Hello everyone. Forums use pre-built platforms and ours is no exception. The most common one is from a company called Vbulletin. Forums like AVS, Blu-ray, and WBF use Vbulletin ("VB" for short).
Alas, Vbulletin was acquired a few years ago and the core members left to form a new company called Xenforo. They took all the learning they had to create a platform that while similar in some respect, it is far more usable both for administrators and users. What used to be a chore in VB is now a delight. Want to clip some text and pictures from an external web site here? Just copy both from the browser window into your post and that's it! Yes, you need to be mindful of copyright laws and the forum is careful to use references to the pictures rather than copy them.
How about quoting someone? Just highlight the text and a new pop up shows up to create a new post with that part already quoted for you!
At the same time, all the old techniques still work. If you know how to use "bbcodes" such as img and quote tags, you can still do that here.
There is a lot more to it than this. Here is a good video to talks about it. BTW, to post this video I just copied the link from youtube. The software adds the tags to it. You don't need to do a thing other than putting in the link:
May be easier to watch that full screen. Hit the Youtube button which opens a new window in your browser. Then go to full screen there.
Alas, Vbulletin was acquired a few years ago and the core members left to form a new company called Xenforo. They took all the learning they had to create a platform that while similar in some respect, it is far more usable both for administrators and users. What used to be a chore in VB is now a delight. Want to clip some text and pictures from an external web site here? Just copy both from the browser window into your post and that's it! Yes, you need to be mindful of copyright laws and the forum is careful to use references to the pictures rather than copy them.
How about quoting someone? Just highlight the text and a new pop up shows up to create a new post with that part already quoted for you!
At the same time, all the old techniques still work. If you know how to use "bbcodes" such as img and quote tags, you can still do that here.
There is a lot more to it than this. Here is a good video to talks about it. BTW, to post this video I just copied the link from youtube. The software adds the tags to it. You don't need to do a thing other than putting in the link:
May be easier to watch that full screen. Hit the Youtube button which opens a new window in your browser. Then go to full screen there.