vthorseshoe wrote:
Here ya go Bruce, pictures.

It is unnecessarily more complicated. I don't see how all the "friending" ,kahrma,and "liking" contribute to exchange of good info and real opinions.

cyber steve wrote: The blackhole virus has NOTHING to do with Vbulletin. It is a Java exploit.

Just because a product reaches end of life for upgrades does not render it obsolete. It wasn't broke, didn't need fixing. Surely there were features you wanted to add that would require a redesign, but if you feel your hand was forced to totally skip the entire systems development cycle due to security issues, then you really need to take a serious look at the qualifications of the professionals you have advising you.

boxnsafe wrote:
Well this is better. Having a virus interefere with forum participation is a lot worse than having the forum software making it difficult and frustrating to participate.

I will continue to work on improvements as constructive ideas are presented. There is no requirement for anyone to use any of the new social section if they just want to be in the forum.

Just click the new forum tab from any page to go to the forum, look for the green colored thread folders with "new" indicators. Read. Reply if you want. That's it.

It is not much different than the old vbulletin site if you don't want to use the new parts. But the new parts of the site offer an expanded experience for those who want to use it and, as everything online is going social whether we like it or not, all forum packages are heading in this direction. I like this platform and I think it will be a lot of fun for everyone once we get past the initial tweaking (problem solving, all issues can be resolved by myself or one of my designers) and growing pains (learning curve and familiarity/comfort level).

I'm only really having a couple of issues myself.

1. Private message notices are only seen from the profile page. The only time I go to the profile page is when I get logged in because it's taking me there. If not for that I would never know I have a new message.

2. Remember me. It doesn't matter to me much on my computer at the house. When viewing on my phone it becomes a problem because it ends up being quite a few clicks to get back to the topic I was going to respond to which can take a long time.

I'm half tempted to debug the remember me issue and login redirection myself. I can't imagine it being that difficult to find the culprit.

Tapatalk seems to stay logged in, but it doesn't always update the the recent posts.

tapatalk doesn't work well with this forum software.

I've been using it when away from the office. Does okay, using it now, did not show me anything I had already seen. Of course don't know if it missed something.

cyber steve wrote:
It shows me all sorts of topics from weird dates. It loads very slowly which I don't understand. Being an app it should load twice as fast as it does from my phone browser. If it's doing fine for you I'll look into it. I've tested some vb sites and then some kunena sites and it's always a mess on kunena. If it's a setting I'll report back.

I don't know that there are any settings. But seems to work for me.

cyber steve wrote: tapatalk acts up for me. I can only see latest post. I can't get to the forum list to look things up.

I can't see all the pictures on tapatalk, I guess links from photobucket. Others show up though.

Not trying to stress ya Steve.

Michael, I can see all the old forums/posts, on an iphone at least.
Kim, could be, doesn't stress me out, I didn't build tapatalk

I'm wondering what we can do to encourage the audience back and heck, even people who havent contributed in the last couple years. Those people are missing for a while now. Lots of them are posting on Facebook, but some are just keeping to themselves.

I know Mark Gough has some awesome ideas on the matter! Who else? Could forum contests help...? Donated prizes from members? Some prizes can be farrier gear or a maybe a co-op/farriers.com thing? Maybe even a few grand prizes? Well, when I say grand, I mean like a few tools or that sweet heartland apron? LOL- just thinking aloud...

Maybe a couple monthly contests and prizes can be small like a ___% off coupon at one of the co-op online stores?

Photo contests are pretty big at other forums. So, maybe a few photo contests per Month? One big contest per year-

Categories: Best before and after shoeing pics? Best before and after trimming pics? Best before and after hoof repair pics? Best gaited shoeing photo? Best handmade tool?

Smaller monthly contests could maybe be Best rolled toe shoe in Feb, best rocker toe in March...? Maybe one handmade shoe and one modification per month?

Also, maybe we can have the old "anonymous" Classified section? For Tools, Trailers, Shoeing Bodies, Books, and career opportunities.

Perhaps Steve can get with Chad Chance to videotape some of the Farrier Fest happenings and we can see a few short videos on here, on hoofwatch, on Facebook and "share".