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📝 Intruder on the site!!
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat (
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All sorted. If it happens again, please flag the posts as it’ll come to my attention more quickly.
My recommendation is to remain in DEFCON 4 until further notice!
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📝 Members?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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We still have 8000ish members… but most are somewhat hidden accounts now. There was a change a few months ago to only count active members (in the last 12 months), otherwise we do risk counting a lot of dormant accounts!
Although you can still search and find dormant accounts, they’re just not counted by default anymore 😊
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Although you can still search and find dormant accounts, they’re just not counted by default anymore 😊
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📝 In Loving Memory of my dad Peter, aka Mallory.
5 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Dear All,
It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad news of the passing of my dad, a beloved member of the MBW community and an integral part of the website team here.
Some of you may remember him from various model boating events, particularly during the fireboat/Aerokit fundays and clubs across the north west.
His enthusiasm for model building was profound, and while he may not have posted frequently on here, he read every discussion and cherished the connections and friendships of members.
He was immensely proud of me for creating this site and growing our community, something I will undoubtedly continue.
I also plan to continue sailing his yacht and SeaScout (complete with Popeye and Olive Oyl) whenever the weather and time permit 👍
This forum meant a great deal to him, as do all of you.
May our boats glide through the waters as gracefully as his spirit now sails through the stars ❤️
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It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad news of the passing of my dad, a beloved member of the MBW community and an integral part of the website team here.
Some of you may remember him from various model boating events, particularly during the fireboat/Aerokit fundays and clubs across the north west.
His enthusiasm for model building was profound, and while he may not have posted frequently on here, he read every discussion and cherished the connections and friendships of members.
He was immensely proud of me for creating this site and growing our community, something I will undoubtedly continue.
I also plan to continue sailing his yacht and SeaScout (complete with Popeye and Olive Oyl) whenever the weather and time permit 👍
This forum meant a great deal to him, as do all of you.
May our boats glide through the waters as gracefully as his spirit now sails through the stars ❤️
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📝 No emails
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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@Doug, the bug was more a function of changing how push notification messages are sent. I’m utilising the whole header, subject and subtitle parts of push notifications now. So anyone using apps will now see a little more detail in the notifications.
I just managed to break emails at the same time 🙈
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I just managed to break emails at the same time 🙈
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📝 No emails
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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There is a bug. I'm working on it 👍
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📝 BACKDOOR ADVERTISING ALARM!!
7 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Member removed. Also removed your URL. No need to sent traffic to that website.
Good spot 😎
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Good spot 😎
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📝 Happy Christmas
10 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Merry Christmas to all members far and wide! Thank you for being part of this fantastic community which makes this website so super special 😊
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📝 Question of the Day?
10 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Hi All, bit late replying here, but I’ll swap yesterdays answer to Endeavor later today or tomorrow (busy days at the moment!) so you’ll be honoured with the point for the 15th once I get around to it 👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
11 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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If everyone is in agreement, I'll retrospectively change it to Frigate 😁 but I'll await more feedback. I see most have actually put Galleon so far. We can safely say it's not submarine at least 👍
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
11 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Somehow guessed it after PIRATES. Don’t usually hit the mark on two! 🥳
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📝 Question of the Day?
12 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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I can confirm the calculation if anyone wants to figure out why a number would go down if answering correctly?
Player Average % = Total Correct (last 30 days) / Total Answered (last 30 days) x 100
I can't think of a reason either. The only oddity that I can see might occur is in the 30 day calculation, which isn't whole days, it's to the second... 60*60*24*30
I'll leave this brain teaser out there 😎
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Player Average % = Total Correct (last 30 days) / Total Answered (last 30 days) x 100
I can't think of a reason either. The only oddity that I can see might occur is in the 30 day calculation, which isn't whole days, it's to the second... 60*60*24*30
I'll leave this brain teaser out there 😎
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
12 months ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Oops! Seems we ran out of 4-6 letter words. First 7 letter one today. Good luck! I’ll look to add a few smaller ones again too. The new mix will be words between 4 and 7 letters 👍
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📝 Subscriptions
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Dave, it’s never been subscription only. Subscriptions are optional and depending on the level, remove ads and make the experience much nicer. Functionally you can do everything still having no subscription.
This is also why everything is managed through PayPal. Everything is compulsorily above board. I’ve no time to manage direct debits or anyone’s payment details. Notifications have been sent to those few affected. A mass comm would be ridiculous.
Indeed, website bills have gone up, it’s expensive to have apps in all the app stores, web hosting has only gone one way, storage costs only increasing with the content being hosted increasing too, database backups cost, domain names and security certificates cost.
I’m sorry I’ve offended by not sending personal emails in advance of the PayPal comm, but at the end of the day, if the cost is now too much, please just unsubscribe. I run this, as you know, in my very limited spare time.
Around 10 members were adjusted on price. Plus a few who simply had a description change from “Website supporter” to “Bronze etc membership” and this is simply so the website code knows what membership type someone is.
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This is also why everything is managed through PayPal. Everything is compulsorily above board. I’ve no time to manage direct debits or anyone’s payment details. Notifications have been sent to those few affected. A mass comm would be ridiculous.
Indeed, website bills have gone up, it’s expensive to have apps in all the app stores, web hosting has only gone one way, storage costs only increasing with the content being hosted increasing too, database backups cost, domain names and security certificates cost.
I’m sorry I’ve offended by not sending personal emails in advance of the PayPal comm, but at the end of the day, if the cost is now too much, please just unsubscribe. I run this, as you know, in my very limited spare time.
Around 10 members were adjusted on price. Plus a few who simply had a description change from “Website supporter” to “Bronze etc membership” and this is simply so the website code knows what membership type someone is.
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1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Membership costs haven’t actually changed since Jan 2022.
£2.50 Bronze
£4.50 Silver
£6.50 Gold
For those who subscribed earlier than that, it’s not entirely fair on newer members if costs aren’t equal to all.
If you’re one of the few with changes, you’ll have been informed at least 14 days before the next payment and perfectly entitled to cancel before then.
I know how costs of everything these days are increasing, but this is to align all members.
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£2.50 Bronze
£4.50 Silver
£6.50 Gold
For those who subscribed earlier than that, it’s not entirely fair on newer members if costs aren’t equal to all.
If you’re one of the few with changes, you’ll have been informed at least 14 days before the next payment and perfectly entitled to cancel before then.
I know how costs of everything these days are increasing, but this is to align all members.
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Thinking on the "4 with clue" which has become the standard...
Should we allow a clue at any time? But have a one line penalty when used?
Open to thoughts!
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Should we allow a clue at any time? But have a one line penalty when used?
Open to thoughts!
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Oops! Well I guess one ridiculously wrong question was bound to slip through at some point 😂
I’ve reworded it 👍
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I’ve reworded it 👍
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Don’t worry, HARBOUR is in the mix somewhere which will come up one day to trip up all the US members 🤣
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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If anyone gets todays as a first guess, I’ll be suspicious of cheating 🤣
Bombero, I checked on this, you put YEPHSR as your last line, but it's ZEPHYR. I had to check in case it was a bug, but I don't think it is 😜
Also those who have had double entries of the same word, that’s happened to me now too, I've added a check to prevent repeated lines, so we shouldn't see that happening anymore 👍
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Bombero, I checked on this, you put YEPHSR as your last line, but it's ZEPHYR. I had to check in case it was a bug, but I don't think it is 😜
Also those who have had double entries of the same word, that’s happened to me now too, I've added a check to prevent repeated lines, so we shouldn't see that happening anymore 👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Hi Ron, just switch off the puzzles of the day in your my account page 👍
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📝 Stopping "Wordie" and "Question of the day"
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Hi Lew,
I've made some tweaks and now when 'Puzzles of the Day' are switched off in my account, it'll be as though they don't exist. You shouldn't see them online or be notified of any new posts in the respective threads.
You can still get to the threads from the forum page, but that's all.
Thanks! Stephen
I've made some tweaks and now when 'Puzzles of the Day' are switched off in my account, it'll be as though they don't exist. You shouldn't see them online or be notified of any new posts in the respective threads.
You can still get to the threads from the forum page, but that's all.
Thanks! Stephen
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📝 Stopping "Wordie" and "Question of the day"
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Lew, I am going to add a toggle for this in the My Account section. I realise it’s not for everyone and I don’t want the two puzzles to take away focus from the other great content on the site. That’s really what it’s all about more than the puzzles 👍
I’ll switch it off on your account as soon as I’ve added the functionality.
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I’ll switch it off on your account as soon as I’ve added the functionality.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Some changes from tomorrow:
* Lots of poor future Q's have been deleted
* They'll be the occasional repeat, as Q's are no longer scheduled, but picked at random, so old ones may come around again
* They'll now be an explanation of why the correct answer is correct and why the other options are not.
* Some Q's will have comical 'incorrect' options, it should be about the fun more than real intelligence after all!
* Most Q's have been checked, so more confidence here, but I can't 100% guarantee something wont slip through the net still. Let's see!
* No more 'who owns this super yacht' type Q's
* Less Q's on sailing and rigging
* As much as possible the Q's are internationally applicable
* Less banana's required 🍌
* Added the %'s of how many have gone for each answer. You can see the number of votes by hovering over the %.
-- If anyone has the enthusiasm to put together more Q's, fun ones! With fun answers, in an excel sheet / google docs, let me know 👍
Thanks,
Stephen
* Lots of poor future Q's have been deleted
* They'll be the occasional repeat, as Q's are no longer scheduled, but picked at random, so old ones may come around again
* They'll now be an explanation of why the correct answer is correct and why the other options are not.
* Some Q's will have comical 'incorrect' options, it should be about the fun more than real intelligence after all!
* Most Q's have been checked, so more confidence here, but I can't 100% guarantee something wont slip through the net still. Let's see!
* No more 'who owns this super yacht' type Q's
* Less Q's on sailing and rigging
* As much as possible the Q's are internationally applicable
* Less banana's required 🍌
* Added the %'s of how many have gone for each answer. You can see the number of votes by hovering over the %.
-- If anyone has the enthusiasm to put together more Q's, fun ones! With fun answers, in an excel sheet / google docs, let me know 👍
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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I can’t fix the answer right now, but I’ll swap it to staysail and update everyone’s scores later today! 👍
Meanwhile thinking again what can be done to improve the daily questions…
Scrap sailing questions, more historical nautical questions (these seem to be popular), I did consider the option of a free text ‘none of the above’ option, but realistically we want these questions to be factually correct in the first place… I think well referenced evidence of the correct answer and reason for it should be added too.
Once I’ve time to work on this, I will do. The last thing I want is everyone to be annoyed at the inaccuracies of it all the time.
Stephen
Meanwhile thinking again what can be done to improve the daily questions…
Scrap sailing questions, more historical nautical questions (these seem to be popular), I did consider the option of a free text ‘none of the above’ option, but realistically we want these questions to be factually correct in the first place… I think well referenced evidence of the correct answer and reason for it should be added too.
Once I’ve time to work on this, I will do. The last thing I want is everyone to be annoyed at the inaccuracies of it all the time.
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Stephen T, did you use the clue at all? 🤔 it's free to use it after line 3.
Clue today:
___ Boat. A vessel designed for transporting a tropical fruit known for its curve
This word was really added for Colin, since his lack of quality banana's seems to be what's caused him poor results of late 🤣
Clue today:
___ Boat. A vessel designed for transporting a tropical fruit known for its curve
This word was really added for Colin, since his lack of quality banana's seems to be what's caused him poor results of late 🤣
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Normally I don’t know what’s coming up, so I can join in… but tomorrow’s Wordle is an exception 😁 I think it’ll be enjoyed!
I’ll give nothing further away 😎 tune in tomorrow 🤣
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I’ll give nothing further away 😎 tune in tomorrow 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Good to have an easy one occasionally! Haha 🤣
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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My worst yet. Line 6! Negatively effecting the UK average. Oops!
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📝 Happy Birthday Stephen(Fireboat)
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Haha, thank you all!
I wasn’t sure the birthdays section was ever really looked at 😂
Bit stressful this week with hitting deadlines for Friday (day job), everything seems to have gone wrong today… but I’ll celebrate my old age when time permits 🥳
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I wasn’t sure the birthdays section was ever really looked at 😂
Bit stressful this week with hitting deadlines for Friday (day job), everything seems to have gone wrong today… but I’ll celebrate my old age when time permits 🥳
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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I couldn't get the clue originally either - I did find the bug that caused it though which is now fixed 👍
5 with clue, not very good!
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5 with clue, not very good!
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📝 Wordle of the Day?
1 year ago by 🇬🇧 fireboat ( Commander)
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Started with POND, only the P & D were right, so swapped them about, guessed DEEP on the 2nd line!
Think I just luckily started with the right word 😁
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Think I just luckily started with the right word 😁
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