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Heya all, We're now allowing the posting of inline images to topical forums. This feature was created to allow for the enhancement of the forum experience and for easier information sharing. Inline image posts consisting merely of memes, off-topic images or spam will be removed. We'll also have zero tolerance for pornographic images - see the Forum Rules in this regard. Any individual who abuse this feature will lose his/her permissions to post attachments. Images that are shown in the forums are all sized to be a maximum of 640 pixels on the x-axis. This is done to preserve the design integrity of the site. If you upload a 2000x3000 pixel image, it will be resized to be displayed at 640 pixels. Clicking on the image or the attachment name will bring up the full size image. How to Post and Inline Image? In order to post an inline image attachment, simply submit an attachment as normal, and then use the following piece of shortcode: [inline your_attachment_filename.jpg] File Naming Convention When you name your images, avoid using spaces, punctuation (other than dashes or underscores) and special characters. The inline scripting doesn't seem to be happy with those. Suggested naming convention would be to either concatenate everything or separate alphanumerical characters with underscores or dashes only. i.e. picture_of_my_cat.jpg Larger Upload Sizes We have also increased the size allowance for attachments. The maximum file size in most forums used to be 300KB - we've moved that up to 1MB. Which forums has inline images enabled? General Skydiving Discussions, Safety and Training, Gear and Rigging, Instructors, Tandem Skydiving, Wind Tunnels, Swooping and Canopy Control, Relative Work, Freeflying, Canopy Relative Work, Wing Suit Flying, Photography and Video, (All International topics), Security and Scam Alerts, Premier Membership Support, Suggestions and Feedback, Error and Bug Reports. Depending on how well this new functionality is received, and used- we will then look at moving it into other areas of the forum. Use it well, and enjoy

Heya all, I'd like to welcome Tom Noonan to our team of moderators here on Dropzone.com! Those in the know will have heard of Tom and understand why he's a great addition to help guide the newly launched tandem forum and the forums in general. A quick look at Tom's credentials... Tom has made 5000 skydives and is a USPA Tandem Instructor-Examiner, USPA AFF Instructor, and USPA Instructor Examiner Rating Course (IERC) director. He holds a FAA Senior Rigger certification and is a USPA Safety & Training Advisor (S&TA). Tom has just been elected to the USPA Board of Directors as a National Director. Tom knows his stuff and we're honored to have him on board. Safe swoops Sangiro

Hi Yvette - he sure will. Happy to see you here.

Hey Keith - are you still gay? Sorry, I meant to ask... are you still around? Hope you're well buddy.

So long Rev. Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, The Dropzone.com classifieds have become the de facto spot to sell and buy used skydiving gear online. We've had repeated request from users who want to feature their gear more prominently in the classifieds, but do not want to join the Premier Membership program. We've listened and now, for a small weekly fee (paid via PayPal) your gear items can be prominently featured on the Classifieds home page and at the top of the listings on each individual category page. Give it a go - it will greatly increase the footprint and visibility of your ad on the site and help us pay the bills.

Naah, you're welcome to go to their playground... just don't chuck your drogue in there. Safe swoops Sangiro

I will have to take advise on that... Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, On advise from the moderators I've created a new forum dedicated to tandem skydiving. A lot of the discussion in the Instructors forum are currently from tandem masters and it makes sense to create a space where tandem masters as well as prospective tandem jumpers can get together and share ideas. Have fun and play nice. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=51; Safe swoops Sangiro

What do you miss about the old home page? Safe swoops Sangiro

And the winners of the first 2 copies of "Above all Else" are Eduardo Ferraiuolo and John Musgrave. Congrats and thanks for sharing guys! Here's how you can win next week. Safe swoops Sangiro

And the winners of the first 2 copies of "Above all Else" are Eduardo Ferraiuolo and John Musgrave. Congrats and thanks for sharing guys! Safe swoops Sangiro

As promised, 10 copies of Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld's book "Above All Else" up for grabs! There you go! Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, Because everybody loves free stuff! As promised yesterday we're starting to give away some stuff on the Dropzone.com Facebook page. We've got 10 copies of Dan's book, Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success and one of them could be yours for free. Here's what you have to do: Like Our Facebook PageShare any post, picture, status update, video or whatever we post to that page in any particular week with your friends and you're in the draw. Share 2 and you're in twice, share 3 and... well, you get the picture.We'll be giving away 2 copies every Friday for the next 5 weeks, starting this Friday, September 7, 2012If you don't win the first week, just share away the next and you'll automatically be entered into the draw again.That's it. Good luck and have fun! Winners will be announced on Facebook and here in the forums. The prize cannot be swapped for anything else. If you cannot be contacted or don't respond to our notifications that you've won within 48 hours, you'll make the next guy very happy! Here's a link to our Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/dropzoneskydiving Remember, you have to "Share" not just "Like" to enter the draw. Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, Heads up. We're going to start giving away stuff on the Dropzone.com Facebook page tomorrow. You'll have to join though so drop in and "like" our page, then keep checking Facebook and the Forums here and we'll let you know what's up for grabs. Woot! http://www.facebook.com/dropzoneskydiving Safe swoops Sangiro

Wendy - we'll remove the ads for Premium Paid members again soon. Just doing a migration from the NameMedia ad server to ours and there's a lot of configuration going on. That being said, the Premium Members program will be reviewed as well. We do need to convince ourselves again that it still makes sense to offer that option. The premium membership has added a lot of complexity to the site code (to serve special features, filter stuff etc) and I need to be sure the numbers justify that extra complexity. If we do decide to stick with it we need to figure out how to add more value to it to draw in more members. Open to suggestions.

Nope. Click on the My Stuff button in the top right corner. Email is not being used by enough people to justify it having it's own link in the primary navigation. Safe swoops Sangiro

Good, let me know if you see that again. I have that same setup on a PC here and have not seen that before. If you do see it again, grab a screenshot or make a note of which ad it was. Thanks! Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, We've launched the a new home page for Dropzone.com. Take a peek and give us feedback. Tell us if you find anything that';s not working. There's bound to be some quirks (I trust they'll be small) in the system and we'll get those sorted out over next week. We'll move forward on upgrading the remaining sections on the site soon: Classifieds, Videos, Stolen Gear, Fatalities database, Webmail and the Forums. Will keep you posted and have a most excellent weekend! PS - How do you get your photo to feature on the home page? It's a little algorithm the checks for recent photos, with certain number of minimum votes and a baseline average rating. Upload your good stuff - we want to feature it! Safe swoops Sangiro

Hey T, That will be back in short order. if you look at the sections we've been updating you'll notice that the home page is kinda out of line at this stage. I'm working on that right now and it will be part of the next section to roll out. I the meantime we've changed how the pages are rendered to deliver a more personalized experience in the future and ironically that little legacy widget broke. When the new template goes up over the next few days that will be back and better. In the meantime I hope the one additional page load doesn't annoy you too much.

That's OK. I've been doing this for a while, so I understand how this works, how people and their personas react online and I'm long beyond the point where I allow individuals to get too much under my skin on a forum.

Thanks for the kind words everyone! It certainly is exciting to be focusing on Dropzone.com again. As you'll pick up from the press release, I agree that that devices (phones, tablets etc) have moved on since we were last at the helm here and I agree that we will have to do something about making the site a lot more accessible on those. Also, the underlying packages used to build these sites are outdated and stale. Chances are we have a pretty big re-platforming exercise somewhere in the near future to set up to make improvements faster and at a lower cost. As for content - the forums are buzzing, but the editorial content not. It's up to us to change that. If you can or want to write you are more than welcome to PM me. I will however bring somebody on board in the office here who will spend a considerable amount of his/her time focusing on that again. I'm feeling like a kid with a new (old?) toy and can go on and on about everything I'd like to do but right now I'm a little buried in the transition from NameMedia. The ad server, billing, tracking everything that happens in the background has to come over to our side - for all 3 sites - and that will probably keep my busy for the next week or so. In the meantime as you may have noticed, we have been doing some template changes on the Dropzones, Gear and Photos section. There's more to come on that and I'll keep you posted. Drop in on the Feedback and Suggestions and leave me your thoughts on what you'd like to see on the side, changed or added. We're unlikely to implement all of them but I can assure you we will shortly start going through that forum post by post to see what you've been talking about and where you'd like to see us improve. Keep it coming.

Heya all, It's been a while. Those of you who are older than Justin Bieber may remember me... I have some exciting news to share today. We’ve entered into an agreement to buy back Dropzone.com, BASEjumper.com and Rockclimbing.com. See the official PR below. There are several factors that played in on this decision and that got us to this point. Bringing these sites back into the D4DR Media stable at this time provides us with the best opportunity to improve on what’s been created here over many years and ensure their longevity. So what will happen next? Right now I don't have a long list of plans lined up to execute. We've been managing these sites as a partner and more recently as minority stakeholder since the day we initially sold them so while the ownership just changed, our involvement really doesn't. I think the moderators and Bryn are doing an excellent job at being available to you guys to help steer the ship in the forums and they will continue to do so. On a personal note, I’m pretty thrilled about this. I'll be around a little more often again now and I'm looking forward to catching up.

That second one isn't a word... not if you spell it like that. Safe swoops Sangiro

I unlocked this thread. This is a relevant discussion and legitimate questions are being asked. Safe swoops Sangiro