FerrariChat.com Software Upgrade: DISCUS HERE ONLY...

Rob,

This is the third software upgrade I've experienced in my two years here. Each has been an improvement over the previous version.

Barry

 

OK, that is only one extra click but I still find it strange. As for the avatar/text layout I really prefer and find more useful/clear/functional the horizontal layout.

It's ok (pretty nice I must say) for the rest of the upgrades. 3 thumbs up for the multipicture thing

What about some smileys in the empty space right of the reply box? Time to feel younger for many users...

 

Just wanted to note that one bug has persisted into the new vB stuff... not your bug, but you might want to pass it along.

If you come back to the site after being gone a few hours and all at once load your favorite forums (e.g., say 5 of them) into separate windows or tabs, the "last visited" date will get updated more than once... so, a couple of the forums will show last visited as a few hours ago (and all the unread threads will be shown as unread), while the rest of the forums will show last visted as *NOW*, meaning there's nothing marked unread. Ack!

The work-around is to update just one forum, let it complete, then load in the rest.

I assume that the software is updating two (or more) variables, but is doing them in the wrong order OR needs a semaphore to prevent two threads from updating the same information twice at once.

With the prevalence of tabbed browsers, I suspect this will gradually become more and more of an issue for people.

 

Recommendation... to make better use of the space consumed by the red bar (for most of us its red)... I'd put the post title centered in there rather than down below in the message body. JMHO.

 

Wow, this is seriously cool... I haven't seen any other vbforum like this (probably because it is new) but I really like the new look

One suggestion I have would be to maybe make all of the links under the username spawn new windows, instead of JUST the profile like it is now? That way you don't have to leave your thread when you want to send a pm and reference something that someone said or whatever

Also, do these new changes mean that we will be getting real names back soon? pleeeeaseee ?

 

Love the new software Rob! Great move!

No longer had to post 100 pictures seperately after the Enzo drive in SoCal

 

Well hey - this looks a lot different than it did last night. This format looks much nicer.

 

rob - can you right-justify the stuff on the right side of the user section of a post? take a look at jordan's - it's the extreme example where it kinda looks silly. it'd look cleaner if those lines were right-justified instead of left-justified within the table (i assume it's a table).

my two drachmas.

doody.

 

Just realized I can finnaly put my AIM and Yahoo messanger screennames in my profile.

 

Let me make EVERYONE aware of a simple fact. Rob does very little to
run this site. The software could be installed by my 6 year old
nephew, for more information view
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php

This [the site layout] is just a TEMPLATE. THAT'S RIGHT ROB DIDN'T DO
A SINGLE DESIGN IN THIS WHOLE SITE, IMAGINE THAT, HE IS GOING TO TAKE
YOUR MONEY AND YOUR GOING TO GIVE IT TO HIM AND SAY, "Wow you did such
a great job!" when in reality he didn't do jack ....

WAKE UP FERRARICHATTERS. There are 1000s of websites running vB 3 with
this same template.

Other sites using this template NOT DESIGNED BY ROB:

http://forum.vb-fr.com/
www.vbulletin.org/forum/
http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?p=25472#post25472

Wow this is just to name a few. So everyone can stop worshipping him
for NOTHING. HE DOES NOTHING!

ROB I JUST WANTED TO SAY YOUR DOING A GREAT JOB OF FOOLING EVERYONE AND
TAKING THEIR MONEY. GOOD JOB ON BUYING A F355 CHALLENGE AND THEN
GETTING THE SITE TO PAY FOR IT. I WISH I HAD THIS TALENT.

Enjoy the site everyone, because we all know Rob is working SO HARD to
run this site, sometimes I wonder how he has the time to do it! So
much energy! I love Forza FerrariChat!

 

bling - i'm amused that you think software matters (and i make my living starting software companies!). software is just a tool. some people can take a hammer and make the taj mahal, some people take a hammer and end up putting themselves in the emergency room.

online communities aren't about software. they're about, drum roll, communities.

and maybe anybody could have created ferrarichat. but rob actually did create ferrarichat. and to the victor go the spoils.

doody.

 

You've done an excellent job with your forum, Rob -- especially with the updates and improvements over the years. A big thanks for providing and managing such a first class forum. Some of the help and information that I've benefited from to date have been invaluable.

Quick question...the other day, I went to print a thread and noticed that the "Printer Friendly" option disappeared (?). Tried searching around for it, or it's related settings, but to no avail. It was a nice feature at times when all I needed was the text info. -- a great tool for creating a quick and dirty hard copy for use in the garage, etc. Is this a feature that you might be planning to integrate again in the future?

 

I used it a couple of times around the end of last year (Nov. / Dec. '03 perhaps?). It was at the bottom of the screen page near the "Posting Rules" dialog box, if I remember correctly. I think that the forum was upgraded again after that time, correct?

 

Hey I can do a who is search too:

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
LAY, ROB (RLJ303) [email protected]
1150 N. White Chapel
Southlake, TX 76092
US
817-421-4342 fax: 123 123 1234

 

I leave for 3 days and Rob's changed the board again! First impression is bad, I don't like having all the names and avatars above the post. It crowds my screen and makes me scroll more to read all the responses. I liked them off to the side.

Bling, F**k Off. Did you think of Ferrarichat.com? No. Do you manage it or have anything to do with it? No. Did you just sign on to be an a$$? Yes. Rob went out and made something, you didn't.