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[rox]

Muhammed,

Now that you have given us the same UI for the initial pages, we are all familiar with that, I must say I do like the news software.

I am not using the plain text box to enter my replies, can't think of the name of what I'm suing but it is actually quite nice. I can see much more of what I have written and am more inclined to go back and fix my typos.

I miss seeing how many new replies there were in a thread I previoulsy viewed but the new layout is better. So there are some ++ some --- but overall I do like the new software. Just took me a bit of getting used to.
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I'm am going to try changing my font and see what happens. Tried the indenting, now Bold

 

[MikePA]

All this talk of new features, etc. and it turns out to be the same forum software used by thousands of other websites.

The features will still be new to TBN. The fact that these 'new features' have been in place on thousands of other websites running vBulletin is, well, irrelevant.

 

[Hakim]

We made the decision to use VBulletin as our base forum software because it was one of the only available programs that can handle a forum of this size.

We were using a version of the former software that was about three years old. We were unable to keep up to date, because we had so heavily modified the base code that it was extremely problematic to re-write the whole program every time we wanted to add something or do an upgrade.

VBulletin has a very robust community of users, and there are literally more than 1,000 "tweaks" that are available for the base software. We will be adding on such modifications as time goes on.

Once people get accustomed to the new forum operations over the next couple of weeks, I feel confident everyone will agree that this change was in the best interests of our users. It definitely will not only save us hundreds of hours of essentially needless coding, provide a very secure environment, but most importantly, will allow us to add many more enhancements than we could have done without it.

 

[Mickey_Fx]

As this new SW is what is being used on several other sites I frequent, it feels comfortable to me.

Hope at some point you add in a spell check and smilies.

Oh, what is the limitations you've set for attachments?

 

[Freds]

Very nice job Muhammad and Ibrahim. The site loads much faster now.​

I'll give it that! Unless they put all those moving commercials back on

My find unread post button appears to be working on all PCs, now, but now I can't insert an emoticon in my reply... minor I suppose.

Oh, I see... you have to type the emoticon you want to use. You can't "check it" or it puts it up with the thread name. Hmmm...

 

[Inspector507]

I'll give it that! Unless they put all those moving commercials back on

My find unread post button appears to be working on all PCs, now, but now I can't insert an emoticon in my reply... minor I suppose.

Oh, I see... you have to type the emoticon you want to use. You can't "check it" or it puts it up with the thread name. Hmmm...

Freds, if you change to Enhanced Editor you can add emoticons by clicking the one(s) you want

 

[Freds]

Freds, if you change to Enhanced Editor you can add emoticons by clicking the one(s) you want

Thanks for the heads up. They were working yesterday I thought, but then yesterday the unread replies arrow wasn't working. I haven't done anything except open the forum and read a few threads....
Now.... to look for this 'enhanced editor' you speak of....
May as well see if I can figure out how to add a pic.

Testing

Shoot. That didn't work. I'll have to find the instructions.

 

[Inspector507]

Freds go to your Control panel. Then click on Edit Options. Then down at the bottom is how you change the Interface Editor. Change it to Enhanced Editor. Now when you reply you have to option to add smilies/emoticons

 

[SPYDERLK]

I am pretty new to the forum, but from the beginning I have experienced difficulty in getting back to the forum after posting in a thread. This posting penalty is really bothering me. Now it has reached the point where I completely back out of the website and reenter in order to get the system to respond. Is this common? Is there some secret way around it? Im going to send and suffer now.
Larry

 

[Shimon]

Is there a way to make the "View First Unread" feature automatic as soon as you enter a thread (see photo)? When I open a thread I would like to go directly to the first of the newest entries in the post like it used to in the old software. I know I can click the "View First Unread" button, but if I can save an extra click I may live a little bit longer. Thanks!