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...
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...
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...
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...
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Note: To discourage spammers, this board requires an e-mail activation. Several recent registrants mistyped their e-mails and therefore didn't received the activation link. Please enter your e-mail carefully....
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:
Ian (cafeIKE) contacted me and asked about an option to increase the site's font size. I suggested using the browser's font scaling (e.g., Safari uses Command+Option+ the plus/minus key), but it has the drawback of breaking some of the layout assumptions.
I have been getting 520 Error code when trying to open posts. It was not consistent, and I have been seeing it for the past 3 days or so. Returning to previous page and retrying to open the post usually resolved the issue.
It's time for the site's annual disaster recovery test ; that's where I rebuild the site from scratch based on backups and confirm the procedure works as expected. The only upgrade will be in boring techie stuff like the database version and whatnot -- nothing operationally as...
Hi folks,
How would I get in touch with someone who advertised on our buy/sell section?
Someone named DARRENHO recently advertised for sale a Custom Bellows Kit for the Ceado e37s and I would like to contact them.
Maybe if DARRENHO sees this post they can contact me.
I apologize...
Hey, Dan. I've accidentally hit mark all read more than once on my iPhone using Safari. It's not the end of the world, but I figured I'd share in case there's an easy solution (other than me being more careful). Here are a few ways I thought of to keep this sort of irreversible...
I forget how great this site is, so it would be nice to get an occasional email asking where I've been. Sorry, life goes on and I forget to check in. Not only is the regular info handy and valuable, but being able to contribute is also rewarding. Anyway, just an idea.
I've noticed a big reduction in a lot of forum activity over the years, in HB and others, and started wondering if Facebook, IG, Discord has killed the forum.
I'm not sure if others feel the same, but was wondering if there was some publicly available data for how many users...
I see that a thread here on Kafatek's customer service was shut down. But when I'm shopping for a product, I want to read the positives and negatives about it, and I find reviews of customer service and how a manufacturer handles problems with individual purchases extremely...
