Tweets

I have noticed an annoying tweets display appearing in the centre of the left hand of the Forum pages. Is there a way of switching it off, or moving it somewhere else? I now have to scroll the page a lot more to read the first part of threads that are under this tweets display.

Chris

I have noticed an annoying tweets display appearing in the centre of the left hand of the Forum pages. Is there a way of switching it off, or moving it somewhere else? I now have to scroll the page a lot more to read the first part of threads that are under this tweets display.

 

 

Chris

Im glad someone else raised this i do enough moaning lol. I find it rather annoying too, i have to enlarge my screen to read text properly because of an eye condition and it gets in the way.

Hi

I use Firefox on my Imac and have a single line under reply to thread Did not really notice the link

Frank

It looks like the tweets tab has gone for now. But interested that it displays so differently with other browsers. I mainly use Opera, but I did look at the site with IE which gave more or less the same result.

Like Jon I enlarge the text to make reading easier even though the monitor is a 42" screen TV, I am reading the screen across the room.

Thanks for all the comments on other browsers, it looks like Firefox is popular. I think I will stick with Opera, and just complain if the tweet tab returns!

Chris

Nothing on my page either (I use firefox)

Same here!

Tom

Same here!

Tom

It's a low screen resolution like 800 x 600 or a change to larger text size that makes it get in the way of text in Firefox Tom.

It's been removed from the site now anyway.

It looks like the tweets tab has gone for now. But interested that it displays so differently with other browsers. I mainly use Opera, but I did look at the site with IE which gave more or less the same result.

Like Jon I enlarge the text to make reading easier even though the monitor is a 42" screen TV, I am reading the screen across the room.

 

Thanks for all the comments on other browsers, it looks like Firefox is popular. I think I will stick with Opera, and just complain if the tweet tab returns!

 

Chris

I went off IE at number 5,6 and 7 8 was so so but buggy and ive only just installed 9. Firefox is quite good if your developing websites and has lots of add on tools you can use to aid you like firebug. Chrome is light weight and not bad, feels clean and ive not really had bugs except for a youtube issue recently. Opera is the quickest of the lot and works well. I use Chrome for browsing and FF for developing

I tend to support what Maureen O'Dowd had to say about twitter

""I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account."

Oiseaux

I tend to support what Maureen O'Dowd had to say about twitter

 

""I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account."

 

Oiseaux

Ditto................

Ditto................

Now, now - live and let live. There's plenty of people who feel the same way about computers and the Internet. Or electric bikes, for that matter.

No criticism of others in my comment David, I want everyone to have what they like. But for me such things as Twitter and Facebook are a step too far in the time wasting stakes. First we cursed the telephone interrupting our lives but gave into it. Then it was the internet in general and email in particular, followed by mobile phones glued to ears seemingly permanently to impart such essential information as "I'm in Tesco".

For me there had to be a point to call a halt, and social networking was that point.

No criticism of others in my comment David, I want everyone to have what they like. But for me such things as Twitter and Facebook are a step too far in the time wasting stakes. First we cursed the telephone interrupting our lives but gave into it. Then it was the internet in general and email in particular, followed by mobile phones glued to ears seemingly permanently to impart such essential information as "I'm in Tesco".

 

For me there had to be a point to call a halt, and social networking was that point.

I kind of with flecc on this and im very much into innovation and the internet. All i see Twitter as is a way of business, politicians or celebs informing people of whats going on. Thats fine and it has a use. For the average Jon no body cares if i have been tot he shop or just had a what ever. I see Twitter more of a a place to brag and thats it, it does nothing else. I do get facebook more and i use facebook quite a bit because its a way of keeping in touch with stuff, for a start you have more than 140 characters or what ever the limit is.

Speaking of the forum's appearance, how is it that some posts have a scroll bar at the side (whatever length they are), whereas others do not? That's in Firefox, by the way.

It is an error by the vBulletin designers in the css code which they use. If you look you will see it only happens in Firefox when the poster does not have a signature line stored in his profile and automatically displayed in his posts.

While I am slating off vBulletin, does anybody get annoyed when a green grass bar displays across the screen before the page comes up? It is most noticeable when the server is struggling to put together the files to send out over the internet. I have counted 5 javascript files and 4 CSS files being sent as well as the HTML and all the pictures for the flashing adverts etc. Despite all this going on, it is not set up so that we can choose to display in-line pictures uploaded to the forum server in more than thumb nails.

I did once install an earlier version of vBulletin on a website. But I quickly dumped it when I could stand the grass growing on my screen.

Edited June 10, 201114 yr by 10mph

Speaking of the forum's appearance, how is it that some posts have a scroll bar at the side (whatever length they are), whereas others do not? That's in Firefox, by the way.

Same here. I've just done some test posts, deleting them each time, and this is the result:

Quick reply gets no scroll bar.

Going back into the Quick reply to edit out a mistake gets a scroll bar result

Using Advanced mode to reply gets a scroll bar.

I've no idea why, but it's in our control in a sense.

 

It is an error by the vBulletin designers in the css code which they use. If you look you will see it only happens in Firefox when the poster does not have a signature line stored in his profile and automatically displayed in his posts.

As you see from my above post, the reply method varies the result. I use Firefox but don't have a signature line.

Flecc,

it amy depend on browser version since it it a css problem. I note that in my IE which is an old version there were not scroll bars, where as my "up to date" Firefox 4.0.1 has them. For my posts it makes no difference whether I use Quick reply or advanced editing - i have a signature line and I think never get a scroll bar on my posts. Obviously things are different for your browser.

This reply is the quick reply. The previous one was advanced, and then edited - never any scroll bars here.

Safari 5.0.5 has them but as this is a quick reply maybe not!

No not even after an edit.....