Gary Lewis

Yes, you can subscribe at any level you want. Just go into the level you want and click on Options/Subscribe via Email. So you can subscribe to a topic/thread, or the forum it is in, or the forum above that or,,,, all the way up to the main Bullnose Forum.

When there is no topic the scope is infinity.

And, here's what your inbox can look like after having created those project forums I suggested.

Oh, and I forgot to respond on the "I might miss things if I had to open up several sub forums to check for new activity rather than just one central list." I have a box checked somewhere such that I get an email for every single thing that happens on the forum. So, I don't have to look for anything - it comes knocking on my inbox. That will surely become too much if/when we go live with other users, but it sure helps now. My guess is you don't have that box checked. I'm thinking I checked it at the Bullnose Forum level so I'll get everything regardless. But, it looks like you can check it on a by-forum basis, so you could pick and chose which ones you want emailed on. And, you can chose to get an email for every individual thing, or a roll-up at the end of the day.

Jonathan - Thanks for the clear thinking. I believe you've stated the conclusion I've been coming to regarding sub-forums - that we don't want to have too many of them. And what I've created already is probably too much. Let me propose this: Bullnose Forum: This is the main part of the forum itself, and instead of having a General Discussion sub-forum the general threads would be in this forum, right below the following sub-forums - which are pinned to the top so they don't get lost.FAQ's & How-To's sub-forum: Chris has some ideas on this sub-forum having tried to re-organize the FTE ones. (One of his frustration points with FTE.) But, while we do need the sub-forum I'm not sure what will be in the sub-forum. I say that because one of my realizations is that the interactive nature of threads is not a good way to document, but a web page is. So, I have some how-to's in the other part of the web site and would suggest that is where they belong. It is much easier to lay out a web page with pictures alongside the text, tables, etc on a web page. So, maybe the FAQ/How-To sub-forum would be a list of links to the true FAQ's and how-to's elsewhere?Garage/Shop & Tools sub-forum: Do we even need this? Guys could start a thread about their own shop, as Bill/Lebaront2 has done and that thread could be in the general forum. Or, maybe better, it could go in a Projects sub-forum?Shows sub-forum: Would it be helpful to have one place where people list the upcoming shows? Or, might we not do that initially and add it as/if needed? How many shows are there going to be?Projects sub-forum: Fordification has a sub-thread on projects. But FTE doesn't so I have had to keep my own external index on my many threads on Dad's truck or I have to search the general section to find my thread that I want to update. However, if we had a Projects sub-forum where each guy could have a sub-forum within it we wouldn't have to keep track of where are threads are. For instance, within the Projects sub-forum we could do it by user, such as:Jonathan's Projects:1981 Manual Straight Six 4x4Short Bed 4-Door DieselDavid's Projects:Gas Mileage Recipe - 4.9L/300Chris' Projects:Garage Redo Takes Over House! 😁Gary's Projects:Dad's Truck:EngineInteriorTransmissionBig Blue Thoughts, y'all? On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Ford F834 [via Bullnose Enthusiasts] <redacted_email_address> wrote:

Good point on the link, Jonathan. I'll do some research and see if there's a way to do that. And, it took a bit of time before my avatar changed. Maybe two minutes? That part of Nabble seems flakey to me.

Just a few thoughts to kick off this thread. We need to consider a picture album capability for the users. Nabble has one so I'll have a go at it in a day or so, but need to think through where it should go. I'm leaning to it being on a different page than the forum, but.... Anyway, I'll see what it is like. Next, you may have noticed that I've added Big Blue's pic to the top of the page. That's really just a placeholder for something, and I know not what. FTE has the outline drawings of two Ford trucks superimposed, but what if we had a logo of an outline drawing of a Bullnose truck? WilleyJoe did one some time ago but lost it in a hard drive crash, but maybe we can get him to do another one - if we think that is a good idea. Thoughts? What else can or should be done to make it feel welcoming?

I was once asked what the best tool is that I've purchased, and my answer was my lift. It has transformed the work that I do. One instance of that is changing halfshafts on the Subaru. The first one I did was prior to getting the lift, and it took me half a day to find a way to get enough leverage to pull the upper ball joint out. But when the time came to do it again I had the lift, and the ability to pull down on the pry bar with all of my weight made the job easy. Another is changing transmissions. The ZF5 is a tall beast, and I doubt you could get the truck high enough on jack stands to get it under. But on the lift it'll go under while on a transmission jack. As for what kind of lift, mine is a $2000 Chinese unit, and it has worked well for several years. But the key is that it is a 2-post lift. I originally thought I wanted a 4-post lift, but then realized that they limit you significantly on suspension work, and the access to the vehicle is dramatically reduced. And, the 2-post is cheaper!

But, don't we need moderators? Could just a few of us handle a forum like this? As for having the "keys", you don't need to have editor rights on my web site to manage the forum. I could make all four of us administrators, which allows creating sub-forums, moving posts or threads, blocking people, etc. Being an editor on the site allows you to create new pages, add/remove/edit content, etc. But I can make someone an editor on one page or every page on the site. Right now you are a site-wide editor. And that's what I was talking about when I asked you not to edit the site with a mobile device. But managing the forum can be done with a mobile device. For instance, I just created a new sub-forum called Garage/Shop & Tools on this iPad. But I wouldn't dare go into the Weebly editor, either the browser one or the app for the iPad, with the iPad as that is very likely going to cause serious problems. And, speaking of garage, I'm glad you are getting the wiring sorted out in yours and in the house. You need to get that thing whipped into shape so you can do a road trip! 👍 On Saturday, August 5, 2017, ctubutis [via Bullnose Enthusiasts] <redacted_email_address> wrote:

I agree that FTE is getting bad about the advert's. I was without my Supporter status for about 2 weeks recently and was appalled at what I was seeing. And by that I don't just mean the quantity of advert's, which was large, but the raunchyness of them. YUK! But so far it looks like adding a forum will be no additional cost over what I'm already paying. That is, if Nabble will do it for us, and it is looking better the further I get in. However, there are other aspects of Nabble beyond the forum, such as photo gallery, news, blog, and mailing list & archive. And they say there are more to come. But I have to idea if there is a cost to any of them. So, that sorta brings us back to staffing. I have no idea how many people it takes to make something like this run. Chris - do you know?

I'd like to hear from y'all about the structure. I looked around a bit and Fordification just has an Engines sub-forum where FTE has a loooong list of sub-forums by engine family. Obviously we don't have the range of engine families that FTE does given their range of years. But if we divide things up too much might we make it harder to manage, moderate, respond? As for things like driveline, tires, etc, while Fordification does have sub-forums for them, on FTE we do that in General Discussion. In fact, we do engine stuff there. Yes, there are forums for the engines, interior, driveline, projects, etc, but unless we are looking for experts on specific things we handle them in General. So, I'm wondering if we really want to divide things up very much. But, others have categories that Bullnose FTE doesn't have, like Shows & Events, Trivia, and even a website and forum feedback sub-forum. I especially like the latter, but any of it could be handled in General. So, we need to think through how many sub-forums and of what type we want to have. Yes, we can add later, but it would be good to start out with some structure, and if we think many of the recruits are going to be FTE'ers then perhaps we should make it feel like home? Oh, and there are the stickies. Chris - This is your opportunity.

The avatar/picture thing is wonky. I've tried it on a real computer several times now, and even though I expand the red cropping box to include the full air cleaner it still only takes the upper left corner of the pic - the part that the box is on when the window opens.

My intent is for this to be a cost-free and an ad-free forum. I am already paying the freight on my web site, and within reason will pay for any additional cost for the forum part thereof. And, since I don't think it is right to accept money for advertising when I'm using thousands of screenshots of the master parts catalog, the users of the forum should not see any ads. But, am I missing something?

We need to think through the structure of the forum and any sub-forums. (The way I understand Nabble's sub-forum idea they would be like Engines, Interior, Tires, etc. But, there's a good discussion of that here.) Man, oh MAN! What I would give for the ability to create a bulleted list with indentions right now!!!! But the way I'm thinking is we would have something like: Engines: 300 Six Windsor (265?, 302, & 351W) 335 Series Diesel 385 Series Transmissions: Manual Auto Etc But, we need to look around at other sites and see what we like of how they've done it.

Hadn't figured that out, but I knew something was funky as the view count last night was far higher than I expected it to be. Ok, I need to keep a list.....

Yes, HTML coding/tags do work in the sig. granted that is a pain for the user, but it shouldn't be too big of a deal since you don't do it often at all. But, I still haven't found a way to do bullets or indention. 😩 (However, the ability to use the emoticons w/o having to go into advanced mode is a big help.)

Also, there's something funky about the "Insert Image" button. I have trouble getting it to work, or maybe I don't know how long I'm supposed to wait. Or when to click Close. 😳 Oh! Cool! Nabble appears to take the standard iOS emoticons: 👍😳😈😂🎉😥😘🙁🎊 Another issue is with my avatar. What you see now is a corner of the picture showing my twin-snorkel air cleaner for Big Blue. But, when creating an avatar you have to go through the crop step, and on this iPad it won't let me move the crop window. 🙈 And, there's the signature. I don't see any way to jazz it up by making things bold, bigger/smaller, etc. But there is an option to use HTML, so maybe there is a way? 🤔

Let's document the problems, issues, and concerns we have with Nabble here. One of mine is formatting, and this appears to be what Nabble gives us: H2 made things bold. Let's try H3. Nope, that's smaller bold italics. But, there's an "I" thingee for that. H4 is H6 But, there are no bullets and no indenting. This may be a serious problem.