1. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

    Hmm. Cheers for that, Adam. Does sound a tough one. Must admit, it's the Posters that generally attract me. I'm no 'Buff' and so a picture of a plane or ~ dare I say it?! ~ a tank, eg. would be just that, to me.

    If and when ye ever do get round to sorting it, perhaps a sub gallery of Posters ....? I have a dreadfully slow connection, but I'd still dedicate some serious time to looking at those. They just seem to fascinate me.

    Steve.
     
  2. Ferahgo

    Ferahgo Senior Member

    Adam has the right idea! (If it's broke-kick it!)
     
  3. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

    PLEASE ?

    Anything? Any thin shred of hope? Anything We might do about it? (Throw money at it? Volunteer to up load them to out own PB accounts? Squirm and fawn at someone's feet?)

    Only, it's Doing My Head In!!! Every day and night here it's Eyes Right! Wow! Just look at That! That ..... what the hell Is That?! I dunno. But it sure as hell looks fascinating ..... Only I just can't read those words or quite make out that picture :(

    Any New word from the bosses here? What Is the problem? What Might be toward the solution? Any cause for hope?

    Or wouldn't it be kinder to switch off the tantalising side show ~ and let us try to forget?
     
  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    It's still broken, and the bloke who can fix it is still very busy.
    (That's if it's decided to keep it; it's quite a large lump, and rather amorphous.)

    ~A
     
  5. Passchendaele_Baby

    Passchendaele_Baby Grandads Little Girl

    and start kicking some order into it.
    Oh, can i do the kicking??
    :D
     
  6. militarycross

    militarycross Very Senior Member

    May I suggest Bomber Command have a go at it!

    Mind you, remember the suggestion from the Beachmaster on something mechanical that would not work in Longest Day ...
     
  7. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Adam

    I promise, just one comment and only while the matter is being discussed .

    I do appreciate that fixing these things take lots of bucks and I am not about to offer to help out :rolleyes: but if I can make just one point ?

    Scrap it ( so it stops infuriating Steve G and others) and then have a look to see if something similar but much simpler could be tacked on to the works.

    IF this could be achieved dare I suggest that no image should be allowed if it doesn't have a descriptive caption.

    I still live in hopes that someone, one day, will give me the background to this greatly emotive picture that I once spotted in the Gallery that Leee W was unable to identify for me.
     

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  8. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I'm kind of with you Ron,
    What I'm most tempted to do once it's fixed is take all the un-categorised and un-captioned pictures and dump them into one 'miscellaneous' area; then we'll hopefully have a nice clean slate where people can upload personal shots into better organised areas. I think member generated stuff would be the nicest way to build a set of images rather than the mish-mash that's currently there (I could personally upload several hundred shots of restored WW2 vehicles but never did in the past as it was rather tricky to do so). It needs to be simple to use and set up 'just so'.

    It really is a question of time more than anything as Otto's tremendously busy in the real world. The software's not too bad, it just was never working quite properly (rotating images etc. was always problematic) and is somewhat fiddly to get the integration with the forum just right and fully secure - I can do most day to day stuff, and learn more everyday, but this requires deeper mucking about than I'm happy/competent to do.

    Fair few new members since that picture last cropped up, maybe a fresh airing of it will bring some more info.

    ~A
     
  9. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    That's in good hands obviously, and people don't have the time for everything, so keep up the good work, we can wait!

    (we can't do anything else, so we'll have to wait anyway :) )
     
  10. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    von Poop is their anything I can do to help with this.... I run the FGM board and it is vB too?

    What was the problem with the Gallery??

    The Few Good Men
     
  11. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

    Pity it's not just as simple as needing somewhere to put it all. Only, I hire a fair sized chunk of cyber space and all I have on it is a few simple pages ~ my business site.

    Saying that; I wouldn't know how to get anything else up there. Mate uploaded my site for me.

    Ignorance is a bugger, isn't it, Adam?! :lol:


    Sorry to have kicked off about the beleaguered Gallery again so soon. It was a knee jerk thing of the semi unconscious nervous system. Just seconds before the spirit of John Jameson sped me off to sleep! :D
     
  12. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    von Poop is their anything I can do to help with this.... I run the FGM board and it is vB too?

    What was the problem with the Gallery??

    The Few Good Men

    It's a bolt on for VB mate, thanks v much for the offer but I know Otto'll get around to it eventually, the one on his other site, WW2F, is ticking over nicely but it was added fresh from a nice clean install, there's a lot more 'fiddly bits' that need integrating properly here, combined with a huge lump of previously uploaded images.
     
  13. Shane Greer

    Shane Greer We're Doomed

    Ok no worries. :)

    Why is there 2 forums??
     
  14. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Different strokes for different folks ;).
    Otto rescued this one, and happened to have one already, he's left us completely alone in terms of day-to day running to keep this place's different and more 'Commonwealth' flavour. Both ebb & flow in distinctive ways.

    I promise you though, a merger wasn't ever considered. It probably would have been one gigantic car crash followed by a watering down of both... but possibly quite good fun :D.
     
  15. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

    a merger wasn't ever considered. It probably would have been one gigantic car crash


    Astute thinking! After all; They won the war. Nothing more to be said on the matter! Best let them congregate and congratulate each other, alone :lol:

    Oh hell! Here comes SlipDigit! I'm off! :p
     
  16. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Steve, as Colonials are wont to say, U R Evul !

    :D
     
  17. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    Both forums have shown that they can quite happily co-exist and indeed many members are signed up to the two and contribute on both!! Different flavor and outlook but both dedicated to the furthering of interest in WW2. A win-win situation I'd say! :D
     
  18. Alanst500

    Alanst500 Senior Member

    Sorry if this has been aired before but anyone know when the Gallery will be working?
     
  19. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    It used to work but was taken out of service ages ago.
    No plans as yet to get it back up .
    Sorry.
    You can of course upload pics to albums on your profile.
     
  20. Alanst500

    Alanst500 Senior Member

    Thanks I have already done that it would be good to have a central location for all Pics.
    Probable one with Folders in for all Regts
     

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