I set up a patreon account for the forum here
Feel free to contribute or not, nothing will change on the forum with regard to all information being freely available to all.
More background and discussion in the member's section.
Freestompboxes.org started out in 2007 on a free web hosting server promoting phpbb forum software because existing forums censored totally legally created schematics of friendly boutique builders. Our url literally got censored on other forums to prevent links...
The whole point of freestompboxes.org is to provide an online haven for stompbox electronics enthousiasts of all kinds. Our server is hosted in Sweden with a great company that get its business out of a no-nosense policy with regard to DCMA. This is more expensive than an average US lease, but still not much to speak of. When the attachment function was added to the forum, it was about 350MB in database size. Now it's approaching 8 GB...
This is all attachments... say 7GB of it. This is not an...
It's done now, the board was offline for some odd 20 minutes. Not because of problems, but because of solutions. Forum was doing fine running on old software, but the plugins (antispam mainly) couldn't be updated with the latest versions because of the phpbb version.
You can say a lot of things about phpbb, but it's quite foolproof and OPEN SOURCE. I mean that all this code is written by volunteers who contribute freely, just as a lot of people here freely contribute to build that sort of...
We've been updated to phpbb 3.0.11 - although the system was running smoothly (sort of). I've cleared out some more garbage on the server, and I seem to have the impression it's running a bit faster now.
I've been installing some goodies on the admin side and updating mods. I also installed Mini-Chat, as a quick means of communication and interaction, but it's placed somewhat obtrusively on the top of the page. I'm only doing this to make it known to the members it's there, there is a button...
ForumRunner for mobile devices is installed. This application makes it easier to use the forum on iPhones, iPads, iPod & Android devices.
Didn't mean to stir this thread though:
Make a friendly introduction post - accounts with at least 1 post will NEVER be deleted
I you don't post, visit at least once a year. Postless accounts unused from 1y+ will be deleted.
If you create a new account, activate it within 2 days. New account not activated within 2 days will be deleted, because the majority of these a spam accounts.
Choose a username that can only be created by a human. Avoid numbers.
Freestompboxes.org in approach of its 5th birthday has:
As you might have already read, we have been receiving Digital Millenium Copyright Act notices from commerical builders who think that they own the copyright to documents created by someone else, simply because they built the product described. All this was iniated by Lance Keltner, who felt that the information freely provided by members to other members was his property. At the point where he filed the copyright and trademark infringement complaint, his trademark wasn't even...
I've never really used it myself, trying to be friends with everyone, but it is still there, the Friends & Foes:
If somebody really gets on your nerves ALL the time, just mark them as foes and their posts will be hidden. So you don't lose your temper and a lot of time FLAMING them all the time :mrgreen:
I just realized that the mark all and unmark all buttons in the private messages area don´t work (I´m using Firefox 3.6).
Hard to delete dozens of messages by selecting them one by one...
I'm just going offline to replace my PC's system hard drive with a new 500Gb hard drive I just bought today, this will involve me reinstalling the operating system and drivers after formatting the hard drive, so, in the meantime if you PM me and it seems like I'm taking a while to reply back, you'll know why, once I'm back online I'll reply back straight away..... :)
Don't worry if this happens, it's just maintenance - I deleted about 500 user accounts that were never logged into.
I also tend to delete user accounts that remain unused more than 1,5 year, if they have never posted.
I keep getting bumped back to a log in page when I click on a link, image or try to post. So I log back in and just get bumped out over and over again. Took me a while to get this to post.
I have an intermittent problem with downloading attached files. After I log in if I try to download an attachment, a pdf file for example, I get an error message saying I'm not authorized to view the file and my status changes to Logged Out . Then maybe an hour or two I return and the file downloads without incident.
DrNomis here,I have just bought myself a new Epson stylus NX125 Printer/Scannner/Copier,so now I should be able to upload clear,and easy to read scans of all my strip/veroboard layouts in the form of PDF files.... :)
Due to the massive invasion of spambots, severe measure have been taken that might however, hinder to process of signing up for genuine, sincere users.
The sign-up script now checks with the most important spam databases to ban spammer from signing up.
If you experience problems, do let me know at admin at freestompboxes dot org
thanks
I short, you could just delete the attachment that are no longer relevant, if you could edit messages at all. They will indeed still exist on the server, but I clean out this folder of unattached attachments. So there really is no worry about using up webspace. That all attachments dissapear by deleting is somewhate strange. But I suspect this has to do with the fact that messages in fact cannot be edited.
You can still always report the post to the mod and have him...
:scratch: uh... you know, if you can post, your profile is activated, right? that is, you have to be signed in to post, and you have to have an activated profile to sign in. not real sure what the problem is here.
If this is the case your mail server was bouncing messages from freestompboxes.org. Please fill out a correct e-mail account in your profile field and contact me to be removed from the group.
basic db maintenance, you know, stupid administration!
There were some serious problems with the search function and they just recently came to my attention. The search engine would exclude words are too frequent: fuzz, circuit, pcb, ...
Now you could even search the forum for the word 'and'... find all occurences.
Any bugs or problems with the forum, I'm always hear to listen and help if possible, do drop me a line. thanks!
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