VWDiesel.net The IDI, TDI, and mTDI source.
General Information => General => Topic started by: RedRotors on October 10, 2014, 04:03:38 pm
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Hi,
As anybody seen, the forum has been down for a while, this was due to a server change, and a new Admin. With my
time schedule overbooked with my 2 jobs, I have not been able to take care of the forum as I wanted.
I pass the torch to Ryan. He will pursue my goal to keep this forum open, with peace and it's own flavor like it's
been since more than 10 years now.
I'll be here time to time, but if anyone need to reach me, my email is easy to find.
cheers,
Marc
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Hi Everyone,
I am Ryan for all of those who don't know me. I have a VW repair shop, Krauthouse Motorsports, and have worked with Marc to take over VWD to help keep it updated and growing. I have been a member of VWD for a while and a VW guy for well over 10 years.
I'll add some more info later on when I get some time. I have to rush to get my son from daycare right now.
Ryan
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Thank you for all you have contributed to vwdiesel Marc.
Ryan I'm happy to hear you are able to keep this show on the air.
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Big thanks to Red Rotors and to thegimpster.
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We are back up and running again, GREAT! And a great job you have done Marc, keep in touch. Ryan all the best with the rest of us. Thanks for stepping up like this. Sometimes one just has to take a leap of faith. Marc is doing that by passing the torch to you.
May we all get back to information sharing. DAS
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Once everything gets settled in a bit I'll put a post or something up asking what you guys think VWD could use, what you guys would like changed or added, and what all I can do to make it a better place and help more people keep their VWs going.
I would like to do some project builds that cover things like tdi/idi swaps into vw and non vw cars, some test on wmo and wvo operation, engine rebuild guides and lots of how-to's that I can cover with work that comes through the shop. It will all take time, but I've got time.
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Can we get a 10.00/year paid membership to not see ads, if we want to be a paying member? I am on some other forums that do that and these ads have slowed the site down for me big time.
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I'm just playing with the ads right now to see what works, but that is a good idea. If people were interested in a payed membership option I would ad a lot more benefit to it than just ad removal, but that would take a little time too. Honestly I may have clicked a few too many check boxes and put 4 ads on a page, but I was playing with the settings late last night.
There are a lot of things that I would like to do to the site to make it better and add more information to it. Unfortunately some of those things cost money, and I am not independently wealthy. So please bear with me guys. I'ts going to be a bit of a learning curve and a trial and error period for a bit. And I'll probably screw stuff up once in a while and piss someone off over something somehow. I'm good at it it seems.
Any comments or ideas are welcome. I'll try to get a thread started about it in a bit.
I'm working on trying to get Tapatalk fixed at the moment. I'ts giving me some weird error on their side.
Ryan
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If we could just get the ads to go away on the comment section would be great. Come to see a new post and it is just an ad. The slowness stinks too but if I was only clicking on real posts I would not be waiting for nothing.
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As far as I can tell, the ads don't register as a new comment. I totally understand having the ads. IMO, the forum shouldn't cost the owner to stay up and running. I agree that having the 'opt out for a fee' option would be nice.
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Yea I may work on putting that together. The ads arent a real money maker, but it will help pay for me to hopefully go to a dedicated server to make the site faster and maybe an SSL certificate for the site.
Looks like I'm going to have to work on blocking the spammers some more too.
I spent a good part of the day trying to get tapatalk working, but there seems to be an error getting the site linked to their site and I'm waiting to hear back from customer support.
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The site is very fast for me, always has been.
I've never had any issues with speed even when I visit fam and get on their 1.00 Mbit DSL line
Also I don't see any ads, so maybe the ads are what's slowing things down for people??
Here's my Speedtest :)
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/3830663508.png)
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Pm me when ads go away... And if that requires money, remove my account...
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I think you could delete all of the 'Moved to:XXXX' threads. I think everyone looking for a particular thread would understand that you are rearranging things and 4 pages of 'moved to' threads at the beginning of the TDI section is somewhat dysfunctional.
I have a thread in the 'Users Rides" forum that is about my '91 Vanagon that is converted to an mTDI ALH. It doesn't matter to me which forum it ends up in, but it would fit equally well in User Rides, mTDI or Swaps.
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I think you could delete all of the 'Moved to:XXXX' threads. I think everyone looking for a particular thread would understand that you are rearranging things and 4 pages of 'moved to' threads at the beginning of the TDI section is somewhat dysfunctional.
I have a thread in the 'Users Rides" forum that is about my '91 Vanagon that is converted to an mTDI ALH. It doesn't matter to me which forum it ends up in, but it would fit equally well in User Rides, mTDI or Swaps.
Theman53 also mentioned removing all of the transfer thread posts too. I'll work on getting rid of them too.
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If we could just get the ads to go away on the comment section would be great.
Agreed.
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Better now?
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Sure.
I'll offer a couple more suggestions...
If splitting up the TDI engine section I would think that three categories would be plenty; VE, PD and CR. Going into more detail than that seems unnecessary. With those three categories I bet it would still be a few months before there's a post in the CR section.
I would move the add that is at the top of the page. I would place it to the right of the TDI-IDI logo where it currently says 'simplemachines forum'. I like to use the navigation links and would prefer the ad less in the way of that.
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agreed Libby's idea seems legit
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I like the idea too. I can change it tomorrow. Thanks for all of the input so far guys. Its been a big help.
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I'm more than willing to provide a reasonably sized dedicated VPS for this if you're interested. I've been a rabid fan of vwdiesel for long enough!!
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Offer still stands!! Free private server for vwdiesel.net!
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I might take you up on that, but I still have to pay for hosting regardless from my other sites.
What do we think of the new theme? I realize its new and different so it may not be liked that much because of that.
I like it mostly overall but I am going to try to change the neon colors under the user profiles and stuff on it.
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PM me and we can talk. A VPS capable of running a bunch of Apache/PHP/MySQL sites can be had for about $10/mo, so if you're paying more than that....
Theme is looking good! :-)
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I'd change the check engine light icon to the glow plug icon. I'm not really a fan of the check engine light in general... :P
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At this point if you view another member's profile, there is a little link that says 'Add to Buddy List'. I'd really appreciate another link with that one that says 'Add to Ignore List'. The Ignore list is an awesome feature and making it easier to use will only help the harmony of the forum.
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Way too many TDI boards and boards in general. We need to make it make sense
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I'll try to get the ignore list figured out soon libby, and try to get the boards condensed.
anyone having server errors trying to get on the forum?
I have got a few, but on my host everything shows its fine. may just be maintenance on their part.
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Libby, add folks to the buddy list. Edit profile, bottom of the list of choices is buddy list. Add people you don't care to see to that list. Just like older forum just looks all fancy pants here now.
DAS
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The Buddy List and the Ignore List are two different lists. I do not have any use for the Buddy List. I do use the Ignore List. I also do know how to currently add people to it. My comment is that I would like the process of adding people to the ignore list to be easier. The current process that I use is to copy their user name, click profile on the top right of the screen, then hover on 'Modify Profile' >Buddies/Ignore List select Edit Ignore List, past user name into the field and click Add. That's a PITA.
Currently if you click on another user's username, it brings up their profile. On their profile screen, under their username is a link that says [Add To Buddy List]. I want a second button there that says [Add To Ignore List].
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Understand, looking for easy and simple. Just different layout here and I thought you were missing it. I agree PITA to add new folks so yeah, make it simple.
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Delete my acct.... *** all this banner ***
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Libby I have been looking into the ignore user option and trying to get a solution. So far there isn't an easy one. when SMF switched from 1.x to 2.x the features you want were more or less neutered. I've found a few ignore user mods but aren't compatible with our version of SMF, but I am looking for an alternative for you.
Straightened out the TDI boards too and condensed them.
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I upgraded the server today since I got yelled at by my provider twice today and once on sunday for overloading it. I tried to send out a newsletter today and about 10% of ppl got it before the crash.
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Delete my acct.... *** all this banner ***
You can do that yourself. Click on Profile (top right) then hover on Actions (top left) and click on Delete Account.
Libby I have been looking into the ignore user option and trying to get a solution. So far there isn't an easy one. when SMF switched from 1.x to 2.x the features you want were more or less neutered. I've found a few ignore user mods but aren't compatible with our version of SMF, but I am looking for an alternative for you.
Straightened out the TDI boards too and condensed them.
Ryan, don't worry about my ignore list request. It's not a big deal - only if it's easy.
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I have two more requests...
First is to have the current page number display differently from the other page numbers. Currently, when you select a page of a forum or thread, the current page number displays exactly the same as all the other pages. It's nice to know what page you are currently on when you select another page.
Second is the have a second copy of the navigation bar that has "Home>English Section>General>***Forum Changes***" at the bottom of the page.
Those two changes would make forum navigation a lot better than it currently is.
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Yea that may require a different template or someone who knows coding better than I do. But I will add it to the list of stuff to work on. This theme looks better imo, but is a little harder to use than the stock one.
We are on the new server now. I tried to transfer everything over but a few brand new post may have gotten lost in the shuffle.
If you posted something and it is not there, just post it again, thanks.
We are now on Twitter @vwdieselnet
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Getting things like that moved around is fairly straightforward, lemme know if you want any help.
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Glad to see it up and running again, my suggestions are as such.
Would it be possible to split up the for sale/wanted threads into Cars For Sale/Wanted and Parts For Sale/Wanted
Glad it's up and running again
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Yea that is on the big list of stuff to get to
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A bit late to the party as usual, but I join with the rest in thanking Marc for his years of selfless service. Many thanks indeed. And a big cheers to Ryan for assuming the yoke and carrying the site forward. Bonne chance et meilleurs voeux!
Dave
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Thanks, Marc, and thanks, Ryan.
I discovered today that there doesn't appear to be any way to tell what page of a thread i am on?
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I've had issues posting replies once in a while. I've also noticed that email alerts don't seem to be working yet.
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I'll look into the email alert thing later this week. I have noticed I haven't gotten any new member emails even though we have gotten quite a few.
I think model specific forums would be helpful for non diesel specific questions.
Do we want super in depth or just a few hitting the high notes?
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I don't like the number of sections. We have 4 for TDI, the TDI general could be gone and questions for the TDI posted in the other 3 sections or general and we could move them if they are not correct. The non vw group diesel could also be posted in general. The parts section is a good idea, but the parts for sale and parts wanted to buy I would rather have in the same section. It is just a preference with me, I don't like having almost 2 pages to scroll down when most cover the same thing. Or could we do a TDI general and put the other TDI sections as a sub section once you click on each one?
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I agree with getting rid of the general section because it is kind of redundant, I just don't have time to sift through all of the post and put them where they should be. I realize the majority of them could honestly be transferred to the VE pump forum since that is most of what we like on here.
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Can't upload an avatar picture.
I can specify a url, but it can't have any spaces, etc, in it. %20 and so forth get stripped out.
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Thanks for the heads up. Its fixed now. All of the file paths were set to the old server settings from when Marc had it.
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I like the new slogan - we should ditch the 'check engine light' image though - it's a silhouette of a carureted V8 in a rear drive configuration...
I don't have the same font, but here's some thoughts:
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Not the General section, getting rid of the general TDI section.
I guess I like the idea of a new forum, but I don't like that we now have the vortex look...
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I like the new slogan - we should ditch the 'check engine light' image though - it's a silhouette of a carureted V8 in a rear drive configuration...
well, maybe not specifically a v8, and mercedes still used the ring style air cleaner with many of their early diesels, but as a guy who's only diesel is a mk1, I'm with you. there are no icons on my dash, and I'm not sure that i love the check engine light as an icon of vw enthusiasm. if you modify right, the light won't come on.
maybe an injector diagram?
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I posed the question on the facebook page about the logo today too, May be where Vanbcguy is coming from on the logo. I have a version with the glowplug light instead of the CEL but myturbodiesel uses the glowplug light on some of their stuff and i didn't want to confuse anyone. It may not matter and i could use it anyway. I like the VE pump idea since we are mainly VE pump diesel guys but I'm afraid most people wouldn't get it.
If you guys have any good logo ideas throw em at me. you can also email me at [email protected]
Theman53 I ment the general TDI section and not the general section, my bad.
What about model specific forums. I know someone mentioned it perviously. I don't want to go all vortexy and clutter everything up but want to make it easer to navigate and find useful info for everyone.
I am going to be on 'Cars Yeah' sometime soon talking about my vw journey and VWDiesel. I have an interview with him tomorrow. Kind of excited to get the word out a little.
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Well if you want no vortexy look *I don't* then maybe sub forums inside a TDI general? I don't know what is possible but I know it is very cluttered to me now and I have no solution for you. :D
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Any way you can work on this more? I would really like it to look like it used to and have one for sale section. The colors are still pretty bad and I thought you were going to do something with all this? It would be nice as well to try to see what page we are on as others have stated.
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Yea, I have talked to two programmers to try to help me get the colors changed and the page numbering thing fixed as well as make it look a little better. I'm trying to figure out which one will be better. Things have been pretty busy here even with me turning down a lot of work so i can focus on the forum. I hate turning down easy money but I want to spend more time on here working on everything.
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What about the troubleshooting and TDI-General forums, do you guys think they should be integrated into the specific TDI/IDI forum that it belongs to to help organize it better?
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Thanks for the current updates. You've added several things that make browsing easier. Kudos.
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Is this current theme 'Connect' easier to look at and use than the other one? I didn't get the warm fuzzies from a few of the developers I have talked to so I decided to switch themes for a bit to see if we like this any better. I think i can make the blog match it close enough too. The 'CT' buttons will be changed too if we decide we like this one better.
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I don't care this way or that about the theme. I just like the fact that you can see what page you are one and the forum tree links are at the bottom of the page and the top.
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I like this look MoAR betta. Not so Busy and clustered up.
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I still don't think the mtdi and swap section should be separate? Looking better though.
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Dunno, my car is barely a swap (it's a diesel car with a diesel engine that's correct for that chassis though not that year) but it's most definitely an M-TDI. Yet my thread is in the swap section.
Someone looking to build an M-TDI pump is looking for much different information from someone trying to put an E-TDI in to a Toyota.
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It sounds like a swap to me?
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I suppose, though for all intents and purposes it's the stock AAZ with a different head.
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I like having the separate mTDI section. I have no desire to assist sycophants who believe that the electronic engine management is preferable over a properly functioning mTDI and appreciate being spared from accidentally reading some of those types of threads.
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I just liked it better when I didn't have this many boards to look at. I try to read *skim at least* every post to make sure there isn't something needing addressed and having one more place to go that really could be included in another board it would be a ton simpler for me. Yes you could break the forum down to MK1 mTdi, mk2 mTdi, MK3 mtdi, MK2 diesel to gas Honda vtec, etc and have a very user specific forum, but as I said earlier I don't think the mTdi and swap section should be separate just for a technicality and something to do. Between the IDI, TDI, Swaps, and General everything should fit in there somewhere. Or as I suggested earlier if you have to have both swaps and Mtdi put the mTDI in the TDI sub forum area.
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I suppose, though for all intents and purposes it's the stock AAZ with a different head.
I get it.
Oh, and different pistons.
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I just liked it better when I didn't have this many boards to look at. I try to read *skim at least* every post to make sure there isn't something needing addressed and having one more place to go that really could be included in another board it would be a ton simpler for me. Yes you could break the forum down to MK1 mTdi, mk2 mTdi, MK3 mtdi, MK2 diesel to gas Honda vtec, etc and have a very user specific forum, but as I said earlier I don't think the mTdi and swap section should be separate just for a technicality and something to do. Between the IDI, TDI, Swaps, and General everything should fit in there somewhere. Or as I suggested earlier if you have to have both swaps and Mtdi put the mTDI in the TDI sub forum area.
You mean like:
http://www.vwdiesel.net/forum/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0
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No, I have no clue what that is.
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That is all the unread posts on the entire forum.
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That is all the unread posts on the entire forum.
Exactly - one single place where you can see everything new WITHOUT having to click through each subforum.
Alternatively, you can go here to see all recent posts, whether unread or not:
http://www.vwdiesel.net/forum/index.php?action=recent
Either of those methods will allow you to scan through all messages without having to dive in to each of the various subforums, while allowing someone who is searching for information later to have a better container to limit their searches too.
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That makes sense and it is even worse as there is the entire French section on it. I also like to know what I am getting into and without going to the sub forum first I would read it and whatever, but a ton of what happens is someone posts "my car won't start" in the FAQ and needs to be moved. I wouldn't realize it if I did it that way. To me it makes sense to have all the TDI under the TDI section, just like the 1.5, 1.6 with 11mm bolts mech head, 1.6 with 12mm bolts mech head, 1.6 12mm hydro head 1.9 aaz etc are all in the IDI section...but without sub forums. The TDI section I think would be ideal to have it all under that umbrella in the "kids" forums as it is calling it. Then I would know exactly what was supposed to be talked about and unless there was a notification there I wouldn't have to go there. Plus it should work for everyone else as it would still be in the forum.
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I need to spend more time getting the forum organized, but I am kind of dreading moving all the post where they should go so I have been putting it off for a little bit.
What could I do to organize it more in a way that everyone would find useful? I have been going over myturbodiesel and tdiclub's organization and think somewhere in the middle would be good. With Motor specific sections for each type of motor and a model specific board for each broad model.
Get rid of the troubleshooting board and tdi general board and maybe try to integrate the Upgrades board into the model specific board based on post.
Thats a lot of stuff to sit and sift through so you can see why I have been dreading it.
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A 'general' board is a good thing to have - you will have a lot of newbies who don't have any idea what engine they've got or really what their problem might be, the 'General' and 'Troubleshooting' sections have always been good for that. They could probably be combined into a single forum though, with lots of the threads going in to their more specific forums.
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I know it's a no spark zone but I think it would be good to have a general gasser section. I've joined many forums just to ask a single question before and I know that many of my questions could be answered right here.
Also, if it's possible to have a quick reply section at the bottom of each thread that would make things a little easier I think.
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Yea I can add a gasser section. Most of us have gas vws along with our diesels. Ive got a list of new boards to add and will start trying to organize post into the new categories next week.
I'll look into the quick reply option. Im on other forums that have it and it is handy. I know vbulletin offers it but not sure if smf does. I wouldn't mind to switch to vbulletin but its not in the cards right now.
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Huh, well there you go. Quick reply is on.
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Sweet thanks.
It will take me a while though apparently. I scrolled down and looked at the quick reply area then hit the reply button like normal and typed this :facepalm:
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Added a lot of new boards to hopefully try to organize things better. I will be sorting through the old pos and moving them to the new boards as time permits, but it might take a while. Any more suggestions on better organization would be appreciated.
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Bravo! on the new subsections. :)
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Anyone having time stamp issues? I made a few posts this morning and the time stamps are screwy!
e.g.
Android phone on Opera browser when I was logged out of VWdiesel.net shows the correct time of a post I made at 09:36:32 AM
Android phone on Opera browser while I was logged in VWdiesel.net shows 01:36:32 PM
Android phone on Tapatalk while logged in shows 1:36 PM
Is there some settings that I need to change or is the forum time stamp s/w screwy?
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Is there some settings that I need to change
Profile>modify profile>look and layout>Time offset then click auto detect
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Is there some settings that I need to change
Profile>modify profile>look and layout>Time offset then click auto detect
That worked. thanks!
Next question. Why do I have to log in every time I want to post something? It did not do that before the forum change.
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92Eco, When you sign in click the box that says keep me signed in forever or whatever. No more daily routine. Seems to work on this end of the world.
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Next question. Why do I have to log in every time I want to post something? It did not do that before the forum change.
it does this on my phone sometimes but not on my pc or mac even with the 'keep me logged in' checked
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Ok, so thegimpster has taken over and has figured out how to keep the spam bots out by requiring log in all the time. Actually I haven't seen that in a while so the problem might have gone away on its own. As for the phone loosing the constant login I might suspect app fuzziness there.
I couldn't think to do this on my phone, My eye is bigger than the screen so not going that way.
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log in time has always been here as long as I can remember. I just deleted a thread and banned an account that posted a few days ago in the FAQ. We still have them, but it is harder because he changed the way people can post and register. They have to have a few posts before they can attach images and stuff.
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Yea its not fool proof. The moment they make something to stop spambots they make new bots.
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Just want to say I'm really liking the new forum. Good job Ryan.
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Any reason that For-sale category posts don't show up when I click the unread posts button ?
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Not that I know of, but I can try to check it out.
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Thanks Tyler for the kind words.
On a side note for those of you not on the FB group I have been working on putting together a big giveaway contest to promote the upcoming podcast I have been working on.
So far Mark has donated an ECU tune, Linear Logic has donated a ScanGauge2, Fred from F-Tune and I are working on something good to add to it, I've talked to Raceland and trying to talk to Ross-Tech about donating some stuff and still trying to talk to more.
Details on the contest when I have everything put together.
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Really awesome to see some new on this site. KickAss job!
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I'd like to announce Bryn Huges (vanbcguy) here as a new mod and thank him for his help on the forum.
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The search is broken for me. I cannot get it to work
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Considering the significant differences between the vanagon diesel, TD and TDI installs and any other VW diesel application, it might be advantageous to have a vanagon diesel forum within the vehicle specific ones.
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Second on the broken search function. Returned no topics when looking for Turbo or Turbo Rebuild
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Should be fixed now.
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Seems to work for me now. Thanks..
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I have installed a new mobile friendly theme. check it out and tell me what you think of it.
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Can't tell what that looks like because my mobile is supplied by my employer and they have not allowed us to install apps on it. Draconian I know what I have to put up with to get free phone service.
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No Apps needed to see the new theme, it works in your browser
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New mobile theme is taking some getting used to. What I don't like is you have to scroll a lot to see all the threads, but I understand this is necessary to make clicking on things easier.
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I haven't been to the site in a few but as soon as it loaded, I was like, oh boi what happened now. I thought the site got hacked.
But if your looking for feed back, I'm not a fan. I'm used to the old format. And I'm afraid of change:(
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Spearco, It is not that bad different. EMBRACE CHANGE! Think of it as underwear. It has to go sometime.
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you can always scroll down to the bottom of the main page and choose to view the site in full mode to go back to the old theme.
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I think the forum and blog are going to go through some changes to try to make them look better and more consistent here in the future. Just depends on how it works out.
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the yellow is totally ew, and to make a real logical argument against it, it is very hard to read the yellow lettering, also the buttons with white lettering in the yellow. plus i hate the color ew.
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Black would be a bit better... soot is black.
Guessing icons is not my bag either... I like tools spelled out with labels.
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It's pretty hard to follow threads with this theme. There's TONS of empty space between posts, that makes for a lot of scrolling.
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If there is a way to slow or otherwise damp the change between banners.... that blinkey *** hurts my brain.
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More changes are coming. Don't worry. It will get better. I'm trying to get a better look to the forum an site and draw it into one consistent look. We will have it working better soon.
As always don't be afraid to tell me what sucks about the new design so I can see what I can do to make it better. The default color on this theme was yellow.
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At the upper right, there is a button which promises to take you to the 'vwdiedel blog', but white on mustard it isn't that noticeable.
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99% of all cars, bikes, and forums should not be yellow. This is one of the 99%
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Gimpster,
Please get rid of the YELLOW. It sucks and is hard to read.
I have never understood the compulsion by twidgets to "make things better" by putting in more bells and whistles. This forum took a hit with the last set of big changes. I always liked having posts about things that were outside of my area of interest. I could always just scroll past them, if I wanted, but after the big change we had many more choices of places to post things and 75% hadn't had a post in months.
Another round of "fancying up" VWDiesel may just kill it. People don't come here because of fancy graphics or odd colors or, so called, cool features. They come here for content and that is likely to suffer if the site is too much of a pain to use. Get rid of the adds somehow; they are exceptionally annoying. At the very least tone them down. They will likely drive me and many others away. This used to be a great list. Please don't screw it up trying to make it better.
Please remember that hot rodding VW diesels in a nitch market. Nobody is going to get rich or make this some kind of powerhouse site by attracting huge numbers of newcomers. All anybody can do is tinker with it a bit, (like making sure the posters location is shown) or they can ruin it.
And again, please get rid of the baby *** yellow.
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i am not a dramatic person but damn this yellow has to go i cant stand it, im not even surfing the forums because i am hiding from the yellow!
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Relax people, it's a default template.
They probably made bile-yellow the default color, so people would change it.
I have to admit, it's growing on me... like a flesh-eating bacteria.
I have a bigger problem with icons that aren't self evident, or buttons that are hidden until mouseover.
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Yeah, it is hard to use it like this. I am coming only to check to see if I need to delete anything and getting out. If you want vortex see if you can buy it
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This is horrible, please go back to the last one ASAP until you find something better. On mobile it's utterly useless. Toby is right.
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Toto......Toto.......I....I......I.....don't think we are in Kansas anymore.......
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This style is a train wreck, I like to view most recent topic first and not have to scroll down the page to do so. Can't find profile, Icons need ID or pop outs. Yada Yada. Not looking good to me. And I like the color yellow. Just not this color. I do like white text behind color however. Works better in low light situations where I tend to find myself most of the times.
2 cents and a nickel
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Thank you all for the feedback. We would work on making it better. But meanwhile, enjoy the old look :)
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relief
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If you really think a change is necessary, I think this ( http://familycow.proboards.com/ ) is one of my favourite forums to use. Both the mobile and normal modes are very simple to operate.
That said I really like the current format as well. I understand that upgrades are needed in order to keep current and all that but I think that last one was way too much, way too fast.
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Thats why i like feedback. Just because I think it's cool doesn't mean it is. We will play with it some more and test it out and see what you guys think.
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Is this in blue any better?
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color is better, but the layout sucks
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Is this in blue any better?
Did you test it on mobile before making changes? It is not useable for me the way it is. What are you trying to do?
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color is better, but the layout sucks
seconded
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I think the banner ads might be messing up the mobile theme in this version
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I don't want a mobile theme. I like mobile to have the same features as the desktop theme, like before the change.
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I found the previous version fully functional in every way. What improvement are you trying to make? Change just for the sake of change is not a good thing.
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I found the previous version fully functional in every way. What improvement are you trying to make? Change just for the sake of change is not a good thing.
also seconded
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Color = way less eyes bleed.
As far as mobile goes, this seems great with chrome/ droid, doesn't lag nearly as bad as some others.
I also am not seeing ads on the phone.
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I'm trying to have one consistent look with the forum and the blog and other pages. It is easier to find a decent theme for a forum and make a complimentary theme from scratch in wordpress than it is to try to make something in SMF. I'm trying to make everything look/function better and working good so I can start working on producing more content and adding to the page and forum.
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I don't mind a clean look, but the current template seems to have an overly generous amount of empty space. Very google-ish.
The text is a bit small on my display (1920x1280)... a tool for text size would be nice.
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yeah that circle at the top with the username in it is a huge waste of space. and all the text is faint and hard to read which is my biggest gripe. also it says "VWDIEDEL BLOG" at the top.
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Please revert back to the previous version till you get the bugs worked out.
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Shrinking the profile pictures back to their previous size would help - right now I can only really see one post at a time on my screen because there's a huge gap between them.
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yeah the huge avatar is alot of the problem
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Please revert back to the previous version till you get the bugs worked out.
That goes a lot faster with feedback.
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On my desktop I have no avitars at all. It is very hard to tell what post is what. I only come once a day to check to see about moderating. I also am hoping something better comes, every time I log on. You cannot even read your post while typing as it is not a paragraph, but a single line.
The point is, the yellow and this have been awful. I cannot see gaining members by doing this. I didn't like the last change, but this one is going to kill the forum completely unless something better is done quickly.
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also, no signitures, no location by the aviatar, don't know if there is a search..this is not user friendly at all. Different than any forum I have ever used.
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search is the magnifier at the top of page.
click the little dude next to it, pan left just under the banner(looks almost like part of it) is 'modify profile' which has checkmoxes for dispaying avatars and stuff.
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cool....how many people want to easily come get info on a forum you need a manual to navigate?
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I turned off signatures and blocked 3-4 things with Adblock so I can actually read 4-5 posts at a time instead of 2!
Here are some before and after pics, site is great now!
Before and after: http://imgur.com/a/ndKNv
My screen resolution is 1920x1080, I can only imagine what it'd be like for those with smaller resolution...yikes
It is mostly just the huge avatar size that was bothering me.
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How about this theme with the same blue color?
http://smftricks.com/index.php?topic=739.0
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Meh.... the current is better because the avatars don't take an entire band across the page.
On the current, if we could lose the avatar at the top-center and lose the color blocks and messaging icons below each post avatar, we'd be making good use of space.
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Speaking of avatars, 65x65 is pretty small. If the template displays them larger, maybe the board s/w could compress them to a more appropriate size.
Regards.
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How about this theme with the same blue color?
http://smftricks.com/index.php?topic=739.0
https://youtu.be/w2V_ZVhgHzI
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can we go back to the old yet? I love the forum, but it is almost like work for me to get through it now.
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can we go back to the old yet? I love the forum, but it is almost like work for me to get through it now.
X2! Mobile is still broken. Am I the only one that uses mobile or has every one else just gave up?
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almost gave up on all of it. I cannot use the tapatalk as I just get frustrated
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also, I think I read a while back about this being the result of wanting to make the blog look like the forum or vise versa, why not change the blog? It is newer and would probably be better received that way.
Another question, why do they have to look the same? Won't that be more confusing?
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Both the forum and blog are getting changed. the blog was just easier to the forum than the other way around. If it is just super horrible i can switch it back to the old template and change it. I'm just trying to make VWD look and be the best i can. There are just always speedbumps on the path.
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........I'm just trying to make VWD look and be the best i can. There are just always speedbumps on the path.
Are you even aware that after clicking on a topic, the names of the posters is nowhere to be found? Unless the poster has an avatar, or a signature and you recognize them, you don't know who they are.
Please go back to the last one ASAP and do not make anymore changes until it is fully tested OFFLINE! We don't (at least I don't) want to be a guinea pig. A few has expressed their frustrations and I am sure there are many others who are also frustrated but did not bother to post to express their frustrations.
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I had no problem seeing the posters names on the thread regardless of avatar or signature. I'm using Chrome on both PC and mac.
I have switched it back to the old theme (Capt.Obvious)
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I had no problem seeing the posters names on the thread regardless of avatar or signature. I'm using Chrome on both PC and mac.
I have switched it back to the old theme (Capt.Obvious)
I am using the Chrome browser on the latest Toshiba Chromebook. On mobile I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, I was getting a single column view with nothing else, no statistics, e.g. names of posters, number of views and replies. Pics were illegible (one skinny column that is narrower than the text.
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yea not sure what was going on with it. it worked on my end on all devices i tried it on but that doesn't mean much. I may just try to match this theme to the new blog theme and call it a day.
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I think you need help from someone who is knowledegeable with web/ forum design. Right now I can't get the full site, it is text only.
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If you are seeing a blue theme that is text only that is the mobile theme. you should be able to scroll to the bottom and choose the button that says 'full site' to go back to the normal pc based theme.
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For about an hour, clicking the "full site" did not return it to the full site. It is ok now, went back to the full site by itself.
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It's not particularly safe to be making changes live. Lots of stuff gets cached at various places along the way. Everyone is getting random combinations of CSS and templates cached causing all kinds of problems.
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Am I the only one that is not able to get the full site on mobile or the only one complaining about it? It's been like that since the last change a few days ago. I was hoping it will get fixed but noooooo!
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What's happening here? Clicked on "new posts". There was none!
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Am I the only one... complaining about it? It's been like that since the last change a few days ago. I was hoping it will get fixed but noooooo!
You're the only one I've seen complaining about it. Considering the amount of complaining and demanding that you are doing, the donation you have sent to support the site must be HUGE! You also must be donating a LOT of your time to help support the site. If so, then thanks for your efforts.
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Hey Ryan, just a FYI, the favicon for the main page is the same as the gmail one. I'm assuming it was something you were testing and forgot to change back?
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Personally I just want everything to stay the way it is right now. Readable, workable, perfect...
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I think we will stay with this theme but change the look of it some. Libby makes a good point though.