Joris

Hey You!

Do you want to participate in the biggest World War II event in the Netherlands in 2019? Do you want to drive in two incredible convoys with up to 600 vehicles? Join us from September 14 – 22 September 2019 for Operation Market Garden 2019!

Register now and participate in the 75th anniversary of the largest combined airborne and ground forces operation of all times. In 2014 more than 500,000 people came to watch our convoys and over 20,000 people visited our basecamp in Veghel. Because of the 75th anniversary, we expect even more people in 2019!

After a fantastic start in Leopoldsburg camp (Belgium), a three-night stay is included, you will drive with us on September 14^th, in convoy along Hell's Highway to Veghel, using the same roads as the liberators in 1944.

Then you can stay all week at our basecamp in Veghel, or our camp in Grave (82nd Airborne). At our two camps, there are plenty of activities, all having to do with education, veterans, living history, and re-enactment. Thousands of school children from the nearby villages will visit our camp to learn about our liberators.

In the second weekend of our event, on September 22^nd, we will drive in another massive convoy to the road bridge at Nijmegen, where tens of thousands of people will be waiting to welcome us.

For only €75 per person, you can attend both convoys and spend a total of 10 nights on our basecamps. For €50 per person, you can attend in one of the convoys; the staying at our basecamps is included.

When you register you will receive the following:

·         OMG 2019 full-color magazine (limited stock)

·         Two drink vouchers per participant per convoy

·         Packed lunch during the convoys

·         OMG 2019 vehicle plate

·         OMG 2019 identification card

·         25% discount on a number of war museums (valid until May 2020)

·         Three days on the basecamp in Leopoldsburg, with a big discount on the local festivities, for the South-Route.

·         Seven days stay at the basecamp in Veghel

·         Stay at the basecamp in Grave for 82nd Airborne participants

·         The most important thing, memories that will last a lifetime.

When registering you can get your meal and breakfast vouchers for basecamp in Veghel, this ensures we will have a meal for you. You can take your kids up to age 15 (in 2019) with you almost for free; we want to involve the next generation in the commemorations.

At the Leopoldsburg or Veghel check-in desk, we will have your package ready for you on the day you arrive.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to register at the event. Only pre-registered deactivated firearms with the correct permits can be brought to our event.

What are you waiting for? Register now! 

 https://www.yourticketprovider.nl/widget/?cid=569952&productid=23239#/tickets/23239

I think I sorted it now. 

I will fix that soon! 

Edit: Fixed!

Hello everybody and a very merry Christmas to you all.

All the best,

Joris

When you edit an existing post it is not regarded as a new posts so it will not show in the timeline. 

44 minutes ago, Baz48 said:

If it's mechanical I can fix it, if it's an issue with computer program I ask one of my grandchildren. Having been a doubter I am getting around the new look forum and enjoying the experience as much as I did the previous model 

Thank you, Baz48! I'm here to help too and so are other forum members so if you have any questions, please ask them.

I'm going answer these feature requests and hope that will be the end of it.

1. and 2.  The new posts tab is providing the exact same functionality as the one we had on the old forum. Changes to this can't be made, this is how the new forum works.

3. Just add "fixed a typo" to the description, can't see what the problem is with that. 

4. This wasn't possible on the old forum and we will not make this possible here as it has been abused in the past. If you need something deleted, use the "Report post" link at the top of every message and we will help you out as quickly as possible. 

9 hours ago, ruxy said:

Can you please expand to a non-techie , how the previous forum software was about to break  ?   Was it because it was no longer suitable for hand-held devices  ?

I have explained this a couple of times now, but here goes again.

We were forced to move away from our old server because it reached its end of life.

The old forum system didn't work on the new server (and was outdated) so we were forced to make a choice:

1) We could either try and fix the problem, which could take forever and would be rather expensive
2) We could move to a new system.

When moving to a new system there were two options:

1) Migrate to a new version of the old system, which would be expensive, risky and very time consuming for me and quite frankly, I don't have the time anymore to work on this forum for full days.
2) Migrate to a new system that has a future, is managed (meaning there is a team of tech guys behind it), and where the whole migration is taken care off. And this all would be at a company that we are already working with and have proven to be very reliable.

Naturally, we went for option number two; why make life more difficult for us having to manage multiple forum systems? We don't and that is why we chose this.

Now I want to close down this whole discussion about that the old system was better. This is it, this is the forum that we are going to use.

If you have questions about why it works in a certain way, have a feature request or want to ask if we can change a setting then please do and I will do whatever I can to help out.

 Thanks for the feedback everybody, I'm going to add the requested changes to the list and see which I can implement and which are not possible.

One thing I don't like is that when you post a link it turns into a preview, am I the only one who hates that?

This is the magical green dot we are talking about:

On 11/3/2017 at 4:30 PM, simon king said:

It seems that signatures only appear if you are signed in to the site. Is that the intention or is that a foible of the new software? My preferred option is to review the site and only sign in if needed.

 

Thanks for letting us know, I will look into this! 

Locations are back!

Change is always difficult and a new system is always a challenge to get used to, even for the administrators.

I'm glad to hear that you are soldiering on! 

On 10/29/2017 at 5:45 PM, Richard Farrant said:

It just goes to show, that upgrading does not mean that the forum is improved. In spite of the hints and tips on here it is still a clunky procedure and not half as simple and quick as before, or as other forums I use. There are features on this new format that are unnecessary and only help to confuse people. I cannot see that this is improved at all, improving should be simplifying, it is not very 'user friendly' at present.. There are a number of things that I am not happy about and I will not list here, but one that bugs me is having email notifications of replies in a thread I might have been using. On other forums you can have the feature either on or off. Now on this new format you have to click on every thread when you use it if you want it off. I do not wish for my email inbox to be cluttered up with replies when I can quite easily look at the forum when I wish to. Surely there must be an override setting to switch it off completely?

I have been a member of this forum since it was launched so quite competent in using it, but can well understand why members are not happy and drifting away.

You can change your notification options here:

http://hmvf.co.uk/notifications/options/

This is where you can find that option: 

On 11/2/2017 at 1:02 AM, David Herbert said:

I think that the biggest thing that I miss is the location of people showing on their posts. As we are a very international forum it is usefull to know that they are on the other side of the world or if English is probably not their first language before commenting on what they have just written.

I will try and fix this today, it has been on my to-do list far too long now.

23 hours ago, bigduke6 said:

How do we edit our old posts on the new forum? I was trying to remove some photo bucket pics and replace them and tidy up some posts were `i don't have the pics anymore? the edit icon is missing on all of them.

I fixed this, you can now edit old topics too.

On 10/26/2017 at 7:44 PM, rampant rivet said:

Sorry Joris I still cannot find the threads that I used to follow 😣

I'm sorry but I think these got "lost" in the forum transition... 

12 hours ago, oats and barley said:

here we go again whats a screenshot is that what models do for a portfolio i googled it and it said something about data on the screen and i have also never heard of the condense button or expanded. once again people of a slightly younger era assume everybody is computer literate bit like i cannot walk around talking to a phone in my ear

You do realize that we are trying very hard to help you? 

On 10/21/2017 at 6:38 PM, rampant rivet said:

Is it me or have my subscribed threads link disappeared along with my pm,s ? If they are lurking where can I find them please.

 

RR.

That can now be found under Activity -> My Activity Streams

http://hmvf.co.uk/discover/followed-content/

Thanks for that, @Old Git

22 hours ago, Tarland said:

I know there's a long list of "snagging" to do but could you restore the Clive's Corner pdf links...... they still seem to be broken....

Cheers

All fixed now!

If I missed one let me know and I will upload it. 

I'll look into that!

No your eyes are not playing tricks on you, we've been working behind the scenes on the new (old) colors.

We hope you like them! 

7 hours ago, Tarland said:

I know there's a long list of "snagging" to do but could you restore the Clive's Corner pdf links...... they still seem to be broken....

Cheers

I'll try and fix them tomorrow but there are a lot of them so no promises. 

What a shame!