Friends

**Moosedog** · 7th May 08, 03:12 PM

Ted, I noticed the same thing..."Moosedog has not made any friends yet." It sounds almost like a report card from kindergarten...although I guess my teachers back then didn't call me Moosedog...

Anyway, I do love the new features--thanks! Now I have to get on the ball and learn how to use 'em.

Moosedog

**ardchoille** · 7th May 08, 03:28 PM

Wow, the profile page does look quite different. I like the new features.

**Bugbear** · 7th May 08, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by Moosedog

Ted, I noticed the same thing..."Moosedog has not made any friends yet." It sounds almost like a report card from kindergarten...although I guess my teachers back then didn't call me Moosedog...

Anyway, I do love the new features--thanks! Now I have to get on the ball and learn how to use 'em.

Moosedog

Yes, but after you make your new friends, you don't have to sit in the pouting corner anymore.

I have friends.

**Mike1** · 7th May 08, 04:41 PM

Remember, you can always invite others to be your friends. No reason to sit back and wait for others to invite you.

Frankly, I can't be bothered with the social networking side of the profiles. I realize there will be those that are thrilled to have all these new functions and that's a good thing, but there are some issues with the vBulletin core that have gone overlooked for some time and these issues are what I would like to see addressed.

I've been running vBulletin 3.7.0 on one of my sites since it was a Beta release and it was just this last weekend I took the time to learn how the albums work. <shrug> I think forums are here to share information, not to supplant the social networking sites like MySpace, etc.

How many times have we seen people complain about vB's lousy search function? It works terribly and it is also a resource glutton. Yet we're left to suffer with it, whilst rudimentary social networking add-ons are tossed into the core, in an effort to keep up with Brand IPB forum software.

Oh well...

**ardchoille** · 7th May 08, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Mike1

.. but there are some issues with the vBulletin core that have gone overlooked for some time and these issues are what I would like to see addressed.

...

How many times have we seen people complain about vB's lousy search function? It works terribly and it is also a resource glutton. Yet we're left to suffer with it, whilst rudimentary social networking add-ons are tossed into the core, in an effort to keep up with Brand IPB forum software.

I know exactly how you feel. I run Linux as my sole OS and, therefore. run a lot of F/OS software and most of it is the same way.. throw in new features while neglecting needed changes. Fortunately most F/OS software developers listen to their users and take care of some of the issues.

I wonder how effect it would be for some of us to send a polite "can you fix it?" email to the vB devs.

**cacunn** · 7th May 08, 05:24 PM

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**Mike1** · 8th May 08, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by cacunn

I saw the Friends section of the profile when I first looked over the new features, but I am still not clear on what this will do for me.

Visitors to your profile will be able to see who your friends are. Big deal, eh?

**Ancienne Alliance** · 8th May 08, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by Mike1

Visitors to your profile will be able to see who your friends are. Big deal, eh?

Not only that : If you have a photo album added to your profile page and if you stuff up your biography, people can better get an idea of your personality.
It's nice to know people better and put a face on their threads and posts.

**cacunn** · 8th May 08, 04:59 AM

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**Cynthia** · 8th May 08, 05:32 AM

Also! I haven't done it here, only at the other board I'm on where privacy/security is a lot more important, but if you create a private photo album your friends should be able to view the photos that the general membership shouldn't be able to see. It's one of those steps for any features that require security permissions. On my other board, we also have a blogging feature and a lot of the members marked it as private. This board has a HUGE membership, so there was a mad scramble to add everyone as friends so no one would be left out who usually read the private journals from the old board format. Obviously that's not the case on this board, but it has the same basic features.

And it's nice to have all the userid's that I PM or enjoy reading posts from all in one spot. When looking through all of their profiles, I read their friends and might come across someone else that I would enjoy getting to know as well.

One thing that was a problem at the other board... there were already issues with people thinking cliques were forming. Some folks were upset about not having a lot of "friends" and were feeling left out. Don't let the name fool you. It's just what they call it. As Mike said, add some folks to your friendslist and don't take things personally if you don't have a lot of requests or you might even get some denied (over there, getting denied was simply that the person didn't know the person requesting a friendship and didn't want them to have access to their private journal and photos until they got to know them). Some will even go unanswered. It's taken a while for folks to see that I've sent them a request and some still haven't responded. It's just as bad, if not worse for the social groups. It's just going to take some time for folks to get used to all the new features and notifications.