Some quick notes, to be fleshed out later:
Warnings
Be careful when writing long posts! If you accidentally press the backspace button (outside of the text editing area) then your web browser will navigate to the previous page and your entire post will be lost, without any confirmation warning.
Your comments can be deleted by someone else. Specifically, the original author of a topic has absolute authority to delete the entire topic and all follow-up comments posted on the topic, at any time.
Because the topic author can delete the topic (and all attached discussion) at any time, you should always download and save to your own PC any discussion threads that you want to keep, because they might disappear from the forum at any time. To download the discussion to your PC, use the "Save page" feature from your web browser, and save the page as HTML with images. Printing PDFs from the forum may or may not work; see https://lad90000.wixsite.com/radioelectronics/forum/forum-issues-administration/possibility-to-print-pages.
If you are the topic author, please do not delete topics, because you will also delete everyone else's comments on your topic. This can be inconsiderate and can destroy's other peoples' work. If you want to make changes, please edit (not delete) your original post's contents, without deleting the whole topic.
You can't edit the contents of a chat message (a private message) after it is sent. So be careful when sending private messages or chat messages!
Comment 3
Comment 1, Three comments here, I will delete comment 2
I should add that my experience with Groups.io was some time ago. I just looked at the newer version and it looks like it might be better. Like Garry, I'm an old guy, too, and making changes isn't the easiest thing in the world.
I will be trying to follow this with the hope that it survives. I really miss the old RadioBoard. I tried the Groups.io regenerative group but found it hard to use (user unfriendly). It did not seem to foster group discussion, at least in my experience.
Thank you, qrp, for your posting on ARF which led me here.
Tom
One thing I just noticed -- you can't edit the contents of a private message after it is sent. So be careful when sending private messages!
VK3YE, a well-known homebrew radio enthusiast, was kind enough to link to this forum, as you can see here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/theradioboard/msg4177396/#msg4177396 . So, the word is getting out about this forum. Let's hope new members will join and post interesting radio projects and discussion!
I'll try to do my part by writing up the current status of my all-2N3904 shortwave superhet. It's working, though mighty ugly to look at. I've got a couple of ideas for improvements -- I had added, then later removed a regenerative IF stage. Now I'm thinking I need to add it back again to get sufficient selectivity.
It won't find it yet because I haven't migrated this WIX site to the pro version, so search engines really don't index it well yet. I'm waiting for a price reduction. Usually one a month they cut it in half. I registered the name and simply forwarded the name to this site.
I wonder how long it takes the search engines to pick up on that. A google search the "the RadioBoard" still points to the suspended site.
I registered a site http://theradioboard.org/ It redirects here. When WIX has a promotion, I'll upgrade the site
Thanks very much for the kind words. I want to have this go live, and before I do that, i want to make sure everyone gets the URL.
On another note
Here is a message from WIX support about issues with posting dates
Thank you for contacting Wix Customer Care team.
First, as a Customer Care Expert, I want to personally apologize for the long response time. We are experiencing a higher wave of traffic these days, and we are doing our best on providing assistance to all of our dear users, first-in first-served basis. We appreciate the understanding and flexibility while we work on improving our Customer Care delivery pace and quality.
If I get you right, you want to know whether it's possible to display the date when the forum post was published on the forum page, instead of the number of how many hours (days) have passed.
I totally understand your request, however, please note that it is currently not possible to display the date immediately after posting your forum post. For the first 9 days from the posting date, "one day ago" will be displayed, and after the 10th day, the date will be displayed as "month : day". After about a year has passed, the date display will change to "year ○ month ○ day".
Wix is constantly working on feature updates and improvements, and your feedback is extremely appreciated.
Ultimately, I think people will go where the content is. There is no point to reading nothing. Right now most of the available content is here.
Personally, the groups i/o format is unappealing and clunky to me, including the iteration that Reset prepared, which does look much better and it is clear he made real effort to make it look good and easier to use, which he/she should be commended for.
But I still perceive it as lipstick on a pig.
This is the easiest forum software I have ever used. The criticism of the forum software was unfounded, it seemed to me, and left me with a lot of questions about why it was made.
I think you've done a terrific job with it for whatever that is worth.
73
Win W5JAG