Not only am I already on the new forum, I am helping to pay for it as a sponsor. Why? Because it is an incredible source of Art Show photography information and because Larry is one of the most dedicated, knowledgeable, and involved forum moderators I have seen on any forum. Larry has been involved in photography and Art shows since long before the World Wide Web even existed and has helped more people with Art Show success than probably any one on the planet.
Larry is not a programmer or an Internet expert but he cares deeply about the forum and helping people in the Art Show community. I am sure he did his best in selecting the forum. It may not be perfect, but since no one is paying Larry to run this forum I will choose to be very happy with Larry's best effort from the time he was able to devote to making this happen.
FYI, I am not Larry's friend or family member. I met Larry through his forum and have had a simple business relationship with him as a forum sponsor for several years.
Cheers,
Mark
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Carlyle <kevin@...> wrote:
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> I don't really like the forum. the software used turned me off on the first post because of a really limiting technical issue
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> disclaimer: I've been doing php programming off and on for 9 years
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> it wiped my post upon erroring on attachment size. my 5.7mb average sized photo was too large and the way it gave the limit has too many zeros to read right so it didn't register at 5 million. 5000000
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> fixing the post wiping issue is maybe 30 lines of extra code tops. it should have been fixed four years ago as is it a top 10 fundamental for any online posting form.
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> setup a session variable, cookie or temp database field, save the user's content using said method. then check on returning to this page if there is saved data based on user id. set the contents of the html forum with the returned data. if the post is successful then wipe the data
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> little things like not adding commas to large numbers, which is fixed with one line of code
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php
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> and that it can't get a huge fundamental of forums, email confirmation, correct. I've programmed them from scratch
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> it's worth abandoning already because of huge gaping holes in the programmer's apparent ability
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> change it to phpbb, the industry standard of free forum software. at that point I'll return. until then I'm sticking to the email list.
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> oh, and if the group is being shut down it tells me about the quality of the group if it is going to be replaced it with something so poorly implemented. you are as good as the technology you use in this case.
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