Thank-you for the speed increase 
This is how they should have been from the beginning. Why did it take so long? I guess it's like a dangerous road intersection - nothing done until a several people loose their lives... In this case the forums became virtually unusable as did the documention etc for every user before any action was taken..
So what's next? These forums, though faster now, are still pretty poor functionally
Are we going to continue with these forums or move to better software? Let's see some proaction rather than just "fire-fighting"...
If we stay, having to be stuck with this forum software, how about starting to fix some of the many problems - here's a simple few to get started...
1. Provide a better search function - the present one is useless and pathetic
2. A means of previewing your append befor submitting
3. Change the inaccurate "3 hours ago" "2 days ago" etc nonsense. For example, "more than a month ago" is not very informative for a thread that is several years old. I should not need to look at appends in the thread to see when the discussion took place. For example, just replace this crap with the date of the original append that started the thread. This would probably have the benefit of removing a lot of complexity in the code. We are quire capable of working out how old something is by looking at a date...
4. Content between "code" tags. Stop this stupid changing of parts of the content into emoticons. Stop splitting long lines and use scroll bars instead. Content between code tags should NEVER be altered...
This is how they should have been from the beginning. Why did it take so long? I guess it's like a dangerous road intersection - nothing done until a several people loose their lives... In this case the forums became virtually unusable as did the documention etc for every user before any action was taken..So what's next? These forums, though faster now, are still pretty poor functionally
Are we going to continue with these forums or move to better software? Let's see some proaction rather than just "fire-fighting"...
If we stay, having to be stuck with this forum software, how about starting to fix some of the many problems - here's a simple few to get started...
1. Provide a better search function - the present one is useless and pathetic
2. A means of previewing your append befor submitting
3. Change the inaccurate "3 hours ago" "2 days ago" etc nonsense. For example, "more than a month ago" is not very informative for a thread that is several years old. I should not need to look at appends in the thread to see when the discussion took place. For example, just replace this crap with the date of the original append that started the thread. This would probably have the benefit of removing a lot of complexity in the code. We are quire capable of working out how old something is by looking at a date...
4. Content between "code" tags. Stop this stupid changing of parts of the content into emoticons. Stop splitting long lines and use scroll bars instead. Content between code tags should NEVER be altered...
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I think it is too early for anyone to have considered staying with the forums or updating. Even what we did to fix the problem was not what we set out to do!
To fix clearos.com the web team ran up a new server which was made available for testing, but then they noticed the problem went away on the old server if the documentation was removed. Do we still have the old server without the documentation. The documentation is on a new server and redirects are in place to try to make it seamless (however the pages do look different and there are about four which don't render correctly).
With respect to the forums, I personally would love to see them migrated away from for pretty much the same reasons a Tony. Every time I do a "software to be released this week" I prepare it in a text editor and keep a copy of it, otherwise, if I have to edit it, all the list tags get messed up. -
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No problem! I always appreciated your help. You helped me a lot on the old ClarkConnect forums.
What resource is "very limited" specifically? One that would make sense is they cannot afford the migration. There are hundreds of sites running good forum software, so the expertise is out there for ClearOS to engage. If this isn't the case, then please detail what the lacking resource is...
Sorry but I think I'm not in the position to share you the details. I advice you to contact Michael.
Last time I looked at the ClearOS Discouse link - there was no obvious evidence of any progress since the initial creation activity around April/May last year.
You are correct about the progress of new forums. As far as I know this was only a test forum. I know there are plans to migrate to new forums. -
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Hi Marcel - thanks for responding...
resources of ClearCenter at the moment are very limited
What resource is "very limited" specifically? One that would make sense is they cannot afford the migration. There are hundreds of sites running good forum software, so the expertise is out there for ClearOS to engage. If this isn't the case, then please detail what the lacking resource is...
Last time I looked at the ClearOS Discouse link - there was no obvious evidence of any progress since the initial creation activity around April/May last year. -
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Hi Tony, indeed very nice that forums are a lot quicker! I also agree with you that it took too long but you should know that the resources of ClearCenter at the moment are very limited.
I'm not sure if it is already final but they want to move to other forum software. I think it is the Discourse forum software.
Discourse.org/features
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