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Robert Webb
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Oct 28, 2008 - 7:15 PM
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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.
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Jeroen Walter
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Nov 3, 2009 - 1:28 AM
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Offer Har
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Oct 28, 2008 - 8:58 PM
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Totally agree! The forus is very unfriendly.
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