Reyzl

Hi Rose, Thanks for replying. That's really odd that you can't see it. I posted it last Thursday. It looks like it has been read more times than just my own reads so hopefully someone can see it! Do you think I should repost? Thanks Reyzl

Hi I posted a request in the Help Desk section a week ago and no one has replied yet. I had quite prompt replies in the past so I am wondering if the help desk it is still being used/staffed? Should I direct my request to a particular mod instead? Thanks Reyzl

Hi Neither, I never thought of that, you're right, its really unfortunate there aren't more gender options. What you could do, as well as what Winterwishes suggested, is change your gender in your settings to female because it is only male that shows as 'M. Member'. Female does not show on your profile, so all that people would see would be your name then 'member' then the caption you choose to write underneath. Reyzl

Hi With the new version of AS, is it no longer possible to preview a post before you submit it? Perhaps I'm just being dumb but I can't find that facility anymore. Guess maybe you just have to edit afterwards instead?? Reyzl

I tried to change my signature and it won't allow me to. I get the message 'Too many Images and Signature spans too many lines' no matter what I put in there, even if I get rid of all of it . Help what do I do!! Thanks, Reyzl

Just to add - it's been brought to my attention that the link won't paste. I think in order to paste anything at all into AS you need to use a browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. It won't work for me on ordinary Internet Explorer.

Hi Danni and others! I also noticed that the AS way of uploading pics has not been working. I tend to do it via an external website - i prefer it as the pics come out a better size. I just pm'd some instructions for uploading pics to someone, so i will paste here what i wrote .... I use this website: www.postimage.org I'm as sure as i can be that the pics are private within your account and not accessible to anyone else. I think the pics stay there as long as you leave them there, no time limit on them. In Postimage: 1. Register on the site 2. Click 'browse' and choose the file you want to share. 3. There's a box inviting you to resize your file. I think the 'websites & emails' and the 'message boards' sizes are both fine for this. 4. Under that there's a box asking you to name your gallery. If you don't it's fine, it just gets named 'unnamed' 5. Click 'upload it'. (if it won't upload you may need to shrink the size of your file) 6. New screen will show your file being uploaded. Once it's finished, further down you will see a table of links. 7. Choose the link 'direct link' and copy it. 8. Go back to AS to your post or PM. 9. Along the top of the box where you write you will see a row of icons, where the bold, itallics, underline, etc is. Choose the green icon that is a like picture frame with a tree in it (if you hover over it you'll see it's called 'image'. Click on that. 10. A URL box appears. Paste your direct link into this box and click OK. 11. Your pic will appear in your post! Good luck! Reyzl

Great idea - but I think maybe it takes a mod to set that up (I could be wrong) and all our mods have been 'missing' a while!

Hi, I was wondering if anyone, mod or just techy member, can advise. Something weird is happening to my pms. All of the pms people send me very quickly get labelled 'deleted'. They are still there and I can still read them but there's no way to reply. I made space in my inbox but it's still happening. Any ideas?? Thanks Reyzl

I get that too. Always have done since AS reappeared after the crash. Can't seem to opt for the full, non-mobile version of the site on my phone either. Reyzl

Hey Ann, I think that's because you can only post pics on certain boards. This one doesn't have the facility so you won't find a 'browse' button on it. Go to another board ~ probably the Healing through Creativity one if you're posting pics. Open a new topic. Scroll down and you should see at the bottom left under the text box the browse button. Then follow the instructions from there that Silentnomore gave you. Good luck! Reyzl

Thanks for that Vera ! River, I appreciate you raising this as many of us feel frustrated not being allowed to let rip when we need to without *'s making us look coy about it!! There's a hilarious thread somewhere way back in the venting section about just this topic if you do a search for it. Lol, if you think *'s are bad, you should have been on a forum I used to use ~ that one was programmed to replace swear words with nonsense phrases, so for eg. the word "b*tch" would appear in your post as "Pregnant dog" (wtf?? That isn't even the definition of the word, lol!!), any rude word for male body parts came out as "thingy" and female parts = "girl thingy", cocker spaniel = "thingy er spaniel" (!!!), sh*t = "nuts", wh*re = "sleeper". Imagine the embarassment, not to mention concern for your own sanity, when you re-read your own post a day or two later and found for some inexplicable reason you seemed to have written "I was pregant dog ing about my boss the other day and ...." LOL !! Reyzl p.s Just to reassure you, I added the *'s myself this time, it's not that the new adaptations are malfunctioning!!