Hammer away on vB Beta

[Leros]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: Turbonium
I have a feeling there is an AT themed skin already made, but they chose not to share it until actual launch day.

There is/was. Those of us who broke in to the vB forum before this announcement got to see it. I think they're gonna tweak it a bit.

For those of us that love the look and feel of Fusetalk, can you tell us how happy/dissappointed we'll be?

ummm just click the link and see for yourself.

You can surf the forums, just can't post without registering.

There is a different skin that isn't up yet.

 

[ProfJohn]

ahh i see.. my bad.

 

[Shawn]

I want to see how the skin looks, because the current skin looks like ass. They need to at least put the author info at the left instead of on top.

 

[narzy]

Originally posted by: Shawn
I want to see how the skin looks, because the current skin looks like ass. They need to at least put the author info at the left instead of on top.

QFMFT!

 

[George P Burdell]

1. Quoted text didn't convert from FuseTalk to vB. Example: http://vbforums.anandtech.com/...?p=5003269&postcount=5

2. WTF?

The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

3. WTF? Part II

Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply.

4. Can you throw a few themes on there for us to play around with?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Do we put our feedback here? Or somewhere on that forum? I'll put it here for now. I understand the theme isn't complete but I'd really like to make sure you understand some of the major shortcomings with it currently, the biggest of which is WASTED SPACE. This forum wastes enough space as it is, but that theme is fucking ridiculous. Example:

Current forum list (640 vertical pixels)
New (beta) forum list (2650 vertical pixels)

Why does the new layout need to take up 2,000 extra vertical pixels? The same silly design decisions apply through the forum and I seriously hope you carefully consider how much space is wasted.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
3. WTF? Part II

Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply.

This is really annoying, please get rid of this shit.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Private message import screwed something up

Inbox contains 70 messages.
You have 0 messages stored, of a total 50 allowed. (Empty Folder)

Please tell me 50 isn't the final inbox limit.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Sticky threads aren't sticky.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Thread rating FTL. What are those little tags by the thread ratings?

Edit - oh I see, you set them when creating a thread. Lose that shit, waste of space. Get rid of any and all unnecessary bullshit, in my opinion. Forums are about discussion, not stupid bells and whistles and tags and ratings.

Edit 2 - also thread icons. Lose them.

Edit 3 - ditch the social groups BS. Waste of time/space. And the calendar. My god there are a lot of bullshit features on this forum.

Edit 4 - oh, and those stupid digg/stumbleupon/etc links at the bottom. Who the fuck is going to digg a forum post? Meaningless fluff features. Lose them.

 

[Turbonium]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Thread rating FTL. What are those little tags by the thread ratings?

Edit - oh I see, you set them when creating a thread. Lose that shit, waste of space. Get rid of any and all unnecessary bullshit, in my opinion. Forums are about discussion, not stupid bells and whistles and tags and ratings.

Edit 2 - also thread icons. Lose them.

Edit 3 - ditch the social groups BS. Waste of time/space. And the calendar. My god there are a lot of bullshit features on this forum.

Edit 4 - oh, and those stupid digg/stumbleupon/etc links at the bottom. Who the fuck is going to digg a forum post? Meaningless fluff features. Lose them.

What he said.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Thread rating FTL. What are those little tags by the thread ratings?

Edit - oh I see, you set them when creating a thread. Lose that shit, waste of space. Get rid of any and all unnecessary bullshit, in my opinion. Forums are about discussion, not stupid bells and whistles and tags and ratings.

Edit 2 - also thread icons. Lose them.

Edit 3 - ditch the social groups BS. Waste of time/space. And the calendar. My god there are a lot of bullshit features on this forum.

Edit 4 - oh, and those stupid digg/stumbleupon/etc links at the bottom. Who the fuck is going to digg a forum post? Meaningless fluff features. Lose them.

godless is correct on every point here

also the quick reply box should be on by default

also need a FUCKING DARK THEME (example - http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1787/vbdark.jpg)

as well as 100 posts per page option

 

[walkur]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Thread rating FTL. What are those little tags by the thread ratings?

Edit - oh I see, you set them when creating a thread. Lose that shit, waste of space. Get rid of any and all unnecessary bullshit, in my opinion. Forums are about discussion, not stupid bells and whistles and tags and ratings.

Edit 2 - also thread icons. Lose them.

Edit 3 - ditch the social groups BS. Waste of time/space. And the calendar. My god there are a lot of bullshit features on this forum.

Edit 4 - oh, and those stupid digg/stumbleupon/etc links at the bottom. Who the fuck is going to digg a forum post? Meaningless fluff features. Lose them.

yup.. what he said

 

[Anubis]

Another thing. Posters Name and such should be to the far LEFT of the post they make not above it. Like it is here now and how it is on nearly every other forum in the world

 

[Anubis]

more from me

getting rid of nested quoting is a bad idea

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Do we put our feedback here? Or somewhere on that forum? I'll put it here for now. I understand the theme isn't complete but I'd really like to make sure you understand some of the major shortcomings with it currently, the biggest of which is WASTED SPACE. This forum wastes enough space as it is, but that theme is fucking ridiculous. Example:

Current forum list (640 vertical pixels)
New (beta) forum list (2650 vertical pixels)

Why does the new layout need to take up 2,000 extra vertical pixels? The same silly design decisions apply through the forum and I seriously hope you carefully consider how much space is wasted.

Godless you can make them subforums like we have now VB has that abaility. IDK why its not that way currently but it can be done. and hopefully it is

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Come join the neftynefness (10 character limit )

 

[shortylickens]

Remember folks, they said it was a sandbox and nothing done there will be saved.


My personal opinion:
Do not want!

 

[GeekDrew]

Enable postbit_legacy. That'll make it less horrible, for starters.
Would also be nice to have PM Stats rebuilt (it's just a simple counter rebuild, how hard is it to click the button?!?).
Why on earth are you using the vB default theme...

 

[JJChicken]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
The inability to directly jump from forum to forum concerns me.

Here I can go from L&R to P&N to OT to PC games etc with one click.

When I am bored I can surf the forums looking for something interesting.

But on the beta you have to back out of one sub-group and then enter the next.

Will make surfing the forum harder and I would expect really cut down on the amount of traffic on the forum, especially the sub forums.

You may find people become more forum specific since moving from group to group is too much work.

My 2 cents.

And it'd be too difficult to keep the main forum page open and open the assorted forums in a different window/tab...why?

Yes, the current layout with all the forums listed in the sidebar is convenient...but not any big deal if we lose it.

Humans like convenience, why take a bus to the store if you can drive?

As long as they at minimum reproduce the same functionality as FT then I'm not too fussed as anything extra is a bonus. At least there will be a non standard VB theme (which all look like ass anyway).

theres a drop down menu at the bottom of each page that allows for forum jump, but sidebar for the motherfucking win

 

[Tremulant]

I wish I could access the e-mail in my profile from work. GG Web Filtering

 

[Regs]

How do you reset the password? I tried the forgot username/password link but it does not recognize my e mail.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Tremulant
I wish I could access the e-mail in my profile from work. GG Web Filtering

I can access my gmail account by logging into mygoogle.com

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Barack Obama
theres a drop down menu at the bottom of each page that allows for forum jump, but sidebar for the motherfucking win

Ya, maybe this is a good suggestion for a plugin.

However, most of you guys need to remember that the upcoming UI change will probably incorporate a lot of the stuff you want changed. Seems like a lot of complaints are UI and positioning related, which is a good thing, because those are easy to fix and debug.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Man, I like Fusetalk designs alot more.

But if we must. Add Sidebar, and can you get rid of the last post, threads and posts tabs at the main page? They are utterly useless statistics.