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I'm working on a combination of 3 - so runny nose+sore throat+ temperature, but DHHS and encouraging you to go early and find you're negative than the other way around.

Personally I would give a high score of just a sore throat for it to be worthy of a test

Please be advised that we must play the subject...NOT the man or else suspensions will reluctantly be given, I don't want this and I am sure no one else does as well...thanks for understanding

It will be a download but probably not a complete 150gb as that is what is needed in terms of hdd space to run it but maybe 130gb

I pre ordered my copy today as I was able to get the Premium Deluxe edition at a discounted price of $142 AUD. It is being released on the 18th Aug and it is reported to need 150gb of hdd space. The screenshots look incredible especially the terrain.

Unfortunately only the Xenforo software has the numbers stored and can create the chart and as we were using IPS software prior to the start of the graph I don't have those figures

Out of curiousity what other things are you guys interested in like Cars, Boats, Gardening, Technology, Jobs, Home Maintenance ?????????????????

We need many more posts of value to entice new users and to get discussions going

Are they the stats for recflying, social aus, or both?

Just Recreational Flying

Did you know that generally the most popular online communities all started with a specific subject or obsession...many started by just being an online community about a specific computer game or other specific thing. However, they all diversified broadening their appeal into many other areas. For example that one specific computer game spread to other computer games and then to general life subjects and ended up forums catering to everything and which that specific computer game still exists on their site but just as 1 of the many different subject forums they have on their site. Most top successful forums also have more than just the forum function as well like i was trying to create when we used the IPS software. One specific feature they have is that users can fine tune areas like Whats New to just the subjects they are interested in, something you can't do in here (Xenforo software)

Looking at the site statistics today and I am alarmed at an obvious downward trend. The number of "registered" users coming to the site every day seems to be maintained at an average of around 250 to 275 per day however years ago we were averaging 600 registered users per day peaking at up to 1,000 (the graph peaks are a result of the weekly email that goes out). I believe this drop is caused purely by Facebook. But what is concerning is the huge downward trend in the number of posts per day. This could be caused by Covid-19 but I would have thought that the numbers would increase given that everyone was in lock down spending more time on the internet.

Let me explain what happens when the number of posts drop...there is less to read resulting in less interest resulting in less posts again and as it keeps dropping the number of registered users coming to the site each day begins to drop...the end result is the site's closure due to cost/benefit. The other thing is when the number of registered users start to drop, which I feel we are approaching, a turn around is extremely difficult, the term "free fall" comes to mind.

This site has been going for some 18 years and in its heyday, before Facebook, it was the go to place for all recreational aviators to get help from each other, discuss one's flying experiences and to just get social with other like minded aviators.

We need to do something...but I don't know what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your thoughts?????????

If I look at it in simplistic terms there are only 4 reasons you can leave home and flying doesnt fit into one of them so even though there is nothing explicit that is the way I would look at it

( That army guy is now on veteran's benefits for being crazy... somehow he managed to convince them that he got that way in the army )

His name wasn't Corporal Klinger was it?

I might be looking for a helpful person who might accidentally fly over the border, land and ask for directions and being aviation safety conscious I would have to hop in and fly with you for precise directions to Queensland...it is very dangerous for a pilot to get lost

My concern is how long the current version of Xenforo will be supported. There's still a lot of aircraft profiles to convert/redo from the IPS -> Xen move, and I shudder to think that down the track we might have to go through it all again.

We won't Red, what you have added is an enormous asset to every user of the site and must be protected even to a point of even paying out money to ensure it is protected in any consideration of software

As some will know, the Off Topic site Social Australia (.com.au) uses the IPS software solution which recently released an exciting new update (still in BETA stage) which I am working on and when fully released Social Australia will be updated to it, it really is that good with the extra features they have added. So Social Australia is staying with IPS

Xenforo on the other hand, which this site (Recreational Flying) is based on, released an update today, again in BETA, but having a look at it I can clearly say that I don't like it, not one bit, and I don't believe you will either so I thought that I would let you know that Recreational Flying is sticking with the current version of Xenforo...just in case you visit other sites that use Xenforo and notice they end up different to this one

Some screen shots of the IPS update being developed on Social Australia (still working on cosmetics):

As an addition to the above comment on the amount of white space being a bit more glare on the eyes. It would probably be different for each viewer depending on their device or monitor size. I use a 950mm x 550mm TV screen as a monitor, so it's more noticeable than on a laptop for instance. It's like when they brought out the crystalbrite laptop screens. It was hard on the eyes initially, but after a while, you don't even notice it.

Any chance of having a side menu and the post full width of a 16:9 screen format?

Egg Zachary.

Ken Oath.

So some of you prefer the same side column menu system and fluid width page display. There is a lot involved in whey I have currently set the display the way it is on Social Australia so i have recorded a video to explain the reasons why but note that it is my current view which is being evaluated and may change. If we stick with the way that Social Australia is then I may be changing it here as well. Interestingly I did a poll about the Fixed vs Fluid view here and out of the hundreds of users that come here every day only 2 people responded:

https://www.recreationalflying.com/threads/fixed-or-fluid-width.72497/

Here is my explanation:

I have been looking through the IPS update that was shown on their site the other day and there are some great new features in it that will soon come to Social Australia (.com.au), the off topic site

In Holland, English is their second language. so they tell me but again not in the provinces. Nev.

As of October last year "Holland" no longer exists. I was reading an article that they have made it official that the "areas" known as "Holland" (Nth Holland, Sth Holland and Holland) will now be also known as Netherlands:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/04/holland-the-netherlands-dutch-government-rebrand

I hope it's far KENWORTH it.. Having "social" in the title might attract some hostility from rugged individuals. Nev

At least it is born and bred in Watsonia and not near Kew or far Kew

(note: Kew is a suburb in Melbourne...this is meant as a joke Nev...mate!!!)

Any chance of having a side menu and the post full width of a 16:9 screen format?

You mean like it is here?

You are not going to believe this...I have for the last few weeks been developing the new Social site, planning it all out (for a month), developing it all, testing the full functionality including using the Shop feature of it and went live yesterday...Bloody Invision, the creator of the base software upgraded their own site to a whole new version TODAY which means a whole new version will probably be released in a few days...aaaarrrrgggh

Ahmed just emailed me with the news saying STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING so I will halt development for a few days

Social Australia user registrations are locked to just from Australia to keep all the spammers out so if there are any users outside of Australia that want to use the site then they will need to let me know so I can manually enter them.

Naturally the couple of talkative Pommies that are on the site already still have access to it...wouldn't want to lock them out

Is everything working ok at Social Australia and that you guys can log in and post?

Off Topic is back. You can access it by the link in the main menu.

It is now on a completely new site called Social Australia (.com.au) and has many many more features that you can use. If you have posted in the Off Topic forums before you just need to log in to Social Australia using the same user name and password that you use here at Recreational Flying BUT if you haven't then just simply register on Social Australia and you can start joining in the discussions about anything or use some of the extra features there.

Now with Off Topic being on its own site you can use the What's New, search etc...all things you couldn't do when Off Topic was mixed in here.

Also the Social Australia Shop will start up with some great general (non aviation) bargains in the coming days plus there are fully featured general Classifieds, Groups, a Business Directory all getting set up and there will even be a sports tipping section

Just wait guys...please

Hi, please note that the Off Topic forums have been closed for around 24hrs whilst some work is done on them...sorry for any inconvenience