Members 1001gear Posted April 11, 2016 Members Share Posted April 11, 2016 If you look at the front of this site, you'll see a glitzy infozine. This forum is probably rolling off according to plan albeit maybe behind schedule. I only partially GAF. As long as my login brings up the speak your mind box, that's all I'm doing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreaserMatt Posted April 12, 2016 Members Share Posted April 12, 2016 I check in from time to time even when not logged in, but among other things, this forum software is just too slow and clunky. Maybe it's been answered previously, but why couldn't the format be like that of TGP, ILF, or Shortscale.org? Easy-to-navigate, simple, smooth-running forums. Why this? Was this just the cheapest design or the project of someone's ego? Even if the format was changed to something similar to the formats I mentioned above, I think it would be difficult to get most of those people back. They all seem to have migrated to ILF or TGP (which people were already migrating to because of the Emporiums). Sucks because this was the most entertaining guitar forum around at one time. IIRC, it used to look exactly like the gear page forum, or the way it used to look; there's other forums that still look that way... it took me like 2 years just to be able to get back onto this site; I was locked out or something of that sort. I think Phil may have finally read my email (I'm sure he'd had hundreds, if not thousands, when this place first changed over???) I sent about not being able to log on & finally rescued me, LOL... : ) I admit as well, that it seems different from when I used to log on and just read threads about stuff for hours while tipping a beer after work... there's a lot of really cool threads on here just to read through; I wish I would've kept more bookmarked... remember the one about the guy & his awesomeness??? And he would do stuff like paint shop a batman mask on his face, etc etc? That may have been in amps, I'm not sure. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted April 18, 2016 Members Share Posted April 18, 2016 I check in from time to time even when not logged in, but among other things, this forum software is just too slow and clunky. Maybe it's been answered previously, but why couldn't the format be like that of TGP, ILF, or Shortscale.org? Easy-to-navigate, simple, smooth-running forums. Why this? Was this just the cheapest design or the project of someone's ego? Even if the format was changed to something similar to the formats I mentioned above, I think it would be difficult to get most of those people back. They all seem to have migrated to ILF or TGP (which people were already migrating to because of the Emporiums). Sucks because this was the most entertaining guitar forum around at one time. ILF and Shortscale use phpBB software, it's free and does the job for medium size (< 2 million threads) boards TGP uses Xenforo software, about 37% of forums use this nowadays HC uses vBulletin software, vBulletin is market leader with about 43%, they lost about 20% market share in the past 2 years (most migrations going to Xenforo), of all the vBulletin forums, only 1.9% of these are using vB5 version that HC is using nowadays. Most forum software experts consider vB5 to be inadequate for medium to large boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members travisbrowning Posted April 18, 2016 Members Share Posted April 18, 2016 OffsetGuitars has a great forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted April 18, 2016 Members Share Posted April 18, 2016 OSG uses phpBB as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 How has the site performance been for you guys over the past few days - since the last maintenance downtime at the end of last week? It seems to be loading pages, posting and running faster and more smoothly in general for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Player99 Posted April 21, 2016 Members Share Posted April 21, 2016 It is slow and clunky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 It is slow and clunky. What OS and browser are you using? On Firefox on my Mac, it's been consistently faster than it was previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluesmann Posted April 22, 2016 Members Share Posted April 22, 2016 quell speech, ESQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Player99 Posted May 19, 2016 Members Share Posted May 19, 2016 Hi Phil. Win 7 or 8, Firefox. Compared to TGP or other forums I don't enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 Hi Phil. Win 7 or 8' date=' Firefox. Compared to TGP or other forums I don't enjoy it.[/quote'] Thanks. Main differences / complaints / wish list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratStevo Posted May 23, 2016 Members Share Posted May 23, 2016 I want, Dave Fox of Foxrox, Sean from Lovepedal, Robert Keeley, Marc Ahlfs of Skreddy Pedals, Brian Marshall of Subdecay, and all the other pedal builders to come back so this place will be like I remember it was back in it's heyday.... hey·day [ˈhāˌdā] NOUN (one's heyday) the period of a person's or thing's greatest success, popularity, or vigor: "the paper has lost millions of readers since its heyday in 1964" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Player99 Posted May 24, 2016 Members Share Posted May 24, 2016 Thanks. Main differences / complaints / wish list? I think it's the whole platform. This forum is slow to load and jumpy as the elements load. I wish you would change to the same platform as TGP. Then you could get your forum rocking again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 I think it's the whole platform. This forum is slow to load and jumpy as the elements load. I wish you would change to the same platform as TGP. Then you could get your forum rocking again. Thanks. What computer / OS / browser do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Player99 Posted March 2, 2019 Members Share Posted March 2, 2019 Thanks. What computer / OS / browser do you use? Core2 Duo, 2 gig graphics card, 8 gigs ram, SSD drive, Win7 Pro. I also have an i7, 32 gigs ram, 2 gig graphics card, SSD drive. Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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