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Just a small thing but don’t really think the ‘thumbs up’ are really necessary for each post, nobody ever uses them, but more smilies would be nice perhaps some seasonal ones too.
Does this "thumbs up" thingy actually work
Can we have some sort of "Foe" icon against each member whereby if you click this icon it hides the content this member has posted. Therefore we don’t have to waste X seconds of our life reading said member’s sh*te. I think other forums have this feature
I like the ghosts section …..the dead speak on certain special occasions ….
oh and could we have a politically correct, punctuation perfect zone for ignorant
TWATS
like betlarge
Good luck with it Corm …loving the advert free idea too
We’ll be keeping the forum ‘sections’ as is, to start with at least, in order to make the data migration less complex. Archives will still be there.
Chat will go – we could in future re-introduce something but no one really uses it any more – seems sad to think we can’t have a Sunday quiz again and I made some very good friends courtesy of those early/mid ’00’s late night discussions! But, in these days of social media constant chat the chat-room seems an anachronism.
Thumbs up will go. Another ‘seemed like a good idea at the time’.
Hiding people’s posts you don’t want to see is something I’ve seen elsewhere so I think we could possibly include that, I’ll check.
Photos – yep, this is something we’ll include. Probably some kind of gallery section where people can upload pics. It may not be there initially but is something we’ll put in quickly.
Recent forum topics – I think stuff like that may be possible, I’ll check.
PM facility will be there, hopefully easier than the current one.
We’re making good progress with it – on track for a changeover next week sometime.
Good luck David, love this site and the chat/wisdom from fellow enthusiasts. Maybe more prominence to a "recent posts" section, for those of us who check in a few times each day
I’m seeing a few mentions for ‘recent posts’ so we’ll try to ensure that is in. Looking at photos looks like we can do some interesting stuff quite easily, tag photos with horse names, etc, so that you can search for pics of a fav horse etc.
Not really a design thing, but maybe offer a prize for best post/topic of the week/month/year? Perhaps a free bet would be in order.
Also, just a minor thing, but the smilies could do with an update/bigger choice.
Hope these changes will result in a better overall performance of the site.
It’s not
that
bad, but I’d have to say in terms of load times and general stickiness, this version of TRF is the poorest performing of all the sites I visit on a regular basis.
One subject of photos I tied to post one earlier this week and there seems to be some sort of size restriction preventing certain photos being posted. Hasten to add this was a photo I had put up on other forums with no problem. Hopefully the next version of TRF won’t haave these restrictions.
Good luck with it all.
Maybe we should get the nominations for the yearly awards in early?
Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Tread cautiously today – I would suggest – it is black Friday
and the financial markets are being spooked as I speak although
the energy companies are all in the confessional.Retailers have gone a bit loopy even in the run up to this
event and I hope the Ginger army in fact the value men are filling their cut price boots – I am taking delivery of two cases of champagne normal price £300 and with all my discounts and benefits its cost me
a cool 73. That deal is over – gamble got me to cheekily re-order
yesterday after the close date time – I talked the woman over with a velvet tongue and she said I wouldn’t normally do this (how often have I heard that said to me – so come on David ) but they were out of stock !If you don’t ask you don’t get and with this site contemplates changes I have to state my position. My four tramps posting was done on Fluttertalk over a decade ago in an atmosphere of defiance. It was written four weeks before 9/11 and wrote about the disappearance of the traders that gathered lunchtime in a city park – their sandwich filled babble – their garish polka dot fashion. The park lay quiet apart from the quiet wind in the trees, and the four tramps commiserated their loss. I suffered a strange depression for two days thereafter and could not put my finger on why. It is still my most famous and treasured posting. Six moths earlier the doll wrote through me on Betfair warning of a changed world order. I wrote all this in a different era when defiance was the order of the day. It gave me huge energy and once on my way to work back then, I felt myself leave the ground, yes I was walking on air six feet over. As a child I had visions but this felt more real That is what this sort of freedom offered – unlimitless possibility. Obviously the internet has changed -the freedoms have been curtailed by legal actions but there still should be a sense of adventure.
I have always been more interested in its internal energy and history
and the functionality has not bothered me at all. Loading time is annoying but I have found a gate through google and Cormack 15 got me in ever time – not working so well now I have to admit.Whether So Sharp – was that her name – no not quite – sharp knife or something you’ll remember her utterances in the 120 degree desert heat as she offered Ricky Lake a cup of vinegar to quench his thirst – must be what three years ago now – on that header about the state of this house. Whether she is looking in several times a day these days I doubt – as the energy is down from my perspective – forget the figures.
Well there may be external factors and certainly people have moved to sleeker methods of communication but I feel there is a fear to state
it real on here
. The dissenters have gradually been chiselled out and with a tamer house and a uniform cry of yes – the sharp blades have taken their glint elsewhere.
I am sure we are all grateful for David Cormack for all his gargantuan efforts to date and for taking on the enormously difficult undertaking of trying to steer a middle course of satisfying everyone and endeavouring to perservere the Daylight legacy – and even improving on some areas of that D&D era – we must not forget Debs. My only concern is when David is steering too near the rocks who shouts out WHOAA ? Matron would be favourite but I feel his advices are more of a technical nature. I have had a few blasts via the highly energised sheep and received a few blast back in the lounge and I am a nimble ram on a high wire, but most of the dissenters are the clay pigeon variety,and have fallen terribly.
My next question is why David has rooted out these dissenting voices and lead them to a dark side ally. This brings me on to the necessary advertising that support this site. The first advert that David introduced was of a man with a red cap drowning – I must have seen it a hundred times – but it was a bad omen pop up. The impact of the advertising was cooled down considerably much later, and we have functions to avert it, but my feeling is that any blatant criticism of this site gets a hard reaction from David as he is worried about advertising impact.
Take the interesting Winkleman who may have come out with redundant google viewing figures – but to dispatch him for a contrarian view I believe is a course almost on the rocks. Also Pilsen’s late night piss poor comment which apparently ended his career was poor form on David’s part in my opinion. Woolfe Trubsware and Lake are all up on the high wire at the moment and God bless them ! I say they bring energy here despite getting it wrong sometimes. There have been two discordant incidents of late – Ginger’s Billions and and Lake and Mr P who was brutally dressed up in a high wig and red dress for the occasion. Difficult areas for David to deal with and he got the former a bit wrong getting badly wrong-footed but he handled them both pretty well in my opinion. If we go deeper back in time we have Tormentor (an earlier Mr P) the innocuous Arzen and Pinza. All met an inglorious end although Tormentor may have found the back door himself. Reet Hard another dissenter took a slow boat to China booking a route through the difficult North West passage – so God knows where he is – but I miss his taciturn. Gerald and Ken sip beers together in the park but never look up these days for fear of the fallen
David’s view was always new lamps for old – but I tell you what these new lamps need years to perform and get the credit of the old ones and I don’t buy your modernistic philosophy it is flawed in my book.
My call for a ghosts section is real and I suggest an open door policy to bring all the dead back on board. I would even suggest setting up a voluntary fund as an incentive to get them back. I will even donate £5 of my black Friday money. Possibly venturing into fantasy now but why would any of them want to take to these waters again – possibly their own section and an apology might get them back on the wire – but it doesn’t have to be – just an open door policy.
I hope I have tempered my criticism with plaudit – but it had to be said. Matron deserves credit for his back room help and for his work on systems and the others behind the scenes. The young Fella may be right about horses and jockeys. David your idea was to create a hub so you don’t have to leave. I do not think that will ever be realised. Let’s keep it simple and get the bad boys back. Give them a chance anyway – Razeen has grown a beard in his despair and his loft is full of empty mighty gold cans and old truffle postings.
Daylight’s reorganisation of this site was done behind closed doors David Cormack has at least let the sheep in to bleat their approval or otherwise. A good move on his part. This site is not a cooperative of voices however much I proclaim it as such. It is free as Ian correctly states and for that we can be thankful – but remember we are all on the chain gang of posting so don’t overly tip your hat you’ve earned your freedom ! This has taken me two hours of slog
p.s. Simon Cowell made millions out of dissent and expressing the negative contrarian view – he realised it was a real bonus to viewing figures and took full advantage. We have closed it down and suffer the inevitable consequences
Ee bah gum a reet gradeley essay Gamble
Reet Hard is a regular contributor on Talking Horses, as is EC who I’m sure you recall from his time on here too
If memory serves RH bust a blood vessel after the 1000th reference to that table of odds and chances, then admitted himself to A&E and long-term rehab
I have written enough today
but just a few words to
welcome you and say…I know Reet Hard was not hanged but my memory was he left after a couple of haraungings by Cormack – I thought these sent him on his way rather than Ginger’s higher maths.
I do not think bringing back dissenters will solve the evacuation problem wholesale just tip the balance a bit. We have lost Big O, Prufrock, Rory, grayson’s column is rusting and Barry Dennis likes his coch and daily steak these days. So quite a few departees through natural wastage. Zorro has ditched his mask and sword for a couple of chop sticks some miso soup and green tea – known to drink the occasional barrel of beer though down Mr Choos
David has taken this oath I believe
I, David Cormack, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.
nothing wrong with that, in fact it is quietly comforting, nor the fact he does not go to church on a Sunday (neither do I) but agrees that there is a benefit of Religion to society. His belief system also harnesses the acceptance and validity of the death penalty in the virtual world.
I always treat him with deadly respect if ever I sling a few word bombs his way. I have to admit he seems a fair person – just wish he might blow away the cobwebs a bit, and let the dead back in
Corm …maybe we should have a seperate section for Gamble posts ..together with mental health warnings
Terrific post dear boy …even though you wish I was dispatched to the gloom …Im sure the krones will lift your spirits ,,,eventually
Some new sections I’d like to see:
Drone-ing On
Drone invites us round to the open-fire snug with his whippet and a pint of Byheckmansworth Old Gubbins (11.3% abv) whilst regaling us with tales of how everything was better when ‘e were a lad… etc etc
Sounds just grand owd lad. I will regale my guests with tales from the Golden Oldie Days of 10% betting tax, Extel in smoke-filled cesspits and how the Days changed their hue to Blue when the Exchanges ruined everythingDunno about the dog though: like Doug and Dinsdale’s mate Mad Frankie Kierkegaard I just sit around biting the heads off whippets, but only after a quiet gallon of Byheckmansworth
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I do like Gamble’s idea of a Ghosts Section
intitot?
One subject of photos I tied to post one earlier this week and there seems to be some sort of size restriction preventing certain photos being posted. Hasten to add this was a photo I had put up on other forums with no problem. Hopefully the next version of TRF won’t haave these restrictions.
Good luck with it all.
I am usually plagued by a message which tells me maximum image size is 400 pixels wide. Even when I reduce the width to less than this via photobucket tools, I often still can’t get this site to accept the image.
I have seen mention of an option to ignore certain posters and have used other forums where you can have an ignore list and add users to it as deemed necessary. I usually just exercise my own judgement and avoid the person whose views give me cause for grief.
I agree with Moehat that the PM system here is a little confusing and I don’t understand why the message has to sit in my inbox for quite a time before being sent to the intended recipient. Perhaps this can be simplified?
People on forums often pine for old/banned members to return but times move on with these forms of communication and in a twitter and facebook era, brevity is the method that lets one-line William compete on an even par with the budding Shakespeare.
Good luck in bringing the forum up to speed and pleasing as many as possible David.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
I have seen mention of an option to ignore certain posters and have used other forums where you can have an ignore list and add users to it as deemed necessary. I usually just exercise my own judgement and avoid the person whose views give me cause for grief.
As such a miniscule percentage of the 53,255
members actually bother to post on the forum then I personally do them all the honour of at least skimming their missives. However I tend to read only this section and t’loungeHell no, not an ignore facility please, Drone will be left all alone reading-back and smugly relishing what an annoyingly verbose clever-dick he is
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