Cheers Meng.... thnx for your openness !!

meng
 
I don't know if it will be possible to move everyone's post count though - maybe it can be manually done if everyone keeps to the same username or if we can implement single sign on <- this is something we're already looking at.
 
 

I don't care about my post count this is my second and my first had more I think.
 
I think it's better to keep the user names though, so people are familiar with everyone after the change, maybe with the option to change. One concern with everyone having to create new names, is some past users or trolls jumping in and taking a known name to masquerade as them

I feel that a new forum would be an extremely welcome  thing.  This forum has been nice, but it's not without it's issues. (doubleposting, the little "To the top arrow" doesn't work, once in a while, certain threads just...break for some users while still working for others, etc). 

chuckebaby
I think this forum has a certain look and feeling about it. A good look and feeling.
With that said, it could use an update and some work done to the search engine.
 
If you were to change anything would it be possible to keep the same look and style of pages, exc ?
And just change the engine which it uses in the background ?

I agree.
 
There's something about the look and feel of this place that makes you feel at home (at least to me) and I look forward to visiting here on a daily basis. Certainly, we would adapt to a new forum, but it wouldn't be the same as these familiar grounds.
 
Would love to see the "internal engine" getting a makeover while the outer cosmetic stuff stays the same.  

Good day all,
 
Big change is sometimes better than small change. Small change leads to sniveling, big change leads, possibly,  to the 'WOW' factor.
MJ

Karyn

meng
I'm also asking this because for the life of me I can't figure out how to change my avatar photo... 

There are folk here that can help you with that....
 

I would hope they can figure it out. lol


 

Cactus Music
Wally. I think the reason you cannot add pictures directly is for a good reason. Adding a picture directly from your computer to a web page requires the servers to store that image. This forum would require much larger server storage to hold the images and whatnot so this is more costly for the forum provider....

I'm not sure what the cost is but, A. I visit forums that don't charge to participate, but allow you to attach photos without using a 3rd party, B. Dropbox and IMGUR don't charge for their site, but you can upload many pictures.
We both agree though that pictures would be very helpful..

Cactus Music
If you need to edit a picture you can "open" the screenshot in Paint and add little arrows and stuff.... 

I don't use "Paint" but I'm pretty proficient with Photoshop and all the other Adobe tools as I developed WEB sites for my wife's and my businesses.
 
Here's a picture of our highly modified Cirrus SR22 with added retractable landing gear and exhausts.
 

Walt

WallyG
Here's a picture of our highly modified Cirrus SR22 with added retractable landing gear and exhausts.

Twin Stack Exhausts, eh? Is that Cirrus a Turbo Diesel?


Of course one reason Forums like this like to use web served images rather than allow direct uploads is to save on storage space. That image is about 60 KB, the rest of the text in the message, including your signature, are less than 2K. A picture can be important to sharing and describing problems and solutions, hosting them somewhere else that is dedicated to hosting images keeps the storage of forum content manageable.

If we paid to use the forum I'd expect to be able to share relevant images directly to the servers, but we don't pay for this - at least not directly. It's a cost of doing business, which the business will want to keep minimized - and servers and storage, even as cheap as technology has gotten, still aren't free.

do it!

Hello.
If I may point out...
Most of the replies to changing or moving the forum...they all mention the same thing: as long as 'this' or 'that' stays the same...
Then why change it?
I appreciate my daw being picked up and maintained by a company that truly sees value in this product, but why fix something (this forum) that's not broken?
No matter what you change, there will be those who will be unhappy with a new format, just as there are some who are not happy with this one. You'll just be trading nay-sayers.
I'd rather see the grateful effort (...and, thank you, believe me) you're making, go into a reliable rock solid daw...
I purchased the platinum lifetime daw (full version, not an upgrade) January 2017. My first daw, ever. What wonderful musical days lay ahead of me...then in less than a year the rug was pulled out from under me.
I just want what I paid for.

Just my two synths...