ask them to do it but I get why it's it's up like that.

[SkyHawk]

I contacted vB about the search and rebuilding the index, this was their reply:


I'm not happy about having to ask them to do it but I get why it's it's up like that.

Yes I completely understand it. It might take days, maybe longer. I can see why they don't want anyone just firing this off willy-nilly. It is awesome that they are going to schedule it!!

[BakoJ]

Tapatalk support.