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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:58 PM
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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 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 3:53 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 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 3:42 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 3:41 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...

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

Tom

 

 

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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 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 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 Paul3 on Friday, September 8, 2006 9:49 AM

brothaslide,
Actually, there were RR forums 10 years ago.  In 1996, I started lurking on the newsgroup rec.models.railroad.  And r.m.r was preceeded by Compuserve's groups, at least one of which was about model railroading.  And before that, you had BBS's in the 1980's for model railroading.  The internet is older than perhaps you think...

Also at that time, there was the very first Model Railroader "forum" if you will on their very first website design that I can recall.  Andy Sperando would post a new question every month on the old page's Guestbook, and then others could reply to it and to each other.  I know, because I was in college at the time and replying to Andy and others.

BTW, the worst forum software ever was the original MR Forum (before the last one).  If you clicked on a thread topic, you then got a tree of replies...and you then had to click on each one to read it.  Imagine clicking on every reply just to read it?  Ick.  Oh, and the link that you clicked on only had the date and time, no poster's names, no topic header, nothing.  If someone didn't sign their post, you had no way to know who was even replying.  (shudder)  Just a bad forum with a lot of trolls (no registration was used at all...I don't even think they were moderated).

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Posted by cripp12 on Friday, September 8, 2006 7:44 AM
how do you unsubscribe from one thread? Usually from other sites you get one email saying there has been a new post this one replys to every post.
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Posted by Pruitt on Friday, September 8, 2006 5:58 AM
 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...
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Posted by Railphotog on Friday, September 8, 2006 5:51 AM

 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...

I copied the following link from my Photobucket account, and it seems to work:

You link DOES work in the quoted message though!  Go figure!

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Posted by electrolove on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:15 AM
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.

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

As you can see, no...
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Posted by electrolove on Friday, September 8, 2006 3:09 AM
Bergie,

Thanks for comming back to us. Let's try to solve the problems now so we can talk about what we like most, trains.
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Posted by jfugate on Thursday, September 7, 2006 11:11 PM
I'm very encouraged to see Bergie come back from his hiatus and make several helpful posts today.

Thanks, Bergie! I think your clever "posting a photo" FAQ will help a lot of people get more mileage out of this sometimes temperamental forum software. Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

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Posted by skiloff on Thursday, September 7, 2006 11:01 PM
Casey Feedwater wrote:

Joe, I get the scroll bar in both Safari v.2.0.4 and Firefox 1.5.0.6 and can scroll back/forth to see the entire link on one line. In Firefox, I see the placeholder as a very large open space the equivalent of several empty lines.

Ditto with IE7 - but I'd say more like four dozen empty lines.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 7, 2006 7:32 PM

The real forums was the Clubhouse, trainshows and prototype events involving live steam or older technology on exhibit. That was until about 10 years ago.

Now with the internet you can find that item or learn about it with a few clicks. But sorting out the wheat from the chaff is left up to the user.

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Posted by brothaslide on Thursday, September 7, 2006 6:04 PM
Look at it this way - 10 years ago, we didn't have no stinkin' forums! There were features I liked about the old fourm more than the new but the new works for me.
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Posted by grayfox1119 on Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:42 PM
River_Eagle: Well, I guess I will have to work with MS when I get my copy of RC1 if I have the same trouble with IE 7.0. Beta 2 version sure doesn't work.
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Posted by river_eagle on Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:23 PM

 river_eagle wrote:
 grayfox1119 wrote:
RC 1 is shipping next week to some of us who are Beta testing IE 7.0 I am still having problems with Beta 2 version, I cannot get the drop down boxes when I reply to messages on this forum. It seems they really tightened up security, so much so that we have all sorts of problems with some web sites. I hope RC1 clears this up. Joe, I wanted to send you a sad face icon, but I cannot get the drop down boxes, so please know that you have my sympathy on the water problem at your home.
I already have RC1 installed, and I'm betting this test does no better. The business version of vista ships in november, and the home version in january, as of yesterday.

nope, nogo with RC1,had to use IE6 to get hyperlinks repaired

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Posted by river_eagle on Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:19 PM
<BLOCKQUOTE><table class="quoteOuterTable"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/trccs/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif">&nbsp;<strong>grayfox1119 wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">RC 1 is shipping next week to some of us who are Beta testing IE 7.0 I am still having problems with Beta 2 version, I cannot get the drop down boxes when I reply to messages on this forum. It seems they really tightened up security, so much so that we have all sorts of problems with some web sites. I hope RC1 clears this up.
Joe, I wanted to send you a sad face icon, but I cannot get the drop down boxes, so please know that you have my sympathy on the water problem at your home.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>
I already have RC1 installed, and I'm betting this test does no better.
The business version of vista ships in november, and the home version in january, as of yesterday.
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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:19 PM
I wouldn't give up on this forum (content wise) yet.  The summer does two things, a lot of regular posters do summer type things (hence less posting), and lots of "recreational" posters seem to show up for a couple of months.  I'd wait a few weeks before passing judgement....

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Posted by Casey Feedwater on Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:08 PM
Joe, I get the scroll bar in both Safari v.2.0.4 and Firefox 1.5.0.6 and can scroll back/forth to see the entire link on one line. However, in Safari, no placeholder for the "photo" exists; all I see is the following: " border="0" />. In Firefox, I see the placeholder as a very large open space the equivalent of several empty lines.


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Posted by Fergmiester on Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:04 PM
 howmus wrote:
I miss what this forum used to be...

What I do miss is the helpful, friendly, cheerful responses that used to be the norm here a couple years ago when I joined.  The threads that get all the answers are the topics where someone is complaining about everything.  Look at this thread.......  SpaceMouse has all but stopped posting because every time he started a topic some &*%%$#@#@ jumps all over him and calls him names. 

What I really miss is the useful help that used to be here (still here, usually found on page 3) as well as the fun and good humour.  While I still pop in from time to time, I find that another forum nearby doesn't have the childish attitude that this forum has developed recently......  So I spend most of my online time over there.


Thank You Ray!

Maybe I should have been more specific in my first response, however you've said it quite well and and to the point.

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Thursday, September 7, 2006 4:55 PM
 Dave-the-Train wrote:

What I would like to know is how to access threads in the old forum???

The threads from before the switch are in the same place as all of the others.  As far as I can see nothing was thrown out.

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Thursday, September 7, 2006 4:49 PM

Joe- Looks fine with IE 6.  I don't like the embedded scrollbar thing, but then again, it is better than one screwy post messing up the whole page.

 

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Posted by Dave-the-Train on Thursday, September 7, 2006 4:20 PM
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I've only just figured out how the "My Forums" and "Persoanl messages" work... and I'm not entirely thick... mostly just not used to the jargon.

Coould you explain how they work?

NO! Laugh [(-D]

All I've found is that the "My Forums" shows all the threads I've taken part in in order (as it's set at present) of most recently contributed to on top / first going down to oldest contributed to.  For me this works quite well.

Haven't a clue how the Personal Message works but anytime anyone E mails me through the forum it pops up there... and keeps a record of it all for me.  This is pretty useful.

What I would like to know is how to access threads in the old forum???

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