welcome...

[french frank]

Oh yes, let's have avatars, preferably with the same sort of bell and whistles as over at r3ok.com, i.e. with a facility for a short personal text below the avatar itself.

'Ang on. I'll go down into the basement and look.

[amateur51]

Nice to be here and I must say you & yours have done a splendid job, frenchfrank. The smell of fresh paint is not overpowering and I'm beginning to find my way around. Many thanks to all concerned :D

[french frank]

'Ang on. I'll go down into the basement and look.

Yes, hello everyone else :)

Re avatars: well, they are alrready enabled generally, as are signatures (not sure about the text under the avatar), so I can't see a reason, Russ, why you can't upload one. Your profile is showing them enabled for you personally too.

[Martin]

Renewed hellos to all, including migrants from the soon-to-be-old place. Bravo to French Frank and team for sterling work. We shall not be silenced, I think.

(Hi Curalach, I'm in the same country as you!)

[Hitch]

Thank you for your hard work in setting up this forum so quickly. I'm a long-time lurker at the Radio 3 messageboards and am disappointed by their needless demise. Looking on the bright side, I always thought the BBC's software was awful and this forum looks much better. Onwards and upwards! :)

[Russ]

Re avatars: well, they are alrready enabled generally, as are signatures (not sure about the text under the avatar), so I can't see a reason, Russ, why you can't upload one. Your profile is showing them enabled for you personally too.

Ah, I am in some confusion now. What I mistakenly thought was uploading an avatar (last night) was in fact a 'my profile picture'. I'm sure I've seen an 'avatar' item in the 'my profile' menu, but that item now seems to have disappeared from the menu.

Russ

[mangerton]

Yes, I'm here too, also from ffrreezzing Scotland. Good to be here, and to see some familiar names here already. Thanks again, ff.

(What's an avatar, and how do I get one?)

[Don Petter]

Reporting for duty (and continued enlightenment and entertainment)!

(What's an avatar, and how can I avoid one?)

[freegoat]

Hello everybody. Another long term Radio 3 MB lurker signing in. I look forward to actually contributing something now. I just hope this MB is accessible through my workplace's IT restrictions :) Should find out in the morning...

[PatrickOD]

Great job ff. Wonderful view from here. Amazingly, I got here!

[Nick Armstrong]

Greetings to all and cheers to French Frank in particular!! Yes - avatars are fun!!

There seems to be a glitch whereby any attempt to include an accent truncates the rest of the post (see CD Review board). Is there a facility to allow the recognition and reproduction of accents in our posts? So many good composers and players with those inconvenient foreign affectations in their names..... ;) Good to be able to include an umlaut or cedilla when it's required...

[antongould]

I too have made it here - very well done and many thanks french frank has anyone seen/heard from salymap the demise of the "old boards" will one feels be a very great loss to her? We have snow here in the North East!!!

[pilamenon]

Hello everyone. This looks really good, ff. I like the design. Not personally keen on avatars or other extras, but will go with the flow.

[Piano Man]

:) Greetings. And thanks ff! A great new place for erudite musical discussion.

[Parddu]

Hello everyone. I used to contribute occasionally as MrsAnonIII but decided on new home, different name.