Okay, I gotta complain..... First off, thanks for the site. It is a good site with lot's of good info and some good regular posters.
My complaint is I want to be able to attach a picture to my posts and have figured out how you got to do that. It seems you got to have your pictures hosted somewhere else on the web and do a hyperlink here to attach a picture on your post. To me this is a pain in the butt, and not worth the effort.
My guess is the reason we can not directly attach a picture here is Pictures use up bandwidth and bandwidth costs money. Whoever owns this forum is making sure not to run up the bill.
Now I am not a computer expert by any means, and I don't know much about hosting forums and running them. I do alot of posting on a gyroplane forum www.rotaryforum.com and it is the same software as this forum, same options, screens, and so on. Just no ad's on the left side of the screen.
My first guess was since Vans RV airplanes are so popular that there is probably a hundred thousand posts on this forum and 10 thousand members. That if everyone here posted pictures directly onto the forum it would make hosting the forum too costly. So I compared some stats from both forums.
Vans Forum 3649 total threads, Rotaryforum 6500 total threads. Vans forum 20465 total posts, Rotaryforum 83370 total posts. Vans forum number of members 2345, Rotaryforum 1536. Vans forum high number of people online at any given time 197, Rotaryforum 366.
So the gyro forum has about 800 less members, but there is almost double the threads, and almost 4 times as many total posts. The gyro forum allows it's members to post pictures directly from the members computer onto the forum, no picture hosting site hassles. We ARE limited to posting pics that are no larger than 150 KB, but that is easy enough to do.
I am good personal friends with the owner of the Rotaryforum. He says the forum is paid for donations from the members. Once a year he asks for those that want to send in a donation to send it in. Those that donated get a special title under there name - Gold supporter, and this kind of encourages others to donate a few bucks. So far the owner says he has had a excess of money, more than what it costs to host our forum, pics and all. Not sure if the owner of this forum has asked for or just recieved donations.... But I do know I can't avoid the ad's off to the left side of my screen!
Anyway enough ranting. Just disappointed that If I want to post a pic to this site I got to sign up to yet another site and then have to download my pictures there and all this hassle......
My complaint is I want to be able to attach a picture to my posts and have figured out how you got to do that. It seems you got to have your pictures hosted somewhere else on the web and do a hyperlink here to attach a picture on your post. To me this is a pain in the butt, and not worth the effort.
My guess is the reason we can not directly attach a picture here is Pictures use up bandwidth and bandwidth costs money. Whoever owns this forum is making sure not to run up the bill.
Now I am not a computer expert by any means, and I don't know much about hosting forums and running them. I do alot of posting on a gyroplane forum www.rotaryforum.com and it is the same software as this forum, same options, screens, and so on. Just no ad's on the left side of the screen.
My first guess was since Vans RV airplanes are so popular that there is probably a hundred thousand posts on this forum and 10 thousand members. That if everyone here posted pictures directly onto the forum it would make hosting the forum too costly. So I compared some stats from both forums.
Vans Forum 3649 total threads, Rotaryforum 6500 total threads. Vans forum 20465 total posts, Rotaryforum 83370 total posts. Vans forum number of members 2345, Rotaryforum 1536. Vans forum high number of people online at any given time 197, Rotaryforum 366.
So the gyro forum has about 800 less members, but there is almost double the threads, and almost 4 times as many total posts. The gyro forum allows it's members to post pictures directly from the members computer onto the forum, no picture hosting site hassles. We ARE limited to posting pics that are no larger than 150 KB, but that is easy enough to do.
I am good personal friends with the owner of the Rotaryforum. He says the forum is paid for donations from the members. Once a year he asks for those that want to send in a donation to send it in. Those that donated get a special title under there name - Gold supporter, and this kind of encourages others to donate a few bucks. So far the owner says he has had a excess of money, more than what it costs to host our forum, pics and all. Not sure if the owner of this forum has asked for or just recieved donations.... But I do know I can't avoid the ad's off to the left side of my screen!
Anyway enough ranting. Just disappointed that If I want to post a pic to this site I got to sign up to yet another site and then have to download my pictures there and all this hassle......