Massive forum upgrade

[sothis]

I just spent the last 11 hours trying to "fix" the forum to be what people would like it to be. If I hear a million complaints now about how people want it BACK in the iframe, I won't be happy ;).
It's live now but there are some problems. I wanted you all to see what it will look like so you'd see what the progress is. For the future, when I have time and energy to put so much into it, the styles will accurately show up on each page. Right now only the index page looks correct for the most part, and somewhat ok on a few other downlevel pages. Other pages will not have styles applied at all.
In addition there are a few minor problems such as the weird vertical line at the very top and bottom of the page. I don't understand vbulletin's styles enough to know why it's doing this; if you do, let me know.
Happily, the colors update when you switch themes. I spent quite a few hours tonight modifying the theme stylesheets to look remotely OK with vbulletin's structure.
Anyways, there you have it. As many people signed up just to say the forum layout sucked, I'd appreciate an avalanche of happy comments now ;)

[Mikademus]

Reviving the oldest thread in the forum :)

As has been said otherwise, the new layout is slick and very nice. I find only one thing that I dislike, and that the board now is exceedingly slow when navigating backwards or forwards because the page must be reloaded every time - for some reason the forum doesn't cache. This is in fact very annoying.

Any idea why the site has begun acting like this?

[sothis]

o_o

weird, anyone else seeing this problem? the forum caches extremely quick for me.

are you sure that you have caching enabled? some people turn it off in the browsers. what browser are you using?

[Mikademus]

FF2.0, caching is on. I do not have this problem at other boards, however, som php-based systems using POST-data must always be reloaded, baka-updates is an example, though that site generally refreshes very quickly.

[BTime]

I've not noticed this problem. I have the site bookmarked straight to the forum section though.

[Mikademus]

I think this is an PHP-issue. Tokyotoshokan works the same, if you do a search then click "back", you get a "contains POST-data" dialogue, i.e. the site won't cache. Though I don't get a dialogue here, I assume that for some reason the forum renders a new php page ever time you go back or forwards rather than allow the browser to cache. Or something.

[Cythraul]

I'm getting the same behaviour as Mikademus, both with IE7 on default settings and Firefox 1.5.x.x. Not a big issue for me since I use tabs and rarely go back/forward, but I guess it's a bit annoying when it happens.

[Mikademus]

Originally Posted by sothis

o_o

weird, anyone else seeing this problem? the forum caches extremely quick for me.

are you sure that you have caching enabled? some people turn it off in the browsers. what browser are you using?

Came across something perhaps relevant: server-side generated pages can be served as "no-cache". Using this option will force conforming browsers to never cache pages served as such, instead forcing reloads every "back" or "forward".