What do you think of the AoS forum?

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

No, it just looks like a clique because it's the same half a dozen or so who are bothering to post. I reckon if I browsed some of the other forums I would find similar. Just with different names.

Andy, looking at your signature, there's an awful lot of interesting kit there, and I'm betting there are some noteworthy stories, experiences, triumphs, mistakes, etc behind that little lot. I'm also betting that it is the kind of thing that would be of interest to you if only someone else had taken the trouble to write about it ;)

If you put into print whatever piques your interest, You might end up piquing others' interest, and so it goes around :)

Edit: forget about paragraph 2 - perhaps the issue is the sheer number of forums in existence, and I can quite understand if someone was reluctant to post in detail about their kit on more than one forum.

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Points taken - I will post some more over the next few weeks :)

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Originally Posted by mikeyb

The reason PFM looks how it does was due the way it was hosted not complying when the new GDPR rules that came in a while back, Tony had to update everything and it ended up how it is today.

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Tony did a good job, I like the xenForo format and because it's popular, people are familiar with it. If they pop onto another forum, there's no learning curve if it's another XF one. But again, that's subjective on what you prefer. vBulletin 4 is getting quite old now.

Probably needs a tech savvy admin to import the data from vBulletin, but vBulletin 3.6 to 5.3 are supported for data imports into XF in case anyone wonders?

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Originally Posted by Tim

Tony did a good job, I like the xenForo format and because it's popular, people are familiar with it. If they pop onto another forum, there's no learning curve if it's another XF one. But again, that's subjective on what you prefer. vBulletin 4 is getting quite old now.

Probably needs a tech savvy admin to import the data from vBulletin, but vBulletin 3.6 to 5.3 are supported for data imports into XF in case anyone wonders?

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I'm not a tech savvy - far from it. In fact I don't even know what the various techie terms mean: platforms; servers; etc. All I know is how to post, start and close threads, and edit the same. We do have a couple of tech savvy Members here, who help out when problems arise.

Can anyone tell me exactly what it is they like about the look and presentation of the PFM forum. To me it looks anodyne, perfunctory and lacking in style. So just me then?

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Originally Posted by mikeyb

Hate the dark theme on the Mav and no option to change it :(

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Not keen on it either. Looks like my car's sat nav at night.

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Originally Posted by Barry

Can anyone tell me exactly what it is they like about the look and presentation of the PFM forum.

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pfm [sic] is just an example Barry, many forums have a similar look these days. As to why people like it, well that would be like trying to explain why Tales from Topographic Oceans is a great album :)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Not keen on it either. Looks like my car's sat nav at night.

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So is the "dark theme" white text on a dark background - or is it something entirely different?

I've been using Tapatalk for years to browse AoS, it makes it very nice to read and very simple to navigate. I believe quite a bit of work was put into the forum to make it work with Tapatalk (but I could be wrong). It seems a shame not to leverage off this and encourage people to use Tapatalk rather than invest money we don't have in a new format/hosting site.

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Originally Posted by Lawrence001

I've been using Tapatalk for years to browse AoS, it makes it very nice to read and very simple to navigate. I believe quite a bit of work was put into the forum to make it work with Tapatalk (but I could be wrong). It seems a shame not to leverage off this and encourage people to use Tapatalk rather than invest money we don't have in a new format/hosting site.

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I can’t remember now if it was a lot of work Lawrence, but I certainly agree it is the best way to view the forum - I probably use my iPad or iPhone 95% of the time, and no need to use an image hosting site as Tapatalk does all that for you. I can’t remember how much it was for a lifetime subscription but as you can use it for any compatible forum it is well worth it in my opinion, plus predictive text helps (though sometimes not!)


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A couple of questions regarding Tapatalk:

Is Tapatalk only for iPhones/iPads? My phone is a six year old Huwawei with Google stuff on it. All of my photos are on there. And how much does it cost?

Looks like it is available on the Play store, and I think there is a free tier, but you will get ads I expect.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...hl=en_GB&pli=1


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