Phoronix Premium Get More Features, Site Work

[sobkas]

When the content management system / vBulletin subscription issue gets resolved, will we be able to get the premium view just by clicking the RSS link without visiting the forums for a log-in first?

I prefer RSS and I was premium member. But this bug made that subscription useless and the fact that after so many years it's still here made me a bit bitter.

[Michael]

Couple more updates pushed to archives:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=phoronix_news

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=phoronix_articles

etc

[tarceri]

And how about something like this?

Wow that looks great

[zeroepoch]

Yes, the biggest annoyance of all. I already didn't see any ads due to the blocker, but the amount of effort it takes to get the real ad-free version.
Actually it would have already been a big improvement if phoronix.com was easily linked from the forums section.
My usual official ad-free browsing was like this: go to phoronix.com, see a lot of blocked ads. Click on phorums. Click on log in, log in on the login failure page. Then edit the url.
I haven't seen a faster route than that to easily get logged in.
Of course I can brows the ad version so you get some extra income ;-).

Same here, I was using ad-block plus so I only saw the ads on my phone. It was super annoying to have to visit the forums each time to get the single page experience. I was considering not renewing my subscription because there was little benefit. Now I'm reconsidering and will likely renew my subscription. Thanks Michael for finally fixing this!

[alazar]

And how about something like this?

[Michael]

Category pages have been reworked now too, e.g.: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...aphics%20Cards

As are news archives, e.g.: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ree%20Software

Layout is a bit off on Firefox

On the home page, the list of articles section seems to be pretty wide, and comes very close to the advertisements. It would look better if it was slightly narrower.

I like the timestamp and direct link to comments page, very nice!

[Veerappan]

I noticed this morning that, indeed the timeout session is extended, and I got a mostly ad-free experience this morning on the first visit to an article.

The one outlier was the intellitext in articles, which still showed up until I visited the forums once. Not sure if that's an easy one to fix or not.

Thanks for the work Michael. These recent improvements should hopefully help to bump the premium subscriber rate up quite a bit, and it'll definitely keep me in the subscriber bucket.

[Ardje]

Phoronix: Phoronix Premium Get More Features, Site Work
This includes continued log-in improvements

Yes, the biggest annoyance of all. I already didn't see any ads due to the blocker, but the amount of effort it takes to get the real ad-free version.
Actually it would have already been a big improvement if phoronix.com was easily linked from the forums section.
My usual official ad-free browsing was like this: go to phoronix.com, see a lot of blocked ads. Click on phorums. Click on log in, log in on the login failure page. Then edit the url.
I haven't seen a faster route than that to easily get logged in.
Of course I can brows the ad version so you get some extra income ;-).

[Michael]

I wish you will add more payment options like via VISA without paypal.

Unfortunately that's not easily possible. vBulletin handles our subscription management.