We are excited to announce that we are live on our new forum platform! We have been working hard over the past few months with a leading design and product firm to deliver a cleaner, faster and more engaging experience for you. We have leveraged XenForo tools and features but added layers of modern design and technology to make the site run faster, smoother and more reliably. All of the valuable content within the community is still here, even though the layout may look different.
A consistent experience across all devices
The site is optimized for all screen sizes, including mobile. All features are available and ready to use on all devices.
Speed and reliability are key
No one should have to wait for information. This site has been built to be much faster and more reliable, period.
Easy to use and navigate
We have made the design clean and simple to focus on the areas the community uses the most and removed clutter.
We have also introduced a number of new and updated features:
New Homepage Experience
Your home page now features the most active forums, trending discussions, featured showcases, and top contributing members. This will help keep you up to date on what’s happening in your community and eventually become a very personalized experience for our members with all the great content you love surfaced effortlessly for you.
Search
We have introduced new search algorithms, powered by an industry-leading AI platform, that will help you find information faster. We plan to roll out new features to continue improving search, and to power many additional areas of the forum.
Due to the volume of content, our search platform may take some time to complete indexing. During this process, you may see a limited number of posts until indexing has been completed. We appreciate your patience.
Popular and New Posts
We have made it easy to navigate directly to the Popular (previously Active Topics) Posts. You can find the Popular section, which includes “New Posts”, by clicking on the trending up arrow in the navigation. Always be up to date!
Bookmarks
Now you can bookmark your favorite discussions! Bookmarks are a handy way to remember and easily find great content or stuff you want to read later.
Following
Following a thread is a great way to stay up-to-date on the topic, and receive alerts or emails when there are new replies. Thread subscriptions and watched threads are now called “Followed”. Your followed threads can be accessed by clicking on your user avatar, and clicking “Following”. We have migrated all of your existing subscriptions into the new platform.
Show off your own collection.
We have introduced “My Showcase” for you to show-off images of your own vehicles, modifications or road trips to the rest of the community and we have migrated in the existing data from our vBulletin Garages. This is your opportunity to upload often and share your passion! Visit Showcase.
Dark Mode
We have introduced Dark Mode. One of our favorite features allows you to access the site with a power-saving, and easier on the eyes dark mode. You can access it through the right-hand drop-down menu.
We also wanted to make it easier for new users to understand the lingo of forums. We have cleaned up various language to more commonly recognized phrases including:
Forum Listing – the forum index, or forum home, is now known as the Forum Listing page. It can be found in the drop-down menu with the 3 dots.
Following - Thread subscriptions, and Watched are now known as Following
Conversations – Private Messages or PMs are now conversations and can be accessed from the user avatar drop-down in the main navigation
Showcase – Showcase is designed for users to "showcase" items/projects through the use of uploaded images, text descriptions and custom content categories. It’s a way to visually and textually provide detailed information on content you wish to share. The showcase would be similar to a catalog, whereas gallery would be like a photo album. Can be accessed from the drop-down menu with the 3 dots
Popular – is the new name for Active Topics. You can also directly navigate to New Posts / Today’s Posts from this button
Account Settings – is the new name for UserCP. The account settings can be found by clicking on your avatar in the top right navigation
Bookmarks – a great place to store valuable content that you may want to reference later.
These are just a few of the great new functions and features to try on the site. Take a tour and look around! If you have any questions, please check out the HELP section for some quick FAQs about the new platform, Help Section
Please let us know what you think about the new experience, your feedback is important to us.
Thank you all for your support during this amazing journey!
I will be here during your transition to the new platform, to help with any questions, help with navigation or how to do things, and to listen to your feedback so please don't hesitate to holler at me. I want to help.
I do want to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Cricket. When I was born, my father told his friends I was the ugliest baby he had ever seen, and that I sounded just like a cricket (yes, the insect) so I have been Cricket for nearly 58 years now. I live just outside of San Antonio, Texas and spend most of my off time out in nature. I spend my vacation, in the fall, hiking and camping.
I have worked with VerticalScope for nearly 5 years now. I won't always know the answers to your questions, but I can find someone who does, as needed.
Although you can certainly use the "insert image" icon to upload an image to your post, you can also just drag and drop it to the text editor or even copy/paste it into there!
(I took this photo on a Texas backroad.)
You can easily share videos just by adding the URL directly into the text editor!
Gif links from sites like giphy.com will display automatically just by adding the gif URL directly in the text editor. Try it!
I am also a huge fan of the dark mode for the community. What is your favorite feature?
I will be here to answer questions and to help you navigate, as needed.
How To Find New Posts
From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner, click on the upward-pointing arrow and then select “New Posts” from the drop-down menu.
This will open a new page of new posts for you. You can also choose to set special filters or mark all posts read on that same page.
Navigating Thread Listing
Clicking the thread title will take you to where you left off, the 1st unread post.
Clicking the timestamp below the title will take you to the 1st post of the thread.
Clicking the timestamp above the last poster user takes you to the last (newest) post.
Also the ads are bullshit. Do something to differentiate them from the rest of the posts. Change the background to a slightly different color, whatever, just looks terrible as it is.
Also the ads are bullshit. Do something to differentiate them from the rest of the posts. Change the background to a slightly different color, whatever, just looks terrible as it is.
We will be seeing weekly updates (approximately) to the platform that are largely fueled by member feedback. Although we may not action everything, we are logging what users are saying. You can monitor the platform updates here: https://www.clubroadster.net/help/releases/
The side bar with Recommended Reading, Popular Communities, Thread statistics, and, of course the BBB certification and whatever the other one is can all disappear. They clog the page with absolutely 100% useless stuff that I will never be even tempted to click on.
The side bar with Recommended Reading, Popular Communities, Thread statistics, and, of course the BBB certification and whatever the other one is can all disappear. They clog the page with absolutely 100% useless stuff that I will never be even tempted to click on.
Honestly, it doesn't even need to exist. If I'm looking at a specific thread, all I want is to see that thread (and search that thread...believe me, that feature is sorely missed).
I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!! Like I REALLY HATE IT! So much so I probably won't even frequent here anymore except to update my build thread. I couldn't even log in on my phone but thankfully the laptop worked. Y'all are KILLING a already dying forum, congratulations!
I HATE THE NEW FORMAT!!!! Like I REALLY HATE IT! So much so I probably won't even frequent here anymore except to update my build thread. I couldn't even log in on my phone but thankfully the laptop worked. Y'all are KILLING a already dying forum, congratulations!
Can you tell me what you don’t like about it? Is there anything I can help you find?
Like most of us, I am a creature of habit, so it takes me a bit to get used to changes. (I was more than a little grumpy about it all at first.) I was lucky enough to get the chance to play with the new platform before they went live with it so I am already getting used to it. I have to admit that I am crazy about it now. It feels so much faster and is easy to use after a brief learning curve.
Are you still having trouble logging in from your phone?
I know you(y'all) are "just doing your job" but "y'all's job" is clearly to "better the forum" for the advertising companies and not the forum users.
What do I hate? Literally everything about it, this isn't a exaggeration. I don't know if I will even bother with this forum anymore. Seems like most feel the same as me.
I love that you can paste pictures directly into the editer and wysiwyg is great as well.
The lack of that feature is that I have almost stopped posting on forums.
Get up from the trenches and come with suggestions to improvements instead of just 'hate everything'
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