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It's going to take a while yet - I need to put together a heap of education for the users and moderators to make sure everyone is comfortable with the new software. The basic stuff is pretty straight forward - works the same way as it does now. It's the behind-the-scenes stuff (especially for...

... this can be fixed by us implementing a more mobile-friendly theme for the site - making links and buttons larger and more touch-friendly. The software I'm planning on moving to has a mobile theme under development, but it's not yet available.

If you used a stylus, you'd find it a lot easier to use the current forum design on a small device ... the site needs to be optimised for "touch" devices. I've used some very good touch optimised websites that work well, even with my large fingers. There is an iPhone app coming for vBulletin...

Interestingly, the previous incarnation of the Somersoft forums (before we migrated to vBulletin) used a hosted forum solution which included NNTP support. That software choked once we hit 25,000 posts. It wasn't written very well. I didn't find the NNTP support particularly useful either - I...

I think older style phones without large screens are a waste of time for accessing websites and such. There's a minimum amount of screen real estate required before you can use this medium effectively. I hadn't thought about the emails when considering designing a light-weight version of the...

It should be pretty straight forward to create a lightweight style optimised for "slim" devices using their built in web browser. I've seen this work very well with some online services I use and I intend to build something like this for the next version of Somersoft. There's little...