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Machenbach wrote: Mulţumesc mult "Cheers ;)
I was maitreyi in TLS, and not kadambari, sorry I mixed up my online identities. Thank you, interwar for (be)friending me. I live in PA, USA and have made my profile a bit less transparent. Thank you for making this space for us.
Joy wrote: "I was a long-term lurker on TLS, enjoying following your weekly discussions about books, but too nervous to become a talking member of the community. Having been so upset about the “pause” of TLS, ..."ok, cool...will add you as a friend now
Hiya all. I’m TixhiiDon on the Guardian - the one who likes Russia and Georgia.
I was Carlily there ( though I haven't posted in a while so not expecting to be remembered), here I am Carley.
Gladarvor wrote: "Silke wrote: "Haven't found a way to change my profile name, here as Silke, I have been franhunny on the Groaniad."Hi fran, I *think* you just need to go to your Account Settings (if you click on..."
Thanks, Gladarvor - I tried to change the name in the drop box, but that did not work, never thought I could just change my first/last name. This is much better!
Hi everybody! (said in my finest Dr. Nick impression), One positive of the dry-docking of the TL&S page is to get slightly more in touch with each other. As in names and pictures, it's nice. More social, particularly at this time when I need everyone to stay as far away from me as possible due to contagion and lack of sleep
I'm thinking of getting an avatar, probably a spaniel. The in-house IT support has promised to look into it for me.
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Who is Dr. Nick?
Living up to my name again. Two people have befriended me (thanks) but I thought I was asking if I could befriend another person and it came that I was following them. How do you ask to befriend someone and do you have to have a reply through your email, because I have switched of most email notification settings.
Cut rate surgeon. Hollywood Upstairs Medical College. The Simpsons.I realize now that my cultural references are probably about 20 years removed from the mainstream, because my comment screamed of 1993.
giveusaclue wrote: "Living up to my name again. Two people have befriended me (thanks) but I thought I was asking if I could befriend another person and it came that I was following them. How do you ask to befriend ..."
Well, what you have done in my case worked, so I'd say do that again ;)
FranHunny wrote: "Thanks, Gladarvor - I tried to change the name in the drop box, but that did not work, never thought I could just change my first/last name. "You're welcome, glad this worked!
Machenbach wrote: "https://youtu.be/mGYpsNpg1bw?t=2"And me naively thinking it was something linked to the character played by Tom Waits in Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
giveusaclue wrote: "Living up to my name again. Two people have befriended me (thanks) but I thought I was asking if I could befriend another person and it came that I was following them. How do you ask to befriend ..."
Click on the person's name, which brings up their profile. There, you can click on 'friend' or' follow'. The latter happens automatically; in the former case, it depends on whether that person accepts your request. Also, it looks as though some people don't allow followers, which is of course their prerogative.
Justine wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "Living up to my name again. Two people have befriended me (thanks) but I thought I was asking if I could befriend another person and it came that I was following them. How do ..."
Thank s, I'm getting the hang of things!
Hi, I'm Frances Burgundy, can you work out my TLS username? Good to be here!
Hi again, updated to FrancesBurgundy I hope. Not just any old Frances.
Well, I just ran a test and clicked on add book/author. They (Amazon) don't have the capacity to find older books. I used one of my favs - The Kappillan of Malta, and the system came up dry. So no bolding or highlighting of books/authors appears to be available.
Kincaid wrote: "[...] I used one of my favs - The Kappillan of Malta, and the system came up dry. So no ..."What about this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
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Do you mean this?
You may have encountered yet another GR quirk: search doesn't handle misspellings very well.
Thanks for setting this up, I'm very happy that TLS lives on as I loved getting new ideas for reading from you all. I was very much a lurker, but I'm Jo on here and I hope to be more of a participant in the future.
Hi all. I was everythingsperfect over there. I was fairly active in the early days of the reading group and have posted occasionally on TLS. Here I already had a neglected profile in my own name, so I have resurrected it from its zombie state.
Paul wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Paul wrote: "In days gone past, before a fit of asininity, I was Webber Expat and I then respawned at the last save point as PaulTheExile. Now, the anonymity is shed. I feel nak..."I was worried at the possibility of naked pictures!
It’s made me smile, to discover that some of us are actually real people. It’s good to be here.
It’s good to be anywhere.
I’m Dylan.
Magrat wrote: "I'm thinking of getting an avatar, probably a spaniel. The in-house IT support has promised to look into it for me."I thought of uploading an avatar/picture, which would probably have been one of our dog - but the system seems incompatible with my (Apple) laptop, and no pictures appear! Maybe that will change, when I figure this thing out.
scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "I'm thinking of getting an avatar, probably a spaniel. The in-house IT support has promised to look into it for me."I thought of uploading an avatar/picture, which would probably h..."
I uploaded a pic from my Apple laptop so I don't think that's the issue.
Greenfairy, formerly maggie maggie b.😁
Machenbach wrote: "Hi, I'm Machenbach, mainly known at TLS as Machenbach, but here you can call me Mr. Machenbach.Nice to see familiar and unfamiliar faces here. Hopefully I'll come to despise you all equally in goo..."
That's our Mach!
InhaleLit is Beverly IRL and my avatar is my English Springer Spaniel, Lola, who has been immeasurable comfort during the pandemic.
Sandya wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "I'm thinking of getting an avatar, probably a spaniel. The in-house IT support has promised to look into it for me."I thought of uploading an avatar/picture, wh..."
OK, thanks. I'm a bit baffled - when I click on photos, I get absolutely nothing appearing. Maybe I'll be able to sort it - eventually.
Hello, I'm book_lady. I was a longtime lurker on tls and sad to see it was being axed. Thanks for setting this up, I hope to "give back" to those who recommended such good bks on tls.
Beverly wrote: "InhaleLit is Beverly IRL and my avatar is my English Springer Spaniel, Lola, who has been immeasurable comfort during the pandemic."She's beautiful
Thank you. Goodreads isn’t at all bad if you use it for recording your reads, TBR, owned library, and reading reviews of selected friends, several of whom are on NTB threads. The platform is antiquated though, but it’s what we have. I have discovered oodles of new authors and works in translation on Goodreads.
scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "I'm thinking of getting an avatar, probably a spaniel. The in-house IT support has promised to look into it for me."I thought of uploading an avatar/picture, which would probably h..."
You can only post avatars up to a certain size, could that have been the problem?
scarletnoir wrote: "Sandya wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "OK, thanks. I'm a bit baffled - when I click on photos, I get absolutely nothing appearing."Seems you still don't have an avatar scarlet... What are the exact steps you take to upload the image when on your laptop?
LeatherCol wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Sandya wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "I'm thinking of getting an avatar, probably a spaniel. The in-house IT support has promised to look into it for me."I thought..."
No success yet!
Gladarvor wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Sandya wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "OK, thanks. I'm a bit baffled - when I click on photos, I get absolutely nothing appearing."Seems you still don't have an ava..."
Two methods of uploading photos used; neither works.
1. Go to Account settings; click 'choose file' under the little figure which is to be replaced with an avatar; click 'Photos' on Apple laptop - but no photos appear.
Second method was not for an avatar, but to show a photo in the 'pets' thread:
2. Go to photos and select one; copy; go to comment box; paste. Nothing!
scarletnoir wrote: "Gladarvor wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Sandya wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "OK, thanks. I'm a bit baffled - when I click on photos, I get absolutely nothing appearing."Seems you still..."
I'm sorry if I'm stating the obvious but only photos downloaded and saved to your laptop will upload as a chosen file ... so if there's a photo you'd like to use as an avatar save it to your pictures on your laptop, and then you should be able to choose it as a file and upload it. If this is like saying "today is Hallowe'en" forget I spoke. I'm sure it doesn't strengthen my case that I am sitting here dressed as a polar bear after a Zoom call with my nieces. Happy Hallowe'en though...
Reen wrote: "I'm sure it doesn't strengthen my case that I am sitting here dressed as a polar bear after a Zoom call with my nieces. Happy Hallowe'en though...."Would pay good money to see that!! Happy Hallowe'en too Reen.
scarletnoir wrote: "1. Go to Account settings; click 'choose file' under the little figure which is to be replaced with an avatar; click 'Photos' on Apple laptop - but no photos appear."Sorry I had missed your post: yes, exactly what Reen says. You can only upload something that is already physically (the file itself .jpg, .png, or else) on your laptop.
If you have it somewhere else (say on flickr/instagram/FB/etc.), download it first on your Apple laptop, and then you'll be able to see it when you want to change your avatar.
Just let me know if you still struggle!
Machenbach wrote: "Reen wrote: " I am sitting here dressed as a polar bear after a Zoom call with my nieces.."Forget everything else, that calls for a picture."
What's it worth to you?
Reen wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Gladarvor wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Sandya wrote: "scarletnoir wrote: "Magrat wrote: "OK, thanks. I'm a bit baffled - when I click on photos, I get absolutely nothing appearin..."I have an Apple, with a 'Photos' file... all my Photos are on that (I took them myself), but it won't link with the GR system for some reason.
scarletnoir wrote: "I have an Apple, with a 'Photos' file... all my Photos are on that (I took them myself), but it won't link with the GR system for some reason."Hmmm. Ok, so you go to your Profile, ask to Edit it, Browse for an image for your profile. When you press the button 'Browse' this then prompts the file directory of 'Photos' on your laptop? So far, is this right?
And in that Photos directory, you have files of all your pics, but here it seems empty? Still right?
Reen wrote: "What's it worth to you?"Aha, I think I'll be a bit haunted by that image for the rest of the day! What's your chapka made of? Something the polar bear would have happily eaten itself?
Machenbach wrote: "Maybe check the image size too."Yeah, but scarlet should still be able to see his picture files I would think (if I've understood correctly, he cannot see his usual photos)...
I've just checked and my large files can be seen at least, and it doesn't matter what the format is either (it's set to 'All Files' by default). What you describe would be a subsequent problem: if scarlet had picked a photo, but it would not upload.
Anyway, let's see!
Miri wrote: "Hi everyone, Cardellina here :)"Your avatar was a giveaway!
Brilliant, thanks a lot Adina. How could I miss the other tabs past 'Settings' (well, I dismissed them as not being relevant, obviously they were!)?
A word of warning too for others who'd like to keep the level of data collected by EOE as low as possible: when you Sign out, it does not always work... worth double-checking when you do (I've found that following the link to re- Sign in - without doing so of course - seems to enforce the Sign out).