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I added Google Drive as a not-supported provider in our guide - so thanks for bringing up that topic!

Hello ameinild and welcome to our community! Unfortunately I am more of the technical guy, than I can give guidance for your exact questions. If I understand you correct, you would like to have one topic for showing the progress and later on another separate just for presentation reasons? I can possibly answer from the technical perspective: We do not have any restrictions in place to lock any post at anytime - so in theory our platform would allow for a later rewrite of the main post for allowing a nice presentation to get placed. But chances are high if the initial content is cleared out / completely reworked, all below discussions may feel odd for any later readers. The idea which comes to my mind, but not sure how practical it may be: Put the presentation part in with "will be updated later" - as this may allow everybody from the beginning to know, that the topic may get a finalization at some point. I hope a mod may jump by and allow better knowledge than I can offer In any ways, enjoy your time with us please!

As Murdoch explained already, google drive is not allowing to share the images directly with their links, instead the link is just leading to the Google Drive UI, then showing the requested image in it's UI. The known working and well known providers are listed in our guide, but others may work as well. May it be worth for putting a line for known not working providers (mentioning Google Drive)?

For me it has shifted towards overlooking operations of the forums mostly - but its not hindering me, other private topics hindering me since I think 2 years from really starting bricking again..

once seen, it can't be unseen any longer.. so from now on any badumm tssssssssss is giving you a picture directly.. :P

I like their track very much, the beat is insane and the lyrics from the kids are the cherry on the pie. This morning boosts every morning into "can only get good". But it is no fixed genre for me, hopping from one to the other.. but I would think main preference may be "electronic". Lately found Star Junk 95 having some nice tracks for my likings.. Besides of regular music I found some animes having insanely good OSTs.. oh wait, there is a weirdo track I reeeeaally like: I like such :) And when it comes to "more normal" music, I am on the Jazz/Brass-train right now... esp like some interpretations from AcidGuru...

Thing with my "taste of music" is, others may describe it as mostly noise in their ears.. One thing I can add to a music discussion wouild be: Besides knowing the issues of ownership, I found AI generated music nice for me as a consumer as I learned to love some songs I did not like before, only from another interpretation.. I find this fact somehow weird..

I am also here, partially :D No woman though..

Thanks @Black Falcon for pointing the in right direction! @RobbieHxC We seem to have some bug / issue since end of 2025 / beginning of 2026. And it is affecting exacatly what you are describing not working. Unfortunately I do not have a solution to offer. Possibly follow the mentioned other topic to get updates on the matter. I still need to look deeper into this as the vendor was not really of much help. :(

Ok, thanks for the update - at least I wanted to test the low hanging fruits 1st for success..

Hello, I am having no history with the exact page - but can add from the IT perspective: It may just be fraud by a third party - somebody in the markets of bricks did understand "this domain is going out of business" and registered it for himself as a new owner. A scam shop may be set up which is surfing on former owners' business trust from the users. Money may just be taken to an account from where it gets money- cryptocurrency-washed. I am just speaking about well known schemas, not that it may be the case here. But users may be advised by such conditions of an shop-owner officially closing his shop, others possibly trying to take advantage of this.

I have completely disabled one option for using a third party software for caching. As always: If the Streams are working out suddenly after the time of this post, we may have found the source.

Inline HTML makes it a horror story for any theming and dark mode. Also allowing HTML to be inserted is considered a security risk. I personally would as well love it, when the editor would read Markdown annotations directly... but the editor is kind of hardcoded in the product. Formatting is working via WYSIWYG buttons above the textarea for replying. I hope it can be understood we intentionally choose for the highest security for our users.

The sad thing may be, nobody is willing to learn a thing as lawyers take it as their daily job to fight for even stupid things, if only enough money falls out for them.

Thanks for the feedback. Then I need to dig deeper on my own. 😩

As I was doing some maintenane I did a downgrade to another PHP version which may be better supported. Not sure if this may have any effects, but as @Jack Sassy pointed me for this topic still being ongoing, I thought "give it a try". If things may work out by tomorrow for people having issues before, that could be the source of error. If this may not help I may finally need to convince myself to dig through the codebase to understand what components are used & how things are working to get any clue about what may not be working out..

Nice @janssnet - wishing all the best for good results!

From my point of view forums proved over the last 25+ years to be the somehow best way for sharing information for dedicated hobby communities. Facebook and other platforms tried to pull them all into their sphere - has been nice as it has been a new global thing to humanity, but I think we are also somehow smarter nowadays in regards of data-ownership and such topics. Additionally any self-hosted platform creates stronger needs for self-organisation, which global platforms are easily removing with their (good) functionality - I have the strong feeling any "social costs" of such changes are easily overseen and in consequence their effect may not even be recognized by most. With self-hosted environments, any community needs to achieve to create a shared accepted ruleset as a basis for any group cohesion starting to do its job in the minds of the people - Moderation and other administrative roles are working as stabilizers of the decicded for culture.. As more meta discussions about such topics need to take place, I have the strong believe this is paying heavily into the later observed outcome. I can also only add my gratefulness for Eurobricks still being the best place I know to discuss LEGO (and other related side-)topics. Kudos to all Mods of the Subforums - their ongoing daily work is considered the mandatory housekeeping for our community to thrive to me - you all have my greatest respect! 💪🫡❤️ edit: Link to Group Cohesiveness - super interesting (to me at least!) :D

Same here - found it a good rule of thumb to have a singular box where things to be decomposed are wandering in - if that has filled or I know some parts are in I have not in any drawers, then it may be a meditating break to do a sorting session to fill up the drawers again :D I am happy I am having mostly technic parts, not much of the tiny regular system bricks for the stuff I am interested in, otherwise I would tend to get insane more easily by the amount of different parts and colors there..

Hello community, unfortunately somebody in the world seems to be invested enough in motivation and money to use some botnet for trying to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) us out of service. The situation has started since yesterday around 3pm UTC. Right now (18.04.2026, 11am UTC) the situation is still ongoing.. Counter measurements: We activated request rate limiting at the webserver level. We activated (temporary) banning on IPs which are firing requests above the configured thresholds too often. There a recommendation to users: Better don't hammer CTRL+F5 in your browser too often if the site is not instantly loading, as that may trigger your IP getting temp banned. If you get a plain page from the browser, telling your requests were not replied at all, your IP may be temporarily banned - after 10 minutes your IP will be allowed again - this may happen in the worst case - please report here in the topic if that happened to you! Can we forecast when this will be over? I reckon not, right now we need to endure it, until the motivated person lacks money or interest. Can this be prevented in the future? Possibly yes, with the usage of CDNs (Cloudflare or others) - but that can not easily be implemented on-the-fly. ---- Some (technical) insights: Graph is showing the Guest accounts - normally we may have around 1k - the DDoS is pushing this up as it is "unregistered accounts from different IP addresses" - meaning we are getting hammered with requests from ~15k diffrent IP addresses over long ranges of time.. *sigh From my sysadmin perspective it is finally a good oppertunity to see the system in a situation of being overloaded. One learning is already that I in the backgrounds everything is still capped at around 75% of CPU load, leaving enough computation power for the system to not break down completely under any load, but "just" getting too busy for the time being.. CPU total usage of tha last two days, normally we are around ~25% load, DDoS spikes hitting up to the limited ~75% ---- Update 12:20 pm UTC: Adjusted the configurations a bit - catching some more IPs & have hopes of that allowing our server to have less load. I am still observing to further adjust, so.... ---- I will update this posting further.. Update 15th of June 2026: DDoS attacks are mitigated and are not expected to come back.

I just put your Listings and Images of Bricklink into Spoiler Boxes, as it has been identified those were possibly more missleading. I also put edit comments for transparency.

@marcuschn*edit* what Jim answered... :P

My bad, had some struggles in private life and could not check for another answer from them since then, as I did not find them helpful at all to that point. So we should still have the bug - but no more testing needed right now. Luckily I am starting my garden leave from this week for the next four months.. So I may pick up the topic soon again.

you just need to post the real URL as is ("https://i.ibb.co/XkdMYmhP/IMG-0553.jpg"), then it should directly render like this:

Wishing all the best for the move and whatever we may expect evolving out of your move.