this is the worst site possible

[Peter Greene]

On Peter Greene Said:

You mean change an OP’s thread title to suit a hijack?

I sure hope that doesn’t catch on.

well the OP was blocked for 10days for posting it!

 

[Anonymous]

Frances, blocking you but allowing the thread to continue seems contradictory to me … and seems to illustrate your point.

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

👍

MOD EDIT. This was flagged for moderation as system need 70% text in a reply

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Michael, your converted image in this thread still not showing for me.

[Peter Greene]

On Peter Greene Said:

Frances, blocking you but allowing the thread to continue seems contradictory to me … and seems to illustrate your point.

The block was unintentional, another moderator was trying to delete the post and also blocked Frances in the process.

I reinstated the post as soon as I saw it as I did not feel she had said anything that had not already been said elsewhere and even had the courtesy to not fully spell out the last word. I can no longer unblock a member so had to wait for admins return from xmas break.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Friday the log in problem was said to be fixed. On Saturday it came up as it should with me being kept logged in from the day before.

This morning back to being logged out, click “log In” and don’t get taken to log in page but the forums or profile page and I’m not actually logged in. Cleared cookies again to get in.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

After my post last night when to Moderation I could not post any further comment each time I tried my post just disappeared maybe this one will too

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[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

It’s looking good, Harry

MichaelG.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Just trying a couple of file types

jpeg

 

.gif

png

I can now insert the 3 allowed file types and wrap text ok

H

 

[Anonymous]

If I hover my mouse pointer over those images, they all show as jpgs. So presumably whatever format you post has to wait in a queue somewhere for conversion before it’s actually posted.

( or are you guys all grannies?)

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

I think we can all agree by now that the editor is rubbish cr*p (as is most of the forum software). I’m not decrying anyones effort but is there any point in any of the participants spending time analysing and reporting problems until the software team have sorted out the system to a basic, usable, reliable, product?

If we stop posting to the various ‘forum problem’ threads, traffic might reduce by half and maybe that in itself would speed up the software. It might also take pressure of the team.

I as much as anyone else want the forum to flourish but I am beginning to wonder if bombarding the team is actually helping. Also if Mortons do look at the site statistics then they may be getting a false impression of how busy it is.

Ian P

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Ian are suggesting we go on strike ? BILL the text of the file type has moved when I clicked the submit button the text was at the bottom right hand corner.

Sorry about size of image can’t edit size when on tablet.                                                                                                                                 Used space bar to get second line of text.                                                                                                                                                         same for line 3

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[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[norm nortonParticipant @normnorton75434]

Mortons have made an abysmal job of managing this forum transfer. I am not a regular ‘chatter’ but I do (or did) make new posts on subjects and try to contribute to asked questions. Now it is all too unpleasant to navigate the inbuilt system nastiness.

I am a participant in other similar technology forums (motorcycles) and all of these are a comparative pleasure to look at. I am aware of one forum that started to fail for technology reasons a few years ago and the ‘key players’ got together to set up a new forum using commercial forum systems. The users of the old forum soon learnt where the others had migrated to.

Norm

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Following moderators’ and administrators’ advice to clean out the temporary file clutter on my PC certainly worked, and I’ve no great problems logging in since. It had a little wobble the other day, but I am not sure if that was its own hiccup or my error, perhaps not pressing the “Not a robot” thing.

This experience could be related to other users’ different ones by making me ask if the site is very sensitive to instruments, OS and browser.

However it’s now found a new way to annoy me – putting up the wretched “cookie” request every time. Why the heck has this section developed amnesia? It did not do that previously. After choosing my preferences (Functional only) a few times I now pick “Reject All”, so far without problems. I still see the ads, so our suppliers are not invisible to me.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

By pressing reject all it won’t save the cookie which remembers your preference hence the need to select each time.

 

This is from a recent email and a good example of why we the Mods keep asking for Mortons to poke their heads up and post on the forum.

“I have set the site Cookies to reset after each successful login for now, this means the Cookie preferences are cleared also which isn’t ideal, but I’ll turn this off in a few days so the preferences are remembered.”

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

One for @michaelgilligan61133 which might be part of his image problem.

“other features of the site may not work unless cookies are accepted, such as certain image or video embedding.”

 

[peak4Participant @peak4]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I’ve just learned a new word __ courtesy of the Guardian, as published on Apple News, regarding a much-publicised software roll-out.

Forum etiquette would certainly frown, and asterisks don’t really do the job, so I will just leave you guessing …

– primly defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “a very rude word for a complete failure or very serious problem in which many mistakes or problems happen at the same time”.

🙂

 

MichaelG.

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