changes to forum . . .

Yeah I know people take to some things quick others have to adapt.

You'll get used to it, so far its pretty good and much more features than the old software.

Josh do you have the old image with you and your bike on your computer?

Ok to post an image in a thread like this one you have to have the image hosted somewhere
on the internet. To do that you need a picture hosting service, photobucket offers a free image hosting
service. www.photobucket.com. BTW it's a free site.

Sign up an account and you can upload pictures from your PC to photobucket.
Once there you can post images anywhere on the net by referencing the picture
on the host site.

When you look at your images on photobucket they give you the code to paste into
any forum that uses HTML tags for image references. There is a box that says IMG
you click in that box and it auto copies the code, then paste it into the post...

The code below is what you copied, you don't have to know how to type it out, I put some spaces in so the code shows up for reference.

[ URL = http://s1183.photobucket.com/user/hotroadking/media/Hounds/null_zps5f450b4f.jpg.html][IMG ]http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x463/hotroadking/Hounds/null_zps5f450b4f.jpg[/ IMG][/ URL]


Heres what happens when you post the code as copied.

WTF,you steal our cat?

Yea, we know about photo bucket but there still should be away to do it on hear.

I also noticed at the top where you can click on new posts that is does not always show all the new posts but at the far right side there is another one that says recent posts. By clicking that one on then it will show all the new and recent posts. Just my observations.

Thats the daughters newest addition, rescued it a few weeks ago.

YOu can upload images to the gallery then reference them that way.

I typically follow the same motto, if it ain'f broke...
But in the case of this forum there was a lot broke that people may not have realized, and there were many patches and fixes holding the thing together.

The other major reason for the move was the software itself. The old forum was built on a product called VBulletin which was a great product... until it was bought out by a large company that is driving it into the ground. Long story short, within a couple of years or less all forums on that platform will be forced into an upgrade that is not only costly but poorly conceived.

Moving to this new platform here became an easy decision given the desire to continue providing a user friendly forum that most could adapt to. The platform was also designed by the same people who originally conceived the old forum software, which is why things are not completely different (only slightly).

Issues around images is still something I'm working on. Image uploads on the old version was one of the hardest hits to performance that required daily optimizing just to keep the thing from crashing. I relate it to taking a long ride and wanting to take the wife, dogs, and kids with me. Rather than pile them all on the back of my bike I'll settle for looking at a picture of them in my wallet when I reach my destination. Not sure about the rest but I know my dog will get over it

FYI, there is a message thread going on under Announcements where I am trying to address issues as they come up. That may progress into a larger effort to track changes, requests, etc.
http://bike-talk.com/threads/upgrades-to-bike-talk.19813/

Well Ken I posted pictures of my trip called see yea and now they don't show up and when I tried to click one on it says error, so not sure what's going on.

The times they are a changing Bob Dylan , it will all work out for the best , just a little time , I've been off line for a few days& came back to a new & better Bike talk , Just look around & you'll see it all in time , I did like the old icons better

Found out Cardboard is in Alabama and he said he could figure out how to get on, does not surprise me.

Here is an image from my iPhone uploaded using the Upload a File button, the image is 800 x 600 and 92KB size. No problems positing the image.

Here is the second image, 1024 x 768, quite large and added to the post, it comes up as an Icon when posted this way and this is the same way the other forum software uploads images.

The only way to put a full size image in any BBS software is to copy and paste a hosted URL using the image icon...

That is what I used to upload the picks in my thread and now they are gone?