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Plynkes:
Well, we have some good news and some bad news, guys. The good news is that the boffins have beavered away and fixed the problem with interior links on LAF. The links are all fine now. The bad news is that this thread has been hit pretty had by L' Affaire Photobucket and by the ravages of time in general. There are lots of links to reports that no longer have images, mostly due to the Photobucketery, but also because of other sites no longer existing.
I've colour-coded the duff ones as you can see, so we don't waste people's time.
I haven't helped matters in that I have not kept the list up to date. I had a couple of periods when I entirely lost interest in the hobby and almost dropped out of LAF altogether, only hanging around to do the moderating out of a sense of comradeship with the site and the friends I have made on it. During that time I failed to keep this part of Colonial running, and I'm sorry about that. I'm probably never going to post as many threads of my work as I used to, but I don't think I'm going to be dropping out any time soon (unless Mr. Eyre has other ideas!).
We're at a point now where we really need to discuss whether this page is worth keeping. I'm happy to throw that open to discussion here, but here's my plan:
I really don't have the time to go back and find all the reports that never made it on to here, and I may still struggle in keeping up with the new ones, so I am going to appeal to the membership to help out. This thread will no longer be locked, instead you can post links to your reports here, past and present, and once a week I will sit down and add them to the list. The posts will then be deleted, to keep this a nice clean reference rather than a discussion thread (so once this new system is up and running only make posts here that you don't mind losing - they won't be sticking around). Also, if you are the owner of a dead link or a report without pictures and you fix that, I can amend the list to show that it has been fixed.
So that's what I want to do, but I'm open to your ideas. What shall we do about the wonky reports? Leave them on the list or get rid of them? Get rid of this whole thread or keep it? I'm happy to leave this open to discussion here for a while, and when that seems to have run its course I shall move it to its own thread, to keep this one clean (if we decide to keep it at all).
So what do you think? Should we keep this thread or has its time passed?
Hu Rhu:
I would have said that the page had passed its sell by date but with the demise of the ability to filter the thread by originator this seems to be the only way to find inspirational pages from the past. Thus I vote to keep it. Hopefully the original owners will re-link their photos in due course.
Eric the Shed:
Should we add Colonial games that never featured?
Plynkes:
Certainly. That's the idea. If you have or know of old reports that never originally made it, by all means post the links here and I'll add them to the list.
Marine0846:
I would like to see the membership add posts with links. A great up date it would be. Also set a date for broke, non photos posts. If the link is not updated with photos by then, delete.
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