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Adipasquale wrote:

Hitting Ctrl + in your browser will make the page bigger

JohnKrist wrote:

Scrimbl, we're both old farts obviously...

Pinch people, pinch

scbriml wrote:

Adipasquale wrote:

Hitting Ctrl + in your browser will make the page bigger

Great! Now, like ikramerica asked, how do you do that on an iPhone?

Old gits of the World unite!

Revelation wrote:

moderators wrote:

Your vote of confidence in us is appreciated. We are pretty deep in repairs today, please do keep the requests and bug reports coming. We are indeed listening.
Jeff M

So, any thoughts or plans of moving on to something more advanced than phpBB? It seems the old owners chose phpBB because it was stable and it was free, not because it really added much value to the user experience (and in fact it took away a lot of things from the user experience relative to classic a.net). What tech bases does the rest of the VerticalScope portfolio run on?

I frequent another site that uses the newest vbulletin, and it is so much better. You can like/dislike/agree/disagree with a post in one click so you get a good feel for what the reader's consensus is. It makes it easy to embed tweets and videos whereas phpbb is seemingly stuck in the pre-Twitter era. It's just a far more engaging experience, IMHO. I'd love to see a.net migrate to that kind of tech.

fortytwoeyes wrote:

I'm a moderator in a reasonably large forum that migrated to the newest vBulletin (from an older version) last year, and while some of the social media integration is nice to have, it has massive issues in its core functionality as a forum. I don't even want to imagine the outcry we'd get here if that utter catastrophe of a software were to be used.

OneSexyL1011 wrote:

I take this news as nothing more than bad news.

I am sorry, but 2 other major forums I am apart of (or should I say, was) were bought and taken over by VS. Today? It was ran into the ground and they are all but ghost towns. These were major traffic sports forums that had at its peak, thousands of posts a day. Once ownership changed from the founders it was all down hill. Ugh

I am extremely wary of this.

dabpit wrote:

Jeff,

One of my biggest complaints I have is the ability to insert pictures into a post. I have been trying to get an answer from the crew for a while and no luck.

Best,
dabpit

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VirginFlyer wrote:

If you have an image on your computer or phone, it needs to be uploaded to the internet before it can be included in this way. Photo hosting sites such as Flickr are a good option for this.

Hope this helps!

V/F

VertScopeJeff wrote:

LAXPAX wrote:

Welcome, VerticalScope & Jeff. I was already a member of two of your automotive forums, and didn't even realize it! (And although I hate TTAC, it has nothing to do with the technical acumen or backend of the site itself.)

I agree with all of the suggested features on your list, but I would also add that the best feature of all is that the site is largely running reliably. I think you guys came in at the right time, because the previous team (and forum members!) had to go through a lot to get to this point. If you can keep the lights on, then that is half the battle.

I look forward to the new stewardship, and I hope the relationship between owner/managers and members will be positive.

Sweet,

Which site are you on, I have been on the team upgrading to the new look for the past three years.

Thanks for the kind words, great group here from what I see.

Yea! I made the "Crew" class.

Jeff M

airkas1 wrote:

I think your phone has the option to make the text bigger.

JohnKrist wrote:

Scrimbl, we're both old farts obviously...

Pinch people, pinch

LAXPAX wrote:

VertScopeJeff wrote:

LAXPAX wrote:

Welcome, VerticalScope & Jeff. I was already a member of two of your automotive forums, and didn't even realize it! (And although I hate TTAC, it has nothing to do with the technical acumen or backend of the site itself.)

I agree with all of the suggested features on your list, but I would also add that the best feature of all is that the site is largely running reliably. I think you guys came in at the right time, because the previous team (and forum members!) had to go through a lot to get to this point. If you can keep the lights on, then that is half the battle.

I look forward to the new stewardship, and I hope the relationship between owner/managers and members will be positive.

Sweet,

Which site are you on, I have been on the team upgrading to the new look for the past three years.

Thanks for the kind words, great group here from what I see.

Yea! I made the "Crew" class.

Jeff M

Sorry for the late reply...for some reason I did not receive an email alert. And now I can't find where to edit my email address in my profile, so now I have a bona-fide suggestion, which is to make that information easier to find. Really, the entire profile management could stand to be improved. Low priority, I realize.

To answer your question, I am mainly at fiat500owners.com, although I have also spent time at dodge-dart.org and a couple of your Jeep sites.

jwadsworth wrote:

Can you give us an idea as to when the new site will be launched?

SFO2SVO wrote:

Welcome Jeff and team,

Sorry if I missed this discussed earlier:
- we all understand this site is supported by ads. What is your view of the future of advertisement on this site?

Thanks!

flashmeister wrote:

Welcome, Jeff and VerticalScope. I wanted to add my thanks for being so open and communicative here. It's a very refreshing change.

I'm also an old-school user (17 years and counting). The way that Demand Media treated the relaunch last year, their lack of communication, and their open disdain for user concerns (and a smooth transition) drove me away. After being talked down to repeatedly in the site upgrade forums back then, I gave up. In the past year since the relaunch, I visited perhaps once every couple of weeks, and I never posted anything. I was thrilled to see the announcement of the ownership transition when I visited today.

I do have to say that the transition last year drove a lot of us old-schoolers away, and with it went a lot of the institutional knowledge that was built up over literally decades of conversation. Reading through the comments you've posted here, you've convinced me to come back and participate. You might want to consider reaching out to some old-school users in the user database who haven't signed in for a while. Send an email blast to some of them and let them know that there's new leadership and a reason to come back. It would be great to get them back in the mix.

Again, welcome, and thanks for setting a new tone here!

VertScopeJeff wrote:

Nice I am on that site also, I have a Fiat Abarth.

Jeff M

LAXPAX wrote:

VertScopeJeff wrote:

Nice I am on that site also, I have a Fiat Abarth.

Jeff M

Everyone, listen to whatever Jeff has to say. He is clearly a man of exquisite taste.

I have a 500L myself, mainly 'cause it's too hard to get the kids in the back of a 500.

(Sorry all, back to the topic.)

izbtmnhd wrote:

Hi Jeff,

I noticed the mods on another thread talking about using a pay service to register. While I would pay to continue to access this site I think it's a very bad idea. For better or worse people avoid pay sites like the plague. The minute they see any pay wall it's goodbye. It's really counter to how most sites are operating since mobile went large and will drive away a decent amount of traffic. This is an example of many on here hanging on to ideas from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Having a tiered system of pay/free would be better. At least it would drive fewer people away.
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That being said, I don't know what the objective of this site is but if the goal is to reduce traffic to capture their niche audience then pay makes sense. It just may reduce it by more than they think.

VertScopeJeff wrote:

Love the little Go Kart.

CanadaFair wrote:

Please no flags.

CanadaFair wrote:

Someone requested flag restoration i.e each member will have a flag showing where he or she is from or located, since this was not IP based on old site you could choose them, the flags were also divisive and created a them v us enviroment which was quite toxic, people hid behind usually friendly flags and spewed hate creating a negative impression of those countries, I have seen people with flags from certain places and cultures replied to harshly, not just in non-aviation forum, I had done a thread in civil aviation once and got a few offensive replies simply based on my native country flag which was not Canadian.

Who is interested in knowing where one is from unless you are carrying out a survey? and how helpful is that with people hiding behind other flags?

Please no flags.

CanadaFair wrote:

For the poster above why cant a German or any nationality with no flag post that comment? what if he is using a Chinese flag or a Zimbabwe flag? not getting delight in a German flag having responded to something related to that country.

izbtmnhd wrote:

Hi Jeff,

I noticed the mods on another thread talking about using a pay service to register. While I would pay to continue to access this site I think it's a very bad idea. For better or worse people avoid pay sites like the plague. The minute they see any pay wall it's goodbye. It's really counter to how most sites are operating since mobile went large and will drive away a decent amount of traffic. This is an example of many on here hanging on to ideas from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Having a tiered system of pay/free would be better. At least it would drive fewer people away.
.
That being said, I don't know what the objective of this site is but if the goal is to reduce traffic to capture their niche audience then pay makes sense. It just may reduce it by more than they think.

b747400erf wrote:

izbtmnhd wrote:

Hi Jeff,

I noticed the mods on another thread talking about using a pay service to register. While I would pay to continue to access this site I think it's a very bad idea. For better or worse people avoid pay sites like the plague. The minute they see any pay wall it's goodbye. It's really counter to how most sites are operating since mobile went large and will drive away a decent amount of traffic. This is an example of many on here hanging on to ideas from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Having a tiered system of pay/free would be better. At least it would drive fewer people away.
.
That being said, I don't know what the objective of this site is but if the goal is to reduce traffic to capture their niche audience then pay makes sense. It just may reduce it by more than they think.

If people avoided pay sites, how did airliners.net stay popular for so long when it was a pay site? Your user name has been around, did you forget how this place used to be?

JohnKrist wrote:

There were two payment options, a one time fee of 25 bucks that gave access to the forum. Doubt that one will be around again.
Then there was the First Class that gave an ad free browsing experience on airliners, that one I believe will be back.
The belief that it was the 25 buck initial fee that kept the quality of the forum up is wrong IMO, there has always been complaints about "low quality posts", and that will never change

william wrote:

It would be nice if the ads on the side did not cover the actual posts. Would be nice to able to read the whole post.

VirginFlyer wrote:

coolian2 wrote:

Thanks for acknowledging my post. I do appreciate it. Also some topics have ads that cover over posts. Oddly it seems to Oz Av thread and the Qantas profit thread mainly.

That issue is to do with users having a long string of text in their signature without breaks, which causes the whole thread to push to the right, underneath adverts. See the following threads:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1349479
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1356601

JohnKrist wrote:

There were two payment options, a one time fee of 25 bucks that gave access to the forum. Doubt that one will be around again.
Then there was the First Class that gave an ad free browsing experience on airliners, that one I believe will be back.
The belief that it was the 25 buck initial fee that kept the quality of the forum up is wrong IMO, there has always been complaints about "low quality posts", and that will never change

PatrickZ80 wrote:

It doesn't bother me that there are Americans on this site,

lesfalls wrote:

Dear Jeff

Is there any posibility to bring back the flags to show where each member comes from? Other then that I am very happy with the website and hope that you keep it this way!

Regards, Lesfalls