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Mike, thanks. I actually discovered this shortly after posting the thread .. you know, Murphy's Law and all that!
Except the irony is that both vBulletin and PPRuNe share the same parent company. So one would have thought they would have been keen as anything to show off the latest and greatest software.
Exactly!
Another gripe is that if one takes slightly too long preparing one's post, when the time comes to post it .. you can find yourself being asked to sign-in again having lost the material you were preparing.
Also .. sometimes a post won't post when it begins with a photo and .. when you prepare a post which begins with a sentence highlighted in bold (a media article for example) sometimes this converts the entire text into bold at the time of posting.
And ..
*PPRuNe don't like avatars. (Are they any use? Some people like them).
*Other forum software enables readers to add a 'like' to a specific post and which is a great way for posters to gauge how their material is being received. I don't know whether vBulletin has this?
Crucially (for me at least) is the vBulletin search software. When you enter a word/s in the search it offers the option of 'Show Threads' or 'Show Posts' but only delivers 'Threads
AND Posts'. I have never entered an item for search which has only returned 'Show Threads' and which means one has to trawl through pages of unwanted references.
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