JAL3
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The Gallery Modifications are a work in progress and are not yet completed. It will take time to get everything moved but it will all be done as fast as I can manage it.
You may have likely noticed the change in the Gallery section. This change was not brought on by a desire to change for its own sake; it was brought on by the size of the gallery section coupled with some limitations of the VBulletin software that is basis for TRF. We had to subdivide things because the gallery section was approaching a "limit" in terms of number of threads that would have rendered the indexing moot and would have resulted in the "randomization" of the threads. They would all still be there but there is no telling what part of "where" any particular thread or post would be.
WiK kindly assumed the task of providing a new framework and that framework has now been implemented.
There are a few things you need to know.
1. You can still reply to any of the extant gallery threads but you cannot start a new thread within the individual galleries.
2. You can still start new threads but you need to start them in the "general" section of the gallery. As I see them and figure out where they go, they will get moved to the appropriate sub-gallery.
3. The indices should still work. You can look up anything that is indexed in the indices which are "sticky" in the general section.
4. I realize that this makes things a bit more difficult for those of you who just look for the new postings. Believe me, it makes things more difficult for me as well but we saw no other solution to the problem of the growing size.
5. Remember, that the ultimate "home" for any particular rocket will be in the sub-gallery for the oldest version of it that I can find. That means that your Semroc Retro-Repro of a classic Centuri design will ultimately be housed in the Centuri gallery, though indexing should eventually appear in the Semroc section as well. Of course, if you have a Semroc original, that would be in the Semroc gallery.
6. In the gallery sections only: Once something is posted in the gallery, I am going to assume I have permission to copy the post to other germane threads within the galleries unless I am asked not to do so. I will still ask permission before copying posts from other parts of the gallery. To those of you who have granted me blanket permissions: Thank you.
You may have likely noticed the change in the Gallery section. This change was not brought on by a desire to change for its own sake; it was brought on by the size of the gallery section coupled with some limitations of the VBulletin software that is basis for TRF. We had to subdivide things because the gallery section was approaching a "limit" in terms of number of threads that would have rendered the indexing moot and would have resulted in the "randomization" of the threads. They would all still be there but there is no telling what part of "where" any particular thread or post would be.
WiK kindly assumed the task of providing a new framework and that framework has now been implemented.
There are a few things you need to know.
1. You can still reply to any of the extant gallery threads but you cannot start a new thread within the individual galleries.
2. You can still start new threads but you need to start them in the "general" section of the gallery. As I see them and figure out where they go, they will get moved to the appropriate sub-gallery.
3. The indices should still work. You can look up anything that is indexed in the indices which are "sticky" in the general section.
4. I realize that this makes things a bit more difficult for those of you who just look for the new postings. Believe me, it makes things more difficult for me as well but we saw no other solution to the problem of the growing size.
5. Remember, that the ultimate "home" for any particular rocket will be in the sub-gallery for the oldest version of it that I can find. That means that your Semroc Retro-Repro of a classic Centuri design will ultimately be housed in the Centuri gallery, though indexing should eventually appear in the Semroc section as well. Of course, if you have a Semroc original, that would be in the Semroc gallery.
6. In the gallery sections only: Once something is posted in the gallery, I am going to assume I have permission to copy the post to other germane threads within the galleries unless I am asked not to do so. I will still ask permission before copying posts from other parts of the gallery. To those of you who have granted me blanket permissions: Thank you.
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