To Do List: New Forum Suggestions and Ideas

Hope to see Tapatalk integrated to CPSC, it would makes things easier for many members for checking posts and posting images.
Also, wouldn't it be nice if we could make tables like we could in the old site? I wonder why xenforo doesn't have table functions without add-ons.
 
I’m resurfacing this thread for two reasons, apparently there has been a login issue for one member, has anyone had issue staying logged in with multiple tabs open? If you had issues with this please let me know so I can address what the issue is.

I would also like to continue with stickied posts on “How To”s and care sheets. If you feel you have some experience with a group of plant or method of growing feel free to message me and we can get it stickied in the top of that section for everyone to see.

As always please post here if you have issues or ideas and I will work to resolve them!
 
Your forum is still screwing with my login status, I've been too frustrated to deal with this anymore. The buggy nature of the message system here is making it impossible to use without driving me insane, so I am requesting that the admin delete/disable my account so that people will contact me via email or at least through a forum that isn't constantly logging me out while I'm trying to respond to them.
 
Please do let us know if you have issues logging in, so far Bonfield was the only one so we hope it was a local issue.

Bonfield has also requested to be disabled from the forums to take a break, if anyone needs to contact him we were told he shared his email with current customers, you should be able to reach him this way.
 
What if we had an actual Store Web Page and not just depend on the Forum for buyers? The guys at Flytrapcare.com have a store page and it works well for their business.
 
Hi Jonathan, it will be quite a challenge, if we need to do the same - time, efforts, human resources... Not saying that it's impossible, perhaps one day we could pull it off...!
For your information, Flytrapcare.com has started as a store, and it is still a store-based forum.
Hope that helps!
 
Other forums I‘m on have photo galleries to upload pictures to. Uploading the pictures to the gallery adjusts the file size down to an acceptable level to load onto threads. That allows me to use my expensive camera and lenses to take pictures instead of my iPad, which I have to use here.

I’m an old guy and trying to figure out photo editing programs, to reduce file size, drives me crazy. Maybe the cost of web storage space is too much to add this feature. Maybe nobody but me would use it.
 
Dusted said:
Other forums I‘m on have photo galleries to upload pictures to. Uploading the pictures to the gallery adjusts the file size down to an acceptable level to load onto threads. That allows me to use my expensive camera and lenses to take pictures instead of my iPad, which I have to use here.

I’m an old guy and trying to figure out photo editing programs, to reduce file size, drives me crazy. Maybe the cost of web storage space is too much to add this feature. Maybe nobody but me would use it.
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The problem is, it doesn't though.. it just adds more steps. For instance, I wanted to thank @Sparrow for a freebee he sent me and show him the progress. So I took a picture, uploaded it to my web server, and sent a link in the private message. (https://zimmey.com/darling.jpg for those interested).

I totally agree with those aims, but fail to see how disabling photos stops any of them. I would argue that it could lead to more issues, because being hosted externally allows the owner to change the picture after the fact.. where if it was uploaded to the forum, at least there is a copy of it and a history of changes.

Might as well disable private conversations.
 
For the record, if these steps have shown to lessen the burden on the admins, I'm all for it. No one needs to spend their free time dealing with additional bs. I just see it as a pet peeve more than anything.
 

Good Trader and Nursery List

Thanks @Mary for the D. oreopodion gemmae!
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Good spot to post those pictures of a plant you bought from a member.

H2O said:
I have a feeling this is a built in feature to avoid hundreds and hundreds of photos being stored on the server while not available to the public. When people publicly post, we get an idea if someone is abusing the feature (posting insane amounts of photos each day, which I doubt anyone will do) but if it is done through PMs we have no way to avoid, or even know, when people are using this site to share large amount of photos.

For now I'm going to be leaving this feature as it is, my hope is that if people have pictures to share they are free to share them on the forum. Does anyone have a problem with this? I would love to hear example of why people would need this feature, I could be swayed.
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In my opinion, pictures are just part of a conversation. If it is being abused, I can see restricting it.

Some of the examples from my history for sending pictures in private converations:

1. Sending a follow up thank you with pics on progress of plants (had already thanked in good trader)
2. Discussion about milsbo greenhouses with a member, and wanted to share pic of a shelf I had found.
3. Received some free plants from a member, and wanted to reciprocate by offering some plants, so sent some pics of plants I had available
4. Received a plant, and had questions on how to handle some of the dead bits.

Any/all of these can be public.. I just preferred them to be private.

Again, this isn't a problem, it is just a pet peeve because it requires extra steps, and not everyone would have their own hosting etc.
 
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