taskaz
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Post by taskaz on Sept 24, 2014 3:53:52 GMT
OMG mad panic when I realised that the old forum had closed before I bookmarked this new one and then elation when I spotted the link posted on Trafalgar's Facebook page today. Thank you OZ T and anyone else that's helped start this forum. Have much research to do for a couple of tours in 2016 and nice to see that some info has been rescued from the old site. Kudos to Owen  |
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 24, 2014 5:58:44 GMT
Welcome to the forum, Taskaz Yours wasn't the only panic; we all had a sense of it when Trafalgar announced that it was shutting down their old forum.  Many of us, including me, were either unable or disinclined to use Trafalgar's preferred social media and we thought this would be the end of getting together to discuss travel. I spent several days getting this set up and creating many familiar characteristics - the time was worth it as it's kept many of us together. You can thank the members here for their support because without activity here, this forum will stagnate. And yes, we are in debt to Owen who has spent enormous amounts of time in salvaging the valuable travel tales and reproducing them here, as well as adding material to the travel destinations section. I'm pleased to hear that somebody is providing links to this forum as any spreading of the word is most appreciated. I hope that any former members are able to rejoin our community if they wish, instead of thinking that we all disappeared with the closure of the old forum. |
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taskaz
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Post by taskaz on Sept 24, 2014 7:46:06 GMT
This is what was posted as a question on Facebook's Trafalgar Tours page and the reply: Gary CotterillTrafalgar Travel Yesterday at 12:31 · How do I find posts/discussions related to the "Highlights of Eastern Europe" tour? LikeLike · · Share · 1 LA Ryan: Gary, I just did up my travel tales for the Bohemian Highlights and Highlights of Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. The HEE stops are part of both tours. You can find the links in the travel tale section here and post questions if you have any): travel-forum.freeforums.net/Like · Reply · 19 hrs · Edited So thanks to LA Ryan, whoever you are Unless I've missed something, you don't appear to be able to get the same sort of info, experiences, etc from Trafalgar's new website or social media. Let's hope many more are able to find this forum |
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Post by chech on Sept 24, 2014 12:29:01 GMT
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 24, 2014 12:40:10 GMT
Indeed, Chech.  We should always be grateful to those helpful Facebook contributors who link people back to this forum.  |
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 24, 2014 12:53:44 GMT
Unless I've missed something, you don't appear to be able to get the same sort of info, experiences, etc from Trafalgar's new website or social media. Let's hope many more are able to find this forum I hope so too, Taskaz. I'm all for migrating to the best technology wherever possible, and Facebook is a very good platform for most social media. It connects friends very efficiently and if that's what someone wants to do, it's a good medium. However, I believe that the well-established internet forum method still provides the best means by which people can interact to discuss a specific topic (in this case, travel) and to ask questions, locate tips and read travel tales that are stored in one area and easily accessed via a filing structure. Obviously Trafalgar thought differently and had already decided to change without seeking any input from its long term customers. I wish them well in their experiment, and hopefully it'll work for some people. But anybody preferring this style is most welcome to participate here. |
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Post by chech on Sept 24, 2014 15:25:38 GMT
Indeed, Chech. We should always be grateful to those helpful Facebook contributors who link people back to this forum. I'm trying not to spam the forum there, but linking back here to tales and information if someone specifically has a question. No different than linking to tripadvisor or expedia etc, and we're not trash talking their product or recommending people go elsewhere over them, so TT shouldn't have a problem with it.  |
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Post by californian on Sept 24, 2014 17:05:55 GMT
I tried to link the forum on my facebook review and it did not let me, but I just did, as a "commentary", hope is visible. Thanks Oz-T.
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Post by Boop on Sept 24, 2014 19:38:12 GMT
Indeed, Chech. We should always be grateful to those helpful Facebook contributors who link people back to this forum. <---- Ninja-Chech |
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taskaz
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Post by taskaz on Sept 24, 2014 22:39:22 GMT
I better read that Baltics tale actually since we are going there next May, albeit on a cruise. Thanks californian |
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 25, 2014 0:07:25 GMT
This seems an opportune moment to explain another feature of this forum: enabling Tynt. Setting up a new forum from scratch presented many issues that I'd never considered, and you don't confront them until you're already immersed into the build phase. That's why I was absent for a week after Trafalgar announced it was closing its forum. Over time, I'll be sharing more and more details about the inner workings of this forum's administrative aspects. Today, I'll explain the Tynt feature. Tynt is the mechanism that automatically kicks in whenever you copy a slab of text from this forum and paste it on another URL (website). The Tynt process automatically adds a line of text that does two things: - It acknowledges the source of the text; and
- It includes a hyperlink so clicking it takes the user to that same website (i.e. the page of this forum where you copied the text from)
An example is as follows: Read more: travel-forum.freeforums.net/thread/284/oz?page=1#ixzz3EHWjnC7fAnybody can easily delete this line from what they paste elsewhere, but it's preferable that you don't. We will grow as a forum if people know about us (the more the merrier). As an author, I'm also fairly strict with acknowledging the source of reproduced material, so it's definitely good form to always clarify where text came from. |
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Post by Boop on Sept 25, 2014 0:26:35 GMT
What a great tip Oz-T!! Can we establish a "tip place" perhaps where we can place all the great information that will be forthcoming from you and others?  ..might be a good name for a thread...  |
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rita
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Post by rita on Oct 10, 2014 2:02:00 GMT
Thanks to Chech for messaging me with the link to this forum (via the new Insight Forum messaging feature) - and of course, I'd like to thank OzT for starting up this forum as well. |
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Post by Oz-T on Oct 10, 2014 4:37:01 GMT
Welcome Rita; I look forward to your participation here. |
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Post by chech on Oct 10, 2014 16:33:57 GMT
Hi Rita!   |
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Post by californian on Oct 11, 2014 17:18:16 GMT
A little something I found in Riga for you Chech: (The story goes that a merchant was thrown out of the Merchants' guild, he moved to a building across the street and put a cat on the roof with the rear end facing the merchants building, after much discussion he was re-admitted and turned the cat to face the opposite direction)  |
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Post by chech on Oct 11, 2014 18:20:33 GMT
LOLOL....my kind of guy!  |
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Post by Boop on Oct 11, 2014 19:03:57 GMT
Superb picture Cali....pretty much says it all, in catspeak! |
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Post by jenandkim on Feb 16, 2015 20:50:16 GMT
I just found this site and wanted to say thanks. I rarely posted on the Trafalgar site, but it was always invaluable. Just found this one. Thanks!
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