Wild About the World .... again

[Paul mabbott]

Hello folks. I've been lurking round WAW for a couple of weeks and not seen anyone else ...
I know some of us had problems getting on to the site but everything is okay now so why not give it a whirl?
Worldwide Wildlife

PS: while you're there, have a look at some of the Greek insect photos I've uploaded - would love to know what some of them are?

[speckled wood]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Hello folks. I've been lurking round WAW for a couple of weeks and not seen anyone else ...
I know some of us had problems getting on to the site but everything is okay now so why not give it a whirl?
Worldwide Wildlife

PS: while you're there, have a look at some of the Greek insect photos I've uploaded - would love to know what some of them are?

I have tried to activate my account on Wildaboutthe world a couple of times (joined 10th October) but never received the activation email, even turned the spam filter off, and checked the spam folder, but still no activation mail.

[Garden Carpet]

I too have tried to activate my account a couple of times. I have just been over to the site and tried the links on the top of the page.... neither of them are working .. takes me to a page unavailable link
jaki

[Paul mabbott]

Are you talking about the 'links' such as "Birds", "Insects"....?
Yes, while 'clickable', these are dead *but* if you click on either "Forum" or "Gallery", you'll get through ......
WAW is different in many ways from WAB and, I suspect, has a few glitches but most of it seems to be working ....

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

I too have tried to activate my account a couple of times. I have just been over to the site and tried the links on the top of the page.... neither of them are working .. takes me to a page unavailable link
jaki

[Garden Carpet]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Are you talking about the 'links' such as "Birds", "Insects"....?
Yes, while 'clickable', these are dead *but* if you click on either "Forum" or "Gallery", you'll get through ......
WAW is different in many ways from WAB and, I suspect, has a few glitches but most of it seems to be working ....

Nope Paul, I mean the links in the blurb at the top of the page we are asked to follow if we have problems.. they just lead to dead page notices. this is in the notice telling me my account has not been activateed. This would be because I have yet to receive the activation mail
jaki

[speckled wood]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

Nope Paul, I mean the links in the blurb at the top of the page we are asked to follow if we have problems.. they just lead to dead page notices. this is in the notice telling me my account has not been activateed. This would be because I have yet to receive the activation mail
jaki

My problem is exactly the same a Jaki describes it, try after try but no receipt of the activation email, and no response of you report it to the administrator.

[speckled wood]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

Nope Paul, I mean the links in the blurb at the top of the page we are asked to follow if we have problems.. they just lead to dead page notices. this is in the notice telling me my account has not been activateed. This would be because I have yet to receive the activation mail
jaki

I found that my problem seemed to be linked to me being on AOL, just seems that you cannot stop AOL from filtering out the activation email, I have had this problem elsewhere .... a solution for some people might therefore to set up an Hotmail account and register from there you may (if you have already tried to register using your WAB user name) to select a new username. It should work ok from there. I suggest you try this method especially if you too are on AOL and having the same problem, as it may well be that the administrator may not get your emailing either.

[Paul mabbott]

Good old AOL - it's a wonder they let anything through!

Originally Posted by speckled wood

I found that my problem seemed to be linked to me being on AOL, just seems that you cannot stop AOL from filtering out the activation email, I have had this problem elsewhere .... a solution for some people might therefore to set up an Hotmail account and register from there you may (if you have already tried to register using your WAB user name) to select a new username. It should work ok from there. I suggest you try this method especially if you too are on AOL and having the same problem, as it may well be that the administrator may not get your emailing either.

[Imaginos]

I've been logging on to WAW now & again-too busy to keep too many fora going though most of the time. Looking forward to seeing Gill's Madagascar pics. I'm sure I'll have a few to post there too after my South African Christmas.

[Turtletagger]

Hi Paul, I was the ninth member in Wild about the World and was quite enthusiastic at first, however I became dispondent with the teething problems. After writing a large article about my experiances with the Australian Osprey and then with the hash up of the pictures I wanted to download with the article, I have temporarily abandoned participation in that forum for a while. As also have I slowed down participation with this forum. It is, "to me" the silly way of putting pictures with the threads these two forums have, why they dont have the same way as the Bird Forum, is beyond me. The other problem is that I am involved with other forums and my time on the computer is streached a bit. I will get back there again one day so will look forward to the reading of your exploits

[Paul mabbott]

Glad to find more people getting on. A great shame about your osprey story, Tanny - would have liked to see that. Yes, the different ways of handling images suit different people, I suppose (I find the *minimum* size restriction confusing) - but you get used to them eventually ....
It would be good to know more about the wider world though ... including what some of my plants and animals are!

Originally Posted by Turtletagger

Hi Paul, I was the ninth member in Wild about the World and was quite enthusiastic at first, however I became dispondent with the teething problems. After writing a large article about my experiances with the Australian Osprey and then with the hash up of the pictures I wanted to download with the article, I have temporarily abandoned participation in that forum for a while. As also have I slowed down participation with this forum. It is, "to me" the silly way of putting pictures with the threads these two forums have, why they dont have the same way as the Bird Forum, is beyond me. The other problem is that I am involved with other forums and my time on the computer is streached a bit. I will get back there again one day so will look forward to the reading of your exploits

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Turtletagger

It is, "to me" the silly way of putting pictures with the threads these two forums have, why they dont have the same way as the Bird Forum, is beyond me.

I've never been on bird forum so i dont know what they do there but i cant see the problem with the wab approach to adding pics to threads - I understand that the reason we can no longer add attachments directly was down to the size of the file when the forum is backed up , which in turn was due to the number of pics some people were putting up , while there have been issues with a small minority of people abusing the ability to link to outside websites - the forum images gallery approach solves both these problems and it is "beyond me" why this should be a problem

On the other point all new sites have teething issues (probably including bird forum when it was young), they will be sorted in time and given that stu has put both sites up largely at his own expense and invested huge time in administrating them it seems a bit harsh to chip just because everything doesnt work perfectly first time.

[Boddie]

Its too easy to moan about something you have little understanding of. Unfortunately, as Pete states, other methods were abused and this culminated in changes being made whereby everybody had to comply. This has happened with quite a few aspects of the site that have had to be changed. However these changes were not made lightly and many people were consulted.

Was a time when people disagreed with the way that this site was 'moderated'.
Then came a time when people moaned because it wasn't being moderated to their liking.

It seems that certain individuals will never be satisfied with the way the site is run. Perhaps we should just give them all their money back

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Boddie

Perhaps we should just give them all their money back

you mean we had to pay ? I thought wab was a public service that was guaranteed to be on my computer all the time and to work perfectly 24/7