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12 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Is it just me, or is the board painfully slow tonight?

I don't see any issues, looking at our server resource usage and at this moment, we're under 100 visitors (guests and members) online and each time that I've been on, everything's been pretty smooth. 

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18 minutes ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

I don't see any issues, looking at our server resource usage and at this moment, we're under 100 visitors (guests and members) online and each time that I've been on, everything's been pretty smooth. 

 

It's super fast now, haha. There was just like a solid 30-45 or so earlier where it was taking awhile to load the boards and forums.

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On 4/14/2021 at 6:08 PM, Moderator6 said:

Well hence the saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.  What you can do is give him a 2 week suspension to think about it.  :lol:

We have a saying at work that goes ..... You can lead the horse to water but you can't drown the s.o.b. 

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Hey, I have a friend trying to join, but he got an email saying that he is pending approval. He's interested in joining the Master the Draft contest this year, so I was wondering if he can get approved before Thursday night so he can submit his picks. Thanks!! 

@Moderator12  @VaBeach_Eagle

(I sent you a PM Moderator 12, tried tagging VaBeach_Eagle too in the PM also but it wouldn't let me for some reason)

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I'm wondering if the draft gave us a boost in members. @VaBeach_Eagle, have you noticed a slew of new registrations/re-registrations in the last week?

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11 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

I'm wondering if the draft gave us a boost in members. @VaBeach_Eagle, have you noticed a slew of new registrations/re-registrations in the last week?

I wouldn't say a slew, but some. For the week starting April 26th through the time of this post, there've been 10 new registrations. That's the most in a week since the week of January 11th when there were 15 (without looking, I think that's right around when Doug was fired).

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I suspect that if guests couldn't read the board, there'd be a lot more per week though. During the season, when we were still having issues with traffic crashing the board on gamedays and we'd set the board so that only members could access the forums and read posts, registrations always increased. That was mostly from people that just wanted to read, but not participate (which is fine, of course). Of course, since we upgraded the hosting package, closing the board to guests hasn't been necessary. So those that just want to read, visit and do so, but they just don't register. 

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For years I would come to the old board and read the topics before I actually registered. So I can see that happening

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VaBeach,

Let me know if more donations are needed for the board. My wife increased my allowance so I can give, give, and give. 😊

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29 minutes ago, LacesOut said:

VaBeach,

Let me know if more donations are needed for the board. My wife increased my allowance so I can give, give, and give. 😊

I paid for the upcoming year's hosting package about 2 or 3 weeks ago (something like $1400 to $1500... I forget exactly how much). That leaves the boards bank account with somewhere between $800 and $900. So sometime before next April 15th, we'll need to raise more for the next renewal. But for the moment, we're all set... unless we go on a Super Bowl run and traffic doubles or triples and we have to upgrade again. 

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2 hours ago, LacesOut said:

VaBeach,

Let me know if more donations are needed for the board. My wife increased my allowance so I can give, give, and give. 😊

Pretty sure this is still active 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-eagles-message-board-emb?qid=bcded700d6e1e4f51c02f846dbcdd547&utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer

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1 hour ago, Cheesteakitis said:

Yeah, I've never deactivated it and I don't know if they deactivate them after a period of time. If they don't, then it should still be active. 

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2 minutes ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Yeah, I've never deactivated it and I don't know if they deactivate them after a period of time. If they don't, then it should still be active. 

I'd say give us a good few weeks heads up when the time starts nearing to renew the service if we're still low on funds. No doubt you're going to get plenty to chip in. I'm ready to do so.

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7 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

I'd say give us a good few weeks heads up when the time starts nearing to renew the service if we're still low on funds. No doubt you're going to get plenty to chip in. I'm ready to do so.

The billing date (each year) is April 15th, which is the same day that Dave made the closure announcement on the old EMB, and about 15 or 20 minutes later, I created this domain name and hosting account lol. 

But anyone that wants to donate toward next years bills, can at any time. With as much money as the previous donations raised, I opened a checking account for the board (so the money wouldn't mix with my own and be a headache to then try to sort out). So anything that comes in, at whatever time of year it is, it'll be deposited right into the EMB checking account. It'll actually earn dividends each month. Not a huge amount, (we got $0.01 on May 1st!) but everything goes toward the cause. 

But I'll post about it once I get the renewal notification. I think they send the notices out a week or two before they bill my card. 

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3 minutes ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

The billing date (each year) is April 15th, which is the same day that Dave made the closure announcement on the old EMB, and about 15 or 20 minutes later, I created this domain name and hosting account lol. 

But anyone that wants to donate toward next years bills, can at any time. With as much money as the previous donations raised, I opened a checking account for the board (so the money wouldn't mix with my own and be a headache to then try to sort out). So anything that comes in, at whatever time of year it is, it'll be deposited right into the EMB checking account. It'll actually earn dividends each month. Not a huge amount, (we got $0.01 on May 1st!) but everything goes toward the cause. 

But I'll post about it once I get the renewal notification. I think they send the notices out a week or two before they bill my card. 

I wonder if it’d be wise to put the link in the OP so that it can always be easily found. 

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Any chance we can increase file size for avatars? Back in the day there were gif avatars. One of the updates made the file size so tiny it became almost impossible to use a gif.

Today I trimmed a gif down to literally 2 frames. The file size is like 242kb and its too big to be used. 

 

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On 5/29/2021 at 10:43 AM, HazletonEagle said:

Any chance we can increase file size for avatars? Back in the day there were gif avatars. One of the updates made the file size so tiny it became almost impossible to use a gif.

Today I trimmed a gif down to literally 2 frames. The file size is like 242kb and its too big to be used. 

https://imgur.com/
FREE HOSTING/HOTLINKING

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56 minutes ago, wholesale_Melvin said:

https://imgur.com/
FREE HOSTING/HOTLINKING

"hot" linking huh?  Sounds like a porn site or virus, no way I'm clicking that!  :nonono:

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23 hours ago, NOTW said:

"hot" linking huh?  Sounds like a porn site or virus, no way I'm clicking that!  :nonono:

hot linking just means you can take the url for the image from the site and post it anywhere. it's what sites like photobucket used to do. 

granted, at redroom.com it does mean something else. something something sausages inserted something something. 

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6 minutes ago, wholesale_Melvin said:

hot linking just means you can take the url for the image from the site and post it anywhere. it's what sites like photobucket used to do. 

granted, at redroom.com it does mean something else. something something sausages inserted something something. 

I know, it was a joke.

What do you know about running a discussion board anyway?  :P

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59 minutes ago, NOTW said:

I know, it was a joke.

What do you know about running a discussion board anyway?  :P

damn son. that's cold. 

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I guess invision is working on instagram posts being embedded. Takes a couple copy and pastes but you can get them to embed

Haven't tried mobile facebook yet

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On 6/14/2021 at 2:42 PM, Mike030270 said:

I guess invision is working on instagram posts being embedded. Takes a couple copy and pastes but you can get them to embed

Haven't tried mobile facebook yet

I got an email from them that they're having a live event for their clients which will be all about their latest upgrade. I won't be on for it 'live', but it will be available afterwards. 

Some of our bugs, will be fixed in the latest upgrade, though. So once I can watch their event and see what the new upgrade has in store, I'll be able to come up with an upgrade strategy. 

I'm always leery of upgrading, bad things can happen when things go wrong. But when the time comes, I'll either do it myself, or see if the guy that did the skin, can do it (because the current theme may stop working after the upgrade). 

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1 minute ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

I got an email from them that they're having a live event for their clients which will be all about their latest upgrade. I won't be on for it 'live', but it will be available afterwards. 

Some of our bugs, will be fixed in the latest upgrade, though. So once I can watch their event and see what the new upgrade has in store, I'll be able to come up with an upgrade strategy. 

I'm always leery of upgrading, bad things can happen when things go wrong. But when the time comes, I'll either do it myself, or see if the guy that did the skin, can do it (because the current theme may stop working after the upgrade). 

Nice. I still haven't tried to see if mobile facebook links actually show up and embed

I assume if something bad happens we can always go back to the previous version until the upgrade works right?

I wonder if the new upgrade will come with options on skins. Also curious about any new features the upgrade has

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