So, whatever happened to ...
 

Whatever happened to the new forum software we were supposed to get here?

Too resource intensive,or something else?

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What he said...

I downvoted it, it would kill the whole vibe of GFY . . .

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Agreed...

Vetoed by the man behind the curtain, Howdy himself!

I actually really liked it, cause I felt it had really captured the vibe and look of traditional vBulletin GFY, but with all the modern features.

On the downside though, my unique 'poo brown' user name looked more of a dark red, so there is that as a negative I suppose...

Yo mamma!

:1orglaugh

If it ain't broke...

True, but it would have been an improvement.

Imagine you had a 21 year old car. It works 'OK' (nothing special) but gets you from A to B... Perhaps you dont wanna sell the car, and that's cool, but it wouldn't hurt to add a nice stereo with a 7 inch screen that gives you car play, android auto navigation and voice control that allows you to make phone calls etc... Basically brings it up to date a bit, but its still the same car?

Well that's what the new GFY I saw was. The same GFY, but with a few new features...

But its not my car, so I dont really get a say, but I do travel in the car, so I get an opinion.

Anyway... What will be, will be :)

I find value in GFY as is. A few simple changes would increase the value quite a bit, starting with: search

Anyone that has run a forum and tried to switch Vbulletin to Xenforo knows this.....

That task is a BITCH :1orglaugh ... Pain in the ass :moon plain and sample.

Some would say it is broke. You ever try to do a search here in the last 5 years?

There was a discusssion going on. Youtube removed their "dislike" button. Now we must look why they did that. Maybe it causes discrimination or could hurt peoples feelings when there is a dislike button? Cause the new software has dislike buttons we need to vote if we will use that Dislike Button, or that feelings could be hurt.

Okay, you made me chuckle out loud.

How would the new software improve the site?

Search would really help - That alone would sell it to me...

Does the current search SUCK THAT BAD?

Last time I tried it, it just didn't work at all...

I gave up on it - I will have a try later.....

Use google instead, be very specific with key words and quote GFY Forum or gofuckyourself,com in the search :2 cents:

Doesn't work cleanly and is quite random