I don't have a problem with that. I use lots of software that is no longer supported.
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Yes, but you accept the security risk that comes with using unsupported software. We, on the other hand, do not.
Security software is different than other software and is another thread. Older unsupported software (not talking about security software here) has the advantage that the bugs and security holes are well known and are documented and are easily avoided (unless it is really bad). Newer supported software doesn't have this advantage. Nor are there any company willing to pay for damages if you have been hacked with their supported software. So you're trusting they are better than the world of hackers out there, which isn't promising.
Reddit also doesn't seem to have any security issues running their older version of their forum either. Nor would I expect them to. And while I run both Reddit new and old all the time, I still prefer the older version. A few years from now, I'll probably feel the same way about ECF. Although in ECF case, the old would be long gone.
One thing I notice is that ignored forums didn't convert. Not a big deal but something to be aware of.
Maybe y'all need to open a side business with traffic from ECF as an income supplement.... Oh?.. Wait, What ?
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Hmm. When I first came to the upgraded site, the 'Toggle Sidebar' option was available and I successfully used it to get rid of the sidebar. Now it is not. Available that is. BTW, the 'Toggle Width' has no affect on the display. Now, my primary browser is Pale Moon, which does not have a chromy engine under its hood and also does not support yet some new regex and js stuff that is widely used. Both of these options work as intended when I used another browser, Vivaldi, which is chromified.
They could have kept both the old and the new. But that would make too much sense and allow you to run which one you prefer. They were doing this when most of us were running the old while some were running the new.
Reddit did it that way. You can pick either the new or the old, it's your choice. ECF should have done the same.
Reddit is a custom script. ECF uses an off-the-shelf script (Xenforo). Reddit has paid developers because it has the big advertisers and therefore the big bux.
Websites run on a server which is just a fancy name for a computer that has components better-designed to serve-up information to the internet, so security needs to be maintained just like on a desktop, only it's even more important in many respects. Lack of security not only means the server suffers but also the users of that website/information would be at risk.
Reddit has in-house everything so they can implement security even on an old design.
Xenforo is controlled by Xenforo, not ECF, therefore if Xenforo doesn't support an old version then Xenforo doesn't support an old version (most software companies don't as that gets really expensive really quick which then prices you out of the market). Xenforo is not a behemoth organization like Reddit and obviously neither is ECF.
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The toggle sidebar option is still there fore me.
The toggle width works on FF but only on certain resolutions. Also I use my browser at 140% size so it doesn't work at 140% but it does if I reduce back to 100%. Point is, if it doesn;t have room to widen then it won't.
I wish ECF would set the alerts to be on the navigation bar directly rather than under the username that way the user can see exactly what type of alerts they have at a glance (new forum post vs new conversation post) rather than having to click their username to see what specific alerts they have. All other Xenforo sites I visit have it on the navigation bar directly so I'm guessing this is just a setting in Xenforo or in the theme (but if it is theme-specific it could be the theme is just programmed to not allow it, which would be a bummer).
There's a lot of space on the navi bar so no real need to consolidate the alerts like this. The responsive design will consolidate things like that automatically when mobile or low res is detected so no need to worry about mobile users.
There's a lot of space on the navi bar so no real need to consolidate the alerts like this. The responsive design will consolidate things like that automatically when mobile or low res is detected so no need to worry about mobile users.
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Huh, earlier I visited this site with my phone and I had to set the text size from extra large that I had set to a smaller text size. Now, when coming back here with my laptop, and the sites' text size set to medium, the 'toggle sidebar' option is visible in the menu..
Sorry. I thought I was using a frustrated reaction emoji
Looks like my green grin emoji also disappeared
Sorry. I thought I was using a frustrated reaction emoji
Looks like my green grin emoji also disappeared
you can do your own : D without the spacenever mind, the green guy is gone
Looks like my green grin emoji also disappeared
Nope, here he is..never mind, the green guy is gone
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I still can't see the "More options" column on the right in your screenshot, and no amount of my--very inexpert--foraging for it has revealed it.
Is anyone else having this problem?
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This is very nice now! Very fast! Chrome on tablet was a disaster lol. Firefox with adblockers and Use Desktop seems best, for now.
For me, toggle sidebar got rid of the junk on the side. I hit toggle width and it made the posts wider but didn't go all the way over so there's still a lot of empty space on the right side.
did smacuser have another one? - Status
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