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Rail Yard Ghosts – Itinerant/vagrant musicians hopping trains all over the place or talented troubadours spreading smiles and choonz?
You decide…Cover of the wonderful Dusty by the lovely Joss Stone…who comes from not a million miles from me. Geddon Dumplin’
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What I’ve discovered is that if, for whatever unknown reason, this forum tool doesn’t like an image code it doesn’t just omit that code/image, it wipes the entire post, text and all.
So I think what is needed is a definitive way of posting an image that will work every time.
I think that’s one of the main things to get right.
Posting multiple images can be addressed once being able to post single images consistently and with no fuss has been sorted out.i have to wonder, did anyone actually use this forum before deciding to withdraw the old one and put this in place?
Was it checked for just the kind of problems that are being thrown up?
It wouldn’t appear so.
If it was checked out beforehand and deemed fit for purpose, then how about some assistance on how to use it?
At the moment it’s like going out to a restaurant and having to not only lay your own table but cook the damn meal and do the washing up too.Also, referencing the previous post….which imgur code works with this forum?
I’ve tried the BBCode which worked with the old forum. This just pastes the imgur http link to the image.
The Image Link code works after a fashion but places the image in a grey and white box.Some hints and tips on using this forum from whoever chose to adopt it would have been nice rather than members having to scramble to figure it out for themselves.
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CHAISE LONGUEAfter attempting to submit a post regarding images in both the “test” thread and in this one, not just once, but 6 or 7 times, and my posts just vanishing I’m going to give up.
Is the “test” thread locked? If so why not indicate that it is? If not…yet another problem.
After unsuccesfully trying to load various image formats in the “test” thread I decided to begin a new, temporary thread to try out various formats to see if there was one that works best with this forum. After hitting Submit (twice and then having to refresh manually), I was informed that my topic was awaiting moderation. By whom and why? This (at least to my mind) is a rather ominous thing to see. So I request that someone from the Dev team please post here why thisrestriction is in place and the reasoning for it. The Dev team, not a moderator or another member attempting to be helpful. Hopefully someone responsible for decision making at achat.MMMMMMULLED WINE AFTER WINTER WALKS
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I’ve taken some time to read and digest the entirety of this thread (or topic..whichever you prefer).
I’ve been absent from Achat for many months. Prior to that hiatus I was quite a regular contributor/protagonist/target/pain-in-the-ass (delete as appropriate) and held the view that the forum (as it was then) resembled an eccentric and ancient relative…awkward and often clumsy, a bit creaky and set in it’s ways, but still a source of entertainment and interest and loved, despite it’s rather dishevelled and untidy appearance and odd little foibles. It was cluttered and dusty, a bit frayed at the edges, but it worked in it’s own quirky way. It seems that the “old guard” of the Old Forum are none too happy with the replacement, the fact that there was no notice or warning of the change and the lack of functionality in what one would suppose is meant to be a new and improved communication tool for users.On the whole I’m in agreement that this is a very poor substitute for what we had previously. There are more than a few options available that, in my opinion, would have been easier on the eye, full of easy to use features and in several cases able to be customised to some extent by users to suit their own tastes/requirements.
But, as became apparent to myself a long time ago and has already been mentioned earlier in this thread, the Forum has never been in any way important to Achat. Why would it? It doesn’t generate revenue. Why waste time and effort in providing a service that is at the end of the day no more than a courtesy to the small core of regular users? I can’t say I blame them. If I were running a business then providing what amounts to a gratis add-on would be very far down my list of priorities.As always if a customer isn’t happy with a service they are perfectly at liberty to take their custom elsewhere. That would be the solution I’d advocate.
I know a huge number of people at Achat use (at least) one other similar site so why not save a bit of cash and concentrate on that if not happy with what’s on offer here? Perhaps if enough actually do that it may prompt Achat into listening to its members.Either way it matters not a jot to me personally, but having once been one of the few trying to promote the forum and seeing my former comrades and sparring partners in such high dudgeon I thought I’d throw my hat into the ring.
I guess what it all boils down to at the end of the day is…did you guys really expect Achat to deliver? You’ve been here long enough to know better, surely. -
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