System Announcements

[Yorkie]

It seems normal policy with most (if not all) Forums for the contributors to benefit from being able to remain anonymous.   Even those who operate Forums and Blogs seem to prefer this option, such as Oscar or Disgruntled from Croydon!

I just wonder how many Bri Roberts and Dave Roberts we have in the area, together with Owens, Williams, Jones and the plethora of common Welsh names.  Don't think naming would work, altough it would be helpful to know sometimes.   

I see no reason why the Forum Admin should not, if circumstances arose, politely ask a contributors name and retain it privately - but then I cannot see such a need arising!

As an aside, I have never met (as far as I know) Bri or Dave Roberts, don't care if I ever do meet them, but probably would enjoy it if I ever did.

[Bri Roberts]

Another suggestion would be to upload a recent photograph of oneself as an avatar.

I would not have a problem with that either. Z@@

[Yorkie]

Do you want the system to fail completely Bri?     

[Pendragon]

Oh hang on there Bri.  I am not the most photogenic of people and there would be not a chance in hell of me putting a recent photo on the forum as my avatar 


Oh what the hell

[DaveR]

Thanks to all the existing Members who have contributed to Introduction thread. Please keep them coming.

It's slightly disappointing that none of the people who have joined since I added the thread have added in a post about themselves! I've added a line into the Registration Agreement that says:

"We ask that when you join the Forum, you make a short post in the 'Say Hello here if you're a new Member' thread in the 'Welcome' section, telling us just a little bit about yourself."

That seems entirely reasonable, surely?

[DaveR]

Eagle eyed Forum Members may have noticed some Facebook icons appearing around the Forum. It is now possible to Like or Share topics or individual posts on Facebook simply by clicking the icon by the relevant topic/post.

It is also possible to now login to the Forum from your Facebook account without needing to sign up separately. This feature still needs a little bit of tweaking, however. I shall make a post underneath this one from my Facebook account to demonstrate it.

[david.roberts.73700136]

This is an example of posting from my Facebook account without needing to setup a separate login for the Forum. There are still a few bugs to be tweaked, namely it doesn't display your Profile pic by Default and it shows a number after your name. Everything else works though.

[SDQ]

This Facebook comment box seems to have screwed up the page format on my iPad, anyone else having a similar problem?

[DaveR]

This Facebook comment box seems to have screwed up the page format on my iPad, anyone else having a similar problem?

Try it now, I've disabled that particular feature.

[SDQ]

Yes, it's fine now.
Thanks Dave.

[DaveR]

User 'aharon ' is a Spammer and has been banned. 

[Ian]

I'm doing some housekeeping in 'Ask a Local' which involves merging several topics which have only one or two postings. Thanks for your patience.

[DaveR]

Slight problem with the Forum software this morning that I have now hopefully resolved.

The Unread Posts feature will have been wiped clean, I'm afraid, as part of fixing the problem.

[Fester]

Slight problem with the Forum software this morning that I have now hopefully resolved.

The Unread Posts feature will have been wiped clean, I'm afraid, as part of fixing the problem.

Dave, just for your info, The unread posts feature was exactly as it should have been.
All the new ones for today were listed, plus previous days ones which I had never bothered to read were present.

[Ian]

I'm doing some tidying up, so you may see some 'new' topics which are not actually new;  they're simply merged with other, similar and older ones. Thanks for your patience.