From an experienced admin...

[aileron]

These are some serious debugging skillz! Please fix it site admins!

[ryan_]

Added this suggestion the other day! Didn't get any traction, though https://www.exclusivelygames.com/for...t-page-buttons

[aileron]

As many have already said, no up vote down vote, please. Infinite scroll... meh, as long as there is a go to bottom button. I notice there are no first and last buttons here, just previous and next, not sure if those can be added.

[Estiar]

Totally agree about not having an upvote/downvote system. They just encourage cliques and power games for people more interested in throwing their weight around than encouraging real discourse.

[Saskia]

I've seen the same errors in the Chrome debug console. One suggestion would be to temporarily disable AJAX features on the forum until they fix the 404 issue. At least that would get rid of the freezing problem which is causing a lot of headaches.

[WhiplashVIII]

Great idea about hosting in Iceland, or possibly Switzerland. As we are now considered "non-conformist" (how shocking is that, btw?!), it's only a matter of time before we are targeted (if not already).

[MrE]

Well yes because you can essentially leave it as a giant mess which everyone screams into the void at. Infinite scroll means that aside from the very few comments at the top you won't bother to read the rest, whereas pagination means you can digest a large forum thread in chunks (there's now been studies on how infinite scroll with large quantities of information can dissuade input - see the link below).

I can see that point for sure. For instance, it's nice to remember which page a certain reply was on. But I find that I read more posts with infinite scrolling, personally. I rarely click passed page two on any forum and I dislike the constant loading. I guess its just preference.

[Hobbes]

Blizzard has had pretty good success with Discourse. I must say that I love the infinite scroll as well as the discussion thread style.

Well yes because you can essentially leave it as a giant mess which everyone screams into the void at. Infinite scroll means that aside from the very few comments at the top you won't bother to read the rest, whereas pagination means you can digest a large forum thread in chunks (there's now been studies on how infinite scroll with large quantities of information can dissuade input - see the link below).

[MrE]

I'm not. Discourse is the spawn of satan. RPS made such a botch job of migrating from VB4 to Discourse that their forums are now dying as a direct result.

Discourse's obsession with things like infinite scroll do not make for good forums. Not with larger forum pops. What you end up with is Eurogamer style discussions with are the pits of curry bowels.

Blizzard has had pretty good success with Discourse. I must say that I love the infinite scroll as well as the discussion thread style.

[Hobbes]

I'm actually surprised he didn't choose Discourse for the forum software. It's amazing software with a lot of features.

I'm not. Discourse is the spawn of satan. RPS made such a botch job of migrating from VB4 to Discourse that their forums are now dying as a direct result.

Discourse's obsession with things like infinite scroll do not make for good forums. Not with larger forum pops. What you end up with is Eurogamer style discussions with are the pits of curry bowels.

[Jason Forever]

nice one peeps, I don't understand most of the technical jargon you're using hehe, but the parts about I guess the "popularity contests" of the up/downvote system etc was an interesting read, thank you.

[Cheeky]

I agree with your points for the most part and hope this message is seen by the right people to continue maximum growth .

[Aidy]

Maybe it wasn't installed correctly, maybe it's a step in the "getting started" guide they missed, maybe something with the CDN is blocking access to that url or mistakingly reporting it as a 404. Who knows, someone needs to look into though.

[Arnox]

So that's not a feature of vB, it's not just how it works, it's because whoever has set this site up has obviously neglected to properly setup the translation api.

The what? Why is that something the admin has to do? I never had to even touch that with XF. Just saiyan.

[Kashimi]

I'm wondering if he's paid for a license to use this forum board.