The vBulletin migration - praise & suggestions

[wizard10000]

Index dumped and being rebuilt now... Pardon any sluggishness on the server if anyone notices. I set the rebuild rate quite low so as not to hinder server performance.

*Much* better. Thank you

[GreyGeek]

Anyone using the "Multi-Quote" option?
Just click the small icon with the quote marks in it on each msg you want to quote from in a reply. A check mark will appear next to the icons. On the last msg you clicked the "Multi-Quote" button, click "Reply with Quote" and what you see will be the msgs you checked, each in their own quote set, like shown below.

Then you can add your comments in front of ....

Use "[" and "]" instead of "<" to italicize text.

Thanks for the tip, GG

In case anyone else was wondering, the BBcode reference is here. had need of it yesterday, because the codes are a little different from the old forums.

OR between ...

If you open Settings at the top of the page, then select General Settings, then scroll down to Miscellaneous Options, you can change your message editor to one that gives you a menu bar of the common settings or one that even gives you a WYSIWYG editor. I have bit tried that one yet, I selected the Standard Editor.

or after all the quotes.

Neat, eh? 8)

[MoonRise]

Kudos!!!! Guys! Love the new look and feel. Appreciate all the hard work I know went towards this!

[Telengard]

There's no Insert Quote button on the Advanced reply page. That's something I'll miss from SMF.

[Detonate]

Is anyone else getting this message when they visit the forum?

[richb]

Is anyone else getting this message when they visit the forum?

Yes, When I try to read this thread:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...t&goto=newpost



"Google+ what do you think of it."

[Batty]

I Like the new look alot.
The changing of account password went smoothly.

I am not seeing the above problems. I'm using firefox in case that makes a difference

Dave

[ardvark71]

Yes, When I try to read this thread:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...t&goto=newpost

Hi all....

I received a warning from Avast (using Vista) when I clicked on this link, as well. They opened up IE and gave me this report.

Regards...

[DoYouKubuntu]

Okay...I'm sorry, but I don't like it.

The issue I mentioned earlier (about not seeing the OP's name when browsing a board) is actually as I orignally said. It depends on where you're sitting. If you're looking at the main forum page, you see the list of boards, such as Help the New Guy, but there's nothing indicating who posted the latest thread. The Last Post column shows the original name of the thread, followed by the name of the person who last posted in it, instead of showing "Re: [the thread's name]." So it looks like a brand-new thread when in fact it's not. If you've actually entered a board, such as Help the New Guy, then on the left you'll see the thread's title and who started it, and on the right you'll see who last replied to each thread. I MUCH preferred the old forum's way of displaying all of this.

I miss the old display of personal message info at the top right.

I do NOT like the color scheme and/or fonts. It's not as inviting as the old forum. It's not as...I don't know, FRIENDLY looking. I feel less inclined to peruse the boards now.

As others have mentioned, there's no 'insert quote' function now when you're already replying.

When you quote a post, it doesn't quote the sub-quotes within the post; it only quotes the author of THAT particular reply, not anyone s/he quoted in the reply.

OS, sorry, I know you've put a lot of time and effort into this transition, and this is simply my $0.02 worth, so take it FWIW to you.

[claydoh]

Do remember a lot of these, maybe all of these, are from VBulletin's default settings, which still need to be tweaked. As is the theme, same story. Have patience, please!

[claydoh]

And do not stop listing the things that you find missing! We need to know what we need to do

[Snowhog]

There are differences with vBulletin versus SMF. We all knew there would be. Some of the 'features' we enjoyed using SMF don't have counterparts in vBulletin, or at least, we haven't found them - yet.

We are pursuing a custom theme, even considering paying to have one professionally designed, so as to the colors and such, we are already working towards making the new KFN have more of a feel for the old site. But it isn't going to ever be exactly like it was using SMF. Even as Administrators, we are 'feeling' our way around in vBulletin. Heck, we've only been up now for just around a week!

[pasti]

Loving the redesign, looks really professional now, and password reset with no problems at all, congratulations to all concerned, I should drop by more often but I never seem to get the chance and nothing seems to go wrong with kubuntu 11.10, so I don't really need to ask anything, again a really nice look and feel to the forum.

[SecretCode]

When you quote a post, it doesn't quote the sub-quotes within the post; it only quotes the author of THAT particular reply, not anyone s/he quoted in the reply.

This in particular is something vbulletin is capable of and is probably a simple setting in the admin cp. I can only assume it's off by default because general discussion boards' threads tend to get full of nested-nested-nested quotes - but we're responsible citizens at KFN are we not?

[Snowhog]

This in particular is something vbulletin is capable of and is probably a simple setting in the admin cp. I can only assume it's off by default because general discussion boards' threads tend to get full of nested-nested-nested quotes - but we're responsible citizens at KFN are we not?

When you quote a post, it doesn't quote the sub-quotes within the post; it only quotes the author of THAT particular reply, not anyone s/he quoted in the reply.

No, it isn't -- any more. The ability to 'nest' quotes they way we were able to do under SMF, was removed from vBulletin some time back. There are Mods (hacks) that can give us this 'feature' back, but we are just going to wait and see. In the new versions of vBulletin, as we are using here, you can use the Multi-Quote option that is enabled (and that I've used in this reply) to get the same results.