I really, really miss the old forum....

[tstage]

Mark N,

Your using a FREE forum...and all you need to do is download a FREE 4MB browser to rectify the issues...I guess I just don't understand your beef.

Tom

[Pruitt]

Really? How helpful. If that's the case, then I won't bother participating in this forum again. And I won't bother purchasing any Kalmbach books, periodicals or other merchandise in future. Great way to foster customer loyalty, boys...

Boycott a company because they offer a free product which works on most mainstream computers but won't work on yours without you having to load a specific software program to use said free product to its fullest? Great!

It isn't Kalmbach's problem that YOUR system / browser of choice doesn't function properly with their FREE product. And you're going to stomp away in a snit because YOU would have use a different browser that WILL work properly. GADS!

Someone is trying to help solve YOUR problem for YOU, and the best you can do is a snide, churlish reply. Well aren't you just the salt of the earth?

[marknewton]

jfugate wrote:

<" Long story short, it appears that no matter what you do with IE 7 or Mac Safari, the image posting on this version of the CommunityServer forum software is hosed....If you're on a Mac, you will need to move to Firefox to have a good experience with this forum software.">

Really? How helpful.

If that's the case, then I won't bother participating in this forum again. And I won't bother purchasing any Kalmbach books, periodicals or other merchandise in future. Great way to foster customer loyalty, boys...

[3155944]

Yes I do miss the old forum. I used to spend a lot of time reading the old forum and I learned a pile of info. being new to the hobby it was a great source of info. I find now that many regulars do not post anymore which is a great loss to the hobby. Like myu Dad always said " why fix what aint broke"

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[grayfox1119]

There is NO DOUBT at all that IE 7.0 will not work with this new forum software. Two changes in software programs made at the relative same time, = potentially bad problems for users....born true once again!!
MS in their attempt to make IE much, much stronger for security issues, as swung the pendulum far to the right on this upgrade to 7.0. Now, we have a host of problems, not just this forum. I am Beta testing Vista, version 2, and I have run into several issues opening investment sites, etc, that have made no changes to their site software, so we obviously know WHERE the problem lies there.
But, when MS gets 7.0 behaving better, will it still play with this forum's new software? I sure hope so, but, changes might need to be made at BOTH ends to ensure this problem is put to bed. I am hearing that those who have received RC1 already from MS, are still having problems with this forums new software program.

[Railphotog]

Guilty as charged, I use a PC and I.E. 6.

Bob Boudreau

[james saunders]

I use Photobucket and I use Firefox on a PC and i'm all good

[Anonymous]

This new format ain't doing it for me. Difficult to figure out. Not as user friendly either.

Ditto here, tried it at first, then turned my attentions back to modeling. Just finished a 12 foot long city module, installed sound in 3 locos, painted and detailed a set of f-units and custom decorated a 65 ft gon for Maryland Midland.

Maybe this has been a good thing?

[jfugate]

Photobucket has been working for me all along in the new forum:

No extra border stuff in the address, copied here with asterisks to illustrate:

[IMG*]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/railfan/EnginehouseMoon-1.jpg[/IMG*]

Bob Boudreau

Bob:

The crucial piece of data everyone who can successfully post images needs to list is what computer OS and browser are you using?  If it works for you then you must be using either IE 6 on a PC or Firefox on a Mac or Firefox Linux. Those are the only combinations that the CommunityServer developers bless.

We know those work, and from reading the CS bug forum, we also know that posting images with  IE7 and Mac Safari does not work, period.

[Railphotog]

Photobucket has been working for me all along in the new forum:

No extra border stuff in the address, copied here with asterisks to illustrate:

[IMG*]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/railfan/EnginehouseMoon-1.jpg[/IMG*]

Bob Boudreau

[Casey Feedwater]

<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>Bergie wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><P>OK, you just had the same problem I had. I typed in the link and ended it after .jpg, yet Photo Bucket added border="0" /> once it's posted.</P>
<P>Are there any other photo bucket users here that have had success? I believe it's Photo Bucket's issue (adding that extra border tag) not the issue from our software.</P>
<P>Bergie  <img src="/trccs/emoticons/icon_smile_blackeye.gif" alt="Black Eye [B)]" /></P></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

Bergie, I don't use Photo Bucket and the photos I've attempted to upload have had the extra border tag attached upon posting. I've tried linking to photos that are on my personal website (and which post perfectly on other forums) using the standard img tags as well as photos which reside on other forum servers. The results are always the same border="0"/> when I use Safari. However, as I've said a couple of times already, when I downloaded Firefox and installed it 2 days ago, the photo posting problem went away. (As Joe Fugate posted earlier, the problem is seemingly a conflict between the forum software and Safari.

[jfugate]

Long story short, it appears that no matter what you do with IE 7 or Mac Safari, the image posting on this version of the CommunityServer forum software is hosed.

You can even manually type the entire link in by hand and add the [img] and [/img] tags by hand, and it still does not work in those browsers. Apparently, this forum software lets bad code get posted and doesn't show it in the editor when you are using those browsers.

According to CommunityServer's support ticket forum, the solution to these problems is to use one of the approved browsers for now: IE 6 or Firefox 1.5. They will no doubt get IE 7 working in their next new release before year end, but from their remarks it's also clear they don't intend to do anything about Safari. If you're on a Mac, you will need to move to Firefox to have a good experience with this forum software.

Since browsers are free, that's the stance they're taking for now.

[river_eagle]

You are saying that you manually typed the [img*] and [/img*] (without the asterisks) before pasting just the url in between?

Looks from  here like you are also pasting in the tags from Photobucket. But I coudl be wrong.

YES!!!!!!!!

It will not work either way unless I use the old browser!!!!

FORUM ADDS EXTRA TAGS when using new browsers!!

[alco_fan]

exactally the same link!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I'm not an idiot, I get it that different browsers work differently if you paste in the tags from Photobucket. I'm asking if you tried manually typing in the [img*][/img*] (without the asterisks) and then pasting just the URL in between.

If you are posting in the tags as well as the URL, yes, some browsers are having problems.

[river_eagle]

old browser

 

exactally the same link!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alco_fan]

You are saying that you manually typed the [img*] and [/img*] (without the asterisks) before pasting just the url in between?

Looks from  here like you are also pasting in the tags from Photobucket. But I coudl be wrong.

[river_eagle]

alco, now watch this OK,
<img src="http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/river_eagle/Washington%20dc/capital2.jpg" border="0" />mess right! now next post will be exactly the same with old browser

[alco_fan]

alco fan, your the one not getting it!!! it's a software issue that NO MATTER HOW I, or the others with this problem, enter the info, the tags get changed to the post.

Then maybe you are not copying just the URL, it looks like you are also copying the tags ... elsewise how would they be there to change? Hey, maybe you've got something extra funny going on, but I'm on a university campus a lot and  I've posted phots from a variety of machines (PC, Mac, Linux) with a variety of browsers, and they have all worked fine if I manually type the tags and carefully copy and paste only the URL.

Like so

[river_eagle]

alco fan,
your the one not getting it!!!
it's a software issue that NO MATTER HOW I, or the others with this problem, enter the info, the tags get changed to the post.

[Don Z]

Well, I'll be sure to keep IE6 on my PC since it works! Good luck getting it ironed out.

Don Z.

[alco_fan]

good grief.

again, if you are having trouble posting photos, the most basic thing to try is to manually type the [img*] and [/img*] (without the asterisks) first, like this:
[img*][/img*]

... then paste just the url from "http" to ".jpg" or ".gif" in between the bracketed image tags. Don't paste in any additional tags. You can get the url from the "properties" of the image.

the result looks like this (with the asterisks, so you can see the format)

[img*]http://www.trains.com/trccs/Themes/default/images/kpclogos/mrr.gif[/img*]

and like this when you type the img tags without the asterisk and then paste the url in between them

[river_eagle]

IE 7 is out of beta, and will , on all new business machines shipped in november, and on home pc's in january.
I have ie6 on my old pc, that's how i can post both ways to show problems.
your issue will be once ie7 starts shipping on the new machines, microsoft will end support for 6, as the upgrade to 7 is free.

[Don Z]

Rivereagle,

You are copying the "Tag" link in your photobucket picture. You MUST copy the "IMG" link (the 3rd link under your photo). Then, simply paste into the forum here and it works perfect, everytime!

[*IMG]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/dkzimm/Escanaba%20and%20UP%20Railroad%20construction/8_20_06005.jpg[*/IMG]

I'm using IE6 and have no problems posting from Photobucket.

Don Z.

rivereagle, you're correct. I quoted you and it straightened out. Hmmm, maybe you have a bug in your Beta version of IE7? Roll back to IE6 and see if your posting problems go away.
Don Z.

[pcarrell]

OK, IE 6.0 and Photobucket.

Here's the URL

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/abf.jpg

The TAG

<a href="http://s83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP No 587/?action=view&current=abf.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/NKP%20No%20587/abf.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a>

and the IMG

[Wyonate]

The "happy little dance"

You must have a new loco in the bag.  HAHA

[river_eagle]

<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>Don Z wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><P>Rivereagle,</P>
<P>You are copying the "Tag" link in your photobucket picture. You MUST copy the "IMG" link (the 3rd link under your photo). Then, simply paste into the forum here and it works perfect, everytime!</P>
<P><img src="http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/dkzimm/Escanaba%20and%20UP%20Railroad%20construction/8_20_06005.jpg" border="0" /></P>
<P>[*IMG]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/dkzimm/Escanaba%20and%20UP%20Railroad%20construction/8_20_06005.jpg[*/IMG]</P>
<P>I'm using IE6 and have no problems posting from Photobucket.</P>
<P>Don Z.</P></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

[river_eagle]

and if you quote mine with the mess in it it will right itself within your post, but when i quote yours it will go off into la-la land

[Don Z]

Rivereagle,

You are copying the "Tag" link in your photobucket picture. You MUST copy the "IMG" link (the 3rd link under your photo). Then, simply paste into the forum here and it works perfect, everytime!

[*IMG]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/dkzimm/Escanaba%20and%20UP%20Railroad%20construction/8_20_06005.jpg[*/IMG] This is the IMG link from my photo. I added the * in each IMG bracket so you could see the link.

I'm using IE6 and have no problems posting from Photobucket.

Don Z.

[pcarrell]

OK, you just had the same problem I had. I typed in the link and ended it after .jpg, yet Photo Bucket added border="0" /> once it's posted.

Are there any other photo bucket users here that have had success? I believe it's Photo Bucket's issue (adding that extra border tag) not the issue from our software.

Bergie 

I use photobucket almost exclusively.  I use IE 6.0.

Here's a pic done by just using the IMG tag on Photobucket.

This is a gif

And this is a real pic

[river_eagle]

<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>river_eagle wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">ok, i'll try it joe.
<img src="http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/river_eagle/N-Scale/pz3.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
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