***Post in here regarding vBulletin Changes/Suggestions/Problems***

[ThatGuyRyan]

It must be nice living in the alternate universe a lot of the people complaining here seem to live in.

[cetanepusher]

Buisness is buisness, and a ton of money was just flushed down the toilet.

[Daemon42]

CTRL mouse wheel up or down adjusts page size also..On a PC at least..

Problem is, that affects *all* sites. So if Vortex is using some crazy small fonts (which they are), and you zoom
in to increase the font size, then when you jump to any external site, the fonts are too big.
They should either make it an option for the users to set their font sizes, or just make the defaults bigger. They're too small.

ian

[Tarik]

Problem is, that affects *all* site. So if Vortex is using some crazy small fonts (which they are), and you zoom
in to increase the font size, then when you jump to any external site, the fonts are too big.
They should either make it an option for the users to set their font sizes, or just make the defaults bigger. They're too small.

ian

hold ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel to change font size.

[Wimbledon]

Can we have automatic image resizing at a member-set width?

I like all my images reduced to 700px or 800px - used to have FV for that.

If not, I'll write a file for the Opera browser that accomplishes this and share.

[Aetsh]

hold ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel to change font size.

I just said that, haha

[Isgro]

The last thing I would ever want is for your regional thread to be out of whack! :p

Let's see how it works with 35 posts per page.

The things I do for you guys...

Haha, all those poor "page owns" lost amongst the other lowly posts.

[Salty VW]

Enabling the group feature would be cool.

[BennyB]

Suggestion:

Is the IM history / notepad stored in a database? if so, what kind? MySQL? It should be possible to write a script to email everyone their notepads just one time so that we could at least transpose the data ourselves. As long as you don't wipe the data out, I think some enterprising (read: desperate) folk could figure it out.

[6aJettaChick]

Suggestion:
When Quoting someone it isn't an enormous speech bubble.. more so a little square. It looks pretty gaudy as a speech bubble. Just sayin.

[duke_seb]

posting so i can keep an eye on this

also can i get one of those green bars under my name.... I dont need 10 of them just want 1 or 2

[duke_seb]

forgot to meantion..... can we get our cars in the list under our post count...... i found hte option to add my cars but it doesnt put that info for others to see

[Sump]

I liked the plane gray separator between posts before. This new gradient one looks like it needs some tuning.

[Daemon42]

Why does every single thread everywhere have a red exclamation point next to it?

ian

[rich!]

default from the import

[automan89]

so i do i get to my watched topics? did i skip over that?

[VW1.8Tsunami]

I liked the plane gray separator between posts before. This new gradient one looks like it needs some tuning.

x2

so i do i get to my watched topics? did i skip over that?

Quick Links -> Subscribed Threads

OR

Settings...it shows subscribed threads w/ new posts

[TurboPaul@MillenniumVW]

i got a sticker once for paycheck.

Man, I knew that you mods had it good!!

[BHB]

But the watched topics that you had saved will not be there. That is not something that was carried over, unfortunately.

[Chapel]

But that doesn't even work because the link on the home page is still pointing to forums.vwvortex.com.

oh

It will change to forums.vwvortex.com after we are ready to take it live and get back up to full traffic.

ok. got another few IMs about it and a few people in the #tcl chat were asking too.

you guys do know audiworld did this.
then lost 75% of it's users to quattroworld.

dumb ****ing move.

not the same thing at all.

VWG's move off of ZF forum software was not by choice. Audiworld users bolted mainly because
the new forum software didn't have that bizarre threaded display that those freaks like so much
and many of us hate.

The BIGGEST problem was that the conversion from KAWF to vB didn't WORK.
The fact that it was a nested forum and they turned it into threaded vB... which BROKE EVERYTHING is the MAIN reason for the AudiWorld failure. Even when they did 'fix it', most of the OLD **** was still broken

[01]

VMG should have just paid up and kept Zero, sure it was old and outdated but with new ownership and everything it could have been re-vamped.

IMO moving was a bad idea and i know for a fact they will be loosing people. not that they care. just the truth.

[rich!]

VMG should have just paid up and kept Zero, sure it was old and outdated but with new ownership and everything it could have been re-vamped.

IMO moving was a bad idea and i know for a fact they will be loosing people. not that they care. just the truth.

read the previous statements - no choice.

[VDub2625]

Anthony - thanks for considering tweaks for us grumpy ungrateful masses.

A minor request - can we change quoted text to not be in italics? It makes large posts hard to read.

Ditto! Just a shaded box is fine for quoting. I liked the old small ZF quote style.

Advertisers will be dropping off as well, as the trafic just dropped by over 90%.

There's a reason for that... the forums aren't linked from the main page anymore. You have to know about vb.vwvortex.com to get in.

VMG should have just paid up and kept Zero, sure it was old and outdated but with new ownership and everything it could have been re-vamped.

IMO moving was a bad idea and i know for a fact they will be loosing people. not that they care. just the truth.

They will be losing people and they do care. Where did this idea of the owners/operators being faceless ****s come from?? They provide an awesome free service and were struck with a roadblock, which they are handling every well. And all people can do is bitch. Really?

The new owner of the ZF software demanded a six figure payment to continue the site for six months. That is ludicrous. The owner said "pay up or close down ASAP". VMG planned to migrate to a different software within that 6 months anyway becuae ZF was becoming too restrictive. Well, the change happened a little faster then they expected.

[01]

not to mention, this crap is being so damn slow.

[VDub2625]

not to mention, this crap is being so damn slow.

I'm not sure on the details but they are in the process of not just revamping the software, but getting all new hardware to host it, which is still in the process of being installed/set-up. So it will be slow for a bit.

[Daemon42]

Posts last night implied the new hardware was to be here today.

And yes it is slowing down quite a bit, and I'm sure it's only handling a tiny fraction of its normal
volume right now.

ian

[Chapel]

VMG should have just paid up and kept Zero, sure it was old and outdated but with new ownership and everything it could have been re-vamped.

IMO moving was a bad idea and i know for a fact they will be loosing people. not that they care. just the truth.

read the previous statements - no choice.

Not to mention Dustin asking for 17x the normal asking price because of butthurt.

I wouldn't want to be ANYWHERE near that drama. I think VMG made the right decision to go with vB... it's more open source anyway. PHP and MySQL better than proprietary **** that doesn't even do realtime caching of search terms!

[UTdaneVW]

I am all for change. Bring it on. Now off to dig around preferences to see what I can tweak.

Thanks for the great site and hard work to get it back up VMG!

[Daemon42]

Finding some things that don't suck (as long as they last)
1. Can embed YouTube and Vimeo vids properly
2. Add a poll to an existing thread
3. Have polls that allow multiple choices to be selected
4. Not having "edited" notices pile up and have to be deleted manually
5. HTML and CODE tags..

ian

[VDub2625]

Finding some things that don't suck (as long as they last)
1. Can embed YouTube and Vimeo vids properly
2. Add a poll to an existing thread
3. Have polls that allow multiple choices to be selected
4. Not having "edited" notices pile up and have to be deleted manually
5. HTML and CODE tags..

ian

Do you mean that those are things that vb has, or it should have? IIRC VB does "Last Edit at:", and they do allow HTML I think. Not sure on polls or videos.

[TurboPaul@MillenniumVW]

Hey Anthony, how about the time out setting? I must have had to log in a dozen times today! So annoying!

[aar0n.]

I posted this in another thread but it applies just as much here

I think it's hilarious how some of you are getting so worked up about the layout. It's a fuc king internet website, it's not your entire life, just deal with whatever changes and move on. Never seen such a big group of whiny bitc hes crying about something so menial

[.:Heather:.]

I posted this in another thread but it applies just as much here

truth. i wasn't happy at first but now that i know how to navigate it it's not so bad...and looking more like normal too. keep up the good work guys

[Daemon42]

Do you mean that those are things that vb has, or it should have? IIRC VB does "Last Edit at:", and they do allow HTML I think. Not sure on polls or videos.

I mean they're things that VB has that ZF didn't. Although you can't edit polls at all, which can be a hassle.

ian

[fetah]

I hate this new site. My eyes are killing me. At the same time I'm sure it will get better and we'll all get used to it. All the members that don't come back oh well maybe we lose all the scammers or at least some of them.

Its obvious the zero douche bag knew they were switching in six months so he demanded a huge amount of money than when he was denied sabotaged.
I'm sure things will be fine in a few weeks.