• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Posting photos as file attachments

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I actually created this on one of my other sites, but it will suffice here, I think..

Whenever you start a new post, whether it is a NEW thread or a REPLY to an existing thread, below the section where you type in your text will be a section called Additional Options. In that section will be an area that says Attach Files
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Just click on that button that says Manage Attachments


That will take you to a screen that offers you four prompts with a BROWSE button to the right of each of them. Plus there is a display of valid file types that can be uploaded as well as the limitations on each file type.
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Click on the BROWSE button, which will display a folder on your hard drive in your own computer so you can find the file that you want to upload.
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It is up to you to locate that file, but I assume you will know where you put it on your own hard drive in your system.

After you click on that file you want to attach, and it is then displayed in the area that says File name:, you then click on the Open button on that screen to close it and tell the system here the file you want to attach.
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At this time, you can either select three other files to attach in the same method as above, or if there is only one single file to be attached, you then click on that UPLOAD button to actually upload the file from your computer to the server here. PLEASE NOTE: This is the step that people will commonly forget to do and think the system did not do what it was supposed to do. Until you click that UPLOAD button, the file is not yet up on the server.

So once you have successfully uploaded the file you want to attach, you will see a screen similar to this:
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If you are done attaching all files, then simply click on the Close this window button to return you to the screen where you are entering in the text of your message. Please note that you will NOT see the photo at this time within the text area of your message you are typing in. The only indication you will see of your attached file(s) at this time will be the name of the file displayed in that Attach Files area of your current screen. Please note that attached files will display at the BOTTOM of your message you are typing.

When you are done typing in your message, simply click on the Submit Reply button, and your photo should be displayed within the message you just typed in.

So, that's IT!
 
Why can't this be done on a smart phone, I don't have a computer and I have uploaded photos before with my phone but now I can't, did something change?
 
I can only get it to post one photo per ad using this method. It doesn't matter how many i select to upload, only one shows up. Am I doing something wrong?
 
are you doing it via a phone? Other users have reported a limit of one photo upload when accessing this site via their mobile device. That could explain it.
 
It doesn't matter how many i select to upload, only one shows up. Am I doing something wrong?
 
I guess "hkhkjhkj" means "Islamabad" in Pakistani.

If it walks like a spammer, talks like a spammer.......
 
Quick question, are you able to send photos via PMs? I think I have tried before and couldn't figure it out. I don't believe there was a "Go Advanced" option when I was sending a PM. Thanks for yalls help
 
In case you don't know what I mean, here's a screenshot. The link outlined in red is the one that'll put the picture directly into the PM. The other options provide a link that will open a browser window/tab to your photobucket library, which will allow the PM's recipient to scroll through the rest of the pictures you have in there.
 

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Sorry, I just can't remember all of the options available in vBulletin, but I don't believe there is any option to allow or disallow attached files along with private messages. Best you can do, as has been suggested, is to use the IMG tag to embed images from a file storage facility directly into your messages.

Syntax would be:


[IMG] ** photo URL ** [/IMG]

 
By the way, you can use the Photo Gallery here to host photographs, in case you didn't realize that.
 
for the past week every time I try to post a classified, the picture upload comes back with a http 500 error and will not let me. I can embed them, but it does not show a thumbnail on the ad. Is there a way around this?
 
I haven't heard of this problem from anyone else. And it looks like there have been a goodly number of ads placed here using file attachments within this past week. I also created one of my own to test the functionality -> http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1926098#post1926098

So it seems to be working for me. And as far as I can tell, a lot of other people. :shrug01:

Anyone else experiencing this problem?
 
I'm not familiar with that error; but one of the most common issues people have is the image size being too large
 
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