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[ik9000]

I asked one of the mods once, they just said storage costs blah blah blah, not me who makes the decision, the world could end so let's not rock the boat, it's free what are you grumbling about, etc etc

[Helios451]

I followed the sage advice of far more experienced members for my build log and use ImgBB to post fairly large thumbnails of my pics which link to the full size files on the hosting site. Seems to work well enough.

[Jonj1611]

Yeah we all use external links, that wasn't quite the question I was asking, this is a Hexus suggestions section, hence the suggestion

[MLyons]

New servers are going in in a few weeks so I'll discuss with DR about maybe increasing some limits to come in line with modern times.

[Jonj1611]

Many thanks

[ik9000]

I don't mind using imgbb for pictures, it works quite well in fact, but the message box limit really cheeses me off. Had to delete a few between me and peterb to free up some space. Ideally I'd have hung onto those.

[Jonj1611]

I hear what you are saying there, I had to free up some messages recently but have kept the peterb ones, sometimes I read through them and it makes me sad but always feel priveleged he would engage in conversation on any subject

[MLyons]

We weren't aware the PM inbox limit was an issue, the news about peterb saddens me. I've spoke to DR and he's approved an inbox size increase. That's something we can easily fix before the new servers go on. I'm thinking something like 125 messages.

[ik9000]

We weren't aware the PM inbox limit was an issue, the news about peterb saddens me. I've spoke to DR and he's approved an inbox size increase. That's something we can easily fix before the new servers go on. I'm thinking something like 125 messages.

any increase is welcome. I wonder though, given it's plain text and rather small sizes, whether there is any scope for a limit that scales with number of posts. Logic would say the more you're on here and contributing the more likely you are to have messages. If the default is 70 for a new user then could we get, say, an additional 30 per 250 posts or something like that?

If we can't have an ongoing increase can you add a way to do some kind of archiving or back-up export? Aside from general chat PMs tend to be where we agree shipping products, bank transfers etc and there's currently no way to export them to back-them-up so we have to keep a block of messages sat in there. I'm regularly at 68 messages out of 70 and having to carefully go through which is the least bad message to delete when my mail box gets full.

[Output]

can you add a way to do some kind of archiving or back-up export?

After quickly checking the Private Message section, that's already possible. Using the checkboxes to select those you want, then scrolling down and choosing the "Selected Messages" option, you can "Download as XML", "Download as CSV" and "Download as TEXT".

I had forgotten about that myself until seeing you mention exporting prompted a memory of me being able to export messages on some forums that I'd visited in the past.

[ik9000]

After quickly checking the Private Message section, that's already possible. Using the checkboxes to select those you want, then scrolling down and choosing the "Selected Messages" option, you can "Download as XML", "Download as CSV" and "Download as TEXT".

oh fork it. Right after scrubbing things last week.

[sammyc]

We weren't aware the PM inbox limit was an issue, the news about peterb saddens me. I've spoke to DR and he's approved an inbox size increase. That's something we can easily fix before the new servers go on. I'm thinking something like 125 messages.

It has come up over & over but probably more so in the past, as ik9000 said, it was always a No in response so I assume people gave up hope & stopped asking.

oh fork it. Right after scrubbing things last week.

I don't suppose you've got Email Notification of New Private Messages set, because I tend to forget that it does have the text of the message in the email not just the notification.. just a faint hope. Sorry if you haven't.

[silent]

whats the best free picture host to use, as i have lots of stuff that needs to go and not advertised for ages on here. is the album able to handle like 15-20 images?

[Jonj1611]

I am using imgur at the moment, I have not had much luck with images hosted on here though. I recently uploaded an image to my album but when linking the image on the site, I can see it but nobody else can

[g8ina]

Use Imgur, its free. https://imgur.com/

[ik9000]

I think imgbb also works and gives handy cut+paste links for bb (forum) code.