Just a quick update, our dev environment is now upgraded to the 1.5 version, things are progressing well. This new software is beyond slick, more than I could have ever hoped for. It's chock full of things I always wished the current software had. Overall things are taking longer than expected but we'll get there in the end. Thanks again for the support and patience (definitely want to do this right).
Hi Rob, shouldn't be a problem.
Since I'm probably going back to dial up internet shortly all of this scares me.
If dialup is worse than satellite (we had HughesNet for 18 months), I can only warn you that you're not going to be happy with much of the web. I had a tougher time with Yahoo and news outlets than I did with APUG, though. Even the gallery worked fine out there. I just couldn't upload files faster than walking them to the server and downloads took a lot longer than on cable.
If dialup is worse than satellite (we had HughesNet for 18 months), I can only warn you that you're not going to be happy with much of the web. I had a tougher time with Yahoo and news outlets than I did with APUG, though. Even the gallery worked fine out there. I just couldn't upload files faster than walking them to the server and downloads took a lot longer than on cable.
It is a photography forum which if I'm not mistaken is about visual images / photographs.
Suggest you join a photography mailing list of which there are quite a few I think.
hi wayne
you might look into lynx, its a text only browser that might be useful.
people are still using text only these days, even on websites that look like vegas
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/06/25/using-web-browser-lynx-visit-top-websites/
One of the reservations I have about xenforo is it is very JavaScript-heavy, and on less than excellent browser js implementations (my experience is opera 12.x), it performs unpleasantly slowly.
The rich-text editing is quite unusable for that reason.
I'm expecting to have to switch to ffox for apug, which is a pain.
That's the price I pay for sticking with an outdated but very configurable and otherwise very fast browser of course.
The chrome browsers are vile in comparison.
It was much better when analogue browsers were still all the rage ...
Links-2 has a graphical mode, which may be more useful. It is still text-based, but will show graphics and photos. It is very fast even in graphics mode. Yes, you can use a mouse with it.
http://links.twibright.com/
The download area has an hyperlink to windows versions. I believe there is a windows version, though it may need cygwin - it's been a long time since I seriously used windows. (This is not the same as lynx. There are a number of text-based browsers, especially if you're not using windows.)
Wow that really is just text. I guess I meant it a little looser than that, I just don't need or want excess time and bandwidth gobbling features. A normal browser interface is a bit easier on the eyes. As I said this site work just fine but going into the great unknown scares me, especially when I see so many people asking for things I don't need that will undoubtedly make the site more difficult for me to use. And we may be a minority but I'm sure I'm not alone.
If you're worried you're going to wake up to this:
Please don't. We're heading to a far more streamlined system.. less old clunky code, old bugs, convoluted menus, glitches that have annoyed some for years. It will be de-cluttered, smooth and easy to use. It almost looks identical in most ways, it will definitely feel familiar. It's xenforo but quite modified to suit our needs and aesthetic. I'll also have a low bandwidth option as well.
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