At the end of August, GardenRailways.com and its forums will be getting some exciting new upgrades. We’ve been hard at work revamping and refreshing all the features you know and love to make them even easier to find and use. We’re improving the forum’s design and ways in which you’ll be able to interact and connect with other forum members. Even though the forums may look slightly different, all previous forum topics and threads will be preserved. We will transfer everything from our old forum to the new. In addition, the new forums will allow you to build a more comprehensive profile, tell more about yourself in your biography, and become friends with other members. This will help you stay on top of what others with similar interests are talking about. We’re excited to lift the veil on the new site and forums. Stay tuned for more updates and the exact launch dates.
-Matt Quandt Online Content Editor Kalmbach Publishing Co.
Sounds good Matt.
Whilst you are moving previous topics and threads, is there any chance you can find and restore these two threads:
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/error-notfound.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/trccs/forums/1/388446/ShowPost.aspx
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/error-notfound.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/trccs/forums/1/434717/ShowPost.aspx
Best wishes,Tony Walsham (Remote Control Systems) http://www.rcs-rc.comModern technology. Old fashioned reliability.
An identical announcement on the Model Railroader Magazine forum has generated all kinds of derisive and derogatory comments and complaints.
Does that mean that users on the Garden Railways forum are more mature and tolerant of change?
cacole An identical announcement on the Model Railroader Magazine forum has genereated all kinds of derisive and derogatory comments and complaints. Does that mean that users on the Garden Railways forum are more mature and tolerant of change?
An identical announcement on the Model Railroader Magazine forum has genereated all kinds of derisive and derogatory comments and complaints.
More mellow and relaxed from all the sunshine?
I have noticed over the years that the smaller scale guys really do tend to be a bunch of grumpy old men. Not all of them of course, but I dunno...some of those guys are real resistant to change of any sort so I'm not too surprised.
They should count there lucky stars that the old topics will be migrated to to new forum.
One the Brit site Gscalemad when the owner "upgraded" all and I mean ALL of the old topics vaporized, nothing he could do about it, several years worth... poof!
On Mylargescale they were able to archive the old forum threads but we had to start again importing and recreating the longer running threads there as well after upgrading.
So I remain relaxed, we've been through this before, and will be through it again
Have fun with your trains
vsmith cacole An identical announcement on the Model Railroader Magazine forum has genereated all kinds of derisive and derogatory comments and complaints. Does that mean that users on the Garden Railways forum are more mature and tolerant of change? More mellow and relaxed from all the sunshine? I have noticed over the years that the smaller scale guys really do tend to be a bunch of grumpy old men. Not all of them of course, but I dunno...some of those guys are real resistant to change of any sort so I'm not too surprised. They should count there lucky stars that the old topics will be migrated to to new forum. … So I remain relaxed, we've been through this before, and will be through it again
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Having had the rare opportunity to "play" with the "off line" Beta version of the new boards I will go out on a limb and say that 99.9% of us will quickly adapt to the new system. At the risk of being chided on this point I will say that our little group is indeed more mellow, relaxed and tolerant than any other crowd. We have to be as our chosen "Scale" is almost "non-existant". The goodies we play with range from about 1:22 through about 1:39, Those small scalers have a very finite single "scale" within which to work. We use "rubber rulers" where they use micrometers.
Tom Trigg
Are you going to get rid of those pop ups???
Currently you have four forum topic headings. Will that be enlarged?
Will sppppeel cheeeck b aadeedd
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Will a seperate electronics / electrical section be added?
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Dave,
A decent browser, such as Firefox, will provide a 'spelling checker' . As most of my type is upon American web sites, such as this one is, my checker lets me know when I use British spelling i.e. colour instead of color as son on. I can leave it as types or ammend as need be.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
https://www.buckfast.org.uk/
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
Rene Skc--we will keep the four forums we have, and there are no plans to add or delete any of these. Dave, I don't know about spell check. Unlike our outside moderators, we at Kalmbach have not tested the new forums.
I have used the "beta" version of the new forum. It was a "dummy" stack of older posts; in the "graphics" on the page there was nothing but "place-holders" for the forum graphics. With-in the "post block" were the normal little icons to do things, most were active but the spell check function gave the same notification as the current posting window. It was not set up for testing "new posts" but for editing older posts without messing up the "main" forum. It appears to me to be very similar to what we are currently using, with some other new features, larger "profile data" section, and a couple of other goodies. I don’t really want to say what the goodies were as they might have been solely a function of the "beta" test forum.
Howdy Dave; I always use Microsoft word to compose, it has an auto grammar and spell detect, then I do a cut and paste. I’ve been a writer for thirty odd years; just a habit I got into. It works for me.
Have fun, Rob
Mick
Chief Operating Officer
Northern Timber Company - Mt Beenak
Mt BeenakIf there was a proper grammar check it would show that you can have either 'new' or 'improved', but not both together! Get a primary school teacher to explain it to you.
Let’s play nice now, Mick. "New and Improved" has been accepted advertising terminology since the 1950’s. Yes it was not acceptable when I was in grade school, and my teachers slammed the term every time it was used in class. However, 60(+) years of usage has made it a common colloquialism.
Not exactly correct. (being wrong.....)
Common usage of something can make it acceptable after a while. This is also how some new words enter the English language.
There IS evolution in the English language, otherwise we would be using the same expressions from hundreds of years ago.
Well, I guess we have to wait and see what the new software brings. I'd vote for something that does not lose 1/3 of the screen width to advertising, but LSOL does the same. At least we don't have to pay extra for the advertising!
Regards, Greg
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Greg Elmassian At least we don't have to pay extra for the advertising!
At least we don't have to pay extra for the advertising!
Shouldn't have said that!
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