The vBulletin migration - praise & suggestions

[Detonate]

As has been previously reported, you must change your default editor on your Miscellaneous Options under General options in your Settings. This is the editor I get when I change it to Standard.

[james147]

If they are, I don't see them anywhere.

Nor do I, though i do remember seeing a chrome extension to add a wysiwyg editor to vbulliton forums.

[ardvark71]

They are present both in the quick reply box and in the advanced editor

Hi...

If they are, I don't see them anywhere.

Regards...

[wizard10000]

DYK raises a good point: multi-quote is an add-on to vb - which I find useful but by no means essential.

Keeping nested quotes is a different thing. In fact, stripping nested quotes is an anti-feature - the code actually has to do some work to make itself less useful for us! I question whether it really requires an add-on to restore this ...?

If we're gonna conduct a poll, I'm anti-nested quotes. Although some people like them I thought that was one of the more irritating features of SMF - well, that and the tiny font size in quotes

[SecretCode]

DYK raises a good point: multi-quote is an add-on to vb - which I find useful but by no means essential.

Keeping nested quotes is a different thing. In fact, stripping nested quotes is an anti-feature - the code actually has to do some work to make itself less useful for us! I question whether it really requires an add-on to restore this ...?

[DoYouKubuntu]

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.

Sorry, SH, but it's not the same. (And I knew the multi-quote feature would come up--but it's not the same.) Using your post as an example, we get this:

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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.
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To accomplish that, you had to go to each of the posts you wanted to quote, hit the multi-quote button, and then reply and add your comments. When I attempted to quote your reply, all I got was:

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.

With the old method, all I would've done is quote YOUR post and we'd get this:

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.

DEFINITELY not at all the same thing. Not only is it a pain in the ass to have to manually insert nested quotes, but, well, that's enough, right?!

[Open Source]

Agreed, it had been talked about for a while, however, official times had not been established. I want to say that it was officially announced roughly 24 hours in advance of going down, however, I would agree that that is not much time. My apologies for the lack of notice.

OS

[SecretCode]

You shouldn't be able to post there as that should just be a category. The threads that are currently there, should be moved to a sub-forum.

That makes sense to me. Although it might not be clear which sub-forums some of them belong to ... might end up needing "General", "Other" or "Miscellaneous" sub-forum!

[whatthefunk]

My only suggestion is to give members better notice if you ever change forums again. I had no idea this was going to happen and thought your servers have been down for the last week....

[Open Source]

I can't reply to any threads in forum Miscellaneous Linux Info or create a thread there. Is this intentional? (Perhaps we are supposed to use sub-forums only?)

You shouldn't be able to post there as that should just be a category. The threads that are currently there, should be moved to a sub-forum.

[claydoh]

While all these features can eventually slow a forum down (as it did in the old server) It seems we may for the time be able to try some out, see what we can keep.

[wizard10000]

I don't remember changing any personal settings, i'll look for a default.

I did change mine from the basic editor to the standard editor

[claydoh]

I don't remember changing any personal settings, i'll look for a default.

[SecretCode]

Can't post or reply in Miscellanous forum

I can't reply to any threads in forum Miscellaneous Linux Info or create a thread there. Is this intentional? (Perhaps we are supposed to use sub-forums only?)

[wizard10000]

- But maybe only if you have gone to your user settings and changed from 'basic editor' to 'standard editor' under general settings. I was missing the usual Bold, etc, buttons until I did that.

Maybe there's some value in setting the standard editor as the default?