New Thinkdigit website. Feedback and suggestions welcome here

[Jaskanwar Singh]

yah, tha database error messages happen with me also sometimes.........

[farhan naz]

I think the forum size should be large in place of large advertise space size, but the new website is fabullus,beautifull But now pls work on forum.....

[The Sorcerer]

Why do people have have to wait 30 seconds between everytime reports are put up. There are multiple spam as it is but its possible to keep this place clean if such rules are put up.

[ico]

Originally Posted by The Sorcerer

Why do people have have to wait 30 seconds between everytime reports are put up. There are multiple spam as it is but its possible to keep this place clean if such rules are put up.

Reporting only one post of a spammer is more than enough for us.

[singlanhn]

class work guys !!!

[nitsnhn]

site luks good.....
what i feel is that now also try some other color combination. I know these are ur theme color, but if possible try with other colors also.

[Gollum]

What i don't like is the big add on the right side of the page which makes the forum width small. Also, where is the rep system? If not that, where are the stars etc? Why is the number of attachments restricted to just3. Why can't we use images for signatures. Hotlinking the image from another site like imageshack will not load the system will it. You can allow a max file size limit to 19kb.

[ico]

Originally Posted by Gollum

What i don't like is the big add on the right side of the page which makes the forum width small. Also, where is the rep system? If not that, where are the stars etc? Why is the number of attachments restricted to just3. Why can't we use images for signatures. Hotlinking the image from another site like imageshack will not load the system will it. You can allow a max file size limit to 19kb.

Check out my signature and let's discuss on that thread.

[The Sorcerer]

Maybe you guys should have a system where lesser ADS will be displayed to those who are members and signed in. We all know ads are important for revenue purposes but come on!! So many ads? I hate using adblock plus because the layout looks ugly but I don't like to see flashing on my screen.

[Sam]

i use Adblock in Chrome. no ads at all. not even the flashing ones (turned off manually).

[mrids]

hi...i just registered on your website. Everything looked great and well organized except the downloads section. No doubt great software are available for download there but the shear haphazard organization was a turn off. You could categorize them like media, utility, antivirus,etc. It will really be great if it is easy to find the required software that way.

[slugger]

earlier this link would work even if one wasn't logged in

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew

now it needs you to have signed in to get the list of active forum topics - very inconvinient

I have this URL as a bookmark in my browser. Earlier clicking on the link if i found come interesting thread, would log in to post, but now that it no longer works - out of sight out of mind

You may even be driving away 1st time visitors who may be looking to register. Instead of clicking on each sub-forum to see what kind of discussion happens, they could simply have used the link to get the info

Please make it accessible w/o having to sign in

Thanks

[JojoTheDragon]

Please improve forum style.
Teh competitors are way ahead on you guys in terms of the forum look.

And if sig images are not possible, give us bigger avatars atleast.

[Sam]

^^ a tech forum needs a batch of good contributors aka members, a good system to monitor everything & yes an ICO (grin). so i don't think looks matter that much. at least it makes loading the forum much faster & lighter to our eyes.

Originally Posted by The Sorcerer

Why do people have have to wait 30 seconds between everytime reports are put up. There are multiple spam as it is but its possible to keep this place clean if such rules are put up.

Originally Posted by ico

Reporting only one post of a spammer is more than enough for us.

got an idea (Credit to XDA Forum). why not (if it is possible) let members with 100 or more post have less restriction? i am referring to the point brought forward by Sorcerer.

[rajan1311]

TDF forums are on one the slowest loading forums, please consider changing your hosting....why are you hosted in the US ? How about a dedicated server,somewhere in Europe ? I am sure you are not short on $$

[ico]

Originally Posted by jojothedragon

Please improve forum style.
Teh competitors are way ahead on you guys in terms of the forum look.

And if sig images are not possible, give us bigger avatars atleast.

Have you checked out your User CP for avatar???

Originally Posted by slugger

earlier this link would work even if one wasn't logged in

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew

now it needs you to have signed in to get the list of active forum topics - very inconvinient

I have this URL as a bookmark in my browser. Earlier clicking on the link if i found come interesting thread, would log in to post, but now that it no longer works - out of sight out of mind

You may even be driving away 1st time visitors who may be looking to register. Instead of clicking on each sub-forum to see what kind of discussion happens, they could simply have used the link to get the info

Please make it accessible w/o having to sign in

Thanks

I've done that to decrease the load on server. Anonymous queries increase the load.

Originally Posted by Sam.Shab

got an idea (Credit to XDA Forum). why not (if it is possible) let members with 100 or more post have less restriction? i am referring to the point brought forward by Sorcerer.

Actually it is not possible through vBulletin. No such option.

Originally Posted by rajan1311

TDF forums are on one the slowest loading forums, please consider changing your hosting....why are you hosted in the US ? How about a dedicated server,somewhere in Europe ? I am sure you are not short on $$

I think just changing from Apache to nginx or lightppd might do the job. But then I don't work for Digit.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Originally Posted by rajan1311

TDF forums are on one the slowest loading forums, please consider changing your hosting....why are you hosted in the US ? How about a dedicated server,somewhere in Europe ? I am sure you are not short on $$

+1

Well...feedback thread is still on??

So many problems, and admins doesn't listen at all, won't blame mods, as they really listen us and inform admins about the issues. But we just don't want them to listen and sit quietly, but also to take actions(which they don't do at all).

At least I don't see any fix after the last feedback thread. And many members left, and some members visit on weekends just to check what's going on(Including me :-P)

Well, this things have been already discussed many many times, but they didn't took action and we lost many experienced, knowledgeable and helpful members.

Anyway...if possible ADMINS please modify the forum. Not just one thing, everything is messed up, if possible do a complete modification. Get the new version of vBulletin if possible.

[ico]

We have a new server now. And our forum now loads faster than any forum you'd name. yup, you heard it right.

Regarding the many members who left, their wish. I've remained here since the day I registered regardless of every problem we faced. I'd also like to tell everyone that the activity of the whole forum in general has greatly increased since the last few months despite server outages.

Originally Posted by krishnandu.sarkar

Not just one thing, everything is messed up,

Please stop exaggerating. The only yet VERY HUGE problem which was left was the server being slow and MySQL errors. Both these problems should be FIXED now. I'll be switching back to the old Kirsch theme if people ask me to do so. This theme was meant to be light and help in decreasing the load.

digit for me is the best forum if u want to get ur problem solved...no other forum comes close in this and im fully aware of other indian forums which exist.

[Jaskanwar Singh]

i like this forum the most.
and yes its faaaaaaaast......now.

[Gaurav Bhattacharjee]

old tdf server = rolls royce
new tdf server = lamborghini reventon

now where's the LIKE button when you need it!!??


P.S: i'll consider this my b'day present from the tdf team. thnx to the mods and admins and all my friends here.

[gagan007]

Now that the site is fast and stable, maybe we can switch over to a new theme...or probably better, ico could tell us if we can migrate to latest vBulletin 4.1.2 (as on this date)...i know that would mean new license.

[ico]

yup, we do need a new theme. But I'm not the one who can change things and upload files to the server. vBulletin 4.1.2 is in the hands of ThinkDigit and 9dot9. Not me.

[pauldmps]

At last, freedom from database errors & double post errors. Thanks a ton.

[nims11]

database errors were annoying. loving the faster TDF

[axes2t2]

Loving the server change.

[Sam]

@ico, can you edit the theme or change it so the links in posts are shown in orange or some other colour. cause of the forum bg colour, links are really hard to spot many times when browsing from PC.