Postbit or Postbit_Legacy

[oldengine]

What is the end user popularity comparison of using postbit vs. postbit_legacy on your site?

[dkon26]

Legacy looks and works better.

[Joe Gronlund]

I was using legacy, but now i use postbit on both my boards..

[Wayne Luke]

I let the user choose and don't keep track of who is using what.

[DoE]

For the info I'm going to spit out to the postbit, the modern one works a lot better, and looks better, than the legacy one.

[oldengine]

I let the user choose and don't keep track of who is using what.

You've got me wondering if I missed something in four years of running vBulletin - how does a user switch between the two display modes? I thought that was an admin-only setting.

[Steve Machol]

This is not a user option by default. However someone has posted a template modification that does this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88171

[Lynne]

I let the user choose and don't keep track of who is using what.

This is what I do also. I have no idea what the ratio of postbit to postbit_legacy users is.

You've got me wondering if I missed something in four years of running vBulletin - how does a user switch between the two display modes? I thought that was an admin-only setting.

I added a profile field for them to choose their type and then added a plugin that picks the postbit based on that. There is a mod over at vb.org that explains how to do this.

[Floris]

I prefer to use postbit. I am used to it and it gives a more modern look to post replies.

[Onimua]

The next upgrade to my site I'm doing will include the current postbit layout for one style, and then postbit_legacy for the second. It's mostly to do with paying tribute to an old site that we broke off from/merged with than anything else.

I think either one is fine depending on your site's look at feel though. I myself prefer postbit but sometimes I'll find my liking postbit_legacy too.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

I use both on my site.

Although it really depends on the site, if it is supposed to have a "professional" feel to it, then I use postbit (even on non-vB sites), but otherwise I'll use both if using vB, legacy or the default for the particular software I am using.

[xjuliox]

Postbit for me. That was one the reasons for getting vbulletin.

[barlow28]

Legacy, I've been using vBulletin since the year 2000 so I'm just used to it... old school... but when my forum was online I made it a user option.

[Shane]

I force everyone to use postbit. Harsh, but give it enough time they fall right into place.