New look

[Dewey Cox]

Is this the site now, or is this a temporary thing til the new site?

 

[RELOAD]

We realize the future is now but We liked the old site. We are old and don't like change.

 

[GOC Admin]

Welcome to the future.

 

[Dewey Cox]

So direct posting pictures is out again?

 

[M1917 Enfield]

Or is it?

 

[lone-wolf]

It's uhhh something all right

 

[Every Shot Counts]

All very nice but why am I getting a 403 Error?

 

[Steve MKII]

I liked the old look better but the mobile version is certainly improved

 

[Gunexpert007]

Hmmmmm....Very different for sure .

 

[labradort]

Before, there was a handy button right at the first page called "New Posts". That showed the updates on any forum section.
The first thing you might try is "New Topics", but that won't include old ones with follow ups. I think the equivalent of "New Posts"
Are these two items highlighted in yellow.

The results won't look the same as before, but I think "Latest Activity" is our new posts button now.

 

[kennymo]

Hooo boy. And why do I have 1200 notifications?

 

[Dewey Cox]

Or is it?

I can't post a picture from my phone.
says "exceeds 200mb limit"
So we can theoretically directly post a picture, but not practically.

 

[RELOAD]

"Ehh" this is going to take some getting used to.

 

[JustBen]

Do not like.

 

[Zinilin]

Get a 403 error when pasting into comment area.

 

[Camo tung]

Can someone on the tech or ownership side of the site explain to me what purpose the "tag_cloud" serves and why is it displayed to the casual surfer of this site without logging in?

Is this something that the site wants displayed to the non-gun loving community? It reinforces the very attributes the anti-gun crowd loves to use to describe the gun user community as a whole. Is it something that might have future advertisers or supporters re-think their association with GOC? It'll certainly attract the bat-shit crazy crowd and don't forget, one of them recently got elected.

I'm at a loss to understand how that list of words is relevant to anyone but a tech and why it's on full display to our detractors.


Overall: of course there will be a learning curve with a change but the Error 403 messages, the return of the difficult pic post process and the clunky functionality make this hard to digest as the evolution of V-bulletin. Currently I'm giving it 3 hits on paper out of 10. I'll wait to see how Telos tweaks it once more users submit feedback before heading out to greener pastures.

 

[Zinilin]

I do not like the, scroll from top to first unseen post on a page After rendering the full page, I preferred the previous system that did the virtual scroll to the first unseen post on a page and Then did the rendering. So the page did not immediate start scrolling as soon as you clicked on a link. The current mechanisms is clunky and amateurish something I might expect from a new open source development, not what would expect from a commercial software offering. Anytime you grab my cursor and take it for a ride you a removing control from the user, which is not normal accepted practice. Works like the Canadian Tire site that changes the page and moves your cursor as you are typing in the search box, it is my cursor not yours. If there is a setting that would change the rendering strategy it should be altered to display After position sensitive rendering is complete.

 

[Zinilin]

It appears the 403 message while pasting occurs when pasting in a newline or carriage return and when pasting in double quotes. This is likely poorly written input filtering to prevent an SQL injection attack. Amateur hour for coders that don't know how to use Bind variables in their SQL statement coding. Sort of what I would expect from a product that uses PHP and MySQL.

 

[lone-wolf]

Hooo boy. And why do I have 1200 notifications?

just the mods I think?

 

[M1917 Enfield]

Can someone on the tech or ownership side of the site explain to me what purpose the "tag_cloud" serves and why is it displayed to the casual surfer of this site without logging in?

Is this something that the site wants displayed to the non-gun loving community? It reinforces the very attributes the anti-gun crowd loves to use to describe the gun user community as a whole. Is it something that might have future advertisers or supporters re-think their association with GOC? It'll certainly attract the bat-shit crazy crowd and don't forget, one of them recently got elected.

I'm at a loss to understand how that list of words is relevant to anyone but a tech and why it's on full display to our detractors.


Overall: of course there will be a learning curve with a change but the Error 403 messages, the return of the difficult pic post process and the clunky functionality make this hard to digest as the evolution of V-bulletin. Currently I'm giving it 3 hits on paper out of 10. I'll wait to see how Telos tweaks it once more users submit feedback before heading out to greener pastures.

I'm sure Brent is doing his best to get things rolling properly again, Maybe we all need to give him and this site a week or two to get squared away before talking about abandoning ship!