Alan de Enfield Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 I have suggested several times over the years (since we migrated to this Invision software) that there are better providers out there, one which is used on a number of forums that I frequent is 'Vbulletin' which Rich (and others) have agreed is a far superior system, but 'costs more than we can pay'. I do not ever recall a 'down-day' or any of the problems we get with 'upgrades' on the Vbulletin forums in the last 5 years (or more) Maybe it is time to have a subscription and for it to be a members forum only. Just a suggestion as one way to pay for it, but, having said that, non of the Vbulletin forums I am a member of are 'subscription membership.. It is somehow funded without advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 I agree Alan Vbulletin is very good and so is PHPBB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 16 minutes ago, john6767 said: I believe what causes you to see all the duplicate entries is the setting for “Show me”. You need to change that to be “content items only” then you will just see one entry for a thread. Thank you, this has fixed the multiple thread entries for me too. Now the forum is useable for me at least, again. What a shame we have to figure this stuff out for ourselves. Oh, I take that back. I now have 4 entries for this thread. Better than 15 though! Nope, its gone back up to 15. DOH!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 You have to keep changing the filter it goes back to showing everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Ah sussed the problem. My newly saved VNC is not being entered into the "View New Content" link, top right of every page. 1 minute ago, buccaneer66 said: You have to keep changing the filter it goes back to showing everything Yes, this. The new VNC created needs to be inserted into our VNC links on each page, somehow. WHAT a fuck up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeyperson Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 I use a bookmark (favourite) for the web page and have it on the Bookmark Bar. I needed to delete my old bookmark and save the new VNC one. If I click View New Content top right on the web page I get the multiple entries again and also lose the politics threads. If I click the bookmark I get the saved changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said: Thank you, this has fixed the multiple thread entries for me too. Now the forum is useable for me at least, again. What a shame we have to figure this stuff out for ourselves. Oh, I take that back. I now have 4 entries for this thread. Better than 15 though! Nope, its gone back up to 15. DOH!!! You have to create your own custom filter, and then make that your default one for the changes that you make to stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, journeyperson said: I use a bookmark (favourite) for the web page and have it on the Bookmark Bar. I needed to delete my old bookmark and save the new VNC one. If I click View New Content top right on the web page I get the multiple entries again and also lose the politics threads. If I click the bookmark I get the saved changes. This. Set up your activity stream the way you like it and save it as a bookmark. Then use the bookmark and ignore the VNC link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyertribe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Soooo user friendly. Can I suggest we all sign up to an Open University course on Astrophysics to help us gain the mental agility to navigate the software? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 1 minute ago, john6767 said: You have to create your own custom filter, and then make that your default one for the changes that you make to stick. That fixs it, although its such a small button its easy to miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Just now, David Mack said: This. Set up your activity stream the way you like it and save it as a bookmark. Then use the bookmark and ignore the VNC link. What’s wrong with setting your stream as the default then you don’t need to mess with bookmarks Just now, buccaneer66 said: That fixs it, although its such a small button its easy to miss. Yep not obvious is it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 once you have saved your new filter click this button folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said: I agree Alan Vbulletin is very good and so is PHPBB. Yes, I'm on a PHBB forum also, its not a very busy forum but it seems quite stable. One of the Invision forums has many more members and many more posts than this forum and it is really stable and user friendly. Threads 522,070 Posts 4,554,064 Most users online 11,494 Members 116,902 Active Members 4,759 Active members post at least one post 3 days per week CWDF Forum statistics Members 27,275 Active members ?????? (150 - 200 ?) Topics 99,934 Posts 2,390,286 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeyperson Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said: once you have saved your new filter click this button folks. Thanks - I didn't know about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said: Yes, I'm on a PHBB forum also, its not a very busy forum but it seems quite stable. Its very popular I've set them up from scratch several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said: once you have saved your new filter click this button folks. Thanks, seems to have fixed it for me too. Just need to get tribey to do it now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Why is the VNC full of stuff on the VNC? Why's it all gone weird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, Tumshie said: Why is the VNC full of stuff on the VNC? Why's it all gone weird? There has been a ‘site improvement’ tonight. Do you like it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Actually I'm too tired to try and find the stuff I need to find to be able to work out what it is I need to do to make it legible. I can't help thinking it would have been easier to just get rid of the politics section rather than go through all this hoohah. It's not like we need it any more anyway. 1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said: There has been a ‘site improvement’ tonight. Do you like it?? I seem to have the whole of this thread but all jumbled up on the VNC - which now seems to not be the VNC anymore. Funny stuff software, innit. But I can see that people have posted screen shots, so I guess that the answers to how you fix it, but I can't make them make much sense just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tumshie said: Actually I'm too tired to try and find the stuff I need to find to be able to work out what it is I need to do to make it legible. I can't help thinking it would have been easier to just get rid of the politics section rather than go through all this hoohah. It's not like we need it any more anyway. I seem to have the whole of this thread but all jumbled up on the VNC - which now seems to not be the VNC anymore. Funny stuff software, innit. But I can see that people have posted screen shots, so I guess that the answers to how you fix it, but I can't make them make much sense just now. all you need do is set aside a couple of hours tomorrow to trawl through all the threads on it, and bingo you’ll be back to how it was before being ‘improved’!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzard Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Don't know what folk here are fiddling about with. Mines no different from always, I've not got all the multiple VNC threads. All that's happened to me is I have no VNC when not signed in and that's no problem. I think folk are pressing things they shouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 1 minute ago, bizzard said: I think folk are pressing things they shouldn't. That's the crux of human nature, innit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said: Since the last software improvement update about 12 months ago there have been a large number of threads asking the question 'why multiple posts showing in VNC ?' Rich has replied each time (last time today) that this is a function of the software, he has spoken to the provider and they have said "it is supposed to do that". Indeed, the behaviour is more prominent when there's a popular topic such as the ones related to VNC, ironically. Rather frustrating from my point of view as I have not changed anything to do with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Please continue discussion in the announcement topic for VNC, linked here. Closing this one as we don't need 3 topics on the subject. It isn't helping in terms of reducing entries related to VNC on VNC itself either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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