Macintosh unfriendly

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Is it just me, or are these boards incredibly unfriendly to Macintosh computers?

When I use my PC at home, or the IBMs at work hooked up to the microscopes, everything works fine.

When I use a Macintosh (as I am forced to most of the time at work), I have to manually dump my cache to get pages to update, and everything runs at about half speed. When it doesn't just crash the browser, that is.

I've tried every setting and modification I can think of (and I'm reasonably compu-savvy).

Is there something I'm missing?

 

[Morrus]

I've heard similar things from other Mac users.

The best way to get something done about it is to head over to www.vbulletin.com and harass the developers of the software; with luck the next version of vBulletin will be more Mac friendly.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

As long as it's not just me.

Oh, well. The discouragement from posting at work is probably a good thing, anyway.

Thanks

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

You should be in your own anti-switch commercial.

"The best part about the Mac is how it can't load any webpages I want to read! On a PC, all I have to do is click on a link, and voila, the page loads!

My name is Canis, and I'm a gamer."

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

LOL

Yeah, it's probably more irritating than it should be. I'm supposed to be doing research and teaching and, incidently, learning about the brain. NOT learning about a strange combination of the Book of Vile Darkness, new crunchy bits, and Dragongirl's relationship status.

But some days I just want to let the brain go hang.

btw- I could give you a litany of macintosh evils, the LEAST of which is their effect on my web sites and gaming. I honestly believe that Macintosh's ridiculous market penetration in academia is responsible for SEVERELY slowing down scientific progress.

No B.S. No facetiousness. I am dead serious about that.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Another thing...

I went to the website you mentioned, Morrus. They're not exactly user friendly. As far as I can tell, to get to an e-mail address to even send in a complaint, you have to be a registered owner of their software. Yeah, that makes sense for a web production company.

I don't suppose anyone here has their e-mail address? I'd be more than happy to send in a polite complaint. Maybe we could even get a petition together signed by all the Mac users on the boards (and those PC users like myself, who while they would rather chop off their own leg with a chainsaw than use a Mac, are forced to at times by the ridiculous circumstances of their job.)

 

[Quartermoon]

those PC users like myself, who while they would rather chop off their own leg with a chainsaw than use a Mac, are forced to at times by the ridiculous circumstances of their job.

Wow. Nice to hear that we Mac lovers are not the only ones forced into such situations by work machines!

A petition sounds like a good idea, if someone can get an address.


Edit: What about this?

"General Inquiries

For all other queries (business development, general comments, suggestions or feedback) please send email to info@vbulletin.com."

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

I'm almost tempted to ask how you found that. But on second thought, it will probably make me feel dim.

Any thoughts on how to draw the attention of others on the boards who, for one reason or another, find themselves using Macs?

 

[Quartermoon]

What OS version are you using, and what browser? A guy from vBulletin has replied to me, and I want to give him more info.

I guess posting on the General Discusion page is a no no, huh. Maybe change the subject line to "Page Refresh--Mac Users Help" or something to get more people to check this out.

I'll let you know what he says...

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Hmmm. I didn't get a reply yet. Maybe they're a little backlogged or something.

Anyway, O.S. 9.0.4

Internet Explorer (5.0) is buggier with the non-refresh issues and slowness and such.

Netscape (Communicator 4.7) just crashes a lot, but I'm not sure if that's vBulletin or just Netscape (worst browser, EVER)

I've been considering grabbing a copy of Mozilla, so if he recommends that, I'll jump on it.