IrongarmX

I deeply appreciate Mario’s efforts to find us a new home and to set it up.  However, it’s objectively terrible in execution.  The format is poorly conceived and actually limits the ease of communication in comparison with the old board, and it’s incredibly unstable.  I get an error with every third or fourth click.

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  Fat Cat .

It doesn’t seem like it’s going to draw the kids back from FB.

Been experimenting…

So, if you use the “link” feature (chain symbol) your post is rejected.  If you simply put the link in the message body, it comes up as a link, albeit without the option of an alternate title (I haven’t tried posting directly with markup, so who knows?).  Oddly enough, the board software, which rejects a user-identified link, identifies the pasted URL and makes it clickable.

I think I have only experienced an error once or twice, which was immediately corrected with a refresh.

I’m running Ubuntu Linux and Firefox.  Perhaps posting your OS and browser would add useful information if anyone wants to address the issues.

-stick

Oh, and I don’t know how many members are/were “kids”, but forums as a whole, even the well-functioning ones, have taken a drubbing from the dopamine driven platforms (FB, Instagram, TikTok, AttentionWhore, etc) #FailedTheMarshmallowTest

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  stickfigure .

Every time I visit here I think of the IT Machine.

Hey guys, I sent Mario an email via a back channel.  I let him know that this site is not functional and that IGX will die without a change, and soon.  I will let you know whatever response I get.

I was excited about this forum at first but I have been having a lot of issues posting lately, hence I haven’t been visiting as much as I would like.

Have a suggestion.

Removing the upvote/downvote button should allow for the text of our posts to be more visually appealing.

Right now, it shoves the initial part of each post over to the side, and looks ugly.  And the upvote/downvote feature is barely used anyways.

Thanks!

I love everything Mario’s doing and done. I know how difficult implementing something new digitally is so hat’s off. A few of my posts have dissolved into the aether but otherwise I’m cool – I hope it’s rectified for the sake of IGX.

Bram wrote:

Have a suggestion. Removing the upvote/downvote button should allow for the text of our posts to be more visually appealing. Right now, it shoves the initial part of each post over to the side, and looks ugly. And the upvote/downvote feature is barely used anyways. Thanks!

I concur

Upvotes are gay

I don’t mind paying to get the forum back to its original version. Or whatever forum version that will look nice and will work without irritating issue. In its current version it sucks. It is not visually appealing (too narrow, avatars too small), logging in takes time, it keeps throwing you out, sending a pm is not intuitive, formatting doesn’t work. I understand Mario has full time job, so it would be just fair to pay him.

In about two weeks we will have the form back in its original form. Just have to do some extensive maintenance to get it going again.

Awesome! Thanks, Keymaster