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  4. Posted

    Re decals - for the record I've got no problem making their own for their own models.  I do object to anyone that does it an tries to turn a profit, even a small one, using the clubs branding (not saying thats the case with ones mentioned above) the same goes for T-shirts etc.

    Basically if you don't get it from here (me) , then its not official.

    Cheers

    Chris

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    If you meet me in person I'll let you have one free (perhaps if you are coming around to my great RC clearout in nottingham?) if not then I'm afriad you need to cover the cost of postage in a hard backed envelope. Postage prices are in £1.50 UK, £3.50 Rest of Europe, £4.50 rest of the world.

    Approx 295mm x 76mm printed on matt vinyl.

    Im limiting the give away to just one per envelope to help get them spread about a bit more. If you really want 2 in your envelope just add £1.00 to your payment.

    Message me if you need my paypal details :)

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  8. Posted

    On 6/15/2020 at 10:58 PM, Finnsllc said:

    I apologize upfront to anyone who is going to look at me as a difficult member for asking this question. Furthermore, I can assure anyone who reads this post I am not at all attacking, being difficult or from where I sit being unreasonable. Why can’t I/we, post pics in a post. My max upload is currently 0.83mb. That’s like floppy disk land. Dial up. We all have smart phones that allow u s to snap a quick pic and post. But often, I need to grab a crappy laptop and take a pic with the in laptop camera to lessen the upload file numbers. I am aware as I have been, in my opinion only, aggressively negatively informed that there are other ways to post pics. But in 2020 I would assume this would not be an issue. I am only asking why the allowable uploads change. Sometimes it is way more. Sometimes it is way way less. I’m just trying to understand without being beat up for asking. Thanks

    I've no problem with anyone asking questions at all, its good to bring this stuff up as it makes me re-evaluate.

    First, to clarify: your max upload limit is only 0.83mb because you've already uploaded 49.17mb. The figure you have is the remainder from your 50mb limit.

    The reason for the limit was mainly a financial one, in that the server instance I have and storage in the cloud has a limit and potentially we have 10s of thousands of people uploading. That said it wasn't because of costs alone, it was the fact that as cameras got better and higher resolution,  the images as they come straight off the camera could be 10's of mb big, even though they are never displayed at that resolution, when in reality compress and resized they probably only need to be 100k - in which case your 50mb storage space would go a long way. I wanted to encourage people to take that approach rather than running up extra costs for the club.

    That said I've just added another 25mb to everyone limit to see how it goes.

    TCphotos for subscribers wasn't really to solve this problem or to 'sell' more subscriptions. That really came about to give people a better place to post pictures of family, friends, babies, holidays, puppies and cats rather than in their showroom. The fact they can also use it for hosting pictures required on any forum was just an unintentional benefit.

    Cheers

    Chris

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    3 hours ago, TurnipJF said:

    I don't claim to know the ultimate answer, but I too am very keen to see a solution to this.

    While it is great that people are sufficiently interested in the hobby to want to share their pictures, multiple models from the same person filling the page is quite de-motivating to those of us who are considering uploading one project at a time as we know it will be moved out of view in short order, and IMO it also makes slightly dull reading since while we are all individuals with our own styles, seeing multiple models done by the same person in the same style isn't as interesting as seeing multiple models from multiple people in multiple styles.

    I don't know if it is practical, but is there perhaps a way of limiting the number of new showroom entries from a given user in a given time period? That way people will be encouraged to focus more on quality rather than quantity, and we would hopefully see more variety on the site at any given time.

    Whatever the outcome, your efforts are appreciated!

    Think we have to be a bit careful with saying things like "encourage to focus more on quality rather than quantity" - there has certainly been nothing to show that buly uploads are 'worse' than single uploads. Its generally just new user coming on board and uploading their collections on a new service they have just subscribed to. Once people have got over that initial stage and using the use of the site is generally just a case of 'you get a model, build it and post it' which is fine. I think what I really need to do is improve the onboarding flow for new users, that and the switching methods approach I think will be fine.

    (Like I said before the previous approach was not without its problems, with some great uploads just generally being missed because someone had uploaded 2 models in one period - and Im not saying that people in this thread did not click the red number indicators, they obviously did, but the vast majority of people didn't)

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    8 minutes ago, KalEl63 said:

    My apologies about this, I didn’t know about staggering the uploads

    know for the future though 👍🏻

    Don't worry about it, its not a rule or anything thats even written as a suggestion somewhere. You are not the first to upload a lot in one go given a shiney new empty showroom to fill :)

    Im working on an automatic way that handles the home page automatically when someone does though, so it should just become a none issue.

    Cheers

    Chris

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    Hey no disrespect taken :) All feedback is always welcome. I completely understand where you are coming from BTW and don't disagree in that ideally I like to see lots of update by lots of users and at the same time I don't care who posts them I just like to see new models, for me its the picture that makes me decide if to look or not, not the builder - but thats personal preference

    Now I've been able to test it for a while now I'm able to see how people are using it compared to the way they used it before. The bottom line is the new system produces nearly 40% more click throughs than the old system and that is shared more evenly across posted models. Thats means on average more models are being looked at, which leads to more likes, favourites and comments for those posting. Thats data not personal opinion and there is no denying thats a generally positive result. The trade-off is occasionally models will drop off the page quicker than the poster would have liked - i understand that. Previous approach had its own 'unfairness' in that one model could be on the home page for 2 weeks, at the same time I could post two great models but because they were grouped one might only be on the homes page for 1 minute. The red indicator was my first attempt to fix that but its just not used in any meaningful numbers.

    All that said I've just about got a refined test ready to go, which will look at what is has been posted over a time frame and then automatically switch between the old and new way when required. ie if some has more than three items in one go it will group them, so lets see how that goes.

    Im not really a fan of personalisation options, I've built in lots of these before but ultimately very few ever got used and then are just a pain in the code that I have to maintain going forward, so I'd rather not add more if possible.

    Please bear with me, we'll get something that feels better soon.

    Cheers

    Chris

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  13. Posted

    As re-bugged said there is a cap for everyone on the size total size of images you can upload to forum software. you can get around this limit by hosting your images elsewhere and linking to them. For subscribers I provide that 'elsewhere' in the form of tcphotos.net which I can set up for Subscribers upon request. Its a completely separate site so I have to do everything manually rather than it just being automatic when subscribing - and yes thinking about it that option is not made clear enough to new subscribers which I'll correct. I'll set you up an account there shortly and send you the details

    Cheers

    Chris

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    2 hours ago, Mad Ax said:

    That's awesome, even if I don't have a Willy to paint it's still a good way to throw colours together to make sure they work.  TBH it's a fun way to kill some time :lol:

    Now you need to add a new colour palette that contains all the TS paint colours accurately matched, effects for metallic and lacquered finishes, new templates so we're not stuck with the same three-band design and a 3D preview so we can rotate Willy around.  Oh, and templates for Tamiya's entire body catalog.  Oh, and an Export option that produces an SVG file so we can print masks directly onto self-adhesive paper.  Off you go :)

    (only joking, of course :D ) 

    ha! You forgot optional uploadable decals, so you can drop them on and position. ;) Based on this one taking 18year to produce then I'll get at least one of those features done by 2038.

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  22. Posted

    Because of the shop set-up I'm limitee to 10 designs at a time, so new ones will come along and old ones will drop off.

    Im avoiding reproducing any of my old designs - want those to remain 'special' to those that bought them at the time :)

    Chris

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  24. Posted

    OK I've pilotted them on the tc facebook page for a couple of weeks so some of you may have seen them already (apart from the one I've added today ;) ) but if you are interested in buying a bit of TC merch then go take a look at them here https://www.tamiyaclub.com/tshirts.asp

    I make about £1.18 from each one if you are interested, the rest goes to the printers and I've sold 3 in a month, so I'm not going to be retiring anytime soon.

    Please note - dispatch and delivery times are taking a bit longer than you would normally expect.

    here are a few 

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