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

[Agent 00corrado]

My only suggestion would be buyer/seller feedback for the classifieds (like NASIOC). I know if anything it will be further down the road, but just throwing it out there. So far things are looking good, keep up the great work!

[twardnw]

if this was done - then gravatar would be the choice.

yeah, something like that. Hell, for me, it doesn't even matter if a host is provided, I'll just link it off my webserver

[Daemon42]

The PM's are too weird and hidden, they don't pop up and alert you like the old system.

There's an option under Forum - Settings to enable a popup alert for PMs.
I doubt the PM format will ever look like the old one though. That was very unique to ZF.

ian

[adg44]

This should be easy for VMG if they setup a simple apache rewrite rule - the same thread id is used so nothing difficult about it.

Correct, this is on the list of things to do.

[Chapel]

Another request for going back to 35 per page please. Thanks.

ditto

I think forums.vwvortex.com (and the other VMG sites) needs to be remedied soon. I'm hearing a lot of people complaining that they can't get on the forum... I told them to go in through the front door (vwvortex.com) to get to the new stuff.
a lot of people use bookmarks and history to get here (myself included)

[Mechorg]

ditto

I think forums.vwvortex.com (and the other VMG sites) needs to be remedied soon. I'm hearing a lot of people complaining that they can't get on the forum... I told them to go in through the front door (vwvortex.com) to get to the new stuff.
a lot of people use bookmarks and history to get here (myself included)

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

[cetanepusher]

Unfortunately these could not be copied to vBulletin, as the way they are handled is completely different.

Same goes for saved posts and your notepad. I really wish we could have given you guys some notice beforehand, but with the negotiations taking place, we were unable to do so.

Please keep the comments/suggestions coming.

Is there anyway to download them to our home computers? I have contact info and shipping address, user names that I need to ship people parts! And contacts about buying parts.

[adg44]

Requesting original of 35 please. You're killing our regional thread.

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...

[adg44]

Is there anyway to download them to our home computers? I have contact info and shipping address, user names that I need to ship people parts! And contacts about buying parts.

I am going to check about importing the notepad data, but don't get your hopes up...

[cetanepusher]

So from what I read, all our watched/saved threads are gone?

Holy crap. Your talking over a million people just lost all thier saved threads and IM data.

Bernie needs to get dub-Nation up and going so he can swoop up the cats that flee.

[ForVWLife]

this **** is garbage

that is all

[adg44]

ditto

I think forums.vwvortex.com (and the other VMG sites) needs to be remedied soon. I'm hearing a lot of people complaining that they can't get on the forum... I told them to go in through the front door (vwvortex.com) to get to the new stuff.
a lot of people use bookmarks and history to get here (myself included)

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

[adg44]

So from what I read, all our watched/saved threads are gone?

Holy crap. Your talking over a million people just lost all thier saved threads and IM data.

Bernie needs to get dub-Nation up and going so he can swoop up the cats that flee.

All of the watched topics are still there, just they aren't linked to your profile anymore.

As for the saved IMs/Notepad data, I am going to check about somehow importing that into vB.

[euroslvt]

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

dumb ****ing move.

[Tarik]

Will we be able to set the font size in account preferences?

[Daemon42]

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

dumb ****ing move.

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.

ian

[Sump]

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...

Awesome thanks!

[Aetsh]

I can't believe people are bitching so much! This is a FREE website.... VMG has never once asked for donations or anything, and alot of you still find the need to complain?

[Daemon42]

Bitching and complaining is what the internet is for.

Probably a random glitch, but I just got booted out and had to relogin again, despite having had the "remember me" setting turned on.

Feature request (that was in old forum). To have the specific forum link available for each thread in the Subscribed List.
My old workflow was to create a bookmark to subscribed (watched) topics, bring it up, see if there were any new
updates to those threads, and if not, just click on the forum link to go to desired forum. Currently the subscribed list
has no link to any forum. You can't see where the threads came from without opening the thread. If there are no
updates, you're pretty much stuck. There isn't even a link to the top of the forum tree there.

ian

[cetanepusher]

All of the watched topics are still there, just they aren't linked to your profile anymore.

As for the saved IMs/Notepad data, I am going to check about somehow importing that into vB.

Without the link to your profile, what's the point. it's like they weren't ever there.

[GreyGhost18t]

How about a pull down scroll through the forums like there was at the bottom of the old forum...

[cetanepusher]

I can't believe people are bitching so much! This is a FREE website.... VMG has never once asked for donations or anything, and alot of you still find the need to complain?

it's not "free", they make money off advertising to run the forum. I also belive every one of the global moderators of VMG staff get a paycheck.

[KahviVW]

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.

[Aetsh]

Ohhhh, Multi-quote is a nice feature!

Can't wait til its a bit easier on the eyes tho

[Aetsh]

it's not "free", they make money off advertising to run the forum. I also belive every one of the global moderators of VMG staff get a paycheck.

I meant free to us, as users

[aar0n.]

Bitching and complaining is what the internet is for.

Probably a random glitch, but I just got booted out and had to relogin again, despite having had the "remember me" setting turned on.

Feature request (that was in old forum). To have the specific forum link available for each thread in the Subscribed List.
My old workflow was to create a bookmark to subscribed (watched) topics, bring it up, see if there were any new
updates to those threads, and if not, just click on the forum link to go to desired forum. Currently the subscribed list
has no link to any forum. You can't see where the threads came from without opening the thread. If there are no
updates, you're pretty much stuck. There isn't even a link to the top of the forum tree there.

ian

I posted this request up earlier and I go through Vortex the exact same way so definitely would like to see that set up the same way again

[cetanepusher]

There is going to be ALOT of people jumping ship.

think of all the users who used this forum as a secondary income by slanging parts and what not. all the old data is LOST with the new forum. Now multiply that by 10's of thousands.

people are going to have a stroke.

[PhReE]

And everything needs to be shrunk down. its like going from legos to duplo. But I think you already know that.
Is the motive mag portal gonna be canned? I preferred the look of that skin the best.

You can change the skin in the options somewhere. I saw it in there.

I understand that it would be a huge server burden to save custom avatars, but could the possibility of linking to an off-site avatar be entertained? I hate having to choose from such a limited range of avatars, especially when I use the same one of every other forum I am a member on.

Personally I like NOT having all sorts of random/custom/crazy/blinky/flashy/annoying avatars.

There's an option under Forum - Settings to enable a popup alert for PMs.
I doubt the PM format will ever look like the old one though. That was very unique to ZF.

ian

Yeah, it would be nice if they could make the default for this to pop up (like zf did).

Another request for going back to 35 per page please. Thanks.

I agree with this and also think it would be a good idea to possibly make it so that this setting cannot be changed by users (like the old ZF) so that page breaks are always in the same place for everyone.

[cetanepusher]

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

[rich!]

There is going to be ALOT of people jumping ship.

think of all the users who used this forum as a secondary income by slanging parts and what not. all the old data is LOST with the new forum. Now multiply that by 10's of thousands.

people are going to have a stroke.

Why... give it more than a day to be sorted out. Jumping to conclusion tend to be a little worse.

it's not "free", they make money off advertising to run the forum. I also belive every one of the global moderators of VMG staff get a paycheck.

i got a sticker once for paycheck.

[twardnw]

Personally I like NOT having all sorts of random/custom/crazy/blinky/flashy/annoying avatars.

not hard in VB to force only non-animated avatars, I do agree those ones are annoying. I find it much easier to scan for a users avatar than have to look for their SN

[Aetsh]

oh crap clicks that tick me off.

And everything needs to be shrunk down. its like going from legos to duplo. But I think you already know that.
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CTRL mouse wheel up or down adjusts page size also..On a PC at least..

[twardnw]

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

You don't get it do you? this change was FORCED upon them, hence why it happened without warning. The traffic will come back, the new infrastructure just has to be put into place. VMG is working as fast as they can.

[zetarhopike]

Any chance of either enabling Profile Pics or just removing them all together? If they are not enabled there is not point to having the generic pic in everyone's profile.
Minor complaint, obviously not a high priority issue.

[cetanepusher]

You don't get it do you? this change was FORCED upon them, hence why it happened without warning. The traffic will come back, the new infrastructure just has to be put into place. VMG is working as fast as they can.

I understand it was forced, due to negotions now working out. I would assume, that the new contractors wanted more money, or a longer contract, which VMG was not willing to pay or sign.

There would be no reason for the ZF administrators to completely shut them down. Positive income to Zero income doesn't make sense. Someone didn't agree on price/contract.