New Forum Software

[Ross Marsden]

Yes, click on "Alert Preferences" at the bottom right of the alert drop down menu, or:
https://www.metabunk.org/account/alert-preferences

We have "alerts"? OK, I will check it out.

Nice new look, and sounds like good works going on under the hood with the new engine.
And thanks for all the work you do with this... an island of sanity on the fringe.

Cheers,
Ross

 

[cosmic]

Mick: Just out of curiosity, is there a single-click means of navigating to the most recent post in a given thread (like in vBull/phpBB/etc.)? I can't tell if I'm missing the option or if it doesn't (yet) exist.

Edit: I think I found it... hadn't occurred to me to click on the date...

 

[Jazzy]

Hell. I was just getting used to it.

 

[Mick West]

Mick: Just out of curiosity, is there a single-click means of navigating to the most recent post in a given thread (like in vBull/phpBB/etc.)? I can't tell if I'm missing the option or if it doesn't (yet) exist.

Edit: I think I found it... hadn't occurred to me to click on the date...

That's it. You can also click on the blue dot to get to the first post since you last read that thread.

 

[Mick West]

EX tags have been fixed, and button added to toolbar.

Example

 

[Soulfly]

When I try and click on the 30 count indictment thread in the Boston bombing forum That I posted, I get sent here instead.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/celebrities-and-science-2010.30/

 

[Mick West]

When I try and click on the 30 count indictment thread in the Boston bombing forum That I posted, I get sent here instead.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/celebrities-and-science-2010.30/

It's because it starts with 30, so the redirect rules think it's an old vbulletin thread, and redirect you to thread #30.

I shall fix it.

 

[Soulfly]

Change the title if that helps.

 

[Mick West]

I've fixed it. It was just a small bug I introduced into .htaccess

 

[Mick West]

Besides the [ex] tag there's several other useful tags, liked under the help page:
https://www.metabunk.org/help/bb-codes

Spoiler

Useful if you want to hide some text

 

[Mick West]

I've changed the "What's New" menu link to "Recent Threads", which shows the most recent message in each forum, more useful for seeing what the latest activity in the forum is.

 

[FreiZeitGeist]

@Mick:

Maybe you should rename this lovely "Spy"-Function into something, that doesn´t look harmfull to neutral guests...

Nobody wants to see a "Spy" in his forum...

I recommend to rename this in "Paid shill" or "NWO-Agent"

 

[Mick West]

@Mick:

Maybe you should rename this lovely "Spy"-Function into something, that doesn´t look harmfull to neutral guests...

Nobody wants to see a "Spy" in his forum...

I recommend to rename this in "Paid shill" or "NWO-Agent"

Fixed!

 

[Mick West]

I am experimenting with a "Portal" front page, so the "Home" page may be messed up, however you can still just click on the Forums, and everything else should be unaffected.
https://www.metabunk.org/forum/

 

[Pete Tar]

So spy is now activity stream? The only thing is I can't go to a 'previous' or 'more activity' other than what shows up, to check what I've missed.

 

[Mick West]

So spy is now activity stream? The only thing is I can't go to a 'previous' or 'more activity' other than what shows up, to check what I've missed.

It's because it's a real-time thing, potentially getting lots of queries, so it just caches the last 20 items or so.

Try Members/Recent Activity, if you want a longer view.

 

[cosmic]

Now that I've had some hands-on time, I must say I really like this software.

 

[Mick West]

Me too, I'm much happier with it than I expected.

Plus there's a pretty major upgrade (to Xenforo) coming in a few weeks, even more stuff! Drag and drop images! Edit history!

All the 1.2 stuff listed here:
http://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen/

 

[Gunguy45]

Ok...this was a big surprise...
I like the look...but I'm having a real issue finding some things. How do I change how threads are displayed? I don't want to start at the very beginning of a huge long thread.

Also...what/where is the SPY tab? I don't see that anywhere I've looked.

Sorry...I'm just real used to VBulletin as thats what we use on my Forums....

 

[Mick West]

Spy tab was renamed "Activity Stream" to be more descriptive.

I'm not sure what you mean about starting at the beginning. Did you have the display order inverted in VB?
You can just skip to the last page:
https://www.metabunk.org/sk/Advocat..._and_debunkers_|_Metabunk-20130702-081315.jpg

And you can go to the last post from the Activity Stream, or Recent Activity. And then there's the "Unread Threads" (under the "What's new" drop down menu)

 

[Mick West]

Also, check out the "Chat" tab, which also gives a real-time update of what's going on.

 

[Mick West]

And let me know if you have any suggestions. Xenforo is pretty flexible.

 

[Gunguy45]

Yes...I do have the display order inverted in VB. I'm one of the "there all the time" types as a SuperMod...so I need to quickly see the new spammers. I see how you can jump to the end now.

I don't have a drop down under "whats new". There's an arrow like there should be a drop down when I hover over it...but nothing happens unless I click it. Then it takes me to .....

Oops never mind....I see I actually have to be over the down arrow for the drop down to appear. I kinda don't like that personally, my hand eye coordination isn't that great.

I do like the chat button.

Sorry you needed to retrain me, at 55 you get used to certain things.

 

[Mick West]

Also, you can click on the date/time in the forum list to go to the last post

 

[cosmic]

Does the software include support for embedding Tweets, or is there a simple plugin to enable it? Not sure how much demand there would be, I was just wondering.

 

[Mick West]

I just added the modification to do this, you need to paste in the URL of the tweet (from clicking on the date/time on the right of the tweet)

Gives you this link, which you paste into a post.
https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/352786598498279426

Automagic result:

 

[cosmic]

Very nice. Thanks, Mick!

 

[Pete Tar]

Just a thought to change the refresh rate of the activity stream - I left my activity stream window open and a download monitor on while I had a shower, when I came back a half hour later it had gone up by 6MB. I seem to get a refresh icon every ten-seconds or so.
I'm on mobile internet and had noticed a bit of an increase in usage, so I think that was it. I'll stop leaving the activity stream window open from now on.

 

[Clock]

I've moved from vBulletin to Xenforo for the software that runs the Forum.

Hey Mick, out of curiosity, why did you change from vBulletin to Xenforo?

 

[Mick West]

Hey Mick, out of curiosity, why did you change from vBulletin to Xenforo?

Because it's better. More features, better development.

 

[Leifer]

I very much like this site's format, and all it's "extras". It works well on mobile, too.