Brandon.ConnectIQ Do you need some help with the spams? In the last 2 weeks there are more spammers than real content. Is this the end of the forum?
Can you make name compulsory on sign-up? I know it'll be soon hacked by the spam bots, but for now it looks like it might be one good step.
Can you add captcha?
Can you make some forum members moderators so they can remove abusive posts and block their user from further posting (at least until a Garmin employee unblocks them)?
What's odd is that it only seem to affect the developer part of the forum....
No, it affects all parts of the forum, but fortunately there are some volunteer moderators who clean…
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The forum, especially the IQ section, is flooded by spam again. Not that it ever stopped, but when there is a post or two per day, it is still possible to cope with it, but seeing hundreds of spam posts…
// We could also cast a vote to bring vBulletin back ;)
I realize this is tongue-in-cheek, but vbulletin had a ton of problems and they were right to move away from it. Half the time the forum would reject posted code (as opposed to 1% of the time now.)
I wish they had moved to nodebb or discourse, like I suggested when they announced the forums were changing. Those platforms are cleaner, faster, more modern and have much better support for mobile.
Additionally, they can support *fast* infinite scrolling with the ability to jump to any part of the discussion instantly (using a custom scrollbar implementation which also has the ability to select a numbered comment), which combines the best features of pagination and infinite scrolling.
The Suunto forum uses nodebb, and they have posts with hundreds or thousands of replies. Imagine trying to navigate a post that long here.
They also have a feature request forum T_T.
