Sayaka
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20 hours ago, 83ray1 said:
I'll definitely donate something - even if it's viewed as compensation for having to put with my posts
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Thanks Ray - you've been here a long time: I consider your posts an important part of the fabric of this board and I enjoy them...even if they are a bit outside the box at times
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16 hours ago, Clare said:
Sending get well wishes, hugs and positive thoughts Sal. Thinking of you as well.
A few years ago did we pay to have an avatar to raise funds for the board? Or am I imagining that?
Yes there was something way back, around 2007 or something, but Invision discontinued the plugin
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19 hours ago, neighbours fan 1986 said:
Hi @Sayaka I have known for some time that Sal has been unwell and whilst this does not come as a surprise I was hoping that she was making some progress by now. I hope she will in the future.
Can I just confirm, does this replace the PayPal payments I have been making for many years for premium subscriber or is it better to continue through PayPal friends and family (no platform fees)?
Have confirmed with Sal this is still fine
 She also says thank you very much she really appreciates you donating all these yearsÂ
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5 hours ago, neighbours fan 1986 said:
Hi @Sayaka I have known for some time that Sal has been unwell and whilst this does not come as a surprise I was hoping that she was making some progress by now. I hope she will in the future.
Can I just confirm, does this replace the PayPal payments I have been making for many years for premium subscriber or is it better to continue through PayPal friends and family (no platform fees)?
Thanks matey, you can continue as you are I think, but I will check with Sal when I speak to her
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54 minutes ago, Martin1988 said:
Really sad to hear the news about Sal and will be hoping for her to make a recovery in the shortest possible time.
Thanks Martin, she's certainly had and continues to have a hard time of it, thank you for your good wishes (and those from others too)
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Hello everyone
I have been on this board for over 20 years and I am posting on behalf of @Hawker Sal, the board owner, with her full knowledge and permission.
Those who have been around here more than a few years will have noticed that Sal has been conspicuous by her absence over the last two years. It has been mentioned from time to time that Sal is "unwell". You might have perceived that Sal was actually incredibly unwell when Phil Martin came back to Neighbours TWICE and Sal has not been online to discuss either of these appearances, after waiting patiently for almost two decades.
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Sal's life is not in danger, nevertheless, she is currently unable to oversee the board in the way that she has in the past. Indeed, the recent security updates were not done by Sal herself, but by an experienced Invision freelancer that Sal has paid to do it for her.Â
In the social media age, we have become used to having "free" social media platforms (paid for by the selling of our data and advertising). An "old-school" forum such as this however, is not free. Sal pays the hosting costs, the costs of the Invision software and the costs of bandwidth (every time we click a thread on board, bandwidth is needed to deliver the page). It all adds up to hundreds of pounds a year.
A few of the longer-term members have assisted Sal financially over the years with these bills, but it's fair to say that Sal has paid the lion's share out of her own money (alongside mortgage and bills etc) for over two decades. Now that Sal is unwell, she is not able to work as much as she used to and therefore the board is experiencing some financial pressure. Sal has always strived to keep the board advert-free and in this day and age with so much competition for the advertising pot it is unlikely that it would cover costs here anyway.Â
Therefore, we need to turn to you, the community of the board, for help. We know times are tough for everyone. We know the cost of living has increased unexpectedly. We simply ask that if you enjoy the board and are able, if you would contribute a small amount to the running costs of this board and the summaries archive. If you are not able, we completely understand and there is no judgment.
My role in this is to gather donations and pass them to Sal who will use every penny towards running costs. I've offered to do this because Sal simply isn't well enough to organise it herself. We are going to use the Ko-fi platform - some of you may know it already: it is used extensively by online content creators with the "Buy me a coffee" metaphor. I've set the minimum donation at £1 - of course you can donate as much as you like/are able. You may make a one-off donation or a monthly donation - it is entirely your call. All donations of any amount will be gratefully received by Sal.
There is hope for Sal's condition: she is showing slow improvement, but it is an extremely slow process that is going to take years rather than months.Â
Thank you all for reading this, and our donation page for Ko-fi is here. https://ko-fi.com/neighboursfansÂ
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49 minutes ago, Steppenwolf said:
It is an absolutely invaluable reference, and a huge thank you to everyone that ever contributed.
I have a number of episodes that do not have screen captures so would be happy to help fill in any blanks, or replace the earlier episodes with DVD screencaps to replace the VHS ones?
Yes, we would be happy to have you on board - prioritising new ones I think
Will have a chat to Sal and let you have the directions etc
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Well done everyone. I've been involved in it since 2004, it's great to be at Journey's End (although not really as there is a still quite a lot of polishing and screencapping to do - we'll post here in the coming weeks with more on this)
Feels a bit bittersweet with the show coming to an end yesterday, feel a bit
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But, we have the archive for posterity and it will help us to continue to enjoy the show into the future.
To everyone involved -
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I have been doing a bit more optimising - I think there are a LOT of hits on ne.com at the moment as a result of the huge interest in Neighbours over the last few days (for reasons we'd rather not have
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Still seems to be having problems, so @Hawker is talking to the hosts
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Had an hour or so this afternoon, so I've made the code more efficient with fewer database queries on the main site. (I've moved them off to a background area which will only need to run occasionally)
Hopefully that will help things a bit - as long as I haven't killed anything else during the coding processÂ
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Hmm. Have had a further look and 1992 is a funny one. It's a year where the caps are not complete so the part where the little picture is put next to the episode number is more resource intensive. Probably was fine when the archive was smaller, but the combination of archive growth and a different host, it may be groaning.Â
I think there's scope for a re-code that may improve thing - I'll have a look into it (when I'm not at work!)
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10 hours ago, birdman said:
Summaries are showing as down for me in Microsoft Edge still, unless the tinkering is still going on?
There's really no reason that the browser should affect things as it's a server side thing. Have you tried a hard refresh? (CTRL+F5)? Working fine for me in Edge.
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...and 2021 is now complete as well! Thank you to all the summarisers who diligently typed away throughout 2021, and Graham for his magnificent screencapping!
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Fab work everyone!
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I just wanted to say a massive thank you to those who have summarised in 2020 and to @Graham for capping, and also keeping the current episode numbers updated on the front of the archive. Also those who have capped historical episodes.
Their efforts week in week out are very much appreciated!
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Approx 17 years for me here!
 And I was reading the summaries before that too!
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Sorry I forgot to add that the amazing screencaps are complete too, well done @Graham I forgot I had uploaded them already!
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for Graham!
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Hello everyone!
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Thank you SO MUCH to our fab summarisers, I have just finished uploading the 2019 summaries to our archive - the year is now complete. Also a massive thank you to Graham for capping all of the episodes!
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http://www.neighboursepisodes.com/index.php?year=2019
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I think I have now fixed most things, please let me know if you see any error messages (post the link here so I can investigate
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OK, should be back on now. We'll see how it goes.
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Archive seems to be OK - the host has clearly done something without admitting it, because it's back up with no changes to code from me!
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I'm taking the opportunity to do some routine maintenance, so I'm keeping it down for now, but it should be back up shortly after I've finished Try tomorrow morning
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It will not be back up before the weekend and possibly not for a while after. I am on holiday and Sal is working long hours. It is a particularly complex problem and involves the host who is in a different timezone which is making communication long winded.
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2018 is now complete! A massive thank you to everyone involved and also thank you to Graham for doing such great caps to go with them!
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Upgrade complete - 23/03
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Sorry, I don't have the rights to look into it and as you know Sal isn't well. I'm sure she'll have a look when she is able