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Forums » Prof-UIS Tech Support » Suggestion: switch to a more usable forum, like phpBB. Collapse All
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Robert Webb Oct 28, 2008 - 7:15 PM

Hi,



Any chance of switching to a more usable forum such as phpBB?  The current forum is frustrating in many ways, here are a few:



- I can’t find a list of all posts I’ve made.



- Can’t find a list of subscribed topics.



- Can’t see a way to subscribe to a topic after posting it, if I forget to tick the "Notify me" box.



- Can’t see a way to subscribe to someone else’s topic.



- No way to edit/delete previous posts.



- Replies appear in a random spot within the thread.  I know it’s not really random, but it may as well be.  New posts should always appear at the end of the thread, not somewhere in the middle.



- If I take too long to type in my post, then it tells me I’ve timed-out, so I hit Back to get back to what I typed in but it’s all been deleted!  The whole post is now lost and I have to start again.



- Every time I hit Enter it inserts two new-lines.  I automatically hit Enter twice if I want two new-lines, and then have to hit Backspace to undo the unwanted one.  There’s lots of weirdness with new-lines.  Sometimes it looks the way I want it in the entry box, but ends up showing a bunch of extra new-lines in the final post.



- You can only search one forum at a time.  I want to search both the Support and General forums.



- It won’t remember me and auto-log me in.



- It won’t show me new posts since last log-on.



- When viewing a post, it will show something like this at the top:

  "Home >> Tech Support >> Prof-UIS >> Support Forum"

  With each element clickable except for the last.  I’ve often wanted to click on that last link to the Support Forum.



Basically it’s a really unfriendly unusable and frustrating forum.  Using something like phpBB would solve all these problems.  If it’s a pain transfering old posts across, then I suggest keeping the old forum in a read-only state as archive and start the forums again from scratch.  The sooner you do it the sooner it will start filling up with content again.



Thanks,

Rob.

Jeroen Walter Nov 3, 2009 - 1:28 AM

I also agree.

Offer Har Oct 28, 2008 - 8:58 PM

Totally agree!


The forus is very unfriendly.