Flowering now in the greenhouse
White C. byzantium album with purple tips to the styles
I'll counter with Rhodophiala bifida and Colchicum bivoneae. Are you aware that you can attach more than one file to a post?
Yes I know, had a bit of trouble with password but solved it.
Here's a recent flowering Agapanthus
Well, this sure isn't as easy as the Scottish forum.
I uploaded two photos but somehow they were duplicated - a larger and a smaller version of each.
I tried to correct this, but instead managed to add one of them to my downloads folder.
Next I selected the two smaller photos and said to remove them. They were removed, but so was the entire message.
I'll try once more.
This is a hybrid of the Colchicum bivonae that Martin posted. There are many such hybrids, and I don't know which this one is. It has very large flowers and multiplies well.
Colchicum_bivonae hybrid.jpg
C bivonae hybrid.jpg
Well, somehow I posted the little duplicates again.
I will leave them and hope that someone knows what I did wrong.
Diane
Now I'll try just one photo.
This is Gladiolus saundersii from South Africa. It grows well in my garden.
That worked better.
I dragged and dropped it and it put itself in "Attached:"
When I was posting two photos, and getting four, I put them under that, where it says:
Attach:
Drag and drop your files here, or use the button to add files.
Then I clicked on "Insert".
I think the SRG-forum is configured to hide the thumbnails if the image is embedded into the post. Moving the included attachments from a mod to the system core is one of the 2.1 changes. At a first glance it seems the "Hide if Inlined" option seems unavailable in the Admin configuration - I only saw an option to always hide the Thumbs, but then people will be confused if they don't embed.
Another thing which is confusing is that the expansion of the thumbnail on the first click can be slow on big photos like the gladiolus. I'd really love to see the auto-resize function again to shorten this delay (among all the other benefits of limited image sizes)
That said: I don't know the true nature of my C. bivonae. it surely does clump up slower than C. hausknechti, but Paul Christian as a source is not always precise when dealing with hybrids or species - which also could be due to confusion of his sources.
Yes removing thumbs that are referenced in posts is a common feature on SMF mods.
I feel getting thumbs/photos/whatever right is the most important thing. This is where I am stuck. Diane's comments about difficulty are new. I know of plenty of other problems.
I'd be happy if everything was a thumbnail at the end of a message - but there is advantage in being able to add text near a photo.
I don't like images appearing different sizes - one message has thumbs and the next has page filling images.
There are addons that use things like "lightbox" to display images ("lightbox" is how the wiki works). Anyone saying "I have to be able to see a photo while writing a comment".
For users, consistency and simplicity are important.
I've not been able to find the enthusiasm to start programming what I would like. That is where I am stuck.
We could ditch SMF if there was another piece of software which solved these problems. Photos seem like an afterthought for most forum software.
With the wiki I programmed what I wanted - multiple resolution images, auto resize. These sound like sensible requirements. But I have had no luck selling (giving) them to the maintainers of the wiki. They positively dislike the ideas.
Clearly we could program our own solution (for SMF). Doing that there is no issue with SMF version, because you have your own code and you are going to make it work come what may.
I feel I lack knowledge of forum software - six months running SMF and I will tell you all that is wrong with it, and then I can have six months running something else.
Just how users will mess things up also remains to be seen.
I have in my 12 years involvement with PBS had little luck with the idea that software has a bearing on the success of an offering. Mysteriously after all this time I hear little but that the wiki is too hard for people to contribute to it.
Apparently I have made the wiki more difficult - better that tables have to be coded by cell and images resized by hand :)
Haemanthus coccineus x albifloros
Always an early flower.
what was the topic? oh yes, flower photos - so please focus on the Ennealophus...
Who are we getting to judge this contest - testing alerts
I just realized today that those thumbnail images (or any images on this board) only appear when I am logged in. I did not notice before because it usually keeps me logged in. But today I viewed before logging in.
We have a zoom tomorrow morning about the forum and I do not feel like I have made any progress on this since the last forum because I have not put in the effort. So thanks you guys. I will read what you posted.
Now I will attach an image just for the experience... It is just a screen grab of Goodenia coerulea.
Screen Shot 2020-12-08 at 10.13.57 AM.png
OK learned stuff. If I paste in the attach markup then both the thumb and the full size appear in the post. I assume most of our users will not know what pasting in the attach markup is/does, so won't.
Nice blues. I suspect we can control when photos appear - guests or not. Some sites are strict about not letting non-logged-in i.e. guests view content. Maybe bandwidth is an issue.
I have never looked at what may be going on with the wiki.
Yes, removing thumbs for inline images is an issue, feel there is a recent comment on it.
Martin
A tortoise cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat
I have one that lives outside.
Arnold
Arnold, Arnold, I told you to concentrate on the Ennealophus :P
Hoshi lives wherever she wants, got her own key to the house - the cat flap is coded to her registration chip, just like the one of her pitch black brother Måns. So they do live outside and inside. While Hoshi is a sweet little girl, albeit somewhat shy sometimes, Måns is the one I find snuggled up to me in the mornings more often than not. Lately, he started to lie in the computer chair behind me. Really nice for cold kidneys....
Crocus banaticus did not flower for 2 years - it was only one corm before, so I guess it got damaged and took some time to regenerate into a clump.
Martin
This is a 'Tortise"cat.
A genetic anomaly.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat