Pottery Chatroom Board

Hello Everyone,

I think I fixed the birthday list glitch where it was showing a day early. Please let me know if you notice any problems in the future.

Take care,
Curt

All updates are complete. Please let me know if you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working properly.
Thanks,
Curt

Hi everyone,

I need to update this website's software. I should be finished in about 15 minutes. If you run into any problems during that time, please log out and back in again.

Thanks,
Curt

Thank you for the birthday wishes Susan (@whodat111)!

Hi All,
I would recommend that anyone who wants their birthday to show up in the right hand sidebar to please edit their member profile and update it. Hit the "save changes" button even if your birthday looks correct. Something apparently happened to the birthday field during one of the many system upgrades. I apologize to anyone who's birthday was missed.
Thanks,
Curt

Shelly, Irene, Max, and Susan,
Thank you for the birthday wishes, I really appreciate it!
Curt

Hi,
The "Load More" link at the bottom of the page is working again.
Thanks,
Curt

Hi Everyone,

Thanks,
Curt

HELLO EVERYONE - I wanted to let you know that I will be doing an upgrade
to the Chat Boards tonight. Please refrain from using the board after 9pm
eastern time. When I'm finished I'll post an "all clear" 🙂

Thanks,
Curt

A belated thank you for the birthday wishes @shellyrae37 @inmax @whodat111 . We went on a garden tour on Saturday and had cake and ice cream that evening. Everyone's peonies were in bloom and I love seeing all of the different varieties. My favorite garden was terraced and had several private seating areas that would be perfect for curling up with a book.

Sorry for the website outage this afternoon. Who knows why it went down, but my webhost said that they were experiencing widespread outages. Probably someone at the data center tripped over a cord 🙂

If you are having trouble logging in, use the new link in the sidebar labeled Alternate Login Page.
Hopefully my web host will have the problem resolved soon.
Thanks,
Curt

Update from Laurie (wellingtonct)...
She says hello to everyone, she's fine, her computer died in October, but she hopes to be chatting again soon.

Apparently the login fix only lasted a few days. I called my web host and they're now running the same job that temporarily seemed to fix it last Friday. Another customer has reported the same problem, so they are reviewing this further to try to come up with a permanent fix. For those of you who are experiencing this issue, please let me know tomorrow if it is still happening.
Thank you for your patience.
Curt

I reported the login problem to my hosting provider and they ran a script that may or may not solve the problem. If anyone is still experiencing login problems, please let me know so that I can contact my provider and let them know that their fix did not work.
Thanks, Curt.

Welcome Jo flora (@joflora), I see you solved the problem without me. Thanks to everyone who helped. -Curt

Hi folks,

Thanks,
Curt

Good morning...
I just wanted to give you a heads up about a possible outage in the near future due to software version changes at my web host. So if you come to the site and it's down, don't panic. I'll have it back up as quickly as possible.

Time test...spring forward.

Time test...don't forget to turn your clocks back folks.

@fyrqueen Katie, it's okay to post a link to Facebook. It just may not work so well for people who aren't on Facebook.

Thanks Susan for the birthday wishes.

Thank you Char and Katie for the birthday wishes. Char, you did a good job of spreading the word, lol!

@jmart8248 ...Hi IreneM, your profile is showing that today is your birthday. To fix this please follow the instructions for updating your profile in the "How To Manual". Any questions, please let me know.

http://www.chatroomboard.com update...

I still need pottery-related keywords and key phrases for the search engines, so if anyone would like to take a shot at that, please email them to me.

Hi again...
Regarding the question of how people will find these boards, there's probably no single, best answer, but I thought I should let you know that I've recently set up http://www.chatroomboard.com to serve that end. The new site is search engine friendly, but it won't be a "chat board" where users can talk. It will be a plain-old-boring website that will have lots of keywords and references to these boards, thereby allowing search engines to find these boards without letting Google, Yahoo, etc. document your every word. So search engines will continue to be blocked from each of the specific boards but at least you will be able to be found if you so desire.

It is just a way to attract attention and to be found.
I'm open to question and suggestions, and I plan to post variations of this request on the other boards.

Unfortunately I feel compelled to point out Rule #3 from the Guidelines page:
"DON'T... be nasty, inconsiderate, annoying, or disrespectful, and NEVER bully. Innuendos will also not be tolerated, even when they may seem to be justified by the inappropriate posts of others. The correct way to deal with problem posters is to use the "Flag" button..."
If anyone regrets anything they've said, use the delete button. If you disagree with something you're reading, either respond constructively, or keep scrolling.

Hi All...

I've had several requests to make the ”Post Message” button bold since it's a little hard to see. I just finished making that change, so if you don't see a difference you may need to hit the refresh icon at the top of your browser.

Some flags have been thrown, so I’d like to politely request that everyone refrain from making any negative comments about other boards. Please consider deleting any comments that have already been made…thank you.

Although I recently created a birthday page for you, I’ve also added a birthday feature to the chatroom.

On your profile page you can add your birth date (no year necessary). On your birthday it will show your avatar in the sidebar and wish you a Happy Birthday…and hopefully others will too.

The Birthday List is now displayed in the sidebar under Fun Stuff. Thanks to Gordon and others for the great idea!

If I've missed any birthdays, just send me an email with the name, month, and day, and I'll add it to the list.

@gordon ...what you saw was an accident. I should have the link in the sidebar shortly.

If you're having jpg problems then try renaming the file to make all letters lowercase, including the .jpg at the end. An uppercase .JPG will cause problems for some inexplicable reason. (@trezchick and @gordon)

Hi everyone! Hope you're all doing well.
I’ve added instructions to the How-To Manual for updating your profile, and also for viewing another member’s profile. The member profile is where you can find the link to someone's eBay auctions. Both sets of instructions are at the very bottom of the How-To page.
As always, if you have any questions for me, send me an email.

@collectibles4utwo ...Chris, I was just able to change the picture on my test account, so I think picture uploading should be working okay. One thing I discovered today is that the file extension cannot be in uppercase or it will fail. So for example, basket1.JPG would fail, but basket1.jpg would work. So you many need to rename it before you do the upload if this is the case. Hope this helps.

The Pottery Chatroom Board is now officially open! Use the ”create an account” link (upper-right) to get started. Refer to the first section in the ”How To” Manual for step-by-step instructions.

There is lots of room in the sidebar, so if you have any pottery-related links that you think others would find useful, please let me know.

The url is not the easiest to remember, so I highly recommend that you bookmark it or send yourself an email with the link. While you don’t need to be logged in to view the posts, you do have to log in to post and to take advantage of the ”Message” feature. If you plan to be a regular on this site, then I highly recommend that you read the ”How To” Manual. Please read the Guidelines for the rules of conduct and especially read the section on ”flagging” posts.

I’m open to suggestions for improving the site, so send them along.

Welcome to the new pottery board. I still have some adjustments to make and some testing to do. Please wait to register until you see another post announcing that this board is open for business.