I agree with the above sentiments and am doing my best ! Noel.

May I suggest that a good ‘vote of thanks and confidence’ would be for members to complete their Profile if they have not already done so ?

MichaelG.

+1

Those that have said it does not work, when did you try as it has only been working for the last few days.

May also force you to change password if your old one was short or did not have caps and characters.

I just looked at my profile and it reminded me of a question (out of dozens) I was meaning to ask.

Does anyone know the purpose of the ‘What’s New Ian?’ box/field?

Ian P

Hi Gary, I’ve just added a little to my profile a few minutes ago without any problems, but you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click update, and I then just clicked on the forum button, to get back out of my profile.

MichaelG, I’ve found where your few words are, but I’ll not let on, so that others can see if they can find them.

Regards Nick.

It’s certainly running much better than it was a few months ago!

One tip I discovered is to give the thing chance to operate: I now wait a few seconds for the little dot to stop bouncing back and forth on the tool-bar tab before starting the next command.

I experimented with this: I posted the above, and it took maybe 10 – 15 seconds for all those words to get there. So to type this line I selected “Edit” and that command took perhaps 5s to register.

On 29 January 2024 at 05:58 Michael Gilligan Said:

On 28 January 2024 at 21:46 Ian P Said:

[…]

I see your full title is @michaelgilligan61133, there must be a lot of Michael Gilligan’s!

Ian P

 

 

Therein, of course lies a mystery … which may, or may not, be reflective of the database integrity !

Greater minds than mine will be needed, if 61133 is to be explained

… it surely can’t represent the number of registered members named michaelgilligan because [so we were told] the total registration list is only about 48k members.

Where’s that Turing chap when we need him ?!

MichaelG.

Is it DOB ? 11-6-33

Prompted by the success of others, I’ve just tried, and succeeded, to update my profile. Whew…

On 29 January 2024 at 05:58 Michael Gilligan Said:

On 28 January 2024 at 21:46 Ian P Said:

[…]

I see your full title is @michaelgilligan61133, there must be a lot of Michael Gilligan’s!

Ian P

 

 

Therein, of course lies a mystery … which may, or may not, be reflective of the database integrity !

Greater minds than mine will be needed, if 61133 is to be explained

… it surely can’t represent the number of registered members named michaelgilligan because [so we were told] the total registration list is only about 48k members.

Where’s that Turing chap when we need him ?!

MichaelG.

I did look into it a while ago, but no idea in what post now, and I can’t be bothered trying to search; it’s difficult as I can’t get beyond page 1 of topics started on mine, or anyone else’s profile.
My own user name, peak4, carried over as it was before, as it didn’t contain spaces or special characters.
Had it been Bill Williams, then it would, like yours have a number suffix, and the space taken out.

As I recall, if you can remember an old thread you created on the original forum, when you view it now as a topic, the very first post is just of your name and a blank post, with a unique post number, so again, a single data point

I think the 61133 is just the numerical identification of a single piece of data, (your user name ??) from the original forum.
Post numbers will have been in a different range, topic headings different again etc.

Bill