Too many pinned threads?

Fair enough, you've got sight of the panels and gauges behind the curtain so I'm happy to defer to your judgement.

 

Can someone pin this thread somewhere invisible, PLEASE?!?

Signed,

Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot Awwwwk.

 

There is another mobile phone related issue namely, that photographs taken on mobile phones seem to be very badly focused and have huge amounts of empty space round the objet. They are often uploaded on their sides. Do mobile phones not have the means to edit photographs?

 

I've got a feeling that your comment is tongue-in-cheek, but to take it seriously, the top-end phones produce great images and you can edit the images well enough, but there are two problems:

a) It's a lot of faffing as you can't generally edit batches en masse and have to go through image by image.

b) The file sizes for high quality images are large and edits (perversely even those reducing total image size) tend to increase that size even further. For perfectly intelligible reasons the maximum file size here is small, which is a hurdle.

I generally use my phone camera to take the picture, next upload the image to my online hard-drive, and then download and edit it on my computer and finally upload the image to the site. This is not quick!

 

Can we pin this thread?

 

Charley,

the question wasn't entirely tongue in cheek but is probably more of a problem on the British and Commonwealth Military Badge forum. On there people often send in post card sized pictures asking for help in identifying a badge. The badge is invariably the size of a 2p coin in the centre of a huge empty space, out of focus and hardly identifiable. You see similar photographs on ebay.

Simon

 

Thanks for the thoughtful responses. I access the site on a large laptop, a travel laptop and increasingly on my phone. My desktop gets less use these days. I tend to have a few sub-forums I am interested in and so go straight to them. I've tried using the different search methods suggested over the last few days and will probably do so within the sub-forums of interest to me. So thanks for the suggestions.

'Burma and India' is one of the sub-forums I use a lot and if one was a newbie to the subject and only looked at the pinned subjects one would think the Chindits were the only Allied units in that theatre!! The topics include 'How heavy was the Chindit pack really' and 'Daisy and Gertrude - the Sunderlands' (all from memory but they are seared into it!).

The prize for least interest in a pinned post I can see is for 'Household Fuel Economies' in Home Fronts - United Kingdom which has had 177 views and two replies in nearly a year!

On a more serious point....if we want to attract 'Googlers' from the younger generation we have to recognise that desk-tops are in the same category as LPs, floppy disk drives, CDs and scanners - they don't know what they are let alone use them. Most use a phone or tablet. I have seen how the Pillbox Study Group site has declined dramatically in visits and posting over the last couple of years partly because it has not kept up with evolving technology and would hate to see this one go the same way.

Second - if the point of some of the pinned posts are to demonstrate what can be found on a subject or as examples, perhaps they should be marked as such. I don't think that is evident to the visitor - it wasn't to me and I have been using the forum for a few years.

I defer to the views of the majority and thanks for the civilised responses and debate.