I noticed that an ID request that I posted last night was already on the fourth page of the forum when I checked the site again early this morning. If you guys were a bit more progressive, each thread in the ID requests forum would be a thumbnail image, as opposed to a title. If this were the case, knowledgeable users could quickly scan the forum with their eyes, easily fulfilling requests. As it stands, it's just a bunch of redundant titles.
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A quick look in the vBulletin forum shows that there is actually a plugin for this (named "Thread Thumbnail", version 1.1) but it is not supported anymore (last updated in 2007) and certainly does not work for the current version of the board software, which seems to be vBulletin 4.2. That is the reason for this not being implemented, as well as the fact that vBulletin developers haven't seem to have had interest in integrating this feature in the board software in the first place.
At least, I don't think that it has been integrated since I think this sort of request must have been made before (haven't checked though) and would have already been implemented if it worked without problems. I don't think I have seen any other vBulletin-based forums that would have had this either. FreeOnes team members, feel free to tell me if I'm talking out of my ass here.
Also, that would only work for threads where images are posted as attachments. There are several technical complications as well as complications concerning netiquette in doing the same when pictures in the thread are not posted as attachments but as plain links, so with those threads there is absolutely no other option than to open and check them separately.
So I think this is one of those requests you'll have to send directly to the developers of the board software. That has been the general advice from the FO Team members in some earlier cases as well, though I think it would help if they would actually weigh in as well in these sorts of matters. It is really irritating to separately register a user account on each specific site and forum where you want to post feature requests and such, so it would be kind of nice of the board admins would forward these sorts things to them. Like: "You know, we are running a large vBulletin-based board here on our site and have had X requests from our members for this feature Y. It seems like quite a popular request, so we thought it would be nice if you would consider implementing it to the board software."
At least, I don't think that it has been integrated since I think this sort of request must have been made before (haven't checked though) and would have already been implemented if it worked without problems. I don't think I have seen any other vBulletin-based forums that would have had this either. FreeOnes team members, feel free to tell me if I'm talking out of my ass here.
Also, that would only work for threads where images are posted as attachments. There are several technical complications as well as complications concerning netiquette in doing the same when pictures in the thread are not posted as attachments but as plain links, so with those threads there is absolutely no other option than to open and check them separately.
So I think this is one of those requests you'll have to send directly to the developers of the board software. That has been the general advice from the FO Team members in some earlier cases as well, though I think it would help if they would actually weigh in as well in these sorts of matters. It is really irritating to separately register a user account on each specific site and forum where you want to post feature requests and such, so it would be kind of nice of the board admins would forward these sorts things to them. Like: "You know, we are running a large vBulletin-based board here on our site and have had X requests from our members for this feature Y. It seems like quite a popular request, so we thought it would be nice if you would consider implementing it to the board software."
Yeah... the slowdown is really something that the board does absolutely not need. I don't have the most modern computer available, but it's becoming quite insane if you're expected to have something like a dualcore CPU to even be able to comfortably browse vBulletin-based forums (or other forums with lots of eye candy and decorations). That's not really something that I'm willing to accept in the general domain of computers: the faster they get, the slower everything still seems to feel like and the more crashy and buggy they are because of feature creep (bloat). I'm quite sure that FO board from say, 8 years ago worked quite a lot faster than it currently does and my computer was even worse then (a 600 Mhz AMD Duron, I think).
I would like if there were a possibility for a very lightweight version of the board, like the Premium Link Upgrade but so that you can actually post and see attachments... but I should really have made a separate thread for that.
I would like if there were a possibility for a very lightweight version of the board, like the Premium Link Upgrade but so that you can actually post and see attachments... but I should really have made a separate thread for that.
Petra
Cult ****** and Simpering Cunt
Well, as it is, vbulletin hasn't done any major updates to v4 in a year. Literally, 4.2 came out a little over a year ago and the only thing that has come out since then are a few patches. I think they've officially thrown all their resources into vb5, which really doesn't add anything to the board (in fact, they sell v4 forums with v5) and it's all sorts of facebook crap.
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Just one thougt...
....on the other hand, the fact that id-requests are moving "downwards" so quickly even shows how progressive this thread is. I placed several ID-requests in there and everyone was answered in minutes or even in seconds!. At this point I would like to take the opportunity to thank everybody contributing there!
@p157: It might help after having started a ID-request-thread to subscribe to your own ID-request-thread and using the instant notification function in the subscription-setup . You'll recieve a notification via mail if somebody of those helpful guys/girls has answered your request. That gives you the ability, by clicking the refer-link coming with the notification-mail to move directly to your request, instead of browsing page by page .
Ok, still no thumbnails out there (I really like the idea but due given reason it is not realizable), but at least a comfortable solution for speeding up your research.
Regards
....on the other hand, the fact that id-requests are moving "downwards" so quickly even shows how progressive this thread is. I placed several ID-requests in there and everyone was answered in minutes or even in seconds!. At this point I would like to take the opportunity to thank everybody contributing there!
@p157: It might help after having started a ID-request-thread to subscribe to your own ID-request-thread and using the instant notification function in the subscription-setup . You'll recieve a notification via mail if somebody of those helpful guys/girls has answered your request. That gives you the ability, by clicking the refer-link coming with the notification-mail to move directly to your request, instead of browsing page by page .
Ok, still no thumbnails out there (I really like the idea but due given reason it is not realizable), but at least a comfortable solution for speeding up your research.
Regards
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