vB's Postbit or Postbit Legacy?

Neither can I. Wayne, you're making us anxious here. :p

 

Personally, I think he's teasing us

 

You could be right, Peggy. We'll have to form some sort of anti-tease group that's sole purpose would be to milk the answer out of Wayne.

 

Won't work. He's tough as nails

 

Vertical all the way! I love my verticality, LOL!

 

Oh ha ha.

 

lol, good one.

 

And then we have phpBB3's postbit, which is oddly placed to the right of the actual message.

 

to the right? Now that's just strange. But, I would think would be good for seo, since spiders read left to right just as people do.

They get the post content first.

 

It's very strange. I can't imagine posting on a forum with such an interface.

 

It is extremely awkward. I cannot stand it at all.

 

Well that's a thought. I wonder if it really has much of a benefit.

 

Possible pros don't outweigh the cons.

PHPBB3 is awful. I cannot stand it. I have to know who's posting what, and with their new awful postbit interface it's waaaayyy too difficult.

 

I always find myself looking to the left on their support forums, only to realize that I'm not looking at the postbit. It's a natural reaction - I always look to either the top or to the left.

 

Agreed. PhpBB in its entirety is awful, to be quite frank. :p

 

I personally prefer the horizontal postbit. It's more space efficient. With the classic postbit, you always have a bunch of wasted space, either in the post area when the post is short, or in the user information area when the post is long.

The horizontal postbit is particularly useful at RCTgo because it gives more room for screenshots in posts, something very important considering a lot of the activity there is sharing coasters and parks.

Spiders don't read from left to right, they read from the top of the code to the bottom of the code. Considering it only takes a few simple CSS changes to switch sides, I doubt that had anything to do with it. phpBB said it "put the focus back on the post," but I think it was actually just a lame attempt at being unique that didn't work out too well.

 

"put the focus back on the post"?

hahaha, right....


As if people didn't read posts anyways.

Ridiculous.

 

As Justin stated, it must have been an attempt at uniqueness that failed miserably.

 

hmmm I must have misunderstood the seo blogs I've read. I'll have to go back and read 'em again.