# Just feeding back that virtually everything is awful **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [July 2, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313 "2022-07-02T18:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/121 "2022-07-06T17:58:52Z")
And obnoxious GIFs get broken by the staff. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/122 "2022-07-06T18:27:21Z")
True. A more actively enforced aspect of the culture, when restraint fails. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/123 "2022-07-08T07:08:10Z")
I am really curious what “features” people are missing. Like: what specific result was more convenient to achieve in vB. @Chronos - what browser are you using? On what OS? For me the SDMB is loading near instantly since discourse and others report the same. I really think something is wrong at your end. (Browser/plug-in/malware) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/124 "2022-07-08T11:08:51Z")
I’m using whatever the latest version of Firefox is, on OSX 10.13.6 . And what’s wrong at my end is that it’s an old computer. We’ve already established that. Everything else on the Web can tolerate that, but @codinghorror considers it to be entirely the user’s fault and doesn’t see it as a problem. That said, the most recent update did speed things up considerably, presumably due to one of the miscellaneous “bug fixes”. In other words, yes, the intolerance of my old machine apparently really was due to a bug in Discourse, that took this long to fix. But, hey, it’s fixed now, so I’ll stop complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/125 "2022-07-08T15:34:53Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > I am really curious what “features” people are missing. I’m missing a browser history not cluttered with 57,000 entries for the same thread. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/126 "2022-07-08T15:57:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m using whatever the latest version of Firefox is, on OSX 10.13.6 Me too, except it’s 10.13.4 and claims no updates; I’d have to jump to at least the next one entirely. And I’m not having, and haven’t been having, your problems. Computer is a Mac Mini late 2014. How old is yours? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/127 "2022-07-08T16:51:27Z")
Ok, that might be inconvenient if you have to find anything else, but how does that negatively influence your experience here? Do you use your history to navigate this site? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/128 "2022-07-08T16:53:41Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > Do you use your history to navigate this site? I don’t _not_ use my history to navigate this site. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/129 "2022-07-08T17:19:48Z")
Ok, I never considered that a problem. I never ever use my browser history to navigate _inside_ a site. I tend to use it to find sites I should have bookmarked or to restore tabs I closed. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/130 "2022-07-08T17:31:07Z")
And a huge amount of what’s in my history is large numbers of copies of the same Discourse topic; with the result that it’s really hard to find anything else. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/131 "2022-07-08T17:55:20Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > or to restore tabs I closed. Yeah, I mean, that’s a sweet feature of modern browsers that discourse seriously messes with. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/132 "2022-07-08T18:01:24Z")
I haven’t noticed Discourse interfering with my ability to reopen closed tabs. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/133 "2022-07-08T18:49:56Z")
Me either (using latest version of Edge on Win11). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/134 "2022-07-08T19:16:09Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > I haven’t noticed Discourse interfering with my ability to reopen closed tabs. > [@Atamasama](#): > > Me either (using latest version of Edge on Win11). I haven’t had any issues with that (on firefox) either. I don’t think I’ve even heard that complaint yet. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/135 "2022-07-08T19:18:12Z")
I’ll try it again to check. I haven’t read the dope on the computer in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/136 "2022-07-08T20:38:07Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And a huge amount of what’s in my history is large numbers of copies of the same Discourse topic; with the result that it’s really hard to find anything else. Yes, that was what I was complaining about. An idiotic design flaw on a single web site I use fouls up my entire browser history. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/137 "2022-07-08T21:48:03Z")
> [@The\_Librarian](#): > > I am really curious what “features” people are missing. > > Like: what specific result was more convenient to achieve in vB. Here’s some of the options in vBulletin Advanced Search: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/d/d5bb34e7aab79254017428430430d3a7c16b02a0.jpeg) ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/d/d5bb34e7aab79254017428430430d3a7c16b02a0.jpeg) Here’s the Discourse equivalent: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/7/7e1e75d21ee9e4455063ad013971d2e2abbc4034.jpeg) ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/7/7e1e75d21ee9e4455063ad013971d2e2abbc4034.jpeg) a) I can’t return individual posts that contain “Afghanistan”. I have to wade through each thread that contains “Afghanistan” b) I can’t sort them in ascending order. So knowing the earliest date that something could have been posted isn’t terribly helpful, because I have to wade BACK to that date instead of starting from it. Mind you, I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d be praising vBulletin’s search capabilities. It’s just that the ones available under Discourse are even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/138 "2022-07-08T21:52:20Z")
You can sort them. In your picture, just below where it says “Filter by post count and topic views” (cropped off in your picture) there’s a drop down box giving you different sort options. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/139 "2022-07-08T22:27:56Z")
You were tweaking searches in vB? I was hoping it would allow me 1, mostly it crapped out and then I had to wait 5 mins before I could try again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313/140 "2022-07-08T22:30:53Z")
Let me rephrase: I call bullshit on you using “advanced” features in vB search. It.didn’t.work.at.all. Everybody used Google to search the SMDB. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-feeding-back-that-virtually-everything-is-awful/967313.md?page=8)