OCUK forum suggestion

craptakular · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:22

Couldn't see a section for suggestions, outside product suggestions so posting in here.

Can the OCUK gods add in related threads to the bottom of each thread?

Would be cool to see related threads, so if someone made a thread relating to "2500k Overclocking" and it would display the last 5 threads relating to this.

Good or bad idea?

Irish_Tom · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:40

Is this an existing feature of vBulletin that can just be 'switched on' or would it require coding?

Also, how does the system determine relevant threads? Is it based on title, post content etc...

If it's just an on/off option then it might be useful – if it requires any more input than that it's a complete waste of time.

Van Hellseek · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:40

It is a vB4 feature. OcUK is on vB3.

(So no).

Westyfield2 · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:41

Over on AV Forums when you're posting a new thread it automagically searches with your thread title as the search term and finds similar threads (not that people post without searching first :mad:

).

Van Hellseek · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:42

/\ That's a hack/mod and has zero chance of being implemented here.

arknor · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:44

how come ocuk never backup the forum and update to the new version anyway? they seem really paranoid like its going to create a blackhole other websites do it with no issues and if anything does go wrong you can easily go back to how it was anyway

/\ That's a hack/mod and has zero chance of being implemented here

why not? as i remember you can only get them by having a VB license anyway as otherwise you dont get permisions on the VB forums to download stuff

Hatter The Mad · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:45

Van Hellseek said:
It is a vB4 feature. OcUK is on vB3.

(So no).

There is a mature and easy-to-install plugin for it in vB3.

Hatter The Mad · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:46

Van Hellseek said:
/\ That's a hack/mod

So is Trust

Burnsy2023 · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:47

arknor said:
how come ocuk never backup the forum and update to the new version anyway? they seem really paranoid like its going to create a blackhole other websites do it with no issues and if anything does go wrong you can easily go back to how it was anyway

Why do you think they don't backup the forum? I've seen them having a dev version of VB4, not sure if anything came from it though.

arknor said:
why not? as i remember you can only get them by having a VB license anyway as otherwise you dont get permisions on the VB forums to download stuff

Because they don't want to add security holes.

Van Hellseek · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:52

arknor said:
how come ocuk never backup the forum and update to the new version anyway?

It's not even on the latest 3.x* version let alone 4.x

(*Well last time I checked anyway)

Bumhug · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:53

arknor said:
how come ocuk never backup the forum and update to the new version anyway?

New version of VB is pants, big company took over, best staff left, news staff seem a bit clueless. This is regarded as one of the best version of VB, Xenforo is what VB 4 should have been, made by the devoplers of 3

Van Hellseek · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:55

Bumhug said:
New version of VB is pants, big company took over, best staff left, news staff seem a bit clueless. This is regarded as one of the best version of VB, Xenforo is what VB 4 should have been, made by the devoplers of 3

XenForo is alright, but far too early in development for a big board to sensibly move to.

It's got some nice touches but it's overrated tbh.

Cosimo · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:57

Change, it's not something that happens here so you'll be lucky if it ever happens. Search will always be your friend.

Marky · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:08

Oxy said:
Couldn't see a section for suggestions, outside product suggestions so posting in here.

Can the OCUK gods add in related threads to the bottom of each thread?

Would be cool to see related threads, so if someone made a thread relating to "2500k Overclocking" and it would display the last 5 threads relating to this.

Good or bad idea?

It's not an addition I need - but I guess it would be nice...

I'm sure they'll take this suggestion and put it on the suggestion pile

Must be long enough to reach the moon by now

Deleted member 651465 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:37

Would be handy, but then, only really if you've posted without searching first

marc2003 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:40

Hatter The Mad said:
So is Trust

i don't think so. it uses the forum username/password database but i'm pretty sure they're is no hacking of the VB code going on.

Burnsy2023 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:41

marc2003 said:
i don't think so. it uses the forum username/password database but i'm pretty sure they're is no hacking of the VB code going on.

How did you come to that conclusion?

Duke · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:42

Sounds like a good idea but doubt we'll see it.

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:45

I think we should have a new one start from fresh.

marc2003 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:46

Burnsy2023 said:
How did you come to that conclusion?

by looking at it. it doesn't look like it's running on top of the forum does it? a bit presumptuous but meh.

also, if it is a forum mod, why do you have to log into it separately?

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