Welcome to the new SpiderNation!

The only other minor usability thing I’ve noticed is on mobile.

On the old forum, the top left always had a button to take you back to the home page of the forum.

Here that button exists, but I have to scroll back up to the top to click it instead of it moving with the screen as I scroll to the bottom of the thread.

It would probably take me a decade to learn how to change that, so this is not a complaint by any means.
What mobile browser are you using ply? I generally see the “Forum menu” at the top or 3 horizontal lines that take me to that menu at the top unless I have the keyboard on and then the floating header goes away. I can just drag a little bit and the header comes back.
 
What mobile browser are you using ply? I generally see the “Forum menu” at the top or 3 horizontal lines that take me to that menu at the top unless I have the keyboard on and then the floating header goes away. I can just drag a little bit and the header comes back.
I’m using Safari. I do have the 3 lines and SpiderNation logo, but those take me back to the home page instead of the previous sub-section forum page.
 
Sounds like you're talking about the navigation "breadcrumbs"...text links that can take you back through the forum hierarchy. There's a set near the top of the page and also one at the bottom of the page, but that bottom one is below the quick reply and similar threads widgets, so either set of breadcrumbs can require scrolling to get to, especially on mobile.

If you tap the very top of the screen, that should scroll you all the way back up to the top of the page where you can access the top set of breadcrumbs, but I'll see if I can make a tweak to move the bottom breadcrumbs closer to where the last post in the thread appears.

Edit: I have the bottom breadcrumbs moved above the Similar Threads widget, so they're a bit closer to the thread now, but still below the Quick Reply widget. Will see if I can mess around with things and improve it any more.
 
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Sounds like you're talking about the navigation "breadcrumbs"...text links that can take you back through the forum hierarchy. There's a set near the top of the page and also one at the bottom of the page, but that bottom one is below the quick reply and similar threads widgets, so either set of breadcrumbs can require scrolling to get to, especially on mobile.

If you tap the very top of the screen, that should scroll you all the way back up to the top of the page where you can access the top set of breadcrumbs, but I'll see if I can make a tweak to move the bottom breadcrumbs closer to where the last post in the thread appears.

Edit: I have the bottom breadcrumbs moved above the Similar Threads widget, so they're a bit closer to the thread now, but still below the Quick Reply widget. Will see if I can mess around with things and improve it any more.
I see a “floating arrow” at the bottom on mobile Safari that either goes “back” or to the “top” depending on your position on the overall page. Don’t recall seeing that before, so you definitely made a change SF.
 
SF, thanks for getting the forum back together. I'm not gonna lie, I really missed the forum the first week or two, but then it was kind of nice not investing my time, energy, thoughts into this Bad News Bear program that we run. They don't care, so why should I. At any rate, I'm like a moth to flame, so here I am, back for more punishment.
 
Welcome back aboard 97! The good thing is when im in the office my company blocks this website for some reason, so unless I use my phone, much less time invested.
 
SF, thanks for getting the forum back together. I'm not gonna lie, I really missed the forum the first week or two, but then it was kind of nice not investing my time, energy, thoughts into this Bad News Bear program that we run. They don't care, so why should I. At any rate, I'm like a moth to flame, so here I am, back for more punishment.
well said .. but late summer to early fall is the season when optimism reigns
 
Welcome back aboard 97! The good thing is when im in the office my company blocks this website for some reason, so unless I use my phone, much less time invested.
You have any pals in IT? Usually relaxing a filter should give u access. You’d think all businesses would be interested in the goings on at Moonco.
 
Love it!! Thanks for setting this up SF.

By the way, this is SpiderStudent17. I decided to drop the student since I am no longer one haha.

With the demise of Rivals at the hands of On3 and things not looking good for us to be able to continue our community there, we've decided to strike out on our own with a new SpiderNation forum site. It's taken a bit of time to commit to taking the plunge, and then a scramble to get things up and running, so this is certainly a work in progress and things will change over time as we continue to tweak the look and features we have here.

We tried to reaching out to On3 to see if they would give us the old data, but unfortunately we've been unable to get a response out of them about this, so we're starting from a clean slate. I'll try to recreate some of the things we had going like recruiting and schedule trackers, but it may take a bit and may not ending up being quite complete.

We don't currently have any rules in place beyond the standard boilerplate that comes with the forum package, but it should mostly be common sense. No personal attacks, no insults, no trolling, no spam/advertising. Anything beyond that sort of stuff should go without saying as being off limits. We'll see how things go and how much we need to formalize things, but we're a long-standing forum community, so we know how this all should work.
This is awesome SF. Nice job
 
How do you all think we can help spread the word? Forum has been posted on facebook/twitter/reddit. Also appears it will be given a shoutout on the new spider podcast. When you google “Richmond spiders forum” it doesn’t show up on google. Probably because the site is too new, but somehow getting this site as the top search will be a help. I don’t know how much easily it can be done, but what about paying for an advertisement at Robins Center to have an announcement or something on the video boards or handing out papers at the beginning of games by the door? Would love to grow this community as much as possible. Lot of regular posters from the previous forum who haven’t found their way here yet for whatever reason. Also would be great to get new members too.
 
Thank you SF for all that you do. It's great to have the forum back. I stumbled upon it on the William and Mary board of all places. As usual, they were being unkind to us.
 
Thank you SF for all that you do. It's great to have the forum back. I stumbled upon it on the William and Mary board of all places. As usual, they were being unkind to us.
Glad they posted on their forum about SpiderNation. Interesting that it turned into a roasting of the football video series. I guess they are jealous that a Spider fan is that dedicated to educating his fellow fans about upcoming opponents.

Now that I have found the Tribe board I can say that BBS it is hosted on is in the same vein as the VCU one. Really happy that SF was aware of this option which works way better on mobile.
 
Went to W&M board to see. Them roasting about Mojo posting on Spider football is laughable and probably out of jealousy that they don’t have as dedicated fans. Keep doing what you’re doing Satchmo, we love watching your videos and appreciate your valuable insight!!
 
Went to W&M board to see. Them roasting about Mojo posting on Spider football is laughable and probably out of jealousy that they don’t have as dedicated fans. Keep doing what you’re doing Satchmo, we love watching your videos and appreciate your valuable insight!!
Ha! After all these years I can take it…

the Indians’ fans are nothing compared to the JMU fans back in the day…they accused me of being the infamous former poster here who went by FrontRoyal Spider…FRS loved trolling the Dukes…the Pukes said I lived behind the 7-11 in Front Royal…and that I lived in a mobile home!

Thanks for your message. I may have to go see what they’re saying.

Go Spiders!
 
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