Why was the switch made to this forum? I find this UI is so cramped and busy it isn’t fun to work with, not to mention a lot of the other points made on the old forum. Also who holds the data is it IX Systems, or is it farmed out to some SaaS provider?

[image] NASbox: Why was the switch made to this forum? [image] Forum Suggestions General Discussion I may be able to speak on this since it is mostly my sole purpose here at iX to do stuff within the community. The mission has not changed and unless I am out of the…

[image] NASbox: Why was the switch made to this forum? I find this UI is so cramped and busy it isn’t fun to work with, not to mention a lot of the other points made on the old forum. Also who holds the data is it IX Systems, or is it farmed out to some SaaS provider? Self-hosted @ iX, same…

This is the second forum change I’ve now been through. I have never really liked this particular design type, I found it quite difficult to work with for years with the sites I discovered using it. One small tip which took many many years of using it. If you’re searching with a CTRL F and really d…

To me the new forum is less intuitive, and a bit jumbled and less clear as to what is what. Maybe it just takes some getting used to. But at this point I can’t even figure out how to quote posts (let alone multiple posts) in replies :woozy_face:

[image] diskdiddler: One small tip which took many many years of using it. If you’re searching with a CTRL F and really dislike the built in search, hit CTRL F a second time and you can use the real browser search. It’s very simple but my goodness it’s caused me frustration over the years. Go…

Xenforo has problems scaling? I run a forum with over 30 mln posts and a few mln pageviews per month on a simple dedicated server. Hell, IGN runs a Xenforo forum with over 140 mln posts… I also can’t image most of the visitors here like the UX of this forum more compared to the old Xenforo forum. …

Nah, it wasn’t a scaling issue as far as performance or size goes. It was something we’ve been kicking around as a project for a few years now, Xenforo was showing its age. That said, we set a new record for user posts over the past 12 months just yesterday, and Saturday was the third highest for t…

[image] Glorious1: But at this point I can’t even figure out how to quote posts (let alone multiple posts) in replies That’s pretty much the same as XenForo, minus the quote-the-whole-thing button XenForo has. Not a big deal from my perspective, and outweighed by fewer bugs than on XenForo (m…

Partly agree on the aging part. They are just currently releasing betas for the new 2.3 version, that took way longer as expected. It’s probably just a personal issue. I just really dislike the UX here (and all similar forums). Guess I have to get used to it…

[image] duderuud: Xenforo has problems scaling? The issue was with the people managing it, apparently.

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