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oldskool smileys rule over the new school emoticons

smartphone style sux



change my mind 🛀








They really need to bring those back!

 
#956 ·
I think I made that moving GIF. The original said "kneel suckers" and I added the VW symbol... or I'm just really old and don't have the best memory of it.

I secured a license from VW to be able to use the VW logo on our local car club site (which died many years ago).
 
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I looked into the upstream error and found a number of "forum support discussion" forums that are talking about the exact same issues that we have been talking about here.

The small avatars and now the more frequent upstream error.


One response to the upstream question....

[upstream error has] Been happening here gradually getting worse since the avatars went little.
 
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For me it's the whole image on a significant fraction of the posts I view.
 
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I feel like it's 1998
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Out of curiosity, what software are you going with?

I may be a creature of habit but man, vBulletin (this current version we're on now) is my favorite forum software still. Fast, lightweight, easy to navigate and use, but I see your point - it's been the same for almost two decades.

EDIT: Didn't know VWvortex was owned by VerticalScope. That answers my question! XenForo for us! I don't like it as much as VB, it's a little bloated, but hey I get it!
 
#4 ·
I'm all for it as long as my two personal requirements are met:

  1. Threads don't disappear in bulk
  2. The infernal mobile version is changed to something better
 
#7 ·
Screenshots? I don't guess I've seen it. If I have, I didn't know what I was looking at.
 
#14 ·
Cool. I like how that works. Good features, etc.

It isn’t Tapatalk enabled though afaik
 
#15 ·
My biggest pet peeve with this site's software is that if you pop on for a minute, close it, and then come back 10 minutes later, everything older than 10 minutes is marked as read. I like that XenForo keeps track of what you've actually viewed and keeps everything else unread.

I also like that the interface feels like something from the current decade...
 
#16 ·
I can live with Xenforo.

The driver behind this is the fact that integrating modern ad service networks into the legacy VBulletin software is a huge cluster**** (as we've all experienced with the page-breaking inline ads and videos). This place still gets a huge number of monthly page views even in spite of the fact that message boards have lost a ton of ground to Facebook and social media groups, so it's no surprise that they're upgrading the architecture to take advantage of the ad sales that are left.
 
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Is it at least going to look similar to this? I really don't like the stock XenForo look? I hope we don't end up with a ton of ads on the right side of the screen, either, as all these XenForo forums end up doing.
 
#22 ·
During a pandemic just 6 days before the US elections? WCGW? :laugh:

 
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