@majordennisbloodnok, the more I think about it, the more I like this section which I have now added with some initial broad sub-sections that should be enough to get us started. I will probably push some content here from My Home Farm when we start posting it because there will be an overlap. 

Personally speaking, given the name of this forum,  I would prefer to avoid confusion and make it easier to find information on the topic by sticking with topic as described in the name.  If I want information about bikes, lorries and cooking etc I can look at relevant fora.

Just my 2pennorth.

As our humble forum and community matures and grows, we’ll be awarding achievement badges to dedicated members. For example, we’ll have an expert/helper badge for members that assist others along with some other fun, aspirational badges.

If you have any creative and fun achievement badges you’d like propose, please feel to suggest theses below or simply DM me.

Can we please do something with the CSS, please.... There's a whole lot of grey on dark grey going on and it's really hard to see.

Links could do with being in blue too...

@hughf, I’ll have a look into. Not my strongest point, but I’ll see what I can do.

@editor it’s probably set in a theme. There should be a theme editor/builder somewhere.

If you let me know what forum software you’re using (it’s a new one on me, I’m used to xenforo these days) I can do a bit of googling for you.

@editor whatever you’ve changed looks good, I’ve got new posts and notifications showing in red now.

@hughf, the CSS settings are a tad annoying, because it changes colours that are “connected” to different elements - changing the colour for the magnifying glass above, for example, changes a lot of things to that colour which isn’t a great look.

New posts and notifications are now in red, which I thought was a good colour. Thoughts?

@editor CSS is a pain to work with, I’m building web based control panels for a product we manufacture and it’s a pain compared to traditional GUI development in win32 or OS X. We’re always advised to not give every single item a separate ID and instead use classes. That’s why stuff ends up being affected by seemingly different changes.

The red is a nice touch and makes things a lot easier to see.

@editor - Sorry to post this here, but I am getting an error when I try to post on another thread:

A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site

Your access to this service has been limited. (HTTP response code 403)

If you think you have been blocked in error, contact the owner of this site for assistance.

Block Technical Data

Seems to be caused by Wordfence:

Generated by Wordfence at Tue, 14 Jun 2022 9:03:10 GMT.
Your computer's time: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:03:11 GMT.

The post has an image in it (png format) - perhaps that's the problem? There is also a link - perhaps that is the problem?

@cathoderay, odd – that's blocked by our site's firewall. Are you uploading a png file? Is that the error?

Posted by: @editor

Are you uploading a png file? Is that the error?

The post has both an image and a link in it. I tried the image (it's just a chart) as both a png and a jpg and a pdf, and de-url'd the link (. -> dot etc). The link was the address for the Met Office's WOW website, hardly a risky link, but all of them got rejected

The error (shown above) appeared when I pressed the Add Reply button.