Prompted by a member's suggestion, there's now an option for making contributions in support of this site . With the new contribute to HB option, you'll automatically be assigned as a seller in the Buy/Sell forum AND your profile will include a nice Supporter banner beneath your...
I participate on a programming site called Stack Overflow. They are a dedicated Q&A forum and are hyper-focused on neatly delineating the topic; their FAQ How do I ask a good question? offers very good advice for anyone seeking answers, notably this excerpt:
We greatly appreciate those vendors who share their knowledge with the site's membership. However, for someone who sells coffee or coffee-related equipment, there may be a fine line between sharing one's enthusiasm and (unintentionally) soliciting the site's visitors for...
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Regrettably spammers are motivated to join sites that allow liberal rules on forum signatures. To reduce this incentive, effective immediately, the board will enforce new signature restrictions for members until they have established a history with the site.
This post elaborates on the Guidelines for productive online discussion recommendation Avoid cross-posting . Cross-posts are not strictly forbidden, however they should be used sparingly. For example, if a topic posted on another site is given time to develop and yet goes...
TL;DR - if your uploaded photos aren't oriented correctly when displayed on HB, try uploading them without rescaling . The HB server will automatically rescale and re-orient the image.
Background: Some members have noticed uploaded images are not correctly oriented, i.e., a...
It's hard to believe, but yes, yesterday marked the 14th year since the forums officially began. :shock:
It wasn't until 2011 that the Guidelines for productive online discussion were codified and 2013 when the Vendor participation in the forums guidelines were posted. There's...
Most photos are ruined because they're under unnatural light. There are plenty of online tools for correcting images, but in this example, I used the Preview app that comes with MacOS. Below is a before/after photo borrowed from the forums:
This board provides a simple personal messaging (PM) system for contacting other members. When you're logged in, an Inbox link is shown in the navigation bar where you can check for PMs. Some members have been confused because messages sent to others remain in the Outbox. This...
As noted in the site's Guidelines for productive online discussion , long-time members are more likely to offer thoughtful responses to newcomers if some initial research is done beforehand. The tips below can help your searches be more fruitful:
Note: You may want to resize your image before uploading. Most computers come with image editors (e.g., Preview on Mac, Photos on Windows), or you can choose from one of many free image editors such as Google Photos or image convert , shrink...
I just had a bit of an epiphany, and I realized that the advice that I get here has saved me something like a thousand dollars or more over the last decade. It was you all sharing your adventures and your wisdom; your experiences and your failures.
And even that doesn't hold a...
The Internet is drowning in reviews. I find they are often based on short term experience and are biased by enthusiasm or disappointment. This is the same with car reviews.
I would propose collecting known issues instead. Much like the book Lemon Aid helps people make informed...
For over 10 years, members have discussed What to do about newbie noise , complained Noise is making useful data hard(er) to find , and lamented Why do the same questions have to be answered every 60-90 days? While not a complete solution, inspired by ira's offline suggestion to...
I just tried to contribute to HB and PayPal said donations can't be made to the account in this country. I'm in Hong Kong. I had a similar issue donating to someone in Australia. Does anyone know the issue or how I can get around it?
Is it just me or is the site having performance issues? Seems like pages take a long time to load, if they load at all. My ability to connect has been intermittent since yesterday. Don't seem to be having any problems on my end with other sites.
Not sure if this is a me issue, but I've noticed that at least with some image uploads, the colour is way off. Not really an issue for me day to day, but it seems a bit funky so I thought I'd pass it on!
Recently, pop-up advertising has been appearing on top of the H-B content. If I click on a thread, a white box appears containing the ad. This box has to be closed to proceed further, as it obliterates the content. While I understand the need for and support advertising on the...
Usually when I go into any of the forums (Buying Advice, Espresso Machines, Grinders, etc.), I see a list of posts/topics. If any of these consist of multiple pages, I'm able to see the first several page numbers (and the last few as well if it's a very big discussion) and click...
Searching previous discussion I figured that the Add Foe options means ignore user (don't show their posts). But what does Add Friend do? Will it allow me to keep track of posts by those users? Will they get a notification that I added them as a friend?
