What has happened to the forum????

[Libertine Seguros]

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I have pity for the new techs as they are taking the brunt of Future Publishing's final FU to the forum.

Well, at least this migration went down better with the users than New Google Maps.

 

[King of Fife]

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Still can't long into my King Boonen account, Captcha doesn't work. Any help?

Captcha doesn't work?

Yes. I tried to remember my King Boonen password but couldn't and got to the point where I was required to do the captcha to attempt to log in. I got Ferryman to change my password (again...) to something else but I am unable to log in as whenever I fill in the captcha it just takes me back to the log in screen with all of the fields empty.

Any ideas what's going on? I don't really like posting from this account but have done a little bit in the gear sub forum.

Ground control to Major Tom?

 

[sam]

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Still can't long into my King Boonen account, Captcha doesn't work. Any help?

Captcha doesn't work?

Yes. I tried to remember my King Boonen password but couldn't and got to the point where I was required to do the captcha to attempt to log in. I got Ferryman to change my password (again...) to something else but I am unable to log in as whenever I fill in the captcha it just takes me back to the log in screen with all of the fields empty.

Any ideas what's going on? I don't really like posting from this account but have done a little bit in the gear sub forum.

Ground control to Major Tom?

Any luck, I sent you a password reminder too

 

[King Boonen]

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Still can't long into my King Boonen account, Captcha doesn't work. Any help?

Captcha doesn't work?

Yes. I tried to remember my King Boonen password but couldn't and got to the point where I was required to do the captcha to attempt to log in. I got Ferryman to change my password (again...) to something else but I am unable to log in as whenever I fill in the captcha it just takes me back to the log in screen with all of the fields empty.

Any ideas what's going on? I don't really like posting from this account but have done a little bit in the gear sub forum.

Ground control to Major Tom?

Any luck, I sent you a password reminder too

I'm in!!

Thank you very much for the help. I'm still not getting emails but I think that might be because of my email server as I get the emails for the King of Fife account. I'll probably set up a new email account for this one which should solve the problem.

Many thanks for the help, I will try and make sure I don't forget this password!

 

[Dear Wiggo]

I think you need to allow more than one person to report a post.

 

[fauniera]

I get logged out every 5 minutes or so. WTF?

Edit: Is okay now. Weird.

 

[Amsterhammer]

FYI

I was just at the bottom of the last page of the UK election topic, where I saw this under users browsing this forum -

Amsterhammer, Google Adsense [Bot] and 8 guests

 

[Pete]

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FYI

I was just at the bottom of the last page of the UK election topic, where I saw this under users browsing this forum -

Amsterhammer, Google Adsense [Bot] and 8 guests

Not sure what you're drawing our attention to here - could you please elaborate?

 

[King Boonen]

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FYI

I was just at the bottom of the last page of the UK election topic, where I saw this under users browsing this forum -

Amsterhammer, Google Adsense [Bot] and 8 guests

Not sure what you're drawing our attention to here - could you please elaborate?

I'm guessing he thinks this is a fault, when it's actually a feature.

 

[Carols]

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FYI

I was just at the bottom of the last page of the UK election topic, where I saw this under users browsing this forum -

Amsterhammer, Google Adsense [Bot] and 8 guests

Not sure what you're drawing our attention to here - could you please elaborate?

I would hazard a guess that he was inquiring why an advertising Bot had an account.

 

[Amsterhammer]

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FYI

I was just at the bottom of the last page of the UK election topic, where I saw this under users browsing this forum -

Amsterhammer, Google Adsense [Bot] and 8 guests

Not sure what you're drawing our attention to here - could you please elaborate?

I would hazard a guess that he was inquiring why an advertising Bot had an account.

Exactly.

 

[Pete]

Ah, I can see where the confusion might be.

The Google Adsense Bot is not an "advertising bot" in the sense that it comes to post advertisements. It's a search engine bot, which looks through the forum and helps Google index the pages. There are a number of different bots that crawl the forum at regular intervals for Google and other search engines / services.

Accounts with [Bot] at the end of their name (and a different colour username, I believe) are not the same as user accounts, and cannot post. Actual spammers or other nefarious spam advertisers aren't able to make [Bot] accounts (and if they did, I doubt they'd flag them as being so in their username!).

 

[Amsterhammer]

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Ah, I can see where the confusion might be.

The Google Adsense Bot is not an "advertising bot" in the sense that it comes to post advertisements. It's a search engine bot, which looks through the forum and helps Google index the pages. There are a number of different bots that crawl the forum at regular intervals for Google and other search engines / services.

Accounts with [Bot] at the end of their name (and a different colour username, I believe) are not the same as user accounts, and cannot post. Actual spammers or other nefarious spam advertisers aren't able to make [Bot] accounts (and if they did, I doubt they'd flag them as being so in their username!).

That was exactly my 'confusion'. Thanks for the explanation, Pete.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

The polls are still broken. Are they ever going to be fixed???

 

[ggusta]

I no likee.

 

[BigMac]

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The polls are still broken. Are they ever going to be fixed???

In the meantime, while they are not properly fixed, there's a way to get around it. Normally create your thread with the poll, then edit and copy the entries to clipboard, delete the poll (this includes poll title and entries), save it, edit it again and re create your poll. It will work.

On a similar note, does this software allow to make polls public?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

 

[BigMac]

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Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

I think if you keep importing your resized picture into paint and then export it as a .jpg it will lose quality each time. Not sure, but give it a try.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

I think if you keep importing your resized picture into paint and then export it as a .jpg it will lose quality each time. Not sure, but give it a try.

Thanks BigMac I am not sure what that means and how it works though but I just found a picture that is below 6kB after I resize it to 90 pixels
I still do not understand why we cannot have an automatic picture resize mechanism like on the old forum.

 

[BigMac]

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Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

I think if you keep importing your resized picture into paint and then export it as a .jpg it will lose quality each time. Not sure, but give it a try.

Thanks BigMac I am not sure what that means and how it works though but I just found a picture that is below 6kB after I resize it to 90 pixels
I still do not understand why we cannot have an automatic picture resize mechanism like on the old forum.

Ye I also think it sucks, the old format was much more user friendly and didn't assume we had hours to spend around it. I mean, put your redimentioned avie on paint, save it as a .jpg, then repeat this process (with the most recent save) until the size of the image is down enough. It should lose some quality each time you do it and then get lighter. Not sure it works.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Ye I also think it sucks, the old format was much more user friendly and didn't assume we had hours to spend around it. I mean, put your redimentioned avie on paint, save it as a .jpg, then repeat this process (with the most recent save) until the size of the image is down enough. It should lose some quality each time you do it and then get lighter. Not sure it works.

Hmmm but my images are already .jpg I think.. anyway it worked now, we will see how long I will struggle next time I decide to change my avatar

 

[BigMac]

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Ye I also think it sucks, the old format was much more user friendly and didn't assume we had hours to spend around it. I mean, put your redimentioned avie on paint, save it as a .jpg, then repeat this process (with the most recent save) until the size of the image is down enough. It should lose some quality each time you do it and then get lighter. Not sure it works.

Hmmm but my images are already .jpg I think.. anyway it worked now, we will see how long I will struggle next time I decide to change my avatar

Ye but it should work anyway. To finish it off, let me just say how ugly your avatar is.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

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Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

I think if you keep importing your resized picture into paint and then export it as a .jpg it will lose quality each time. Not sure, but give it a try.

Yep, the quality gets worse. Use mine as an example.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

I think if you keep importing your resized picture into paint and then export it as a .jpg it will lose quality each time. Not sure, but give it a try.

Yep, the quality gets worse. Use mine as an example.

The pixels

 

[BigMac]

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Please change the avatar uploading system - I just spent 30 minutes trying to downsize pictures and I now have some pictures that fit within the required 90x90 pixels - but they are above 6kB in size so I cannot upload them

I think if you keep importing your resized picture into paint and then export it as a .jpg it will lose quality each time. Not sure, but give it a try.

Yep, the quality gets worse. Use mine as an example.

The pixels

Stybar looks like Popeye there.