Posts by Walter Taylor76

Look, personally, ads don't bother me all that much, though I have to admit that one specific one was incredibly grating because it popped up the second I opened the forum. When we’re being bombarded with this many advertisements, you’d think we’d at least see some actual progress; after all, the vBulletin version you guys are running is already four years out of date... and this current skin feels like one of those free templates you just download and

slycrane94 said:The server costs money (so pay up if you want fancy upgrades)
Well, the new version costs money too
That skin is hideous
If you love it so much, go hang out on Facebook.

Look, I totally get that everything comes with a price tag—it’s not like we’re living in a charity case—but when you've got 400,000 members and a massive amount of daily traffic, surely the ad revenue is decent enough to reinvest a little? It's like running a successful local diner; you've got customers coming through the door every single day, so you can afford to fix the upholstery once in a while. If people aren't feeling this specific look, there are plenty of other skins available, and honestly, the current layout feels like something pulled straight out of a 2006 web design textbook.

At the end of the day, hats off to you guys because this is easily the premier forum in the country, hands down, but you've gotta admit that a little bit of a facelift wouldn't hurt.

So, I've got a few thoughts regarding the forum—specifically, why haven't we migrated to a more robust server or upgraded the infrastructure? The pages are constantly lagging, and there are frequent stretches where the whole thing just refuses to load entirely.

It would also be a massive improvement if we could move to a more recent version of vBulletin, because the 3.8.4 build you guys are currently running feels pretty ancient by today's standards.

And honestly, it wouldn't hurt to roll out a fresh skin; the site could definitely use a visual facelift, maybe something looking a bit more modern like this layout ( http://forum.codehook.com/ )

Plus, it would be great to see "Thanks" and "Last Visitors" integrated directly onto user profiles.

At the end of the day, if a few thousand dollars were invested into upgrading the platform, it would go a long way in making things much smoother, though everything else is actually quite great—especially the admins.