100% agree.I really do feel for the guys and gals who lost years worth of pictures, I only lost a years worth so I feel your pain.
However, the tone of moderation on RMWeb has always rubbed me up the wrong way bot that I’ve been subjected to much of it personally. If the admin spoke to most people in person the way they do online I think the local A&E would dedicated beds for Andy & Phil. Add to the shutting down any negative feedback to manufacturers and pop up ads invading every page I abandoned the site in favour of WT when the crash happened.
This forum seems to be much friendly and welcoming than RMW so far, I hope to keep coming back for many years to come.
(Bold added) There are plenty of us here who get along just fine on RMweb too. On the other hand I was told in a post over there that "Western Thunder comes with an attitude that not everyone finds welcoming." Really?We fully recognize that there are other Model Railway forums and have no qualms about mentioning them directly particularly if you have a link to some good modelling. However this is not the place to bring any grievances or politics from those forums, we're here for the modelling not for having a moan about other forums.
I quoted from our "About" tab on page 1 of this thread. I feel it's worth doing again.
(Bold added) There are plenty of us here who get along just fine on RMweb too. On the other hand I was told in a post over there that "Western Thunder comes with an attitude that not everyone finds welcoming." Really?
So people's personal perceptions & experiences of Forums can be very different, but I stand by my reply to that comment - that, as in many areas of life, the treatment & attitudes a person experiences from others is very much affected by their own attitude they take with them.
I've seen plenty of that, both on RMweb and when I was part of the moderation team on here.
I actually think it's worse than they are making out. Most of my threads are missing pictures even though some threads have not been updated for over a year.10 months is still a lot of images to lose but better might have been the case
Surely people haven't lost their photos, they will be stored on the hard drive of their computer. They are only lost from the thread to which they were attached.
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Tim
Simon,Tim, not so, at least in my case.
I typically used the “attach”-“take photo” option, specifically so I did not fill my phone with images that I was unlikely ever to need again, apart from within the story they were illustrating.
And why would I want to keep a copy? After all, they were uploaded on some server somewhere…
tant pis, as they say.
Simon