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Dark Theme - AVAILABLE NOW
Available now for all Gold & Silver members. In your preferences Or from the bottom of every page.. Post comments, bugs & style suggestions* below. * I reserve the right to ignore silly...
View ArticlePosting Guidelines - Strict v's Relaxed & how to tell the difference.
As most regular members know, this forum long ago evolved two approaches to thread moderation - i.e. strict & relaxed - and which approach gets applied depends on which topic category a thread...
View ArticleBackend caching implemented (Mar 10 2018). Forums should load even faster-er
Forums are snapping quite fast for me. On wifi on my phone. Anyone else noticing?
View ArticleNoticeboard now allows accom and travel offers
The old classified system is too old and keeps breaking and is no longer worth the effort. The base application that runs it is over ten years old. It's done. So, as a Heads-up. I will be creating a...
View ArticleHD Snow cams now default to full size
Like the title says. Example https://www.ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/nsw/perisherblue/perisher-olympic.html
View ArticleDid you bypass the expired certificate (Wed 16 Aug 2018) ? If so please read
If you by-passed the expired secure certificate this morning, particularly on Chrome, you may continue to get a 'not-secure' warning where the green padlock usually is. Even if you restart the browser....
View ArticleSecurity breach - Ski.com.au CMS (MODx)
Firstly, don't panic. There is no evidence (yet) that this forum was compromised. However, in the interests of transparency I'm notifying of a compromise of the Content Managment System that runs...
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On again - Annual Christmas Gift Subscriptions - $22
Yay.. Christmas Gift someone a Gold Season Pass for 12 months for just $22* Payment via PayPal or Stripe. *Or buy it for yourself if you are not already a Gold Pass holder! Offer expires midnight 1 Jan...
View ArticleHomepage Site Search upgraded
Ski's Site search has been upgraded. Now with zero ads and an image tab that scopes all the images found here in the forum. Note: Homepage Site Search does not include forum threads from Apre topics -...
View ArticleAnnouncing Rewards for members under 1000 posts.
This is an update to How membership works on this forum ================================================ Rewards Rewards are achieved the more registered members participate with the forums during the...
View ArticleBetter placement of Snowcam 'tour' buttons.
Makes both desktop and especially mobile experience even more nicer-er. Finger in one spot.. tap, tap, tap https://www.ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/nsw/perisherblue/perisher-frontvalley.html (FYI -...
View ArticleInvitation - The People vs DJOTD - Melb drinks gathering.
https://www.ski.com.au/xf/threads/p...e-people-vs-djotd-saturday-may-25-2019.82891/
View ArticleSilver Passes now available for 4 months @ $6.05
If you reached 1000 posts but have not made the leap to a Silver pass - try it out for just 6 dollarydoos and enjoy winter on these forums ad-free.
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New snowcam added for Mt Mawson, Tasmania
Public Shelter https://www.ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/tas/mtmawson-base.html
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New snowcam added for Perisher, NSW
Smiggins Carpark from Gunuma Lodge https://www.ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/nsw/perisherblue/perisher-smiggins-gunumalodge.html (been added for a couple months already so not news for the regulars -...
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Stoke threads returned to mobile homepage menu for 2019..
Like the headline says. Looks like this;
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BOM weather pages repaired.
Bureau of Met forecast pages for New South Wales, Victoria & Tasmania have been repaired. TAS was previously failing (not sure how long for ) and NSW & VIC which were previously truncated now...
View ArticleAnimated Avatars.
Wed 10 July 2019 The policy of this forum for the last five years has been to disallow animated avatars. This rule has been relaxed for a short time but will return. Read why here.
View ArticleA note to all new WZ members.
So this was posted over on WZ this morning (July 7 ‘19) Ive lurked on Ski for years, and really like it, but it does seem strange the that entire Australasian weather community, with all its incredible...
View ArticleReports coming in of scammy pop-overs whilst on forum.
I've had two reports in 12 hours of members experiencing scammy popovers whilst on mobile phones reading the forums. In both cases these were regular members who get served ads and neither use...
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Dedicated 'Latest Weather Posts' page for bookmarking.
This is mostly for the WZ folk* who just want a quick overview of this weather forum https://www.ski.com.au/forum/weather-forums.html Works nice on mobile (of course! ) *It's also for a little SEO as well
View ArticleUpdate 12 Feb 20 - PayPal payments blackout 8 Dec thru 11 Feb - Now reinstated.
------------------------------- UPDATE 12 FEB Subscriptions via PayPal now reactivated. We still have 170 odd active subscribers via PayPal who were not affected by the recent PayPal blackout. In order...
View ArticleChanges to Culture Vulture, Uncertainty Principle & Bear Pit
Culture Vulture, Uncertainty Principle & Bear Pit have been annexed from the Après category into a newly created category called Pavilion. Because; 1) I don't like hierarchy structures which are...
View ArticleParticipation in Pavilion Topics is now subscription members only.
As per previous announcement As at Monday July 6, participation in Pavilion Topics is available only to Gold & Silver accounts. If you are a subscriber and find yourself locked out of Pavilion...
View ArticleForums will be offline from 8pm Thurs 3 June ~ 2am Fri 4 June for system upgrade
This will be the monster upgrade to XenForo 2 that I have talked the big book but made no action on for some 18 months. Expect substantial changes and a great many things not being the same as...
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BB embed code for cam images now available at mobile viewport
@ weather crew @ perisher-stoke-thread crew @ buller-stoke-thread crew @ thredbo-stoke-thread crew etc....
View ArticleImage Uploads after June 2021 forum upgrade - now auto insert as full...
Updated: 17 June 2021.​ Upon upload, if no selection is made to either insert as full or insert as thumbnail, the uploaded image will insert as FULL by default. This is new behaviour, on previous...
View ArticleMerge multiple accounts -- Ski Pass holders only.
If you have a long forgotten account, or have rebirthed a few times and have now got a subscription (thank you!) -- your mulitiple accounts can be merged. Two requirements. - Proof that abandoned...
View ArticleMilestone: 400 Ski Pass Members reached.
With the introduction of Ski Pass Blue on Sept 1, we tipped 400 Ski Pass Members on Monday just gone (6 Sep). This is a great milestone. So thank you to all Forum Ski Pass holders. By my calculations,...
View ArticleMedia --- Uploaded images now found in one place
If you are on desktop, you will now see 'Media' next to Active Topics in the main navigation. On Mobile you will need to open the navigation panel and scroll down a bit. There you will find images...
View ArticleSki Pass Blue commences Sept 1, 2021 and will be a required subscription for...
ABOUT SKI PASS BLUE ------------------------------- If you are not already familiar, learn how membership works on these forums.​ It's now been 5 years since we introduced our subscription model, and...
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Active Topics...
Is better-er I have pushed through the pain of removing code and moving stuff around and changing templates so that Active Topics is now the paginated version by default.
View ArticleSubscriptions paid via Stripe are now carbon off-set.
Stripe just introduced a few days ago a new feature called Stripe Climate, whereby a percentage of transactions is directed to off-setting carbon emissions via investment in carbon removal...
View ArticleSecurity updates to our SMTP email gateway.
Context: It is a requirement of hosting on AWS cloud infrastructure to use a dedicated smtp gateway. Consequently these forums use Mailgun as our SMTP gateway. System email generated by these forums...
View ArticleGear Swap.. now with more added 'classified'
Thread list of Gear Swap now displays the first image in post instead of OP's avatar.
View ArticleToo many posts? Locked out but don't want to subscribe?? Gain temporary 30...
The Quick Unlock upgrade was initially created to allow new registrations immediate and full access to Gear Swap. From today (3 Aug, 2022), the Quick Unlock upgrade has been extended to unlock anyone...
View ArticleChanges to Forum Global Navigation*
* Not the GPS satellites Global navigation of these forums will be changed within the next two weeks to enable a consistent experience across the entire site. At the moment, ski.com.au homepage and all...
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Snow Cams BB code - autosave as attachment - now fixed (again, again)
Working again (again). Using this; Code: [img ]https://cams.ski.com.au/img/perisher-bluecow.jpg[ /img] Will now grab and save latest image as attachment
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Christmas Deal - 12 months of Ski Pass Gold for $22
- Once only $35 $22 payment - One year only - No further automatic fees - Offer ends midnight Dec 26 (Boxing day) - Subscribe here
View ArticleHeads-up folks. Ski Pass Blue & Silver price increase for **new subscribers...
On January 6, 2023 the price of Blue and Silver subscriptions will go up. The new prices will be; Blue: $8.80 Silver: $16.50 Note: The new prices will only effect new subscriptions taken up after Jan...
View ArticlePHP 7 upgrade - please report any bugs
I have finally updated the production version of our CMS to be PHP7 compliant. It's taken a while with sooooo many php scripts that run this place upwards of ten years old. There may be some random...
View ArticleCommunity sustainability & the Quest for 500
As most of you know, this site has not been a real business for about ten years and has been run as a hobby since 2014 (and it keeps me in the weeds with a bunch of tech skills). Whilst visitation...
View ArticleSunset of PayPal as a recurring subscription payment option. PayPal to end...
UPDATE: 4th July 2022 All PayPal subscriptions have now been cancelled, all 140-odd that were still active, plus 80 odd that were in 'Paused' mode*. Most of you would have received a (blunt)...
View ArticleOver 500 posts? A subscription will be required across entire forum from June...
Final expansion of subscription scope. What If your post count is over 500, from June 1, 2023 a subscription will be required to have full posting privilege for all forum topics - this includes all...
View Article'Reactions' removed from Latest Activity feed.
Reactions have been removed from the Latest Activity feed. The feed hauls in the last 10 minutes of activity by default. Each press of the 'Show older items' button will add another 10 minutes of older...
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Active Topics will become Active Threads
I know this is gunna be a right mind-fuck for some people.. but it's time. A new generation is required and it's pretty much a known known that the word 'forum' is associated with dial-up modems and...
View ArticleTrophy Discussion
OK I have reset the trophies, you will be restored to your current "default" one after your next post. Now the default set of trophies are as follows, you get the following points and that trophy: 1...
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