Forum Software Update Question

[ac398]

Maybe it loaded wrong for you? That's not what I see when I go to a page using it.

The someone that grew up on the I-phone with its cartoonish graphics and pastel rainbowness might think that, so it's plausible.

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No i think it loaded right, I see the formatting and pictures and all that good stuff. Everything just blends together.
Like another poster said
"The thread titles arent bolded and get lost with the second line and nothing stands out when scrolling. You have to really look to pick out the thread title from the poster name and other misc info on the 2nd line.

[mark0805]

Of the 3 options, I like the Xenforo best.

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[BakoJ]

Thanks for asking for input. It's pretty cool that the members here are consulted on stuff like this.

[afteractionreport]

Vb4 or zenforo 2nd

[CandG]

I just want to say that it's hilarious that my "I don't like change!" Crying Stewie meme is still the picture for this thread on Tapatalk

[perry753]

I worked on building the Rivals.com network of forums at Yahoo Sports. We had ~750,000 daily active forum users across all ~100 of our forums. We picked Xenforo because it has the most active development team. While SMF is open source, it does not have a good track record with security and it's development is not as active as Xenforo. We had no issues whatsoever with Xenforo when I worked at Yahoo Sports.

If you switch to SMF, be prepared to get hacked once in a while.

SMF:
Stable release: 2.0.15 (November 19, 2017; 4 months ago)
Preview release: 2.1 Beta 3 (June 1, 2017; 10 months ago)

Xenforo:
Stable release: 2.0.4 / March 16, 2018; 24 days ago

[Spartan77]

Another thought, Xenoforo is probably the best way to win California back in regards to pro2A activism from having used other Xenoforo forums. Its trending threads/topics homepage thing really gets and keeps the community up to date with current and relevant events.

Besides having an easier to use platform with better options, Xenoforo has very good options with different layouts. WIN CALIFORNIA BACK!

[Exile Machine]

Did not see a choice for the venerable RBBS-PC. Public domain, open source, very light on resources, supports dial-up access.

-Mark

[Cokebottle]

Did not see a choice for the venerable RBBS-PC. Public domain, open source, very light on resources, supports dial-up access.

-Mark

Meh... Mustang is much better, had it's roots in Collossus.
Opus is okay, but the format is a little plain.

[Someday]

The High Road is xenforo.

It's OK; can't say I like that color scheme, but surely that much can be customized.

This isn't bad, not great, but not bad.

[Kestryll]

Well some new information has come to light.

While researching vB4 to see what the upgrade would entail I found a post on the official vBulletin customer service forum announcing that as of December 2017 vB4 was being considered EOL.
No updates or improvements anymore just security patches for a while.

This puts a bit of a different spin on things, it seems that if we want to stay with vBulletin it's going to be vB5.

Here is what vB5 looks like in it's generic form: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

[CALI-gula]

Well some new information has come to light.

While researching vB4 to see what the upgrade would entail I found a post on the official vBulletin customer service forum announcing that as of December 2017 vB4 was being considered EOL.
No updates or improvements anymore just security patches for a while.

This puts a bit of a different spin on things, it seems that if we want to stay with vBulletin it's going to be vB5.

Here is what vB5 looks like in it's generic form: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

Yikes. Figures.

But why is it such a new trend in web design to have so much empty space, and be completely devoid of simple visual cues like using separators, sharp contrasting colors, and condensing the display so that related matter segues nicely to the content for which it is related?

This collage of empty space, pastels or muted grays all awash together, bland or weak fonts, and vastly disjointed text floating afar from what it references with no cohesive encapsulating or subjects is just weird. Yet you see it now on everything from bank webpages, information sites, Ebay, Paypal, to nearly all of these bulletin boards; even Gunbroker as taken on this design trend lately.

A lot of it looks like someone from Toys-r-Us or Playskool came up with the interface.

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[Kyle1886]

I know my eyes are not in the greatest shape but vB5 is really difficult for me to read.

Obviously the web designers have young eyes. Just wonder why the pay good money for wide screen monitors to squeeze small text in an equally small central area?

Respectfully
Kyle

[Cokebottle]

But why is it such a new trend in web design to have so much empty space, and be completely devoid of simple visual cues like using separators, sharp contrasting colors, and condensing the display so that related matter segues nicely to the content for which it is related?

Obviously the web designers have young eyes. Just wonder why the pay good money for wide screen monitors to squeeze small text in an equally small central area?

It's all being optimized for mobile users.

On the colors, I really, really, really don't get it.
Google Maps works fine on my phone, but on Android Auto, I had to spend an hour tweaking the display contrast and settings to be able to actually see the freeway lines against the background.

[CaliforniaLiberal]

I hate change.

I will adjust eventually and I'll complain only to people around me and not online.

You should have seen me when we started documenting patient care on computer. I'm a retired hospital RN and there is always a ton of documentation to be performed.

I was accustomed to using paper forms and writing narratives by hand.

The software was a nightmare. Was not well structured or even structured at all, took many months to learn and then another couple of years of near constant changes and fixes.

Eventually learned and adjusted.

The single most important benefit was being able to read MDs orders. The handwriting rule was that if 3 RNs looking at a handwritten order for 15 minutes cannot confidently decode the scritch scratches than the MD earns a phone call, even if it's the middle of night shift.


So I will eventually pick up the pieces of my life and adjust to new CalGuns software and maybe even grow to like it. Might take a couple of years. Don't worry about me I'll be fine.

After reading all the posts I vote for Xenforo.