guy_incognito Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 (edited) My thoughts are very much like JimBob's. I certainly haven't been as active here as I used to be, and I considered not rejoining. However, I do still like to check in every once in a while, especially for trip reports. I must say, I'll be really bummed if the old trip reports are lost. Myself and many others have spent a lot of time creating those reports. Edited June 25, 2018 by guy_incognito 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 33 minutes ago, guy_incognito said: My thoughts are very much like JimBob's. I certainly haven't been as active here as I used to be, and I considered not rejoining. However, I do still like to check in every once in a while, especially for trip reports. I must say, I'll be really bummed if the old trip reports are lost. Myself and many others have spent a lot of time creating those reports. I guess the lesson is to always back up your trip reports. Easy to say, yet hard to put into practice. Our lesson was even more painful as we did have backups, but even backups can fail. So you want to really be safe, I suggest you have at least two backup schemes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 I'll see if we can locate it. I don't have much hope, because as I explained our backups were corrupted but maybe it is still around. It takes many hours to find these given the size of the database, so it just might not be possible, but I hear how important they are to you and will try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 15 hours ago, HamRHead said: Wow, it is great to have the forum back. Thanks, Mr. Waite, for all your hard work. And a special thank-you to Rick and his family. Breaking an addiction is hard. The first week was the worst. After the sweating and shaking subsided, I could actually have waited longer. The forum as been an amazing help to me. I hope all of the wonderful members find their way back. My only regret about the lost data is the massive number of posts and likes that some of the veteran members had amassed. Those numbers were like hard-earned badges of honor and reflected, to one degree or another, incredible levels of expertise. One suggestion: I think it would be nice to have a dedicated place where members could display their bird related art—sketches, paintings, carvings, stained glass, etcetera. And finally a question. If we can now drag and drop images from our desktops, is there a way to control the size at which it displays? Okay, two questions: Are the emojis a tad blurry or is that my eyes? Interesting parallel re addiction, really makes sense. We could have a forum just for bird related art—sketches, paintings, carvings, stained glass, etcetera. I don't know the answer to your question about size that images are displayed but if you search the Invision Blog (https://invisioncommunity.com/news) or search Google for "Invision Community Control Size of Media" you may find the answer. I bet there is an entire section devoted to this topic. The emojis don't look blurry to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 21 hours ago, Aveschapines said: Thank you! I was able to turn them on. Oh, and by the way, I sent you a private message; maybe you didn't see it if your notifications were not turned on? I'm getting private messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesome55dove Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Hello Everyone! So glad this site is up and running again...I have truly missed it! Many thanks to those involved in getting it back online. ♥ ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF_Photog Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 So glad you're back after suffering through a major disaster. It's a shame so much was lost, but moving forward is more important than looking back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean C Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Hey all! glad this website is back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancy Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 My thoughts are likely very consistent with others - glad the website is back and that the administrators have worked so hard to restart it, but sentimental to the loss of so many posts. This forum helped me improve my ID skills so much and allowed for me to connect with a community of birders, including so many other young birders. I also agree that it would be awesome if some of the old posts could be brought back, but understand if that is virtually impossible. 5 hours ago, guy_incognito said: My thoughts are very much like JimBob's. I certainly haven't been as active here as I used to be, and I considered not rejoining. However, I do still like to check in every once in a while, especially for trip reports. I must say, I'll be really bummed if the old trip reports are lost. Myself and many others have spent a lot of time creating those reports. My trip reports were one of the first things I thought of too. I still have all of the writeups on my computer, but without the photos and everything included. I've spent some time browsing through some web archives, as I clearly have nothing better to do at the moment, and a few of yours have actually been saved. https://web.archive.org/web/20160517220826/http://www.whatbird.com:80/forum/index.php?/topic/149746-trip-report-coast-to-coast/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150917050408/http://www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/135898-midwest-trip-report-may-2015/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean C Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 (edited) Thanks to the whole whatbird.com team for bringing the forum back. great work guys!! @Administrator also could you bring back the off-topic section? (mainly for whatbird's young birders?) Edited June 25, 2018 by Sean C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 6 hours ago, Administrator said: I'm getting private messages. OK! Then I'll take that as my answer. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HamRHead Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Fancy said: My thoughts are likely very consistent with others - glad the website is back and that the administrators have worked so hard to restart it, but sentimental to the loss of so many posts. This forum helped me improve my ID skills so much and allowed for me to connect with a community of birders, including so many other young birders. I also agree that it would be awesome if some of the old posts could be brought back, but understand if that is virtually impossible. My trip reports were one of the first things I thought of too. I still have all of the writeups on my computer, but without the photos and everything included. I've spent some time browsing through some web archives, as I clearly have nothing better to do at the moment, and a few of yours have actually been saved. https://web.archive.org/web/20160517220826/http://www.whatbird.com:80/forum/index.php?/topic/149746-trip-report-coast-to-coast/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150917050408/http://www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/135898-midwest-trip-report-may-2015/ Yeah, I thought about your Australia trip report, which I greatly enjoyed. I know it represented a lot of work. It brought back some great memories of a similar trip my wife and I took. I still remember the smell on Heron Island. I think it was largely from the Noddy Terns. I meant to open up your report for my wife to read and I never got around to it. Now... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bird Nuts Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 9 hours ago, lonestranger said: @Administrator Like everyone else, I too am grateful that the forums are back up and saddened by the loss of the old content. There was a lot of history in some of those old threads, some of which I was hoping to reference once the forums came back online. I am particularly saddened about the loss of one particular thread from the photo sharing forum, the "Our new backyard" thread specifically. Our landlord has decided to try and fabricate reasons to evict us and some of the posts in "our new backyard" thread would go a long way in helping us present the truth if/when legal action is needed. I know it's a selfish thing to ask and I am sure it's not something easily done, but if that thread isn't totally corrupted is there any way I could get a copy of that particular thread? I totally understand if that's not possible but due to our situation, I have to ask and hope that it is possible. Thanks for ALL you have done in getting the forums back online, and thanks for your future efforts as well. Hi @lonestranger! Good to see you here. I'm sorry to hear about what's going on with your landlord. Just so you know, the first page of your thread was saved by the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20161031174028/www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/142912-our-new-backyard/). I hope what you need is there. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 54 minutes ago, HamRHead said: Yeah, I thought about your Australia trip report, which I greatly enjoyed. I know it represented a lot of work. It brought back some great memories of a similar trip my wife and I took. I still remember the smell on Heron Island. I think it was largely from the Noddy Terns. I meant to open up your report for my wife to read and I never got around to it. Now... Yeah… just finished it too. As I said I still have the writeup itself saved, fortunately, and the photos (most downloaded onto Flickr and eBird as well. Also, if you wanted I could actually send you the writeup). When I was looking around the trip report section I also found the first pages of two other trip reports of mine, so at least I have those too. The Australia one was too recently published to have been saved though, I think. Not even sure how the archive thing completely works, to be honest, but it's cool to look around. And yes, the noddies had quite the smell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 It's good to have the forums back! Thanks to the Whatbird team for their hard work at getting this site back online! Whatbird was integral to me as a teenage birder in learning identification skills and becoming a part of the birding community. Though I don't post much any more these days due to work and school, Whatbird remains an important and nostalgic part of my life and I'd hate to ever see it come to an end. I look forward to being more active if time and graduate school will allow it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 21 hours ago, The Bird Nuts said: Hi @lonestranger! Good to see you here. I'm sorry to hear about what's going on with your landlord. Just so you know, the first page of your thread was saved by the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20161031174028/www.whatbird.com/forum/index.php?/topic/142912-our-new-backyard/). I hope what you need is there. Thank you very much, The Bird Nuts. That is exactly what I need. I won't go into details, but that first page contains some very important information that will help ensure that the truth isn't twisted against us. Thanks again, to you, the Whatbird team, and all the unofficial helpers that make this website such a great community. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylorjane Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 What a great relief to have this site back up and running!! Thank you So So much! I was thinking it was down for the count, and have been looking at other 'bird ID' websites but none had the expertise I could trust as this one. Thank you again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Not to be unoriginal, but thank you for bringing the forums back! I'm hoping for the return of the other ID forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asque2000 Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Glad everything is back up and running! I love this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bird Nuts Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 @Administrator I noticed that after a rather short period of time we are not able to edit our posts. It would be great if that could be changed, maybe remove the edit option after a few hours or days rather than minutes or make it so we can always edit our posts like before. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiley Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 9 minutes ago, The Bird Nuts said: @Administrator I noticed that after a rather short period of time we are not able to edit our posts. It would be great if that could be changed, maybe remove the edit option after a few hours or days rather than minutes or make it so we can always edit our posts like before. I haven't run into this personally yet, but definitely agree that it would be helpful to change that. I always seem to make lots of typos and am constantly editing my posts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 3 hours ago, The Bird Nuts said: @Administrator I noticed that after a rather short period of time we are not able to edit our posts. It would be great if that could be changed, maybe remove the edit option after a few hours or days rather than minutes or make it so we can always edit our posts like before. I'd like to find out if this is something happening to everyone rather than just one person. I don't believe there is a setting for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 On 6/23/2018 at 8:48 AM, Charlie Spencer said: That's all I can ask! Charlie I found that I can add custom fields to Profiles and today I added a text field called "Location". You will find it in your profile and can now add your location to it, like City, State. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesome55dove Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 11 hours ago, Administrator said: I'd like to find out if this is something happening to everyone rather than just one person. I don't believe there is a setting for it. I am not able to edit a post after a few minutes also...hope this helps. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 (edited) I don't see an edit option for my previous posts. I'll see if there's an edit option after this post and try to time it's existence if there is one. Edit option is there. Let's see how long it lasts. Edited June 28, 2018 by lonestranger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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