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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: Acer Saccharum on May 20, 2008, 05:07:12 PM
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If you guys are checking out the new board, and have comments, please don't hesitate to let us know. Put them right in this post, or make your own. Before this is announced to the general public, we will probably do a house cleaning, tidy things up, etc. So, please post away, and have fun.
Tom
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Some comments I've received so far:
Well I got registered etc. So far looks good. It will take a little while
but the color, photos etc look great.
It's a little hard to see the flags that indicate that a topic has new
content in it, but maybe it will be easier with practice.
Thanks for doing this...it is fast so far!! Will you be able to move the
vanity scores over for people?
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Acer,
Being a COF this new look and navigating will take a little getting accustomed to. I think the single most important enhancement to the ALR board I would like to see is a utility that will enable a COF like myself to insert a picture that is in my computer rather than having to rely on a photo sharing site like photobucket. If I can take a picture, toss it into a folder on my computer and then insert it into my message, directly, you will get a great many more photos from guys like me that don't have the time to jump through the hoops. Ideally when I click on the image icon I would like to get a drop-down menu so I could find the photo on my computer and double click it in. I don't have the time to learn HTML.
Thanks for all your work on this.
Best Regards,
John Cholin(http://)
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Also being a COF, I agree
Don
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There are several problems associated with having photos uploaded to our site, here are a few:
Hackers can embed dangerous virus, programs etc into files that have photo attributes i.e. .jpg, .tif etc These are very malicious and we are not setup to stop these.
Photos take up quite a lot of disk storage space and unless someone monitors them and removes them after a period of time you can run into disk space problems.
You would still have to figure out how to link the message to the location of the photo. It would not be a simple attach a photo and upload it into the message.
We would have to select some type of photo software package then install it on the site.
EXAMPLE below is how the original post by Acer looks with a link to his photo bucket account where the actual photo resides
[img*]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/Tom45-70/Jaeger/sight3.jpg[/img]
[img*]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a246/Tom45-70/Jaeger/sight4.jpg[/img]
(I put the * in to keep the photos from showing. You would not use them if you wished to display the 2 photos)
The forum software must be told to display a photo (thats the [img] entry then it needs the actual link to the photo. In Acers post the link tells the forum software to look at the address in his Photobucket account, if we had onsite photos we would still have to put a link to where ever the photos were kept on our site. Very little difference in how you would make your post. In the case above Photobucket is the one that has to worry about viruses/malicious programs rather than us. Hope it makes sense.
Dennis
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It took a little bit for me to get using the Photobucket account but it's easy as pie now. They have made several changes to thier format that makes downloading pics even easier than when I started.
I've been adding pics for several years now and still have not run out of FREE space.
Ken
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Several folks have asked me about the topic of uploading photos dierctly. I have to type very slowly, as I've had a fair share of wine.
A couple of things:
Dennis told me right off the bat that it wasn't gong to happen. I can loive with that, I am used to the photobucket.
More importantly, Photo bucket has upgraded, and loading photos is a lot easirer and fatser. oh crpa the finger saren't working like they usta.
I am embarrasing mysself rapidly, I think I Will come back tomorrow. hahahaha--hick-hahahaha
Tom
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You should remember we now have a spell check. ;D
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Whew, now that I am sober, I should amend what I was trying to say about posting photos.
Whether you use Photobucket or a website with integral photoloading capability, you still have to go through the same process of uploading, archiving and getting the URL address of every photo you want to use.
Several good things about photobucket:
You have your own album, which you manage the appearance and storage of your photos into folders.
You can take any of your photo URL addresses and include this in an e-mail, or website, or any other forum, and folks can view your pictures.
Photobucket has changed their upload procedure, making it a little easier to load your photos into.
PhotoBucket is free, and I have hundreds of photos, and have never run out of space to date. I make sure my photos are small before uploading to PhotoBucket, which does TWO things: 1) speeds uploading, and 2) enables more photos to be stored without maxing out my free account.
There are other online image storage services like Photobucket, they are not the only game in town. I have never experienced a problem with the service, and appreciate what they do very much.
If you have your own web site, you can store all your photos there, and provide the appropriate URL links to your photos stored there. One problem I have noticed when folks use their own photoalbum is when they reorganize their website, the link to their photo is broken, and the image no longer appears in the post.
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Hi Guys,
Well I made it here and things are looking pretty nice. I'm going to have to get used to the color.
So I take it we will be trying this site out until it all gets moved? Will the archives be coming with us?
Tom, Thanks for the early invite
Jim
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Hey I think I'm getting the hang of this now.... I even got me a photo!
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Hey I think I'm getting the hang of this now.... I even got me a photo!
Hey, that's real good Jim but how come you used a picture of Red Green??? ;D
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You should remember we now have a spell check. ;D
We had (at least I did) have spell check on he old board.
Dennis
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:o I never knew that. I downloaded ieSpell because of it. Spell check only works if you remember to us it. ::)
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Whew, now that I am sober, I should amend what I was trying to say about posting photos.
Whether you use Photobucket or a website with integral photoloading capability, you still have to go through the same process of uploading, archiving and getting the URL address of every photo you want to use.
Several good things about photobucket:
You have your own album, which you manage the appearance and storage of your photos into folders.
You can take any of your photo URL addresses and include this in an e-mail, or website, or any other forum, and folks can view your pictures.
Photobucket has changed their upload procedure, making it a little easier to load your photos into.
PhotoBucket is free, and I have hundreds of photos, and have never run out of space to date. I make sure my photos are small before uploading to PhotoBucket, which does TWO things: 1) speeds uploading, and 2) enables more photos to be stored without maxing out my free account.
There are other online image storage services like Photobucket, they are not the only game in town. I have never experienced a problem with the service, and appreciate what they do very much.
If you have your own web site, you can store all your photos there, and provide the appropriate URL links to your photos stored there. One problem I have noticed when folks use their own photoalbum is when they reorganize their website, the link to their photo is broken, and the image no longer appears in the post.
Acer,
You know when you are sober you make a lot of sense! Well described.
The only thing I see that you left out is that when you are using a link to another website you don't have to worry about hidden Trojan's embedded in photo files.
Dennis
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I'm a member of one board that does allow posting directly to the site. In that case the site limits the size of the picture. When your posting gun pics, that is a huge disadvantage. There's a lot of detail lost when the pictures are small. Not to mention a pain in the rear to resize your pics before posting.
Ken
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Hey this is looking good. I like the work you guys are doing to get us a much better situation going. Thanks. I don't know much about this computer stuff so I am glad you guys are looking out for us.
Regards
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For posting photos directly to this site: that would indeed be a nightmare for the folks running it. I'm sure you would get some guys putting up 3 to 4 mb images because they don't know how to resize properly. The storage would be a nightmare.
Hey do we have a max pixel size for our "avatar" photo? I see some guys are bigger them mine! HAHA! ;D
Don't like the ratings "Newbie" been along time since I got called that.
Jim
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Will the Powder Room come over??
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Hey now my photo's big too! & Cody I changed my shirt!
It's my favorite "wholey" one
There is just too much fun here I gota get back to my job
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I woke up early today, and did a little housecleaning.
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Hi all ! I think the forum looks great ! Seems easy enough to get around on also.
I have one question. Most the threads are wide on my screen as I have to move the curser at the bottom across to read all of what is said. I have a 19" screen & usually don't have to do this on most sites.
I just checked again, and some of the post are all on the screen & easy to view, and some of them are allot wider than the screen & I have to move them on the screen back & forth to real all of it..
Is this a settin in my computer or something I can change or is it how some are posting or what ?
Thanks
Keith
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Keith, that is a function of how big a photo one of the posters used. You gotta downsize your photos to 100 to 120 Mb, or you get the 'scrolley screen' effect. Any picture bigger than that, it will be too wide to view without having to scroll.
Actually, I should do a test with different size photos, then I can back up my imagination.
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Acer,
I know there is a control feature that limits the size of a picture posted on the board. I don't know if it's needed ot not. Most of the time I'm on a laptop and all the pictures are too big for my screen.
Cheers,
Ken
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OK... So if a very large photo is posted, that makes everything posted after that wider on the screen. Right ? = why some are normal & then some I have to go back & forth to read all the test.
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Keith, that is a function of how big a photo one of the posters used. You gotta downsize your photos to 100 to 120 Mb, or you get the 'scrolley screen' effect. Any picture bigger than that, it will be too wide to view without having to scroll.
Actually, I should do a test with different size photos, then I can back up my imagination.
Acer you mean KB not MB!!!!!, Let me tell you a good rule KB & MB "size doesn't matter" ( Heard that before eah!) It is pixel dimension that is an absolute. Scale images to 640 pixels wide . 800 pixels wide is pushing it for most smaller computers so you don't have to scroll.
file size Kb/Mb deals with file compression only A jpeg with a white background compresses rather small. A busy background for instance; grass & tree leaves compresses not so well so the file will be lager size wise not dimensionally ( It's my job ..... hard to get this point across to even some pro photographers ) If the guys scale their images for 640 or at tops 800 pixels the site will work well. Most of the newer point & shoot cameras are 8 megapixels so you are talking about 4000 pixels wide Way to much! Let me put it this way Tom the stuff you get from me at the studio is shot on a 40 mega pixel back that translates to about 7000 pixels in width I usually drop this down to 1000 pix when I send to you or 640 pixels when I post here
I know I know go back to work Jim!
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Jim, I will pretend I understand. If I change the tutorial specs to 640, then everyone should be good? That's what I divine from your post. The tutorial will need to be re-done, as Photobucket has changed, and the method of posting pictures on the new board has changed. The biggest change is appearance and location of controls, function is virtually the same.
Thanks for the clarification. Maybe all this time no one knew, or took the time to tell me how this works. Thanks.
T
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In the "features and options" section you can set the max. height and width for pictures.
Ken
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Attaboy, Ken
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Ken, I don't know where to find the "features and Options" you mention. Wherezit?
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In the Admin page. Look to the left side under Configuration.
Ken
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Looks good to me. I loved the old site, but progress...and all of that. Charles
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Anyone tried the new print button yet?
I don't get photos when I use it, just the links to them. I'm ok with it since I can print the individual pages and save as PDF, but it would be nice to just use the print to get the entire topic with photos as in the old forum.
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Acer,
Will the other ALR board be going away?? Will this one just be a contiuation of the old board??
Either way.
It looks great.
Dane
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Dane,
Not Acer (he's probably taking a nap!) but to answer your question this is just a continuation of the old board but the old board will be cut off sometime after we think all the active members have joined us here. This is a completely new hosting service plus new forum software. The old Snitz software has seen its best days and never was designed to handle the traffic that we were putting on it.
Dennis
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Will our "Status" transfer over??
Not that it really matters. I just hate being called a "newbie" this late in the game.
Thanks for your help.
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how do we keep the number of postings from the old board? and how long is the old board going to be accessable?
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how do we keep the number of postings from the old board? and how long is the old board going to be accessable?
I'd be suprised if we could keep the postings number....
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it fugures, just start wraking up a few and a whole new program
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The old board will be there for a good while longer. Want everyone to get the word and know where me are now. We can update the post counts to include the old board but it has to be done manually. Give us some time then ask a admin or moderator to update your counts.
Dennis
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I posted these comments in the "Welcome!" thread before I found this one, but the sentiment is the same...those of you who have worked so hard to ge this new site up and running have done an awesome job. Nice clean look, nice feature....well done!
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I should have added that I also think the new site is great - looks like there are far more features available, and it's easy to read.
A big thanks to all of you who are working on it :)
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Looks fine to me...one comment or question:
is for sale postings...Is there a query you can run on the "old" site that can provide members with more than 25 posts? Then take those members and set all of them at 25 or above?
Or put a 30-60 day reprieve on the 25 post minimum to put something up for sale?
Regards,
Steve
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Seems to be faster so far. Keep up the good work.
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Looks fine to me...one comment or question:
is for sale postings...Is there a query you can run on the "old" site that can provide members with more than 25 posts? Then take those members and set all of them at 25 or above?
Or put a 30-60 day reprieve on the 25 post minimum to put something up for sale?
Regards,
Steve
Yes we can take the post count from the old board and add them to your post count on the new board. We will do it as we can. In the mean time just let one of the admins/moderators know if you need to make a for sale post and we will update your count.
Dennis
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I hate change, that's why I shoot a flintlock!.......Seriously: it looks good, I hope posting pic will be easier.
Nice Job Guys, Thanks, Tim C.
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It looks really good so far. Being curious I tried to open a couple pictures of members to see what they look like but get a message telling me I "can't look up just any members profile" or something to that effect. Is there something special I need to do to open the thumbnails?
I've learned to love photobucket; I can now send pictures to someone via email while taking up very little space on their email account.
Thanks for all of your hard work guys!
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Being curious I tried to open a couple pictures of members to see what they look like but get a message telling me I "can't look up just any members profile" or something to that effect. Is there something special I need to do to open the thumbnails?
Scott,
Sorry but what you see is all you get. That photo might look like a thumbnail but its not. Its just a small photo. Its how the forum code was written.
Dennis
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I just want to say thank you!
You guys have put a lot of work into getting this new forum to work just right! (I've been reading through the threads on photo size)
The old forum aggravated me sometimes because, frankly, it was old. The forum program itself that is.
This new forum looks like it will be a bit easier to manipulate the text and such things.
I especially like the resize of the photo feature. NICE!
I can't wait to get everything started on here!
I just hope the archives can be transferred over, but probably not.
If they can't you guys should look into creating DVDs of the archives, much like surplusrifleforum.com did. You could sell them for $5 and make money to support this site. Just an idea. I hate to see all the valuable info go down the e-tube.
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Thumnails? Why would you want to see a bigger picture of ....
Oh, never mind.
Who is the new guy, the flagwaving Canadian, Daryl? Do you think there might be a connection to another forum? Is this a coincidence..or WHAT? It blows my mind.
Of course, my mind is pretty well shot already.
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I like being a newbie, it will make the pictures of guns I build look more appropriate. Plus I get a new forum name.
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It looks good so far. Just starting to check new things out. At least we now know what Cody looks like ;D
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i have yet to make a judgement,the old sight i had problems getting on at times,real slow at times to.
i havent put much time to this new site yet so i havent formed a opinion.it does look good as far as graphics go and the format is a little different.
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::)You're just easy, Tom. Like my flag, eh? I like the new site, so far. Haven't tried posting any pics yet, though.
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I like the waving flag. pretty cool.
Ken
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One of my favorite features on the old board was to click on "Active Topics" and have a list of only those topics with new postings since my last visit. Can this be added ?
Otherwise it seems fine and, as with anything new, will simply take some time to adjust.
All the best
Paul
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Paul,
That's one feature I miss also. If there is anyway I'd like to see it come back also but clicking the "View the Most Recent Post" caption will do somewhat the same thing.
Cheers,
Ken
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i do like the new site! its faster and hasnt crashed on me yet! i tried posting pics, it took me a couple of tries but it seems easier over all well done!
karwelis
p.s. i like the avitars............really
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I managed to log in, so that's a good first step. When it comes to computers, I'm not what you'd call a fast learner. I was just starting to get the hang of the old site! I'm glad you made the change before I finally learned how to post a photo. Honestly, Thanks for the hard work in putting this all together.
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I really appreciate this forum in any view. When I was active with muzzleloaders back in the '70's there was no internet. It was all trial and error except for the occasional trip to Dixon's. Now the knowledge pool on this forum is so incredible and reachable it's hard to put into words. Maybe the best thing since blackpowder was invented.
The only thing I'd like to know is how come some can view profiles and others can't, like me. I just like knowing where someone is from. I could be discussing some thing with my neighbor and not know it.
Thank you everyone,
Bill
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Hi guys! Just registered today and I'm navigating around... I like it!! Acer, Dennis and the other guys doing the work, thanks! Looking forward to spending many more hours here with all of you...
Ed
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Good job fellows. One positive is the ability to insert tables.
I have one question that I don't understand. I can't seem to upload a small pic beside my name. I uploaded a pic but it didn't show.
-----Never mind - I just saw it. Pletch
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Well, maybe we should call you Sparky!!
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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has worked to get the new board up and running!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mitch Yates
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I second that. Thanks to everyone who worked on this. Much appreciated 8)
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one question, I remarked that the email adress is shown, is it seen only by members of the forum or to everybody, because if itshown toeverybody I will use one of my other accounts. ?
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It is seen only by members. To test it logout and become a "guest" and try to look at the profile.
Dennis
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Just a post to see if it works!
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I admit that I am resistant to change. It is taking me some time to navigate around this new new website. I am sure that I will adjust. I'm kind of bummed that I'm a Newbie again :'(. I was a proud Rifleman on the Other website ;). Spell check is very nice though.
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OK now you are a hero! I just added the posts from the old board.
Dennis
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I want to congratulate you gents for putting together a great new site! I'm not very computer literate but what I see,I like. I haven't tried posting pics yet,but after this weekend,I should have a few as it's our local club rendezvous.
Feels weird starting over as a newbie! ::) I'm sure in your good time,you will take care of that. Newbie,LOL! ;D
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Sniff...I'm just a "newbie" again. Lessee, what drivel can I come up with to get 400 posts quick ;)
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So far so good. I post on a board that requires loading pictures from my drive. It has a size limit and is a pain to change. The photobucket link is much easier for me.
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I like it, great job.
Signed on a few days ago, but I couldn't figure out whose rifle to use for an avitar so that it would look like I know what I doing. ;D
Rick
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Hello again everyone. I updated my profile. I'm sure some of you here I know and others I don't, but we'll get to know each other as time goes by spent on this forum. (which I like very much!)
If I could make one suggestion about the new house here, I would like to see a "General" topic area for the offbeat stuff that still relates to the spirit of this Forum and the American Longrifles. Perhaps this has already been considered or suggested, and regardless if such a topic forum would happen or not, I will still enjoy my stay here! :)
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Nice job But I am having one headache. For some reason the system keeps logging me out. Yes I have the box check to keep me log check.
David Veith
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great new site! really like the new format. could one of the administrators please move my posts from the old site to here? I'm so close to the magic 25 posts!!!!!! thanks,Lonny
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;)
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Nice site. I just wish that the message totals from the old site would transfer to the new site. I feel like a rookie here. ;D
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Looks like Dennis beat me to the punch moving your post count over. Welcome to the board
Ken
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Is it possible to place "Top of Page " on the subject pages? Geo.