The NEW versus the OLD ...

[GreyGeek]

We've had about a month to get used to the new KubuntuForum.net.

With the tweak suggestions from those experienced with vB, and from the other users, their wish lists, etc... the speed, stability and usability of this forum far exceeds the old one in my opinion. 8)

The frequent pauses of the browser while the busy circle spun and spun and spun, only to end in a timeout, is GONE! The crashes of the forum software are gone.

The new paradigm of "Subscribed Post" and "Today's Post", sorted by date, descending, with the little circular blue button in front of the thread title taking one directly to the first unread post, makes it impossible to lose a post because it falls off the list.

To say I am very pleased is an understatement!

[DoYouKubuntu]

the speed, stability and usability of this forum far exceeds the old one in my opinion. 8)

The frequent pauses of the browser while the busy circle spun and spun and spun, only to end in a timeout, is GONE!

That drove me nuts. Of course, I blamed it on the fact KFN was running on a windoze server.

The crashes of the forum software are gone.

But, one might wonder, how much of that was a function of running on 'doze? Would it have been different on *nix?

[GreyGeek]

That drove me nuts. Of course, I blamed it on the fact KFN was running on a windoze server.

But, one might wonder, how much of that was a function of running on 'doze? Would it have been different on *nix?

That was my thought, too, but it was easy to test. When the SMF forum software hung, I'd ping the server. It all but a couple cases it was still up. So, I'd attribute the constant hanging of the old SMF software to SMF, probably by a margin of 95 to 5. IOW, the server going down was probably the fault only 5 out of 100 times. Of course, that doesn't preclude the possibility that some function of Windows that was necessary to SMF was misbehaving, causing SMF to crash, but not crashing Windows. Without access to the logs that question will remain unanswered.


What is increasingly obvious, however, is that the combination of a Linux server and vB makes a powerful, stable and fast combination that the old website could not match!:cool: