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I read the thread about marketshare with a bit of glee. Nearly every board I've been using in the last five years has dropped VBB for XF. I wasn't sure I liked it at first, but it's kind of growing on me.
I have a few problems with XF though as a user. I'm sort of old school in the browser area. I got started in the 90s with Netscape and have stuck with it through the various phases and am now using SeaMonkey. To me, it's always been the best browser package. But it's long in the tooth and running on a skeleton crew of volunteers to develope and make changes. Market share is way down and it seems the newer board software packages don't pay much attention to it.
Of the ten of so boards I now use, most work OK with a few glitches I can live with. But there are three of four installation all run by a Canadian company I'll just refer to as VS. Those boards simply don't work well on SeaMonkey and I can't figure out why. The boards' Admins do not have access to the software son they can't help with problems and VS is wholly unresponsive.
One issue is a scrolling bar across the top of the page and flashing Icon in the upper right corner (I don't know what XF calls them) that appear whenever a page is loading or updating as when posting a thread. On most boards it appears for a few seconds, then stops. On the VS vboards it continues endlessly until I change pages. I can't figure out what it is to be able to try and block it, or if that's even possible.
I have a few other issues, but I'll hold off on those for a bit.
I have a few problems with XF though as a user. I'm sort of old school in the browser area. I got started in the 90s with Netscape and have stuck with it through the various phases and am now using SeaMonkey. To me, it's always been the best browser package. But it's long in the tooth and running on a skeleton crew of volunteers to develope and make changes. Market share is way down and it seems the newer board software packages don't pay much attention to it.
Of the ten of so boards I now use, most work OK with a few glitches I can live with. But there are three of four installation all run by a Canadian company I'll just refer to as VS. Those boards simply don't work well on SeaMonkey and I can't figure out why. The boards' Admins do not have access to the software son they can't help with problems and VS is wholly unresponsive.
One issue is a scrolling bar across the top of the page and flashing Icon in the upper right corner (I don't know what XF calls them) that appear whenever a page is loading or updating as when posting a thread. On most boards it appears for a few seconds, then stops. On the VS vboards it continues endlessly until I change pages. I can't figure out what it is to be able to try and block it, or if that's even possible.
I have a few other issues, but I'll hold off on those for a bit.