Official TUGBBS upgrade complaint/suggestion thread!

[TUGBrian]

ah ok, just making sure!

 

[Marathoner]

Site is looking better with each change.

Still would request that we use a larger font for the latest thread on each forum on the main forum page.

 

[dioxide45]

There seems to be an issue with the New Posts. There are a lot of threads there that indicate "Watched" as they have a little pair of glasses associated with the thread. However, these are not threads that I am watching and they don't show up in Watched Threads. When I click on the thread, the link in the upper right says "Watch Thread, not "Unwatch Thread". Many of the threads are from the Sightings forum that I haven't even gone in to yet tonight.

 

[TUGBrian]

are they perhaps threads in a forum that you are watching?

 

[dioxide45]

are they perhaps threads in a forum that you are watching?

That explains it.

 

[BellaWyn]

Have no complaint or suggestion to make only compliments about this upgrade. Not only about the look, ease of navigation, fun new features but also appreciate the massive level of effort and resources that have gone into getting this in place, patient attention to all of the troubleshooting and tweeking requests (read through all 14 pages) and willingness of TUGGERS to jump in and help. See a lot of moderators in this thread. So many of you go unnoticed and under-appreciated by the massive amount of member and guest traffic that hits this site.

To all of you, thank you. Super like this new upgrade! Bravo!

Caite

 

[Passepartout]

Maybe it's just me, but being addicted to the 'New Posts', I find it distracting to see under each of the posts, a chronological time- like 'Posted 7 minutes ago', or 'posted today at 12:49' or something similar, even though those times are relative to the LAST time I renewed the list. Not relative to NOW. I preferred the old system that showed something like 'Posted 12/3 at 12:49', so I knew whether it was currently new, or not.

Jim

 

[TUGBrian]

I believe someone else mentioned this as well, but ive yet to find any way to modify how that is displayed (ie making them all show the date/time vs it being in minutes or "yesterday" etc.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Just keep "new posts" or a bunch of TUG members ( including me ) will be "hooked " without our "fix"

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[TUGBrian]

eh, there is no plan (or ability that im aware of) to remove the "new posts" functionality.

plus even I use it every day =)

 

[theo]

This is an observation / compliment rather than a "complaint" regarding the new software...

Since adoption of the new Xenforo software on TUG, I don't think that I've seen any garbage posts in the forums from first time guests peddling counterfeit currency or passports, assorted dubious electronic devices, cell phones of unknown origin or legitimacy, etc. While such crap advertising has always generally been promptly "reported" and removed from the TUG forums, not even seeing it at all is even better. Not sure if this new development is a byproduct of some intrinsic "screening" capability in the new software, some new technical difficulty for spammers / scammers to overcome that I don't comprehend, or heightened vigilance by moderators --- but whatever the reason it is a welcome, unexpected and appreciated feature improvement.

 

[csxjohn]

there should be no ads on the site for anyone logged in (member or guest).

That's the way it is still working. I have noticed that when I go to the site now, I do not see the ads for the up front fee companies. Is it because this new format does a better job at keeping them off?

You will be the first to know if I see them again.

 

[Makai Guy]

This is an observation / compliment rather than a "complaint" regarding the new software...

Since adoption of the new Xenforo software on TUG, I don't think that I've seen any garbage posts from first time guests advertising counterfeit currency or passports, assorted dubious electronic devices, cell phones of unknown origin or legitimacy, etc. While such crap advertising has always generally been promptly "reported" and removed from the TUG forums, not seeing it at all is even better. Not sure if this new development is a byproduct of some intrinsic "screening" capability in the new software, some technical difficulty for spammers / scammers to overcome that I don't comprehend, or heightened vigilance by moderators --- but whatever the reason it is a welcome, unexpected and appreciated feature improvement.

There have only been a handful in two and a half weeks -- sometimes we used to get that many in a single day before. It may just be that the automated bots that were set up to log into vBulletin here haven't caught on and switched to their scripts to log into XenForo now. Or maybe XenForo is less prone to this. Time will tell, but it's sure much nicer now while it lasts.

 

[TUGBrian]

This is an observation / compliment rather than a "complaint" regarding the new software...

Since adoption of the new Xenforo software on TUG, I don't think that I've seen any garbage posts from first time guests advertising counterfeit currency or passports, assorted dubious electronic devices, cell phones of unknown origin or legitimacy, etc. While such crap advertising has always generally been promptly "reported" and removed from the TUG forums, not seeing it at all is even better. Not sure if this new development is a byproduct of some intrinsic "screening" capability in the new software, some technical difficulty for spammers / scammers to overcome that I don't comprehend, or heightened vigilance by moderators --- but whatever the reason it is a welcome, unexpected and appreciated feature improvement.

the "anti spam" tools used on this forum during registration most certainly do a much better job to filter out the robot spammers for sure!

 

[TUGBrian]

That's the way it is still working. I have noticed that when I go to the site now, I do not see the ads for the up front fee companies. Is it because this new format does a better job at keeping them off?

You will be the first to know if I see them again.

while we cannot control what google ads are displayed on the site (its actually based on your own browsing history and changes for each user who visits the site)...we do keep on top of blocking the obvious ones.

and our block list within adwords is more than 500 urls long!

 

[TUGBrian]

retest tapatalk install....

 

[TUGBrian]

well, at the moment the "fix" we got at least at first glance doesnt break the site...but its still filling the server logs with errors.

if they are errors we can ignore and I dont find anything else broken at the moment ill leave it enabled if its working for end users.

 

[TUGBrian]

no reply from any tapatalk users? yes no maybe?

since i didnt hear from anyone ive disabled tapatalk again until we can actually get it working without it generating an error every time a post is made or edited.

 

[TUGBrian]

test tapatalk again

 

[TUGBrian]

annnd still failed

 

[Sandy VDH]

Is there a way to report a thread to a moderator. I know there was the caution sign on the old site, but how do we do that now. There was a spam posted yesterday, but I could not find a way to report it.

 

[TUGBrian]

yes, below your signature you will find a link that says "report".

 

[TUGBrian]

test tapatalk install take 4!

 

[TUGBrian]

annd still errors....not terribly impressed with tapatalk support sofar!

 

[MULTIZ321]

annd still errors....not terribly impressed with tapatalk support sofar!

I just sent an email to Tapatalk customer service while on the Tapatalk site asking them to please help to fix the problem of not being able to log onto TUG via TapaTalk.

Fingers crossed.

Richard