YashicaForum News

A new bloom with Yashicaforum?

Retrocamera — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:22:58 +0000

At the moment I can’t afford to buy new cameras, not even used old things. So I settle for the Yashica gear I have and enjoy reading post from the 165(!) members of the Yashica discussionforum. My time spent here has been a bit sparse lately, beacuse of need to look for work. Therefore I will try to get some moderators of the forum and some updates, and then concentrate my own forumpost on the artistic bit of photography that I think also should be apart of a good photography forum even if it is technique oriented.

So lets get a new bloom to the forum! ;) This image was taken with Yashica ML 35mm/2.8

Member number 100 registered – hope for Yashica cameras

Retrocamera — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:47:07 +0000

We have 100 members now, seems there is hope to Yashica cameras – it still has a user base ;)
Congratulations n0rth3rnlight! No other prize then the honour though ;)

Take the opportunity to be user no 100 on the forum

Retrocamera — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:41:55 +0000

99 users registered, who will be number 100? ;)

Putting up fences on the forum

Retrocamera — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:37:56 +0000

We had a spamattack today. My first measures was to delete the user and posts, but he returned… so now I made some more changes.

Banned user and email of course, and deleted posts
I blocked a big range of ip-addresses (which seem to be connected with phishing and other crap).
I changed the registration at YashicaForum.com so now you need to confirm your mail when registering
New passwords need to have both numbers and letters.

Defensiv changes

None of these will totally stop this kind of shit, but the main idea is to make it not worth while the effort. I’m going to look in to phpBB3s extensions if there are any spamprotection like Bad Behavior or Akismet. If these keeps on going there are more settings to use in phpBB3, but they moght be inconvinient for the real users so I rather not… like admin approval when registering, first 3 post needs approval and so on.

Maybe I should also get some moderators.

If anyone have more ideas, let me know.

Yashicaforums phpBB upgraded to 3.0.4

Retrocamera — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:06:00 +0000

I just finished upgrading the forum to the 3.0.4 version. If any on notices bugs let me know. I have been thinking of adding more plugins/mods. It would be great to have a Flickr-list with the news from YashicaForums flickr-group.

1000 posts on YashicaForum during 2008!

Retrocamera — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:04:15 +0000

2008 brought just over 1000 posts on YashicaForum, and a nice Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 to me. That’s got to be a good start :) I have 2009 can be a good year for YashicaForum. Happy new year!

By the way I got myself a christmaspresent, this lens Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 to use on my Contax/Yashica and Canon-cameras.

See more of the Yashica ML 50mm/1.4 among the 1000 posts on YashicaForum.

Today I won my first Electro

Retrocamera — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:57:13 +0000

Finally, today I won my first Electro 35 camera on Tradera – the swedish ebay. 140 SEK, $18. It might seam odd that I don’t have the most popular Yashica-camera as I am the owner of YashicaForum.com but I started with the SLR-part and Yashinon / Yashica-lenses for my Cano EOS 350D.

Well then… hurray :D

Yashica Electro 35

(Image by Martintoy from Wikimedia Commons under CC-license)

Communities for Yashica users

Retrocamera — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:49:54 +0000

I started YashicaForum with the hope to gather a larger community with Yashica users – and we have had a very good start at that. But I wanted to give you some tip on other Yashica communities you might not be aware of (I hope we don’t compete but help eachother), some Flickr-groups for example:

Well, there’s more if you search. You can also find them on Facebook, but the groups on Facebook are often to silent for my taste. People don’t discuss anything, they are to busy sending silly animated gif’s to eachother… so I won’t link to them here.

WordPress 2.7 is out

Retrocamera — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:24:10 +0000

The new version of WordPress blog and publishing system is now available in stable. Time to update, folks :)

Peak in statistics – link from stumbleupon?

Retrocamera — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:29:28 +0000

We got a big peak in statistics earlier this weak, I think it was a link from stumbleupon. That show you how important social web has become, in this case a difference between 100 och 300 visitors a day. It’s a bit sad to see it level down again though.

Peak in statistics for Yashicaforum