The look of this forum.

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sirius707

This forum is about Windows XP. Windows XP came in an era that had very specific design choices and this forum doesn't reflect that at all. it's opting for a more modern look with the round thumbnails and the hovering banners. I suggest the admins revert it back to an old 2000's look characteristic of the forums we used to brows on Windows XP.

Thanks.
 
Yes sir, a few years ago before the majority of websites switched over to elliptical encryption certificates TLS 1.3 that XP can't support natively (tops out at 1.2), but Gecko (Firefox) forks and Webkit (Chrome) forks have 1.3 built into their XP browsers.

I may not always get the terms exact, but close enough that anyone who wants to google for more information will find it :)
 
sirius707 said:
This forum is about Windows XP. Windows XP came in an era that had very specific design choices and this forum doesn't reflect that at all. it's opting for a more modern look with the round thumbnails and the hovering banners. I suggest the admins revert it back to an old 2000's look characteristic of the forums we used to brows on Windows XP.

Thanks.
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Most people in this forum like the early 1995-2005 aesthetics and would like to have them here. However, the forms of these days weren't designed with safety in mind and it was the unsafe tools that gave them their cool looks.

However, any modern website can be turned into Geocities-like looks with this website: https://geocities.live

If the forum devs cared, they could do so. However, they use a forum template from a company called XenForo. They also use a pretty outdated version with a few exploits.
 
I landed here because a user on the Windows Vista forum at vistax64.com posted that he is unable to create an account here. It appears that the admins have vacated the place. I'll admit that I've long moved on to Windows 8 and Windows 10 LTSC 2019, but I still like looking back in time now and then.
 
Yeah the broken captcha (always knew captchas were evil!) preventing new accounts: super sucks! It's been posted about a few times around here, but since we have no administrative contacts, we can't alert them to get it fixed. We don't even have moderators anymore :eek:! On the other hand, we aren't getting spam either, since no one can sign up
 
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cleverscreenname said:
Yeah the broken captcha (always knew captchas were evil!) preventing new accounts: super sucks! It's been posted about a few times around here, but since we have no administrative contacts, we can't alert them to get it fixed. We don't even have moderators anymore :eek:! On the other hand, we aren't getting spam either, since no one can sign up
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Yeah they only autoredeem the domain, we're on our own now. The robots have ruined it already...
 
tekkaman said:
Wow I didn't know the situation was this severe. We had an admin not long ago. I guess it won't be long before this place shuts down.
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Yeah, the admin not being online anymore means that they are probably cutting costs. Guess if the domain renewal exceeds the ammount for which they sell our data, the forum will close down.

It also doesn't help that on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo looking up "xpforums" yields anything BUT our beloved xpforums.com (even a plane simulation forum, https://www.flightsim.com/) - that means the forum isn't being viewed by a lot of people, and that means the owners aren't getting their yummy user data to sell.

As is the case with all Windows versions excluding 11, XP is out of its glory (and popularity) days. That means less and less traffic.

The final, massive, factor is... YouTube. XP tutorials sometimes get tens or hundreds of thousands of views - that means people won't need to go to this forum unless they have a very specific issue AND decide to skip prompting a so-called AI chatbot (which probably crawled this site hundreds of times) .

Not to be all doom and gloom, but if you want to preserve this forum, I recommend running a respectful scraper (high intervals between subdomain downloads, as not to overload the servers with constant pings). It won't hurt anyone, yet allow us to preserve the website in case it shuts down.
 
Were things OK, before the email notifications stopped? Although I use XP everyday thanks to Mypal, and will continue to do so, I did think as soon as I became aware that the notifications had stopped, that the site would now be on borrowed time. It was an email notification that alerted me to this thread. It seems really perverse, now that the site is dying that the email notifications have started up again.
 
UK-Tim said:
Were things OK, before the email notifications stopped? Although I use XP everyday thanks to Mypal, and will continue to do so, I did think as soon as I became aware that the notifications had stopped, that the site would now be on borrowed time. It was an email notification that alerted me to this thread. It seems really perverse, now that the site is dying that the email notifications have started up again.
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There would be virtually no incentive, as forums are, have been and will be declining due to YouTube and now - chatbots (most of which aggressively crawling even this site) just having this knowledge. We all know XP isn't gaining more popularity, and so are forums.
 
Martingonn said:
There would be virtually no incentive, as forums are, have been and will be declining due to YouTube and now - chatbots (most of which aggressively crawling even this site) just having this knowledge. We all know XP isn't gaining more popularity, and so are forums.
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....There would be virtually no incentive
I don't follow, "incentive" to do what?
 
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