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Posted by brothaslide on Friday, September 8, 2006 10:08 AM
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brothaslide,
Actually, there were RR forums 10 years ago. . .

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OK - So 13 years ago there were no RR Forums.
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Posted by jfugate on Friday, September 8, 2006 10:44 AM
At the top of the thread, there is a notify button. Make sure you click it to turn notify OFF (ON has a red check mark, OFF is grayed out). Otherwise on a popular thread you will get a mailbox full of annoying emails in a days time.

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Posted by jfugate on Friday, September 8, 2006 10:48 AM
=================electro posted this===============================
I just saw the 'How to post photos' post from Bergie and decided to give it a try. Let's see if this works (with Safari Mac): I typed this in myself, not pasting anything to be sure it's plain text. As you can see, no...
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So there you go, Electro ... post your message, get the goofy image problem, then quote your own message, go back and delete the original and then delete the quote tags. That's what I did above.

Your pictures will show up that way ... sheesh! Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

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Posted by twhite on Friday, September 8, 2006 2:15 PM

Just a comment, guys--at my work, teaching choral music in a high school, I'm in the midst of learning a music program called SIBELIUS, which is a really, really, REALLY easy program to comprehend.  Now I'm doing this for my job.  So how come a program like the new MR forum is so incredibly complex when I'm trying to use it for fun, relaxation and sharing ideas? 

Answer THAT one, Bergie!

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Posted by Bergie on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:27 PM
 twhite wrote:

Just a comment, guys--at my work, teaching choral music in a high school, I'm in the midst of learning a music program called SIBELIUS, which is a really, really, REALLY easy program to comprehend.  Now I'm doing this for my job.  So how come a program like the new MR forum is so incredibly complex when I'm trying to use it for fun, relaxation and sharing ideas? 

Answer THAT one, Bergie!

Tom

I would LOVE to answer it, but I have no idea what you're referring to. Calling our new forum incredibly complex without giving examples as to what you feel is incredibly complex gives me nothing to work with.

I know change is hard, but I personally don't find this new forum software to be incredibly complex. Does it take some getting use to? Yes. It's like anything else in life. If you have a habit established for a certain task and then something new is presented, you naturally fall back on your habit and things don't work. That applies to everything from reader forums to coffee makers or automobiles.

Remember the last time you got a new car? Were the controls for turning on your whipers or setting your cruise control exactly the same on your new car as there were on your old car? I doubt it. It's the same thing we're facing here. Yes, WE; me included. I've been learning this new software right along with you guys, and I have yet to find something (besides that goofy photo hypertext issue) that has made be declare this forum incredibly complex.

If you guys have issues, please be clear about them and lets see if we can all work these things out. Being vague and saying you just don't like it as much as the old forum isn't doing anything to make things better; it's simply stating your opinion.

Hang in there fellas; we'll all get there together.

Have a great weekend,

Bergie

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Posted by Bergie on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:41 PM

 electrolove wrote:
I just saw the 'How to post photos' post from Bergie and decided to give it a try. Let's see if this works (with Safari Mac): I typed this in myself, not pasting anything to be sure it's plain text. As you can see, no...

It's the link. Here's what you posted:

<img src="http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a79/vigour/DSC03637.jpg" border="0" />

Kill the border="0" /> after the .jpg" and you should be good:

" border="0" />

 

We'll get there...

Bergie

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:42 PM
ok, i'll try it joe.
<img src="http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/river_eagle/N-Scale/pz3.jpg" border="0" />
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Posted by Bergie on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:45 PM

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.

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:53 PM
but, if you reply with quote to my post, it will set it back right in your post without doing anything to it.
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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:55 PM

 river_eagle wrote:
ok, i'll try it joe.

just like this. using old version of ie6

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:58 PM
 river_eagle wrote:

 river_eagle wrote:
ok, i'll try it joe.

just like this. using old version of ie6

no changes to photobucket tag at all complete paste with tags from site.

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:00 PM
<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>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------but ie7.
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Posted by pcarrell on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:02 PM
 Bergie wrote:

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  Black Eye [B)]

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

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Posted by Don Z on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:03 PM

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.

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:05 PM
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
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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:06 PM
<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>
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Posted by Wyonate on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:08 PM

The "happy little dance"

You must have a new loco in the bag.  HAHA

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Posted by pcarrell on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:10 PM

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

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Posted by Don Z on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:13 PM
 river_eagle wrote:
 Don Z wrote:

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.
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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:19 PM
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.
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Posted by alco_fan on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:19 PM

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

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Posted by Don Z on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:20 PM

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

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:29 PM
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.
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Posted by alco_fan on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:35 PM

 river_eagle wrote:
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

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:42 PM
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
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Posted by alco_fan on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:44 PM

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.

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:45 PM

old browser

 

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

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Posted by alco_fan on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:49 PM
 river_eagle wrote:

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.

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 4:50 PM
 alco_fan wrote:

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!!

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Posted by jfugate on Friday, September 8, 2006 5:05 PM
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.

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