View Poll Results: Blue fonts
Hate them
32
84.21%
Like them
4
10.53%
I'm color blind so it doesn't matter
2
5.26%
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll
Where are the sub forums????
#121
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#123
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The blue text and underlines are off my lawn!
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The boards look much cleaner, again.
I guess it's up to individual posters to highlight their links in blue or whatever font, by underlining, or to just keep the links hidden...
I guess it's up to individual posters to highlight their links in blue or whatever font, by underlining, or to just keep the links hidden...
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#129
Needs more Lemon Pledge
#130
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#132
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So now the links are no longer blue, underlined, or a URL. They automatically switch to a description of their link which looks even more like ordinary text.
Cliffs: it's worse now than it ever was.
Cliffs: it's worse now than it ever was.
#133
The ordinary text is why I started the whole thing in the first place, but I thought I could just get the links in posts changed which didn't work at all, and suffering the blue was bad enough but the underlines exacerbated the situation to an intolerable level.
#134
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Thank you for the return to the way it was!
Most responsive forum to user-input I have ever seen.
Please call Yahoo and explain this principle.
Most responsive forum to user-input I have ever seen.
Please call Yahoo and explain this principle.
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Thank you Ron
#137
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#138
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I agree that the current setup is better than days prior, but when the link to another thread automatically changes to the name of that thread, there is no indication it is more than text unless the thread name gives a clue. Why no abbreviated URLs like before?
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Thank you, Ron!
Can we hug you?
Can we hug you?
#141
#142
Sanest Florida Man
Ron A you need to throw your weight around and let vBulletin know to give you granular control to underline links before you have to fuck a bitch up
#143
Sanest Florida Man
Wait the company that owns vBulletin also owns AZ? yeah you def need to crack some heads
#144
IB (Internet Brands) owns AZ and 200-300 other forums, so asking for something is not like it used to be when robb and adam did all the work in house. I don't believe IB owns VB or vice versa and think they are two different entities engaged in different aspects of forum activites, but will accept corrections if necessary.
#145
Sanest Florida Man
Internet Brands
909 North Sepulveda Boulevard, 11th Floor
El Segundo, California 90245
United States
909 North Sepulveda Boulevard, 11th Floor
El Segundo, California 90245
United States
Seems like they are
#146
This post is an excellent example of why we need some way to identify links in posts. I know blue didn't work, and underline didn't work. but there must be something out there for us.
https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...mirror-918126/
https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...mirror-918126/
#147
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I was very close to asking for pix in that thread, but then clicked on the "hidden link."
#148
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This post is an excellent example of why we need some way to identify links in posts. I know blue didn't work, and underline didn't work. but there must be something out there for us.
https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...mirror-918126/
https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...mirror-918126/
changling link color inside a post - vBulletin.org Forum
#149
Maybe this will be the push they need to upgrade.
#151
Sanest Florida Man
Shit might as well go to vB5 then
#152
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Doubt they will upgrade considering the bulk licensing for all of their forums has to be very expensive. Then factor in the trouble and time to upgrade them all. Just for links? Doubtful. It will take a major security breach for that to happen.
Colored links are pretty standard. Just pick a blue that is a lot easier on the eyes. Or add a css class that inserts a superscripted "Link" text entity before every link.
Colored links are pretty standard. Just pick a blue that is a lot easier on the eyes. Or add a css class that inserts a superscripted "Link" text entity before every link.
#153
I guess I'll have to go back to doing it all the time or at least when I care if they know it's a link or not.
#154
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Yes, my interpretation of that thread was that there is an additional style sheet in vb4 that can be used to control the appearance of links in posts only, and that style sheet is not part of vb3.
#155
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That doesn't matter in the slightest. The page uses css so it can be edited whether the links have their own css doc or not.
You can do this via the admin panel's css text editor or you can just manually edit the css yourself (FTP). Both of which can be restricted to highest user class. So it may not even be an option for the great Ron A himself. I'm sure iB has it locked down pretty tight.
You can do this via the admin panel's css text editor or you can just manually edit the css yourself (FTP). Both of which can be restricted to highest user class. So it may not even be an option for the great Ron A himself. I'm sure iB has it locked down pretty tight.
#157
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After they were satisfied that they knew enough about it to run it themselves, they got rid of the guys at Jelsoft.
They didn't care of course, because the partners made tonnes off the purchase.
Internet Brands does not own itself, which is amusing.
It's a publicly traded company that appears to be owned by a bunch of hedge funds (you could say that IB is a sort of hedge fund itself). Included among the hedge funds that own a major part of it is the Duke of Westminster's company, Grosvenor Capital.
If they ever just totally piss you off, Hugh Grosvenor's the guy to blow it up. :-)
IB had more money than they knew what to do with for quite a while. You might recall the hoo-ra when they paid for Honda-Tech, dumping 1.3 millions US like it was pocket change.
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That doesn't matter in the slightest. The page uses css so it can be edited whether the links have their own css doc or not.
You can do this via the admin panel's css text editor or you can just manually edit the css yourself (FTP). Both of which can be restricted to highest user class. So it may not even be an option for the great Ron A himself. I'm sure iB has it locked down pretty tight.
You can do this via the admin panel's css text editor or you can just manually edit the css yourself (FTP). Both of which can be restricted to highest user class. So it may not even be an option for the great Ron A himself. I'm sure iB has it locked down pretty tight.
You could really screw things up, potentially, if you did not know what you were doing.
The advantage, however, was that new forums could be added every time Honda changed a generation or added a model, and if a hue and cry developed to change how something looked, we could do that without talking to anybody.
However, let me say again: The default vBulletin blue theme is just about the best thing going. Maybe tweak the exact "maize" you want, but that is about it.
I've always found Acurazine to be a little hard to look at for extended periods.
One of the worst things IB ever did was that they assumed that because there was a custom Zeroforum dark theme, that this was what people wanted when they switched Honda-Tech to vBulletin.
Honda-Tech has been hard to look at ever since.
But, what can you do.
#159
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This post is an excellent example of why we need some way to identify links in posts. I know blue didn't work, and underline didn't work. but there must be something out there for us.
https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...mirror-918126/
https://acurazine.com/forums/second-...mirror-918126/
Last edited by oo7spy; 09-18-2014 at 11:13 AM.
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I didn't know iB bought Jel. So why not upgrade? Seems dumb.