[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by FredMitchell

1) Increase the information density. Even with ads blocked, it is rare that you will see more than one post or answer in a full screen. It has banners, icons, and all sorts of distracting fluff.

I can only read one answer at a time, so I'm fine with only being shown one answer at a time. What might be an interesting option, is if you could click a box in an answer that would pop-out a window containing the original post of the thread, so you don't have to scroll back or page back to find it, and then scroll/page forward and try to find that post again to continue reading the thread from where you left off.

2) Does anybody ever use the little icons, F, plus, etc.? What does a plus even do?

The F I believe allows you to share a post to your facebook page, if you have one. The + lets you see who has thanked the poster of any given post, and the thumbs-up is the thank button, which is only visible if no one has thanked that post yet.

3) Because of this, a typical question get n-teen duplicated answers. Who has the time to scroll AND page to check to see if a post is just something that others have said?

If you're in a hurry, maybe read faster or learn to skim? Or don't read a thread at all until you know you have time to dedicate to reading it.

4) Grammarly - a grammar checker - badly needed by some, does not work, even though there is some sort of spell-checker.

English is not everyone's first language. In addition, some people are blind and use a voice-to-text translator or braille keyboard to post. I get that it can be difficult to understand some folks - I have trouble with them too. But if it's a topic of interest, and I think the person has thoughts I want to know, I'll take that extra 30 seconds to decipher it in my head. If you don't feel they have something valuable to add to the conversation, just skip their post.

5) Eliminate paging. It is just too slow.

No idea what you mean by that, unless you mean when you get to the bottom of the page of responses, you have to click on #2 to get to the next page? Again - that would be a YOU problem, not a system problem. It's not that time consuming. If you mean something other than that, I dunno, I guess I don't ever experience what you're referring to.

6) Inhibit quoting. If someone really wants to quote something, it should be intentional, not accidental. Excessive quoting further reduces the information density.

Quoting IS an intentional thing. There are quick-replies and regular replies. There's also multi-quoting, which most people don't know how to use (I use it often). You would know that if you checked multi-post threads where people are just posting in them, and you have no idea who they're responding to.

7) Hyperlinking would work more easily if it worked like other applications like GMail, or if it had two boxes, one for the url and one for the text.

GMail is a mail application. VBulletin is a forum application. They work off different codebases and serve completely different functions. Be grateful you don't have to deal with raw hypertext markup language.