The Forum Jump menu

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  1. kneel

    kneel Regular Member

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    so...vb says it generates a ton of html, but i've never really paid attn to it.

    How many of you vb users have the forum jump menu turned off? Why?


    As for me, i've always had it on, and just recently turned it off to see if it made a difference in load times. So far.....no.
     
  2. Dan Hutter

    Dan Hutter aka Big Dan

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    It's one of the first thing I turn off on a new board. 1) Because it generates a lot of useless HTML and 2)People rarely use it. I ran a poll on my main board and only a few people said that they used the jump menu.
     
  3. Noles

    Noles Adept

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    I usually forget it is even there, but don't use it even if I see it.
     
  4. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    I never use it, and I don't think many others do. I know that a few users on one of my forums use it, so I'm not going to disable it.
     
  5. kev

    kev Regular Member

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    I turned it off on my forum, and there was a backlash from my members. So I turned it back on before they found out where I lived.
     
  6. Mike

    Mike Adept

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    I would always remove it for guests. I was addicted to using it myself, so I always left it available for members.
     
  7. kaambiz

    kaambiz Novice

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    Personally never used it but some of our members like it.
     
  8. The Geek

    The Geek Novice

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    It should be ajaxed as its so infrequently used.
     
  9. Zash

    Zash Regular Member

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    I turn it off simply because it's a waste of CPU that's almost never used, and I could not implement it into my design well.
     
  10. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Thread moved to Community/Forum Software.
     
  11. Ryan Ashbrook

    Ryan Ashbrook Regular Member

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    I use it all the time. :)
     
  12. Demo

    Demo Regular Member

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    I turned it off, because my custom menu works fine enough and nobody used the jump menu. Also it doesn't really fit into my layout :P
     
  13. Bendo

    Bendo Novice

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    I don't use vB but I have it switched on as SMF uses ajax to do it.

    I.e. proper use of ajax rather than ohh look, fancy pointless gimicy ajax.
     
  14. kneel

    kneel Regular Member

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    see..i thought i was totally addicted to it...but once i turned it off, i found out that i dont miss it one bit...and neither does any of our members..
     
  15. BananaQueen

    BananaQueen Grand Master

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    not telling anyone ;)
    i rarely use it, not sure how many members do either
     

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