Moving to another forum board

[anno1404]

We discussed maybe moving late last year. Today I posted on www.msofficeforums.com which is ran by vbulletin and I was reminded how terrible proboards is. There is no clunky coding like proboards, you want to highlight a sentence you press the Bold button, and it is highlighted, with no coding. You want to add a url, you click the button and a new small window appears, where you add the url, the url is underlined, with no coding. You want to add an image, you click the button and a new small window appears, where you add the image url, and the image appears in the box as you edit.

making a table is nearly impossible. the source collapsible section never works right. Everytime I go and ask on proboards for help, they tell me you can't do what I am looking for.

I think we should consider finding a new forum, locking all of the posts here, and moving over to a new site. We could retain this one and keep everything unlocked while the new one is set up. I would be happy to slowly move all the posts here to a new free site. Wizard can create the account, so he still has full authority.

As the person who has three times as many posts as anyone else here, (1,253 moloko is second with 454) -- and I have double this number if you consider merges, locking threads, etc, it is really painful for me to have to deal with this terrible interface everyday.

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Other things that really suck about this forum:

cannot by default set email alert when a person responds to a forum a person participated in. I estimate our forum would be 30% larger if we had this feature default.

Cannot see any of the private messages you sent.

cannot email other forum members unless you are an admin.

etc...

[Deleted]

Our community is too small right now to move.

We would gain even less traffic with the move, and we're really only moving because of board code and issues that I and the average user generally don't notice.

But look around you; all boards are powered by the same HTML coding. Some, like the one you listed, just hide it from view.

Proboard's coding may not be the best, but it get's the job done. And that's all that really matters.

[anno1404]

Jul 15, 2011 0:08:07 GMT -5 @maddacheeb said:

Our community is too small right now to move.

We would gain even less traffic with the move, and we're really only moving because of board code and issues that I and the average user generally don't notice.

But look around you; all boards are powered by the same HTML coding. Some, like the one you listed, just hide it from view.

Proboard's coding may not be the best, but it get's the job done. And that's all that really matters.

re: We would gain even less traffic with the move

It would be a slow transition, and all pages would link to the new forum, so all that would be required is an extra click.

The benefits far outweigh the negatives. Part of the reason why we are so small is because admins do not have the ability to set email alerts as default. When someone responds to a conversation that Tab is involved with, he never is alerted. Our traffic of core members would dramatically increase if we had such a feature.

re: we're really only moving because of board code and issues that I and the average user generally don't notice.

Reread my comments in the first posting about email alerts.

Further, when it is more complex and difficult to add information to the forum, the entire forum suffers, including even casual users.

re: all boards are powered by the same HTML coding. Some, like the one you listed, just hide it from view.

Yes, all boards hide html from view, making it easier to post. This argument ignores the superiority of one site over another. Hotmail uses the same HTML but Gmail is far superior. I am sure there are some sites you use over others because their are more intuitive and user friendly.

re: Proboard's coding may not be the best, but it get's the job done. And that's all that really matters

For casual editors like yourself, whose focus is only on one small aspect of the game, proboards maybe sufficient. But for me personally, as the person who with others has attempted to get more people to this site, and who has attempted to organize this site after numerous complaints about the difficulty of finding informaiton, proboards is a complete nightmare.

[tommah]

I've never really found any problems. Seems like a basic forum setup to me.

[anno1404]

Potential solution, proboard v5, now in beta:

You asked for it, you got it - New v5 Features

You can choose to load the BBCode, or Visual by default :) However, it automatically starts with Visual.

This does not look good as far as time frame though, posted Jun 29, 2011:

Also, I heard that the admin panel will have lots of options (they are not even done making the admin panel yet :P ) that almost anything can be done to the forum.

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I laughed so hard when i saw this picture:



thought about mad, who posts a lot of funny pictures like this.

Left off at this post