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Lutherf said:
I've played with vB5. Just don't do it. The package is a horrible mess.

**For those that might know, vB5 wasn't a horrible mess because of me. Sure, I uploaded a ****load of files to the wrong place and facilitated the addition of 1.7million avatar templates, 23 trillion emojis and an award system that turned into Godzilla on steroids but I was following the guidance of "experts".
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Please do not ever touch my computer...
 
RedAkston said:
We don't get reimbursed for anything. This site is paid for solely based on donations from the membership. None of the staff make a dime off of donations, we are all volunteers.

What site are you seeing "intrusive ads" on? This site (DP) or the test site that this thread references?
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You don't have to answer of course, but was it a specific decision to not have advertising here?
What I mean is, on another forum we have (or had) banner ads along the left column all along.
No, it didn't make us a fortune but it helped.

Probably no one appreciates intrusive pop up ads like the ones they have on newspaper sites, but banner ads aren't so terrible, except that they take up a bit of screen space.
 
RedAkston said:
Most likely no. I'd have to dig into this further to see. Are you able to make exceptions for specific sites with No Script?
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Yes I can. No problem.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
You don't have to answer of course, but was it a specific decision to not have advertising here?
What I mean is, on another forum we have (or had) banner ads along the left column all along.
No, it didn't make us a fortune but it helped.

Probably no one appreciates intrusive pop up ads like the ones they have on newspaper sites, but banner ads aren't so terrible, except that they take up a bit of screen space.
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I use adblock, so I never noticed there was not adds. There used to be when I first joined. The adds that showed up in threads on gay issues used to be hilarious.
 
RedAkston said:
As has been discussed previously, we are seriously considering changing the forum software from vBulletin 4.x to XenForo 2.x. vB doesn't have the features we're wanting to add, it's a bit outdated and support is almost non-existent. We've done some testing (and still have more to do), but I wanted to get some feedback from our DP community as a whole. With that in mind, I have created a demo for everyone to join and play around with. It will be up and running until Tuesday evening. Test out some of the features (mentions, embed video from multiple sources, embed tweets, etc...). So far, I've created just a few generic forums for the purpose of this test environment. If we decide to go with XenForo, everything from here will be moved to the new software.

Website - XenForo demo

I ask that everyone behave yourselves and please post any feedback concerning the software here in this thread. Please keep in mind that the settings are mostly the default settings, some of these will need to be tweaked (for example, the default setting for new thread creation was 3 minutes).

Thanks
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I like the interface, but I think striking a balance between your level of work and our enjoyment of the GUI is important. Only you can know all those things. Clearly the support issue is important, and part of the backend workload issues. I defer to your expertise on that.
 
RedAkston said:
Keep in mind that the test site is the stock default XF load. There will be a lot of changes to the default settings so that they more in line match what we have now.
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I find the 20 minutes allocated for editing a post too short. Sometimes I'm posting rapidly while busy with other things, then I come back after 20 minutes have passed and realize that in a post of mine there is a big typo or mistake that makes the point senseless, but I can no longer edit unless I ask a moderator to do it, which I've chosen not to do (you guys are probably busy enough). When we migrate to the new software, is there a chance that this could be set to at least one hour?
 
Paradoxical said:
I understand that and didn't mean to imply you were interested in ad revenue and I do appreciate this site. mainly because it isn't cluttered with ads and the other one is.
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Can you post a screenshot of the ads you're seeing? I haven't seen a single ad from the test site.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
You don't have to answer of course, but was it a specific decision to not have advertising here?
What I mean is, on another forum we have (or had) banner ads along the left column all along.
No, it didn't make us a fortune but it helped.

Probably no one appreciates intrusive pop up ads like the ones they have on newspaper sites, but banner ads aren't so terrible, except that they take up a bit of screen space.
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We have minimal advertising here. This may change going forward.
 
GreatNews2night said:
I find the 20 minutes allocated for editing a post too short. Sometimes I'm posting rapidly while busy with other things, then I come back after 20 minutes have passed and realize that in a post of mine there is a big typo or mistake that makes the point senseless, but I can no longer edit unless I ask a moderator to do it, which I've chosen not to do (you guys are probably busy enough). When we migrate to the new software, is there a chance that this could be set to at least one hour?
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It will be set to 5 minutes, as it is here presently. It is our experience that anything more creates more problems than it's worth.
 
RedAkston said:
We have minimal advertising here. This may change going forward.
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LOL I don't bother with ad blockers and I can't remember seeing ANY ads.
Maybe I'm not paying attention....hmmmm, I don't see any right now!
 
RedAkston said:
It will be set to 5 minutes, as it is here presently. It is our experience that anything more creates more problems than it's worth.
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Five minutes? It's not five minutes right now, it's 20. If you don't want to increase it, at least please don't decrease it!
 
GreatNews2night said:
Five minutes? It's not five minutes right now, it's 20. If you don't want to increase it, at least please don't decrease it!
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I misspoke - it is currently 20 minutes. This will remain the same. It is 5 minutes to edit the thread title and 20 for a post.
 
RedAkston said:
It will be set to 5 minutes, as it is here presently. It is our experience that anything more creates more problems than it's worth.
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5 minutes to edit a post is long enough.
If someone needs 20 minutes edit time for their posts, they probably loaded it up with something that teases the word limit.
Please say you're not raising the word limit.
 
I've tweaked the default style a bit. It looks a lot better IMO.
 
bubbabgone said:
5 minutes to edit a post is long enough.
If someone needs 20 minutes edit time for their posts, they probably loaded it up with something that teases the word limit.
Please say you're not raising the word limit.
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Not raising the word limit.
 
RedAkston said:
As has been discussed previously, we are seriously considering changing the forum software from vBulletin 4.x to XenForo 2.x. vB doesn't have the features we're wanting to add, it's a bit outdated and support is almost non-existent. We've done some testing (and still have more to do), but I wanted to get some feedback from our DP community as a whole. With that in mind, I have created a demo for everyone to join and play around with. It will be up and running until Tuesday evening. Test out some of the features (mentions, embed video from multiple sources, embed tweets, etc...). So far, I've created just a few generic forums for the purpose of this test environment. If we decide to go with XenForo, everything from here will be moved to the new software.

Website - XenForo demo

I ask that everyone behave yourselves and please post any feedback concerning the software here in this thread. Please keep in mind that the settings are mostly the default settings, some of these will need to be tweaked (for example, the default setting for new thread creation was 3 minutes).

Thanks
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Just the fact that the current platform is no longer supported makes your proposal smart and timely.
Go for it!
 
RedAkston said:
I misspoke - it is currently 20 minutes. This will remain the same. It is 5 minutes to edit the thread title and 20 for a post.
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I may have missed it, but more time to complete posting a pool, and if time expires, maybe delete the entire post so as to not create a screwed up one.
 
How much different is XenoForo compared to current format? I am a complete noob when it comes to these type of issues, but I do know that I have been using other sites that are on XF, but I do not think this site works any worse than those.
 
The demo will be deleted later this evening but I wanted to thank everyone who took a look and provided feedback. There are still some issues we need to be worked out to ensure that a change would work, but it looks good so far.
 
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