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I just noticed this post was made 5 years ago today!! Five years ago, we decided to delete the advertisements as they were creating a bad experience on the board. I think it was a great decision and I am happy to be advertising free. Though my server costs have not gone up appreciably, other costs h...

Open external links in new window is now active. (It is not perfect, but it works pretty good. For example, if you have a link that is this.that.otherthing.com.pe, it may mess up. But for normal look links, it seems to be okay. Style "basic" and style "MyInvision" have been added...

Hello, I have not been able to read through all the comments yet, but summarizing what I quickly read. 1. It would be nice to have replacements for the missing styles. I will see what new styles replicated the old ones that are no longer supported. I will try to add a couple more tomorrow. 2. Open l...

The last one compressed down to about 1 megabyte. I think that we can live with this. By the way, the reason there is/was a restriction on dimensions is that the service provider I use provides a fixed amount of space...and the only way given by the phpbb folks to control size was by specifying dime...

Yes, I understood however just now got the opportunity to experiment. The above pic was originally at 4032 X 3024 3.7MB So, either the original software resized the pics during upload or had a higher max Megabyte. Could you try another 4032 x 3024 picture? The new software is supposed to compress t...

One more!
https://www.thingiverse.com/poetryinmotion/designs

The work of Poetry In Motion looks pretty interesting!

Now that This group is expanded to 3D printing, I thought a few 3d models available for free might be interesting: Working Oscillating Steam Engine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25624 Locomotive Cab Fixtures: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3489458 Lima, Baldwin, American Locomotive Works Bui...

My motto: “If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway!”

Or break it so you can fix it!!

Was this some trick for getting extra traction?
Or was it done to distribute weight over bridges?

Regarding this issue:

" One possible issue:
My MacBook is no longer displaying a link to unread/new postings.
I have to search each subject area.
RussN "

Has this cleared up??

Please try doing pictures again.
There were more than a few things that went wrong last night!

I think it is fixed.
I broke more than a couple of things last night!