Well, now that we finally get a new one, I can finally let it all out in public I guess.
This forum software here that Dino yet again payed quite a lot for to make us have just not anything but something really good, and that quite a lot of big businesses used by then, ... sucks. Hard. And most people I talk to see it that way now, although when it was new and we made a poll and a discussion about it most people cheered and noone really complained. So it was taken and became the new forum. Of course we will 'lose' all the content again, as in it being no longer in the current but the old forum then, and I totally disappreciate everyone having to make a new account on a new forum again, but it is vital. There is no way around. Dino and I and some others have been debating that for a long time already and the more it should grow into what it was supposed to be the clearer it became that this forum is hopelessly useless.
Firstoff, it didnt work smooth on ANY browser. On this one it looks all chunky, on that one the bottom of the text in boxes is cut off, on Firefox borwsers the entire main content doesnt show at all when Firefox thinks that the CSS content took too long to load and you had to guess that there is something and hit reload, on anything but IE the post editor doesnt come up and people wonder how the hell everyone else can post links by just pasting the url in their editor box, and it totally spams with connection attempts and about a dozen cookies and cookie modifications with each fucking single click no matter how logged in you are that it is just pain-in-the-ass slow.
It loads aeons for things that dont even have much content, its a cramp to make a post, let alone upload an image to stick to it as just attaching something you upload is not a valid option, so much that quite some folks dont even bother anymore and rather not upload or post stuff here. It sucks.
Above that it is even utterly awkward and glitchy in a lot of things, that actually make it a total peice of crap as a community fourm. Maybe that's beacuse its not meant to be one, maybe the ones that designed it are just total tards that have no idea what is useful and what is neede, I dont know.
It only updates what is new ever half hour or so, there are things like the color of the (now almost invisible) lines that seperates the signature or quotes form the post that you cannot change at all with the clumsy interface you have to use, avatar uploading doesnt work properly and seems to rely on weather or good luck, it doesnt show the creator of a topic in the topic list, you get no noticification on the forum itself at all when you got new private messages, and the cool tags system doesnt really find everything that has that tag on it either.
In short, its a clumsy community software that fails in essential points but has tons of totally useless overhead and annoying interfaces that often just complicate everything because they give you funky access to a few parameters and prevent all access to the rest. Or trying to put it into a way I can imagine Dino saying it in, They built a five star restaurant around a pile of shit.
PHP bulletin board looks good, and I am speaking technical issues and options here, not the shade of blue or roundness of boxes we will tweak anyway, and I assure you the speck and I and maybe some others too will do everything to make it have all that you got here, but unsucky and un-slow and un-pain-in-the-ass.