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Picture upload problems

It has come to my attention that some of the members on the forums, including myself, are encountering problems uploading photos to the forums; both to posts as attachments or into the gallery.

We are currently looking into this problem, and will hopefully sort out what is going wrong soon.

In the mean time, for those suffering with these problems, please can you contact any of the Administration team as this will help with our investigation.

Regards




Update on this problem (21/Jan/2012 - 11:48pm):

The problem is affecting .JPEG files only, the problem has been found and an update will be applied shortly.


Update on this problem (21/Jan/2012 - 12:00pm):

Update pushed, problem resolved.

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POTM December Winners and Photo Of The Year

Hey all.

It's that time again!
Voting is over for the December POTM. Congratulations to our two MPOTM Winners!

Also, Photo Of The Year is now up as mentioned last month.
Please vote for your top TWO photos of the year. (ONE OR TWO ONLY! Anyone who puts in more than two votes on purpose can and will remove from the voting by me. Keep it fair please. If I could set the voting to automatically only accept two votes, I would. But ah well.
I can see who has voted how many times. Be warned

Topics and voting in the appropriate section. They are available for two weeks so do not worry about rushing into it

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Profile enhancements update

We have just updated your profiles!

Some of the new features we have included for you are:

• Increased profile fields (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr etc.)
  
• Plugs to other sites/accounts (Modelling related is visible from Mini-Profile)
  
• Custom Profile Background image or colours

Profile Fields:

Click on your username at the top right of the page > My Profile > Edit my Profile (Top right) > Profile Settings

You can add information about yourself, contact methods and information.

Under the Plugs section:

"Plugs" (Plugged URLs) now appear as small icons in your Mini-Profile, next to your posts


Custom Profile Backgrounds:

Click on your username at the top right of the page > My Profile > Edit my Profile (Top right) > Profile Customization

Images of up to 1.5MB can be uploaded.



In other news...

We have shuffled our upload limits around,

• Attachment allowance has been reduced to 5MB (from 25MB)
  
• Gallery allowance has been increased to 60MB (from 50MB)
  
• Regular users of the gallery may be invited to be a Gallery+ member, with an allowance of 150MB.

Multiple Gallery uploads at the same time can now be done using the "Flash Uploader", choose this while uploading.

Multiple Gallery images can now be posted using the "My Media" link and choosing "Gallery Images" when posting.

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MRL Annual Report 2011

The Annual Report for the Model Railway Layouts Forum for the year 2011 has been published,

The file can be downloaded from: http://mrl.f1p.co.uk...al-report-2011/

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MRL 2012 Competition

The MRL 2012 Competition has now been announced, to read more, visit the competition section on the forums:

http://mrl.f1p.co.uk...-2ft-challenge/

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Photo Of The Year competition.

Hi all.

Here's an event I will be setting up in January called "Photo of the Year".
Basically, I shall collect all 12 winning monthly photos from RPOTM and MPOTM and they shall be put up for voting as photo of the year in their respective categories.

I'm letting everyone know about this now so you won't come back in the new year and think "wait, what's this?"

And here's the info:
- The two topics will be set up after the 8th of January when voting for the December photo of the Month comp's finish.
- Voting will run for up to TWO weeks instead of the usual one.
- Photos will be named by their entry month - not by who took them. This makes it easier as there are multiple winners over the year.
- Some months have two winning photos. Both will be entered to make it fair.
- Users will be able to vote for their top TWO photos. Yup, that's right. You won't have to make any difficult decisions between two favourites. Just please, no one vote for themselves. That's a bit unfair to others.
- In the event of any photos having the same number of winning votes, there will be an extra week of voting just for those joint winners. There will be only ONE winner for each competition - Real Photo Of The Year and Model Photo Of The Year.

If you have any comments, ideas of feedback, feel free to share it! If you're unsure about something or would like something added then I want to know about it
The idea is still in early stages so some things may change.

All the best to everyone!
-Richard

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Name: Richard Ruane

Position: Founder

What I do: Help run the forums, and try to find solutions to problems that may arise.

Interests: Breaking things, Computers, Technology, Road Cycling

More information: I received my first train set when I was 5 years old, and since then I have expanded my model railways with a plethora of modern and heritage items. I enjoy road cycling, Minecraft, Railworks 3, photography and a variety of other social activities. I am in my final year of GCSE's at secondary school.

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November Voting and December POTM.

Hi all!
Voting for the November photo entries is now open till the 7th or this month. However, due to the delay in opening the topic, if people request voting to be open till the 8th then please let me know.

Entries for December now open as well. Let's finish up the last photo competition of 2011 with a loads of photos Give this year a good send of. Whether it's been good or pretty naff!

Real Photo of the Month Section

Model Photo of the Month Section

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Get your thoughts in with our Future Developmen...

We run a "Future Developments" poll every now and again to see what developments our users would like to see from the forums,

It's a chance for you not to come up with ideas, but to vote on what you think needs some development.

Votes can be cast here:

http://mrl.f1p.co.uk...elopments-poll/

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Videos

I've recently noted a lot of members recently starting topics within our Videos area and posting only one video per topic. We encourage members to post videos on our forum, but unless you are making a topic for various videos taken on a particular day, we wish that you put all your videos into one topic. This way, the forums are kept tidy, and that all of your videos are kept together, just like it is on YouTube or other video sharing websites.

A load of topics have already been 'merged' together, but it is time consuming, so if members could please keep all their videos together (unless, like said previously, there is more than one video from a particular day where you are allowed to have various topics).

Regards

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