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...
In the early morning, I like to use dark mode. The site no longer stays in dark mode. As soon as I switch to another page, it pops back into normal mode. I don't know if this is caused by the recent update to this site or due to my recent upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10. Any ideas?
Some members have reported ugly errors being displayed and a site slowdown, especially when marking topics read. As part of the correction, I cleared the table that keeps track of email notifications. This will result in recent notifications for topics you were watching being...
Not quite sure where to post this, but I've been getting 520 server errors on an off all day (something I've never come across here yet). I think I saw an announcement about some server updates within the last few days - not sure if this is related or not, and it's not a huge...
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...
This weekend I rebuilt the site servers on the latest OS/database versions, so there's always a risk of bug sneaking in due to changes in compatibility. It seems fine, but please let me know if you notice anything not working as it did before. Thanks!
Can anyone help me add pictures to a post from my note 4 Droid phone ? I honestly don't know what to hit or go to to put pictures from my photo gallery
Thanks
I decided to change my avatar image but just can't get that to work.
My first attempts to replace the image failed utterly, but then I got the idea of deleting the old avatar, waiting a half hour and then uploading the new image.
That actually seemed to have worked - I saw the...
My son Matthew is helping me sell extra cups and whatnot. Being new to HB and having used Craigslist a lot, he commented that he missed a single button way of marking an item as sold in this site's buy/sell forum. I see his point and have added a Mark Sold button for listings or...
1. I go to a forum thread I want to search within. e.g. Levers -> Cafelat Robot User Experience
2. Perform a search for pressure profile using the search this topic... box. It gives me this listing of search results. Very nice! All good so far...
3. So I...
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!
