New Forums: Feedback thread - Bugs/Suggestions here please.

[Placebo]

We're getting bugs/suggestions posted to a number of different threads so I'll start this one and close the others.

Post here all feedback you want about the new forums, what's not working like the old ones, what seems completely broken, what you'd like to see changed or whatever, if you can keep to some kind of easy to read format that'd be great but I won't force you, ideally something like:

Usability: not enough characters available for signatures
Usability: cannot search for 3 letter things like PBO/WGL

Those two I already fixed this morning.

[Placebo]

I will be going through the three threads I just closed to try to pick out things to fix/change as much as possible, but no harm in repetition

[Sickboy]

What search-type is vBulletin set to? Built-in vBulletin search or MySQL full-text search?
I'm asking because IIRC the MySQL full-text search was much better performing (lower load, faster results);
possibly interesting esp considering the huge amount of members, who now love to use the search

Thanks for pimping up the form-sizes btw

Ps; if you would like a ticket/issue tracker for these forums for free, over at http://dev-heaven.net to ease the pains of tracking issues/feedback etc; let me know :P
(Example; http://dev-heaven.net/projects/heaven/issues)
Otherwise, I can recommend http://www.vbulletin.com/features_project.php (Could be a really great extension to these forums; tracking your websites/forum feedback/issues, aswell as games, maybe?)

[sk3pt]

Perhaps another color for the icon next to the sticky threads ?

[MehMan]

A quick reply that's always on, one that works like a reply, just that I don't have to click any other buttons besides post.

[mr.g-c]

bug: I can't select a own avatar anymore....

[Placebo]

What search-type is vBulletin set to? Built-in vBulletin search or MySQL full-text search?
I'm asking because IIRC the MySQL full-text search was much better performing (lower load, faster results);
possibly interesting esp considering the huge amount of members, who now love to use the search

Your forum is currently using the Fulltext search engine.

So one would assume that means it's using the "good one"

Ps; if you would like a ticket/issue tracker for these forums for free, over at http://dev-heaven.net to ease the pains of tracking issues/feedback etc; let me know :P
(Example; http://dev-heaven.net/projects/heaven/issues)
Otherwise, I can recommend http://www.vbulletin.com/features_project.php (Could be a really great extension to these forums; tracking your websites/forum feedback/issues, aswell as games, maybe?)

I'll look into that

[Kegetys]

Is there some settings for the "new posts" feature behaviour? Currently it for some reason only displays a few threads for me, all only from today. On another forum which is also based on same vBulletin version it always displays 500 last posted threads, with a 'The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts.' separator after a few of them. The old ikonboard one also properly displayed threads from a longer period.

[Placebo]

bug: I can't select a own avatar anymore....

Yeah it seems there's currently no way to allow avatars from external sites whilst disallowing avatars from this server, it's all or nothing, needs further exploration.

BTW if I don't reply to a specific comment/suggestion/feedback it doesn't mean your comment is 1. being ignore 2. considered unworthy, will get to all in time

MehMan & sk3pt both good suggestions thanks

[echo1]

Thanks for fixing the front page to show the last post in the games section!