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I appreciate all the hard work you fellows are doing but at the risk of being shouted down I must bring your attention to another forum of which I am a member:

https://www.windows10forums.com/forums/windows-10-support.5/

so clear and easy to read. I realise it is beyond your scope at the moment but maybe in the future?

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AskWoody is based on the original blog, with a forum added on 2 years ago. The site you link is only a forum, and looking at the platform it’s based on, it’s not able to fit our growing components and needs.

We’re benefitting from WordPress’s ability to have functional plugins, which their competitors aren’t seamlessly offering at this stage.

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The page you mention uses vBulletin, which is also the software used at WindowsSecrets.com, Tenforums, My Digital Life, and many other places on the web that are primarily bulletin boards.

AskWoody, for better or worse, is different. It started as a blog in WordPress, and added a bulletin board feature called bbPress. The design (theme) you see now is horrible by modern standards – it’s ten years old, mobile unfriendly, and hard to follow. I’ll change it. But we’re sticking with WordPress and bbPress. They’re stable, and it would be disruptive and cost a fortune to move.

A little thought experiment: What would a blog look like buried in a vBulletin skin? I’ve never seen it done successfully.

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I’m wrong. Kirsty traced it down. The site’s software is Xenforo.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XenForo

It sure looks like vBulletin, but there are differences…. Thx, Kirsty.

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https://www.techsupportforum.com/ = WP blog, forum = vBulletin.

phpBB (example forum) is free and works with WP.

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We debated about using phpBB a couple of years ago. I chose bbPress because it’s very stable and has a lot of usable extensions.

We should revisit that decision in a few months.

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Has bbPress really not had any updates in the last 18 months, whereas WordPress gets updates at least monthly and sometimes weekly?

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.1485 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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Ooops. Just found the details. Our version of bbPress was last updated 2 weeks ago.

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Hold down your control key and scroll your mouse wheel up or down. Problem solved. 🙂

Red Ruffnsore

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Zoom on which site?

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You can enlarge the entire contents of almost any screen on your display by holding down one of the control keys and while holding that down scroll your mouse wheel. Hopefully that can appease the OP for the time being.

Red Ruffnsore

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woody wrote:

The site’s software is Xenforo.
It sure looks like vBulletin

Xenforo is developed by Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan, who developed vBulletin originally before it was bought by Jelsoft / Internet Brands.

Lugh.
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