• Spring 2024 meetup in Calgary - date Saturday, April 20/2024. discussion Please RSVP Here to confirm and get your invitation and the location details. RSVP NOW so organizers can plan to get sufficient food etc. It's Tomorrow Saturday! you can still RSVP until I stop checking my phone tomorrow More info and agenda
  • We are having email/registration problems again. Diagnosis is underway. New users sorry if you are having trouble getting registered. We are exploring different options to get registered. Contact the forum via another member or on facebook if you're stuck. Update -> we think it is fixed. Let us know if not.
  • Spring meet up in Ontario, April 6/2024. NEW LOCATION See Post #31 Discussion AND THE NEW LOCATION

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    Membership Expiry Info Not Showing

    On this end, Paypal's fees are very similar to other merchant processors (like stripe, etc.) which would be the alternative if we wanted to take credit cards directly. Paypal's are marginally more, like around 1% different if my memory serves, but in exchange, the forum, doesn't have to handle...
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    Gadget - multi purpose

    I live by the Adam Savage rule of thumb, "buy the cheapest version possible, and if it ever needs to be replaced then buy the best version you can afford". However, there are definitely some items where it's easier to learn from others who have been down the path. The pain of trying to get...
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    Email notifications still broken?

    I think the issue is with email notifications going to addresses which fail, triggering server-side anti-spam protections. Just testing some potential solutions here: 1) Reducing the quantity of "daily summary" emails sent at a time, to avoid flooding the outbox, so to speak. 2) Going to see...
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    Email notifications not working

    Okay, Just to summarize: 1) Three users had a mishap during the Jan crash and may need their supporting member status back. 2) One/Some users see different membership levels 3) Email Notifications For #1, Who is impacted? For #2, I think what is being seen is that if you're already on the $60...
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    Email notifications still broken?

    The issue is likely tied to folks hitting the "Reply" button on the emails they are receiving, instead of coming to the forum to reply. In checking the inbox , I can see several people replying to a no-reply email address, the email which sends the email notification. This both confirms that...
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    Request Forum Updates / Changes

    Just an image upload test.
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    Forum Change Log

    Glad things are back up, but you'll see that we lost a few days of content, sorry folks. I am prepping a full explanation offline, as I have to get the details to the ... many websites impacted by this one... Yes, it has been a very very long week for me.
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    Existing Feature Events Calendar

    Not 100% clear to me at this time. It appears that the calendar plugin I linked above works by creating a special thread type. The owner of a thread also controls the calendar, it's events, and appears to be responsible for the upkeep of the calendar (addition, removal, and editing of...
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    Existing Feature Events Calendar

    This looks like it would work, but we would need to designate a "caretaker of the events calendar": https://xenforo.com/community/resources/calendar.5606/
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    Unable to post in the banner ad thread

    Spent some time with a colleague brainstorming on this, but.. ..this makes this impossible for me to diagnose. It sounds like it might be something like a browser extension conflict, but I have no idea how to begin to tackle this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    We're Going to Try Some Banner Ads for Guest (Not Logged In) Users

    Please excuse the delay, I stepped away from the forum for a couple of weeks for a bit of time to clear my head. Probably browser caching. Please empty your browser cache and have a quick review. Let me know if anything is out of place. Appreciate the kind comments. Have to give things a try...
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    We're Going to Try Some Banner Ads for Guest (Not Logged In) Users

    You definitely don't have to, existing tiers haven't changed at all, I just created additional tiers, but there is no reason to use any but the originals, except to support the forum. Yeah, I keep turning them down, every few days. They were now at the minimum level, but I get the sense the...
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    Paid Membership Benefits?

    @Tecnico , We grew the forum in an atypical way, instead of adding paid membership levels and reducing functionality from existing users ("gating" existing tools) or hiding functionality for later use with a subscription, we've always given all registered users basically all the "bells and...
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    We're Going to Try Some Banner Ads for Guest (Not Logged In) Users

    UPDATE There is a good chance that I am going to move towards pulling the plug on the 'ads for non-logged in' users concept, but I want to let it run its course for a while longer (weeks, maybe a few months), to gather some more data first. --> This is the slowest period of the year, so using a...
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    We're Going to Try Some Banner Ads for Guest (Not Logged In) Users

    I added a bold banner for non-logged in folk explaining the whole "Sign up for an account and have an ad-free experience" thing. In the meantime, I've been watching the analytics, and there isn't an appreciable change in how the site is being used by non-registered folks, so that's good. Yep...
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