vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Yikes Chris, I hope it gets sorted out!
Missing members
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mikewint
Captain
Chris, like all above I am so very sorry to hear about your and her problems being helpless in such a manner is one of the worst feelings. Dealing with the State and/or Feds is like walking in molasses and trying to find anyone who really cares is fruitless. The state of Illinois is billions in debt and they could care less and the law is such that they can't be sued. Fortunately my retirement had its funds paid into a trust fund so the greedy little State bastids were prohibited from touching it else I'd be in the same boat. Hang in there
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
I actually told the one girl at the Pension; "I know I'm just another voice on the phone as you sit at your desk, but you have to realize that this is also YOUR pension, dear."
mikewint
Captain
Yea but she's young and that's somewhere WAY down the line in the future that's never going to happen to her. Your just a number, live or die tis no skin off her snozz. Same bureaucrats worked for the Nazis and had the same amount of compassion
I really do not know enough Chris about FB since I am not a member and really do not wish to have that much info out on me in the first place that's called family phone,email and skype(favorite).The FB version sounds like a totally different forum/interaction from this one is that right?
wilbur1
Tech Sergeant
Well another crusty showed up
Sorry to hear. Glad you're still around. Have you tried out the old/new Artakus theme? Trying to get back to some of the old look on the site. Missing members style Artakus v2
As for text disappearing if you tell me where I can check on that. Along with missing pics! The only thing I might think if they were hosted elsewhere. Photobucket decided to not allow linking to photos anymore, which disrupted many photos. Also many old photos were hosted off site, which those locations may not exist anymore. I've been trying to download remotely hosted pictures and store them on the server. Some may have been missed though. - david
That's right. Facebook groups are a little more chaotic. It's not a medium where you want to store information for a long time as the info sinks away quickly and there is not much structure. It's probably a bit better in almost realtime and more casual contact between people, that's why it's called social media.
Crimea_River
Marshal
David, is it preferred that photos not be linked to other sites? I started doing that over in the Picture of the Day thread and elsewhere. I'm on another forum where they do not allow ANY direct uploads due to concerns about eventually overloading the server space so what is our stance in that regard?
Glad to see crusty show back up
wilbur1
Tech Sergeant
Yup back to cause lucky13 more problems!!!! Lol
We are working on standardizing it and making it like it used to be.
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
Chris and David - one of the missing items are dates from the "This Day In..." threads. Apparently when I used an old feature that allowed me to not put the text directly within the post - such as the date that I did back then - it was lost when transferred to the new changes. I have been trying to correct that but kinda lost interest. I understand about hot-linking to other pic sites which is why I never did that. But if a pic has carried over with the new changes, it shows up very small and you have to actually click on the pic to bring it to the proper size. My "Battle of Britain" thread has done this. As I stated, even though they are nothing to start a war over, these little things just bugged me. They may be one of the things that made me lose some interest the past year or so.
If the data is still there, I'm pretty sure David can fix that with not much trouble.
Direct uploads are fine here. If you post a linked image the site will eventually grab and convert to attachment. So you can do it either way.
Originally when I scraped all the linked images I had them add as thumbs. I can easily fix that with a database search/replace command.
I can look into those posts/threads. Could you post a link
T Bolt
Colonel
I've been slowly going through my old threads when I have some extra time and making the pictures full size, but that takes a lot of time and I'd rather spend the time at other places on the forum. If there is a way to change all the pictures back at one time that would make my day!
There is. I will
T Bolt
Colonel
Thanks!
