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Hey King, hope I'm not being too presumptuous by starting this thread. My verification e-mail went to my spam. Not a huge deal and I obviously found it, but probably something you can do to improve the user experience. Otherwise so far so good.

No, not presumptuous at all. Sometimes it's hard to remember to create the thread and the sub-forum when I'm doing a bunch at a time. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, I'll see what I can do about it.

Just as a general note, I'm pretty busy with a full-time job and writing (and renovating a house ) but I'll do my best to improve things when I can. There are hundreds of available add-ons so when I have time, I try to look through them and see what I can incorporate. For example, the default setting is to have your avatar and info on the right side with each post. That just was unacceptable to me so I switched it to be on the left side. Little stuff like that. I'd also like to do away with the blue background on the banner and replace it with something else when I have time.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

I just hid the "joined date" that shows up under your avatar on every post because I think it's cluttery and serves no purpose. It seems like add-ons are available for many of these things so don't hesitate to make suggestions even if they seem insignificant and nit-picky.

Is there a way to embed YouTube videos in a post? I couldn't find a button for it.

ScurvyBrother wrote: ↑December 4th, 2023, 8:59 pm Is there a way to embed YouTube videos in a post? I couldn't find a button for it.

Let's give it a try:

Nice work, King! This is really going to kick the music thread up a notch

kinglpc wrote: ↑December 5th, 2023, 11:09 am

ScurvyBrother wrote: ↑December 4th, 2023, 8:59 pm Is there a way to embed YouTube videos in a post? I couldn't find a button for it.

Let's give it a try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OXvSBdZTQw

Whoa man. That was messed up. In an amusing way. What is this from?

smokeygreens wrote: ↑December 7th, 2023, 7:20 am

kinglpc wrote: ↑December 5th, 2023, 11:09 am

ScurvyBrother wrote: ↑December 4th, 2023, 8:59 pm Is there a way to embed YouTube videos in a post? I couldn't find a button for it.

Let's give it a try:

Whoa man. That was messed up. In an amusing way. What is this from?

This is from the TV show, Flying Circus which I think is much more what they're about than the movies.

This is the first sketch that was really funny. Note that Terry Gilliam is the "what a ghastly place" guy:


Other amusing ones that come to mind:






The really bizarre stuff is Gilliam's animations if you want to track some of those down. After watching it all through multiple times separated by a few years I find that I appreciate the performers more than the material. I also like the style of the show which is what the real innovation was at the time: no punchlines or even definite endings to the individual bits, just transitioning from one to the next. You can kind of get a sense of that from watching these isolated clips.

kinglpc wrote: ↑December 7th, 2023, 9:53 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2LaJOVAiA

Omg that rant, lol! That must have been difficult to memorize and perform live. I could give this show a try, I like funny stuff.

Hey man, looks like the embedding stopped working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk

It works now when I put "media" in square brackets before the URL and "\media" in square brackets after. Let's have that be our temporary solve for now and I'll try to finds a better and more permanent fix.

I noticed that when I was looking as a guest, I couldn't see the photos in the photo thread. It said I didn't have access to the attachments or whatever. I sure am glad I can see 'em now - those are cool! Being from a grassy part of the country I've spent a lot of time in grasslands and really appreciate what's going on there. I've even been to observe a lek or two in my day. But yeah, something you might want to look into.

aldiquarter wrote: ↑December 14th, 2023, 9:11 pm I noticed that when I was looking as a guest, I couldn't see the photos in the photo thread. It said I didn't have access to the attachments or whatever. I sure am glad I can see 'em now - those are cool! Being from a grassy part of the country I've spent a lot of time in grasslands and really appreciate what's going on there. I've even been to observe a lek or two in my day. But yeah, something you might want to look into.

Fixed! Thanks for the heads up

lightningTodd wrote: ↑November 29th, 2023, 5:11 pm Hey King, hope I'm not being too presumptuous by starting this thread. My verification e-mail went to my spam. Not a huge deal and I obviously found it, but probably something you can do to improve the user experience. Otherwise so far so good.

FWIW, my activation didn't go into the spam. Good work King, if that was you.

Also didn't get the message in spam, but when I tried to do the "media" thing to post righteous ben folds fives songs it said I couldn't use certain BBcodes

salAmanda wrote: ↑December 17th, 2023, 10:34 am Also didn't get the message in spam, but when I tried to do the "media" thing to post righteous ben folds fives songs it said I couldn't use certain BBcodes

Grrr. I believe I've fixed it. Please try again and let me know how it goes. It turns out there's a setting one has to adjust for just this media feature.

Needs more posters!

aldiquarter wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2024, 3:47 pm Needs more posters!

Yes, but what are you doing to help make this happen?