Freebird

Pretty cool little bikes. I preferred the 4 stroke Cub but for $100.00, I would have been all over it too.

Well the links to the profile worked but caused another issue so I had to change it back. It will still show the city and state of the new member but no link to the profile. For whatever reason, it would work about 50% of the time but when it didn't work, it didn't send out the confirmation email for new members at all so they were unable to get registered. I'm not sure why unless there are some email providers that simply block meals with links in the title. I don't think it's that important anyway because now that you can see the city and state where they are from, I think that's the important thing. After looking at the profiles of a couple where it did work, I'm finding that they have usually not added any other information to the profile anyway.

I tell you, for that price it is sure worth the try. Please report back.

I will add the same thing for correctional officers. That is a job that I would certainly not want and thank those of you who do it. I can't image what you must go through on a daily basis.

It is absolutely appropriate and thank you for what you do. I will be glad to give you the award once you become a supporting member. Membership has its Perks. If you decide to become a supporting member, just click on "Awards" in the upper menu bar and send me a request. Either way, again, thank you for your service.

No problem. I did get a notification but no PM so I hope that is what everybody wanted. The notification did have a clickable link though.

Not sure. When somebody mentions me again, I'll look into it. I did go to my profile and under "mentions" it does have clickable links. I don't have any under notifications right now so will have to wait until I do again.

Turned off this feature.

At the request of Yamagrl, I added the state of the new member to the New Member Welcome Threads. So now it will give you the city and the state. She felt that if people saw a new member from their own state that they might be more inclined to extend their welcome to the group. After I did that though, it prodded me to take another look at something else that you have asked for in the past. That is linking the new members name to their profile. So I finally managed to figure that out also. I Just did it and then tested it by created a new fake user and it did work as it should. I have deleted it now though so you may not see any examples of it until another new user joins up.

OK...I agree also. Done.

Oh yea...there may have been a few changes to the PM system also. Forgot to mention that. One thing is that you can now send an attachment in a PM.

OK...I fully expect to get some complaints about this but I don't know of another way to compromise and please everybody. A good while back, I turned off the option of letting you choose how you want the posts within a thread to be displayed. There are three options available. Linear, Threaded, Hybrid. It seems that the most popular way is "Linear" and that is how it has been set for some time now. Some people really hate it though and prefer the threaded or hybrid displays. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can go to "settings" at the very upper right and then to "general settings" and look at "thread display mode". I had it set so that you could NOT change it from linear and though most seem ok with that, some prefer the other ways. Therefore, I have turned it back on so that you have a choice. I remember turning it off because it caused some issues but I can't remember what it was. I THINK though that it was due to the "quick reply" feature. The way to solve that problem is to require a "click" to reply to a thread so that is how I have set it now. That means that you won't see a reply box at the end of a thread until you click on the "reply to thread" button. Here is the technical explanation of why that is necessary. If you enable Quick Reply, a box will appear on the showthread.php page allowing users to reply to the current thread without needing to load the full newreply.php page. When Quick Reply is enabled, you may specify whether or not users must click the Quick Reply icon in order to start typing in the Quick Reply editor. If you choose not to require a click, the system will not know to which post a user is replying, making both the threaded and hybrid display modes nonsensical. We strongly recommend that you set the option to require a click if you use Quick Reply and have Threaded Mode available on your forums.

It is working now. You can send an attachment. There is an issue where if you use the old inline image link, it will show TWO of the images that you send. If you click on the paperclip almost right above that old link, it will send only one as it should. I will figure that out later but not tonight.

I haven't looked at them but will do so. It will have to be a pretty good deal though since I can get 40% off a GoPro. The GoPro Silver is waterproof. At least they say 30 minutes at 5 ft. which will be fine for me.

Modification is not working properly. Back to the drawing board.

I still think I like it better on the camera. I also KNOW that 4K is going to result in huge file sizes. I'm pretty sure I will go with the Silver. I've got a chance to buy one at 40% off and I haven't seen any deals that good on them anywhere. It's one time thing though.

OK folks. I just did some customizing that SHOULD allow you to attach a picture in a private message. You click on the insert image icon in the editor box just like you do here. We'll see how it works. I've made this a "Supporting Member" perk.

I'm thinking about buying a GoPro camera. I THINK I want the Silver Hero 4 because it has the built in display. The Black is $100.00 more but does not have the built in display. The black will record 4k though whereas the silver only does 1080P. I don't think I care about the 4k and would rather have the built in display. So....am I wrong?

Yes, it is normal. You cannot send photos through PMs.

I have mine bluetoothed and love it. It is not for texting though, I have never done that. It is for streaming music from Pandora or Iheart.

@Mover , They are restored now.

Sounds like a fantastic trip John. Glad you were able to get by the house for Maintenance Day. It was a pleasure to meet you. I have the tall Clearview with vent on my '05 Midnight. It offers a lot of protection and I really like it. Had the same thing on my '99. There have been a couple of times over the years where looking through it was a bit of a problem but nothing that I wasn't able to deal with.

Just got off the phone with Russell. He seems to be in good spirits but as Bubber said, he will be down for about 6 more weeks. I PROMISED him that I would extend his thanks to all our VentureRider members for the flowers. He really did appreciate them.

See....Bubber just PROVED that he is an old timer around here.

Here is a picture of the flowers that I sent on behalf of us all. I HOPE this is what he actually GOT. They didn't have an actual Ford Ranger. Those who have been around here for a while will understand what I mean.