VBulletin 3 - Suggestions, queries, changes?... post them here

Well, Well, Well----It looks Like your Listening BJ n JP but are YOU going to Fix it!!
Because if you Don't,you could go the way you don't want to!
I use a 19in Monitor with Resolution of 1280x1024 (because i use PhotoShop) and i have aVery Large advert on top Right with the rest underneath Blank..That is a Quarter of my Page....Not Warented Not Wanted, Makes ME Go YUK!!
Now in "Avant Browser" i can Block that Add, so If we all do that Your Advertisers WON'T be Happy Bunnys..But then we still got that Quarter page white blank space..
In IE6 the ADD is there, also in FireFox but can be Blocked....
Now as regards to pages being slower, Sorry peeps I can't help there as today i have gone from a 750Mbt internet to a 2Mbt internet n its all Fast to me now.....
Now then , with the pages as they are n my Usage space is being used upmore because i gota scroll more, now I will be gone soon because this all Helps to geting my 30Gbt here within less than a month....NOT acceptable by me..Sorry--
I don't mind adds but let them be in the correct size and places.....
Did Not have a chance to try out the VBulletin V2 as it's now gone.....
So it looks like what i said is more or Less TRUE.....Adds are better than Members...
Please Prove Me Wrong!!!!!
I Hang around in Antissipation!!.....

Scrolling doesn't affect transfer usage. Once you load a page you have the entire document. Whatever happens after that has no effect on transfer rate, it's all transferred already

Question (for Joe)...

You have mentioned an intention by Jupiter to perhaps (or in fact) fill the white space on the right (under the current formatting) now with other content. Is this content considered by Jupiter to be optional (ie. if the space is there they might as well use it) or something that is considered of a non-optional nature (such as perhaps additional ads)? The reason I ask is because if the intent is to put things there that are non-optional then it would seem that pure lack of other page real estate (so to speak) in which to put these things would say we (the members) in fact have no chance of getting things changed as asked for. If its just the one ad that is there now we're dealing with then that could be moved. But if more than that will/would need to be moved then...

I'll reiterate, that this is not something that JPNYC or Big John can do anything about directly. Jupitermedia own the site, and have made the decision to place the ads there. The only thing that can be done is to pass on the memberships displeasure to the powers that be.

Sparks,

I fully understand that neither BJ nor Joe have the decision making authority in this situation. My question was directed at Joe as someone I felt would know where the thinking and intent was of those with the responsibility/authority in Jupiter.

So far, I like the new version. I haven't read all 18 pages, and someone else may have already stated this, but I bet you that the right side will finally be filled with ads. But at least I have found one good thing about a light stroke I had last Nov. which destroyed my right peripheral vision....I have to actually turn my head to the right to even see the (at present) blank space. So I don't even see that area unless I am looking straight at it.

edit: Forgot to mention that it would be nice if more messages were on each page, so you wouldn't have to keep clicking on next page to continue reading the thread. (someone has probably already commented on this, and if so, sorry.)

Sorry Doc, my reply wasn't directed at you, but to some of the other members who have been asking Joe and BJ if they are going to change things. I didn't notice that you posted just before me :o

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Originally Posted by DrMDJ

Question (for Joe)...

You have mentioned an intention by Jupiter to perhaps (or in fact) fill the white space on the right (under the current formatting) now with other content. Is this content considered by Jupiter to be optional (ie. if the space is there they might as well use it) or something that is considered of a non-optional nature (such as perhaps additional ads)? The reason I ask is because if the intent is to put things there that are non-optional then it would seem that pure lack of other page real estate (so to speak) in which to put these things would say we (the members) in fact have no chance of getting things changed as asked for. If its just the one ad that is there now we're dealing with then that could be moved. But if more than that will/would need to be moved then...

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Originally Posted by JPNYC

We have no plans to put more ads below that. When I said we might add some more content, I didn't mean ads. I meant maybe an RSS feed, or something .

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Hi P3_450,
Thanks for the comebacks (quotes). Informative and saved me a lot of reading time.

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Originally Posted by LindaHewitt

The comments about all of the ads on top referred to the http://www.virtualdr.com/ homepage. Maybe I was immune to it but I do not remember any ads on the actual discussion pages. Were there ads in Ver 2 on the discussion pages?

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There were -- you had the VirtualDr page header, then under that were two square blocks. The left block was headlines from somewhere (internetnews.com if I remember right) and the right was a flash ad. The forums started below that.

Thanks P3. I'd looked and not found such info. At least then it sounds like we are not out of the game on this before it even starts. Unless of course Jupiter considers any of the other things (besides ads) it has/had planned for the space non-negotiable. :eek:

We will definitely listen to all ideas of what to fill the space with.

JPNYC--DIFFERENT ISSUE for Suggestions
This may get lost in the discussion about blank space, but I would like to suggest a change in the icon at the far left of the list of all threads. It now shows a bent white arrow for threads in which I have participated. This is very hard to pick out since there is little contrast with the normal cream colored envelope for other posts. I suggest a dark green, black or blue arrow (to also allow contrast with the red envelope for threads with large numbers of posts.).

The attachment manager is a bit awkward. In FF, when I want to attach something, it opens a new tab (in IE a small new window). Is it possible to make it like the old version, where you would have the browse button under the post box?

Pages look squished, please revert back to the former format as it was much better.
Just my 2 cents worth,
KennJ