You guys are KILLING US!!!! - Those that contributed update original post

[joe ashton]

growing pains my friend growing pains....Joe

[smokin joe]

Congratulations on the wonderful level of success, and thanks for all that you do.
Joe

[Terry Green]

Here's a tid bit of info FYI that only Rob and I know....and think it should be shared.  Our Trad Gang server is maned 24/7/365.  There is someone always watching over our server at all times.  That's why you don't see Trad Gang down for a long time.  Its usually only a few minutes.

That isn't what you see when 'maintenance' is being done.  That's me or Rob taking the system down for a re-synch ....and most of the time that's Rob not me.  It scares the heck out of me to take it down.  Afraid I'll click the wrong button!!!!

[jcar315]

Terry, Thanks for the update. Love the site and proud to be added to the list of contributors.

[JMartin]

The information shared on this site is priceless for us trad folks. I can't begain to imagine how much work is involved to keep it up and running as smoothly as it does. Thank you Terry, Rob, and everyone else responsible for providing us with the greatest traditional site anywhere...period.   Jim

yep, nice place to hang out when theres no hunting to do...good job guys

[Benny Nganabbarru]

2010 contribution sent. Thanks Rob and Terry!

[Buckwheaties]

You guys do a great job of policing this site, greatly appreciated..

[saumensch]

contribution made, should have done earlier regarding all the money advice from all you saved me!

[Rob DiStefano]

FOLKS,

Yes, you can contribute using a credit card - just use PayPal, you DON'T need to be a PayPal member to send money using a credit card.

Hope this helps, and thank you VERY much!

[Terry Green]

Wow Rob....I didn't know that.  Thanks.

[ARCHER2]

Rob, Terry, and everyone else involved with keeping it up and running, ya'll do an excellent job and we all appreciate it very much. This is just like home and family to most of us. This traditional stuff gets in your blood and I can't imagine not having the whole Tradgang family to keep in touch with. You guys are great, and I'm proud to be a part of it all.
                              God Bless,
                               Charlie

[lt-m-grow]

Originally posted by Terry Green:
 

Originally posted by Steve H.:

Can you get one so BIG that we can load photos straight to it instead of at photobucket etc?

The problem with that Steve is that folks will also use it to store vacation, b'day, wedding pics etc....

Not sure we would have a way to monitor that or not...least that's been Rob and my worries for years...let me chat with Rob about that. [/b]

I understand the whole photobucket thing, but it is a pain.   I would pay to use such a premium service! All I would want is to post pictures into the stories directly and not have to link them in through photobucket or the like.   I truthfully don't post a lot of pictures because of that.  I know that can be an argument to not offer it, but hey, everyone loves pictures.

I am thinking no one wants to see me on the beach with my family on vacation  :-)

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by lt-m-grow:
 

Originally posted by Terry Green:
 

Originally posted by Steve H.:

Can you get one so BIG that we can load photos straight to it instead of at photobucket etc?

The problem with that Steve is that folks will also use it to store vacation, b'day, wedding pics etc....

Not sure we would have a way to monitor that or not...least that's been Rob and my worries for years...let me chat with Rob about that. [/b]

I understand the whole photobucket thing, but it is a pain.   I would pay to use such a premium service! All I would want is to post pictures into the stories directly and not have to link them in through photobucket or the like.   I truthfully don't post a lot of pictures because of that.  I know that can be an argument to not offer it, but hey, everyone loves pictures.

I am thinking no one wants to see me on the beach with my family on vacation  :-) [/b]

our forum software has no feature option for allowing post attachments.  we've tried to migrate to other, more robust forum software several times, all failed - we're just too big.  however.  we're still pursuing this feature.

[Terry Green]

I head ya. We don't want to see that here either. But folks could use tradgang to STORE family pics to be posted on other sites my space. Face book. Personal web pages emails etc.    We do not want to go there.

Im looking into what Steve said after his 1 st comment.

[Steve H.]

Excellent T!  I tried to lobby for this feature once or twice earlier but I don't think I got my point across what I was hoping for.

Ease of use encourages participation, participation does the vendors good because it brings people back and keeps them here so I see this as a big win if you can get it done.

As an example, to post one photos with a thread thru photobucket would take 5-10 minutes by the time I go logon, resize, get the IMG name, and get it into the text.  I can do the same in about 20 seconds with direct photo posting.

THANKS for looking into this feature!

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Steve H.:
Excellent T!  I tried to lobby for this feature once or twice earlier but I don't think I got my point across what I was hoping for.

Ease of use encourages participation, participation does the vendors good because it brings people back and keeps them here so I see this as a big win if you can get it done.

As an example, to post one photos with a thread thru photobucket would take 5-10 minutes by the time I go logon, resize, get the IMG name, and get it into the text.  I can do the same in about 20 seconds with direct photo posting.

THANKS for looking into this feature!

therein lies other concerns such as image size.  it would make no real sense to have an post attachment upload without the forum software automatically resizing the thumbnailed image to 640 wide, and have it clickable to enlarge to its full size.  

this is a feature we are pursuing with third party programming.  not only would it be good for the posters, it's good for all of trad gang since now your images would reside on our server, always be available, and never get lost in shuffle on some photobucket server.

[4runr]

Just keeps getting better all the time          

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

Terry, the paypal link on the "contribute to tradgang" button is not working for me! Please send instructions via PM.

[NorthernCaliforniaHunter]

Never mind Terry, 3rd time's a charm! Contribution sent, thank you!

P.S. George has it wrong... Check the kanuter-flanges. Those tend to go out first.