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Last post by Radbird
May 15 23, 8:01 pm
Cropping/Resizing Images
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New Pagodi »
November 29 06, 9:53 pm
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One commonly asked question is how to resize/crop a photo for use as an avatar/signature. There are many pieces of software that can be used to...
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My personal favorite program for cropping/re-sizing is Irfanview . If you don't need to manipulate a picture beyond doing one of those two things,...
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Last post by Bo Hart
September 30 07, 9:11 pm
I don't like GRB's font when italicized.
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CardsofSTL »
September 2 20, 3:11 pm
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I said it.
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Is there some reason the 2023 default layout has avatars on the right side? Out of the hundreds of forums I've seen in my life, every single one...
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Last post by AdmiralKird
May 23 23, 10:39 pm
Ban Leroy.
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Leroy »
March 11 07, 8:32 pm
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He's a troublemaker.
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I'm glad you've banned Leroy. I haven't seen Leroy* or Leroy, or Leroy% Leroy@ Leroy$ Leroy! Leroy* Leroy~ or Leroy) for quite some time, either....
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Last post by sighyoung
April 18 23, 5:47 am
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Last post by CardsofSTL
April 8 23, 4:58 pm
New User post approval
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Transmogrified Tiger »
January 11 23, 9:49 am
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I think I've mentioned this at some point in the past, but with the uptick in spam recently I thought I'd bump the idea. At NSBB, new users first few...
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We do this where I mod. You don't need approval to create an account or post but the first 5 or so usually get flagged as a baby account, and go into...
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Last post by AdmiralKird
March 25 23, 1:57 am
GRB - Certificate expired message
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ghostrunner »
August 21 22, 6:43 pm
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Anyone else get this? I hit ignore and it wouldn’t work at first. Third time I was able to get in.
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Most Michaels stores will remain open and will work during their regular hours. michaels store hours will remain open during their regular working...
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Last post by Smith Corks One
February 8 23, 4:39 am
Limiting nested quotes
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ghostrunner »
January 31 22, 1:13 pm
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Hey mods - is this possible?
See the Corona discussion in the Politics thread for an example. I'd think a max of 1 or 2 levels of quotes is...
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Giant Eagle liquor store hours need to know because giant eagle liquor store hours and liquor store hours of operation are different. It’s been a...
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Last post by heyzeus
December 12 22, 9:15 am
Tweet viewing
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mikechamp »
July 13 20, 10:17 am
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Something must have changed about 2-3 weeks ago. When I view posts that have a tweet embedded, I am now seeing the entire image. What makes this...
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Speaking of twitter, at other message boards (NSBB) I can just paste the link without having to manually add twitter tags and it shows up but here I...
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Last post by thrill
November 2 22, 10:40 am
Ignore Option
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Socnorb11 »
February 25 22, 3:50 pm
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Maybe this has been discussed and dismissed previously. If do, I apologize.
Has an ignore option bern considered for this board? Hell, Im certain...
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I just want to be able to ignore people who sign their posts
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Last post by ghostrunner
August 28 22, 7:43 pm
Mod Appreciation Thread
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TheoSqua »
April 18 22, 10:50 am
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With the new season starting and the posting volume of the forum starting to increase, I wanted to take a moment to thank the Mods.
In exchange for...
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A thankless job if there ever was one.
Slanté
Bourbon on me for anyone coming thru indy.
But it's bourbon or bourbon related cocktails.
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Last post by vinsanity
April 27 22, 3:42 pm
Logo
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TheoSqua »
March 8 20, 5:24 pm
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I replaced the default phpBB logo with something I whipped together. I expect this to be temporary and long-term will either try to get a logo from...
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that's nice. is it a grb artist or someone else?
A freelancer
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Last post by CardsofSTL
March 1 22, 10:28 am
Funding GRB
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TheoSqua »
February 28 20, 9:55 am
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Several people have asked about helping fund GRB. In response to that, us Mods have decided to set up a Patreon account that anyone can use to...
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The mods are paying $25/month each to keep the site afloat. The Patreon helps, otherwise that number would be higher. It’s something we do out of...
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Last post by CardsofSTL
August 8 21, 10:41 pm
What are your opinions on Ads?
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TheoSqua »
February 29 20, 8:03 pm
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I'm considering experimenting with adding Ads to the site and wanted to get everyone's feedback on them.
What i'd like to learn about ads are...
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As I was scrolling with my thumb I accidentally clicked an ad with a smiling Chinese woman and some Chinese writing. I hope I didn't just...
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Last post by GeddyWrox
January 25 21, 9:47 am
Smilies
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CardsofSTL »
December 3 20, 10:15 am
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I found out today that the maximum number of smilies per post is 4 and it's pissing me off. :-x :-x :-x :-x
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Brilliant, muchas gracias!
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Last post by AWvsCBsteeeerike3
December 30 20, 12:06 am
Your broken avatar is breaking my heart
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CardsofSTL »
September 10 19, 6:36 am
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It's been a while since photobucket did it's thing...but there are still a few broken avatars hanging around GRB. Time for an upgrade! Need to...
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It appears that someone has given me an avatar. I mean I'll take it just fine. I've gone a handful of times looking for a new avatar but every time I...
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Last post by CardsofSTL
September 14 20, 8:07 pm
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Last post by thrill
June 17 20, 7:36 am
Attack of the bot
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mikechamp »
March 13 19, 9:11 am
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It appears the board has been hit by a bot named Sharonnab.
Mods, release the hounds!
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Looks like it's a slightly different shade of Blue, but it can still do blue font!
I sure hope I don't have this song come to mind:
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Last post by mikechamp
May 11 20, 2:47 pm
Slight Forum Rearrangement
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TheoSqua »
March 21 20, 3:02 pm
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I made a couple changes to the forums, splitting out each category into it's own sub-forum and retiring a couple of the less active forums. Here's...
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Ads have been turned on for guests. I'm letting google auto-insert ads, so I don't have control over where they appear. If it looks obnoxious and...
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Last post by TheoSqua
March 31 20, 1:45 pm
Using GRB for content aggregation.
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TheoSqua »
March 12 20, 3:07 pm
In an attempt to increase activity and gain new members i'm contemplating a slightly new approach for content with GRB and wanted to get everyone's...
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Last post by TheoSqua
March 12 20, 3:07 pm
GRB Transition of Ownership
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TheoSqua »
February 4 20, 9:16 am
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I went into the archives and looked at Michael's post when he announced that he was transitioning ownership of GRB for ideas on making this post a...
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Fair enough.
Perhaps, to save space, you could kill the megathreads. Other forums I go on limit threads to 100 pages - anything that hits that size...
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Last post by Famous Mortimer
March 4 20, 3:03 pm
General Upgrade Notes
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TheoSqua »
February 9 20, 11:29 pm
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I wanted to give an update to what was updated over the weekend and what you can expect in the near future.
Feature Updates:
A new notifications...
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fwiw, admiral kird made a GRB reddit several years ago (when michael had originally planned to close operations, etc)...it's not active unless there...
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Last post by Jocephus
March 2 20, 10:24 am
Moderating Baseball Talk
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TheoSqua »
August 30 17, 9:03 am
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As the quality of the Cardinals team and their win-loss record trend in the wrong direction we've noticed the tone of posts on the Baseball Talk...
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I don't remember Richie Allen being such a disturber but he's been called out twice in this thread.
Richie, care to return serve?
At least no...
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Last post by Richie Allen
February 26 20, 9:59 pm
500 internal server error
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Jocephus »
March 5 18, 7:06 pm
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i'm trying to reply to a pm and i'm getting this
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable...
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So you're saying mikechamp is a dirty hacker?
Oh. Was I supposed to post that in the SECRETS thread?
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Last post by mikechamp
February 14 20, 12:14 pm
GRB Maintenance Tonight
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TheoSqua »
February 8 20, 6:06 pm
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I'm going to start upgrading the forum software tonight.
Best case scenario there is minimal down time and the site will be back up in the...
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The little arrow with a circle in the bottom right of each post will take you to the top of the page.
Not perfect but will at least minimize the...
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Last post by TheoSqua
February 13 20, 7:01 am
Looks like the Tweet feature isn't working
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Tim »
September 6 16, 6:51 pm
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for example:
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Some forums have it where you can just paste a tweet and/or youtube link and it automatically embeds without the tags. We gonna get that?
I'll add...
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Last post by TheoSqua
February 8 20, 3:00 pm
SSL Cert Added
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TheoSqua »
February 8 20, 1:53 pm
I've updated our hosting settings to have an SSL Certificate for gatewayredbirds.com
This means the site will require using https:// instead of...
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Last post by TheoSqua
February 8 20, 1:53 pm
Members Leaving the Forum
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TheoSqua »
January 29 20, 9:03 am
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A couple of our more active posters have announced they're leaving the forum. Since mods were involved and we've heard that PMs are being sent out...
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If anyone has concerns or wants to discuss, pm a mod.
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Last post by heyzeus
January 30 20, 10:38 am
Reorganizing GRB content
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TheoSqua »
August 19 19, 9:52 am
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I've been contemplating changes we could make to GRB since I became a mod, and think it's time to start discussing with the community to see what...
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while back i posted about merging minors with main baseball sub here:
most ppl agreed
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Last post by cardzilla
November 22 19, 12:35 pm
GDTs in their own folder
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Big Amoco Sign »
June 22 19, 4:09 pm
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Put Game day threads in their own folder instead of in just baseball talk. Seen other teams' forums do this and it's a lot cleaner/nicer.
Not sure...
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Easier to search too :thumb:
Easier isn't always better Joey Baloney. Didn't you learn anything at Woodstock?
At the time I was nine. But I did...
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Last post by Joe Shlabotnik
June 24 19, 11:11 am
Signatures Disabled
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Michael »
March 12 14, 11:13 am
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All,
Based on various feedback I've decided to disable signatures. To be candid, sigs are a moderating chore and that's why most forums do not allow...
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Let's have signatures again. Spice things up
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Last post by TGantz
February 6 19, 8:30 pm
SQL ERROR... HELP!
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GeddyWrox »
October 9 18, 8:03 am
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Not even sure if this will post, but just wondering if I'm the only one getting a SQL error when trying to view posts. I can see the forums OK, just...
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There is a reddit group that was set up by AdmiralKird when Michael first threatened to pull the plug on the site (before Kyle bought the rights). A...
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Last post by Tim
October 30 18, 11:22 am
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Last post by CardsofSTL
August 18 18, 10:50 pm
Search limitation
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mikechamp »
July 9 18, 1:52 pm
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Why is the Social-Politics forum not available to search? It does not appear in the list of forums.
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I remember a lot of posters didn't want the political topics plaguing their View active topics list - maybe that's related to the indexing?
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Last post by Felix The Cat
August 11 18, 4:07 pm
Your connection to this site is not secure
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TheoSqua »
July 24 18, 12:48 pm
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With the recent update to Chrome you might see Not Secure or Your connection to this site is not secure when visiting GRB. This is because connecting...
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But not the credit card and social security numbers we gave you to sign up for the premium package right? They were encrypted right? RIGHT?
You...
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Last post by MrCrowesGarden
July 25 18, 9:19 am
Website not secure
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MrCrowesGarden »
April 18 18, 11:09 am
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I get this message logging in to GRB from my phone. Doesn't happen on my tablet or computer. Does this happen to others?
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i have an extension on my (laptop) browser called https everywhere not sure *how* effective it is, but yeah, it never has a secure connection on here
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Last post by Jocephus
April 18 18, 2:24 pm
struggling to get a new avatar to work
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IMADreamer »
March 25 18, 11:17 pm
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When I link a new avatar I keep getting invalid URL but I know my URL works. In fact here is. Any thoughts? I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Thanks
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That would be my guess as well. Query Strings might be validated.
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Last post by TheoSqua
April 2 18, 12:00 pm
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Last post by MrCrowesGarden
March 7 18, 9:19 am
SQL ERROR
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GeddyWrox »
November 29 17, 3:20 pm
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Some of the baseball talk pages are kicking up a MySQL error. :shock:
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you can always go to the extremely popular and high quality discussion maker, the GRB reddit
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Last post by Jocephus
November 30 17, 9:01 am
GRB 2.0 Thoughts
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33anda3rd »
August 10 16, 10:12 am
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Kyle, thanks for saving the day. I have a suggestion for GRB2.0, thought I'd toss up a thread here in case anyone else has ideas, though I'm sure you...
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It was copy/paste.
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Last post by MrCrowesGarden
November 8 17, 7:21 pm
You Tube
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fanforever »
January 23 13, 7:54 am
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does this still work?
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Thanks. Somehow that wasn't working for me in Chrome. Though oddly, just copying from Explorer into a Chrome GRB tab did work.
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Last post by BottenFieldofDreams
September 19 17, 10:18 am
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