AO Smith. That’s the brand almost all the local contractors are installing, and based on googling around, I’m resigned to the fact that they’re all probably crap anyway 😕

Ditto

I would try it -- if someone else would make it for me! 😅

i always wanted to try bullet coffee.. or what was it call? Bulletproof coffee??

Much better.

Related...I'm trying out the Darkly skin with my wtg user id and so far it's kind of nice. I use a different skin that's a white background when I'm wtg-admin. I want to be sure I'm totally aware of my where I'm at because I can do a lot of damage in admin mode if I'm not careful. 🤞

Skins let a user customize colors, but I've also been looking at some of the different styles/layouts that are available with this forum software. You can choose from different styles that would apply to the whole forum. I don't have a lot of experience with bulletin boards besides WTF and various iterations of TNCR. They currently use the same platform that we are using here, but a different style. Here's a link to the recents page on their site so you can see what it looks like:

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/recent

There are others and I'm kind of scoping them out just to see what's out there. Does anybody post on a forum where you love the layout? If you can link to it or do a screenshot, that would be great. I have to check with @Axtremus to see how tricky changing the layout is so I won't start a separate thread on this yet. But if you have any ideas or examples, please let me know.

@CHAS You're absolutely welcome!

I just finished deleting the spam users a few minutes ago.

Now I'm hoping that I didn't accidentally delete any WTFers...I kind of got in a rhythm (it takes like 4 clicks to delete a user) and suddenly I got to @Lisa and almost accidentally deleted her. I'm pretty sure everyone is OK, but if your user has been deleted, I apologize profusely and ask you to try to re-register and we should be able to get you back in business.

You can look at Users (it's the little upper torso icon in the bar at the top of the page) and you can see who is registered. And once you are on the User page you can click Online to see who has been active in the last 24 hours.

I need to figure out how to do screen shots so I can add pics to instructions.

Thanks again for everyone's patience.

OMG! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of temperatures in that range!

Ok. I googled and there is a recording of 54C in Death Valley in 2013. (There are other, hotter recordings but they’re all further back, like in the 1940s or 1920s, so the recorded are less reliable).

In any case, I can’t even begin to imagine what that would feel like.

Isn’t it temps in the 40s (Celsius) in Arizona when places have trouble taking off? Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but these high temps are scary to me.

Photo posting is a definite plus!!

Ewww. That's nasty!

I love iced tea (sweet tea? Sweetened iced tea? Whatever you call it in your neck of the woods!). I don’t drink it on the regular, but with vodka it’s my favourite summer boozy drink. I drink club soda with ice pretty much all the time, but in the summer I love to muddle some fresh berries and add them with a lime. Sometimes with a bit of mint.

@DougG said in Hey Doug!:

I can’t believe you’re trying to teach an old Doug new tricks.

😆

@Jack-Frost

Assuming you're just using the default skin as far as colors, what you should see is a big red circle with a "J" in it in the upper right hand corner.

Click on it. You'll get a dropdown. Select Edit Profile.

On that page you can Change Picture. I suspect you should be good from there, but if not, please post again and I'll walk through the rest of the steps.

@DougG 🤣

Yea, the groupee software is a bit long in the tooth and this place does have some nice features.

Still, some folks would prefer to stay put in a familiar place. I'd hate to lose more people if
a move is dealbreaker for them; our ranks are already pretty thin.

I'll go wherever y'all do. Except FB. Never joined and don't plan to.