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...
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...
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?
When I add a YouTube URL with starting video timestamp in my forum post (e.g. https ://youtu.be/QAzE-_ocf1U?t=601 See example forum post here ), the timestamp part ( ?t=601 ) is automatically removed by the forum software for some reason. I had to add extra comment in the post...
To-date, the site has formal reviews written by the moderators and many informal member-initiated reviews in the forums. Given the regular forum activity, these latter reviews are often pushed back several pages in the list of forum topics; finding them again requires searching...
On my iPhone, often the gray up/down arrows overlay in the lower right corner block access to the Next button, which is frustrating. Is there any way to turn them off?
And does anyone actually use them? They have no use on an iPhone, as you can just scroll to top by touching...
Needless to say, a lot of businesses are challenged by the last 9+ months. Many cafes are closed or have dramatically reduced traffic, impacting the coffee roasters whose revenue largely depends on commercial sales. As coffee aficionados, we can help them by seeking out and...
Here is one more - I am adding this crappy picture because I am suddenly, since yesterday, not seeing images on this website and I want to see if adding one here gives my system a kick or something...
Nope. The preview shows the image but not the post once submitted....
I noticed a couple of times since I have been on this site that I have wanted to delete my posts. One time was because I didn't think it through before posting and found my answers on my own, other time failed to hit 'Notify me when reply is sent', so tried to delete the first...
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...
