"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> > On 28-7-2012 9:11, Stephen wrote:
> > > On 27/07/2012 7:12 PM, nemesis wrote:
> > >
> > >>>
> > >>> Three weeks to go; three images uploaded so far; we need more work!
> > >>>
> > >
> > >>
> > >> what?!!
> > >>
> > >> doesn't the competition end 31 august?!
> > >>
> > >
> > > No. The 31st of August is when the voting ends. We allow two weeks for
> > > that so the deadline for entries is midnight of 17/8/12 BST.
> > > To be honest I cannot find where to change that particular text.
> > >
> >
> > ...and as you are told the next Challenge topic on that same date, you
> > still have two complete months to prepare an entry :-)
> >
> > To Stephen: as administrators, we are only allowed to change the
> > floating top bar. Only Colin seems to have access to that part of the site.
>
> well, I guess it's enough.  I was working on it but on july I got into a 2 week
> vacation with my daughter and shall get to work on it again...


I'm still wondering. The Tina-chep-site seems to be unvisible to google

the same name than mine but not even a hint to my pictures. If I google for
Thomas or Stephen I find only pictures published in the pov-newsgroups. The
google search-engine is a bot, may be tc-rtc is rejecting bots, so we will never
came up with google.

Best regards,
Michael

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On 03/08/2012 8:05 PM, TawnyOwl wrote:
> I'm still wondering. The Tina-chep-site seems to be unvisible to google
> completely.

You have a point there. I finally got in touch with Colin (the 
developer). When he gets back to me I will ask him about it.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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"TawnyOwl" <taw### [at] webde> wrote:
> "nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> > > On 28-7-2012 9:11, Stephen wrote:
> > > > On 27/07/2012 7:12 PM, nemesis wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Three weeks to go; three images uploaded so far; we need more work!
> > > >>>
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> what?!!
> > > >>
> > > >> doesn't the competition end 31 august?!
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > No. The 31st of August is when the voting ends. We allow two weeks for
> > > > that so the deadline for entries is midnight of 17/8/12 BST.
> > > > To be honest I cannot find where to change that particular text.
> > > >
> > >
> > > ...and as you are told the next Challenge topic on that same date, you
> > > still have two complete months to prepare an entry :-)
> > >
> > > To Stephen: as administrators, we are only allowed to change the
> > > floating top bar. Only Colin seems to have access to that part of the site.
> >
> > well, I guess it's enough.  I was working on it but on july I got into a 2 week
> > vacation with my daughter and shall get to work on it again...
>
>
> I'm still wondering. The Tina-chep-site seems to be unvisible to google

> the same name than mine but not even a hint to my pictures. If I google for
> Thomas or Stephen I find only pictures published in the pov-newsgroups. The
> google search-engine is a bot, may be tc-rtc is rejecting bots, so we will never
> came up with google.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael

if so, someone should edit the ROBOTS.txt file in the website...

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Stil now entrees, where are are all the railroadmodelers, regarding all the
magazines and websites aboout this topic

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On 3-8-2012 22:28, BertvdB wrote:
> Stil now entrees, where are are all the railroadmodelers, regarding all the
> magazines and websites aboout this topic
>

I was surprised too. However, see what TawnyOwl writes above. He may 
have point there about visibility.

Welcome to the TC-RTC Community by the way :-)

Thomas

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On 3-8-2012 21:05, TawnyOwl wrote:

> I'm still wondering. The Tina-chep-site seems to be unvisible to google

> the same name than mine but not even a hint to my pictures. If I google for
> Thomas or Stephen I find only pictures published in the pov-newsgroups. The
> google search-engine is a bot, may be tc-rtc is rejecting bots, so we will never
> came up with google.
>

Now that you mention it... that may explain a lot of things...

Thomas

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On 3-8-2012 22:13, nemesis wrote:
> if so, someone should edit the ROBOTS.txt file in the website...

Definitely something for Colin to look at. He is the Big Boss ;-)

Thomas

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> To Stephen: as administrators, we are only allowed to change the 
> floating top bar. Only Colin seems to have access to that part of the site.

actually this sounds like TC-RTC is quite dependent on the time and
interest of a single person. After the fate that befell IRTC (twice...)
this might be an issue of concern for people considering to join in.

Of course, you cannot pull a team of web site administrators out of
your hat, but you might want to ensure that the server, code, data and
backups are at least accessible by a larger number of people, and that
the system is documented to a point that someone else could setup a
new server running TC-RTC should the need arise.

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On 05/08/2012 2:12 PM, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> actually this sounds like TC-RTC is quite dependent on the time and
> interest of a single person. After the fate that befell IRTC (twice...)
> this might be an issue of concern for people considering to join in.

You are quite right Christian,
To give some history, after the IRTC was down for about a year. Steve 
Paget (you may remember St) decided to give something back to the 
community. He contacted a web developer in his town and commissioned 
TC-RTC. So the web site is owned by Colin and we only use it. When Steve 
died a couple of years ago I contacted Colin and said that I would be 
willing to keep it running and Thomas de Groot kindly agreed to assist 
in the running of the site. (I say assist but Thomas does all the work.)

faded Colin has lost some of his enthusiasm for maintaining it.
We have not bothered him too much with change requests. Partly because 
he does not give it a high priority (that means that he does not answer 
emails) and partly because the costs are minimal so you get what you pay 
for. We are a small group and most of us know the limitations and just 
live with it.

So that is it in a nutshell. If you can think of a practical solution we 
would be pleased to hear it.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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Em 05/08/2012 10:45, Stephen escreveu:
> On 05/08/2012 2:12 PM, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
>> actually this sounds like TC-RTC is quite dependent on the time and
>> interest of a single person. After the fate that befell IRTC (twice...)
>> this might be an issue of concern for people considering to join in.
>
> You are quite right Christian,
> To give some history, after the IRTC was down for about a year. Steve
> Paget (you may remember St) decided to give something back to the
> community. He contacted a web developer in his town and commissioned
> TC-RTC. So the web site is owned by Colin and we only use it. When Steve
> died a couple of years ago I contacted Colin and said that I would be
> willing to keep it running and Thomas de Groot kindly agreed to assist
> in the running of the site. (I say assist but Thomas does all the work.)

> faded Colin has lost some of his enthusiasm for maintaining it.
> We have not bothered him too much with change requests. Partly because
> he does not give it a high priority (that means that he does not answer
> emails) and partly because the costs are minimal so you get what you pay
> for. We are a small group and most of us know the limitations and just
> live with it.
>
> So that is it in a nutshell. If you can think of a practical solution we
> would be pleased to hear it.

I remember St.

BTW, why not simply a free blog?  Something like tc-rtc.blogspot.com or 
tc-rtc.wordpress.com?  Administration hurdle is minimal and can be 
shared between a few select accounts.  Image posting and polls are among 
the features, plus comment system builtin, etc.

With so many cheap free solutions out there for creating and sharing 
content, I don't see the reason for bothering with a "home page".

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