lofi version

[karlm]

Hi guys & gals,

I'm looking into purchasing the vbulletin software as my new forum, currently running phpbb2.18
My first question is:

Does vbulletin support a 'lofi' version of itself, as invision board does? I beleive that facility will be very useful to the 15% of my viewers who are dial up.

Cheers :)

[Colin F]

Hi

There is the archive (linked at the bottom of every page), which should do what you want.

[feldon23]

Note that the Archive does not support posting or interacting with the forum in any way. It is designed almost exclusively for search engines.

I think it need to be on the development workboard that vBulletin 3.6 or a future version ships with a style that is free of JavaScript, Attachments, Avatars, etc. and which works with cell phones/PDAs (WAP 2.0) and for others with similar needs.

Until such a time that this is done, there are some unofficial plugins over at vBulletin.org such as MobileAlabama.

[wnorris]

You could easily make a 'lofi' template of your own, but I'm sure you were aware of that. There is no official template like that that I'm aware of, although I would be very interested in one myself. I tried viewing my forum on my Treo this weekend and was amazed at how difficult it was... I plan to make an extremely minimal template that will work decently well on PDAs.

[feldon23]

Anyone can make a lofi template if they spend enough time. The point is nobody should have to.

[Scott MacVicar]

There is actually code for reply / post within the archive its just commented out, I had intended for 3.5 once the datamanagers were out but I didn't have enough time.

I might try for 3.6 again if I have time.

[feldon23]

Cool news Scott, thanks! :)

[Reeve of Shinra]

Users can choose not to see images, avatars and sigs which is great for those stuck on dialup