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When I'm looking at a thread, I can't scroll all the way to the top or
bottom of the page. I can use the tab key or whatever it's called to get
to the bottom of the page; I've got no idea how else I can get to the
top of it.
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On 10.04.2025 09:31 Uhr Mark wrote:

When I'm looking at a thread, I can't scroll all the way to the top or
bottom of the page. I can use the tab key or whatever it's called to
get to the bottom of the page; I've got no idea how else I can get to
the top of it.

Can you take a screenshot?

I can scroll well when visiting rslight in Pale Moon.
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I'm not sure how to do screenshots. I'll try though.

No, I took one, and copied it; I've got no idea how to paste it into
here though. Nothing happened when I clicked paste.
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On Fri, 4/18/2025 10:35 AM, Mark wrote:

I'm not sure how to do screenshots. I'll try though.

No, I took one, and copied it; I've got no idea how to paste it into
here though. Nothing happened when I clicked paste.

To paste pictures, the USENET tradition is to upload
the image to a site like Imgur, and Imgur in return
gives you an Internet URL which "points" to the picture.
The numbers and letters in the URL, are a unique identifier
that points to one exact picture. When you paste the URL
into a second browser you have on the computer, check and
make sure the picture is showing up OK in the window.

Then you put the URL in your message you are sending,
just as I've done below the next paragraph.

Someone was having trouble uploading a picture,
and I put it on two servers, so others might be
able to see it. Imgur and PostImage ( https://postimages.org/ )
don't need accounts.

https://imgur.com/a/887FhIY

https://i.postimg.cc/VvDPkpq5/IMG-2837.png

Note that certain images are forbidden. Attempting
to make a verbatim copy of cartoon "Mickey Mouse"
(the image from The Sorcerers Appentice), will
cause the uploaded image to be refused. Similarly, I think
you can imagine other material that gets tossed. But
Mickey Mouse pictures are tossed by automation, no
human looks at the picture, they have a Hollywood
software for rejecting proprietary material like that.

Note that any of the servers,
no matter how big a company owns them, the images
will eventually be deleted, so these are not
as reliable as archive.org is. I had a ton of
pictures on one of the servers, and they all got deleted
in one giant purge they did. You keep your
original pictures in a folder on the computer,
in case that happens.

And these are really big servers -- the PostImage one
uses $30,000 USD of bandwidth every month. These are
commercial sized servers, with a lot of disk drives in them.
There could easily be a thousand disk drives... or more.
A rental server for $60 a month, might have two disk drives.
The rented equipment would not be cheap, whatever it's made of.

Paul
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I can't do it that way either. I clicked on new post, which took me to https://imgur.com/upload, tried to paste the screenshot where it says
'Paste image or url', and nothing happened.
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On Sun, 4/20/2025 6:42 AM, Mark wrote:

I can't do it that way either. I clicked on new post, which took me to https://imgur.com/upload, tried to paste the screenshot where it says
'Paste image or url', and nothing happened.

You have to use a recent-enough browser, for the code
in the web page to work.

Paul
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Firefox installed updates yesterday, so I've got the most up to date
browser I can get, and it still doesn't work.

I get the 1st message in the thread at the top but can't see the list of messages above that; and I can see down to about where it says reply at
the bottom; usually just above where it says reply, which makes replying
to the most recent message difficult.
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On 30.04.2025 19:26 Uhr Mark wrote:

Firefox installed updates yesterday, so I've got the most up to date
browser I can get, and it still doesn't work.

I don't think this is a FF bug.

I get the 1st message in the thread at the top but can't see the list
of messages above that; and I can see down to about where it says
reply at the bottom; usually just above where it says reply, which
makes replying to the most recent message difficult.

The operator died, so this won't be fixed fast - even when it is being
fixed at all.

Think about using a real newsreader: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet
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