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...
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...
Dan, what happened over on coffeegeek.com (CG) this week made me wonder about our archives here. What measures are in place to make sure HB's content is preserved for future reference? Is the site backed up regularly? Don't mean to pry; I could just use some reassurance!
It's a minor change, but since more and more roasting discussions are beyond the home, I've renamed the forum to Coffee Roasting . All links should redirect from the old to new locations and I've updated all links accordingly. Let me know if I missed any references.
Seems like there is code that causes the Quotes to pop up when a mouse hovers over an image.
@Zeece and I have seen this on Windows and Mac. You can see the code when viewing the Page Source. Didn't think this happened before. Is this intentional now?
text a hyperlink to the first page of Recent Topics?
That's pretty much the most useful page for keeping up with the latest news on the site - and getting everyone there and dialed in as fast as possible may help...
As of yesterday I am getting a pop up window every time I go to mark a page as read. Is there a way to turn this functionality off? The safety net is more bothersome than its worth.
Last month, the percentage of browsers supporting the new image format WEBP increased to over 75%. This new image format is more compact that JPEG and PNG at the same quality. I've done some testing and on mobile phones, it...
The site has been upgraded it to the latest version of phpBB for bug fixes and one noteworthy improvement: Only one email update notification per topic until you visit again. In the prior release, you would receive an email for every update , filling your Inbox. :roll: Other...
For example, there's currently a thread titled Returning the Niche Zero? in the Grinder section. It spans 4 pages. When I'm on the Grinder landing page and click on the last post link for that thread, it takes me to page 3 instead of page 4. Once there, clicking on the last page...
This is the message I get trying to upload images to posts, Offsite images are not permitted: undefined/21495_9045_dup1.jpg
Please select the 'Images' tab below.
How do I correct this? I've never had this problem before and although my computer is new I believe I have uploaded...
